Another One Of Those Drags To Riches Stories
Just how does a freckled fellow who stands 6-7 turn himself into a blonde bombshell with flawless skin and killer legs?
Gender-bender RuPaul reveals the three-hour routine in People magazine:
“First I take a hot bath. I play music (Diana Ross, Donna Summer). I scrub my skin, then shave my legs (and fingers and toes).”
After that, “I moisturize my whole body before I put on my makeup - four shades of foundation to contour my face, three lipsticks, lots of tones of blush.
“All the time,” says she, er, he, “I’m thinking how gorgeous I’m gonna look.”
Her, er, his new biography, “Letting It All Hang Out,” is “dedicated to all the little Ru-Rus in the world who have a dream and may feel that it will never come true.” < Brett Butler (“Grace Under Fire”) on her new TV competition, “Central Park West,” starring Mariel Hemingway and Lauren Hutton: “If you’re into those size-4, flat bellied, air-headed women, fine, watch that.”
We imagine he’ll invest in the movie version
Phil Gramm turns 53 today.
Which must make Kate Moss last year’s model
Can’t keep your supermodels straight? Let’s let Christy Turlington explain: “We all have our labels. Cimdy (Crawford) is the smart model, Claudia (Schiffer) is the sexy model, I’m the nice model. But I don’t want to be the nice model. I want to be the smart model.”
She’s certainly as sharp as a tack, isn’t she
The aforementioned Ms. Crawford, on her upcoming film with Billy Baldwin, “Fair Game.” (in Buzz magazine): “We were working on a love scene for three nights, and I kept thinking, ‘This is not real life.’”
So she wasn’t just the Flavin of the month?
Jennifer Flavin, the model Sylvester Stallone reportedly dumped by Federal Express, insists they’re engaged, although she wasn’t wearing her ring, because she took it off to test her mettle on television’s rough-and-tumble “American Gladiator.” Assured Flavin: “It’s just gonna happen. We’re just one day gonna announce it.”
She’ll probably never take them off again
Hugh Grant’s longtime girlfriend, Estee Lauder model Elizabeth Hurley - said by friends to be undecided whether to leave him - came in third in a “Sunglass Wearer of the Year” poll by British fashion editors, behind Princess Diana and Michael Jackson.
Guess Dave’s eyesight isn’t exactly 20/20
The randy Mr. Grant is scheduled to appear on “The Tonight Show” Monday and then on “Late Night With David Letterman” July 19, where he’ll hopefully set the record straight. After Grant’s arrest for public lewdness with a prostitute, Letterman said: “I’m a little confused about one thing. I heard that yesterday out in Los Angeles, Hugh Downs was arrested with a hooker.”
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