Hamlet Goes South; Or, To Be, Or Not, Hispanic
Hispanic magazine worries about the image we media types give those of Hispanic descent.
But was the magazine not being satirical by naming Texas billionaire Ross Perot as Gringo of the Year? Perot had warned the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) would result in a “giant sucking sound” of jobs heading for Mexico.
Or was the magazine being serious when it named actor Hector Elizondo best Hispanic playing a non-Hispanic on the television show “Chicago Hope”? How about naming “NYPD Blue” actor Nicholas Turturro best nonHispanic playing a hispanic (he’s Italian)?
Eric Estrada was named worst Hispanic playing a Hispanic on Spanish TV. But our favorite was supermodel Christy Turlington, whose mother is from El Salvador, being named as best closet Hispanic.
Loose talk
Tom Clancy on race relations (in Rolling Stone magazine): “The Japanese think we are fools. But they also thought we were fools back in ‘41 - stupid and cowardly. We killed about 2 million of them proving otherwise.”
He did have the great nickname: Chocolate Thunder
Darryl Dawkins turns 38 today.
Three more reasons to grieve the cutting of trees
Three upcoming book titles: “The Wit and Wisdom of Newt Gingrich”; “Quotations From Speaker Newt: The Little Red, White and Blue Book of the Republican Revolution”; “Newtwit.”
Instead of 15 minutes, he gets 30 - every night
From the hard-to-believe file, here’s an actual quote from W. Speers of the Philadelphia Inquirer: “Meanwhile, L.A.’s KNBC-TV announced that once the trial begins, it will air a nightly half-hour show whose sole content will be Simpson-related news. Anchored by Paul Moyer, it will be called ‘O.J. Simpson on Trial.”’
Then again, she was married to John McEnroe
How’s this for an unlikely Hollywood coupling: Jean-Claude Van Damme and Tatum O’Neal? Various sources report the two ex-marrieds (she once, he three times) have been photographed together of late.
Wit happens when a hot tub runs through it
She may have been kidding, but even Melissa Etheridge recognizes the sexual allure of Brad Pitt. “One night a few of us, shall we say, lesbians, were in the hot tub watching the guys play basketball in the pool,” the rocker told Vanity Fair magazine. “We were staring at Brad, and we all agreed he could change a woman’s mind.”
Speaking of stomach-churning opportunities
Henry Rollins, rock singer turned actor, leaves us with this pleasant thought: “I think I would rather drink latex paint than be in a movie with Steven Seagal,” he told Movieline magazine.
The following fields overflowed: CREDIT = Compiled by staff writer Dan Webster