What’s A Little Drug Use Between Mom And Baby?
Spokesman-Review music writer Joe Ehrbar isn’t the only person tired of Courtney Love.
In Esquire magazine’s annual “Women We Love” issue, Love is listed in the “And Some We Don’t” section. Their advice for her next good career move: “Choke on own vomit.”
OK, so that’s a bit extreme. Still, listen to Love tell Request magazine about the 1992 Vanity Fair magazine piece about her shooting heroin during her pregnancy.
“I did take heroin when I was pregnant in the very beginning of my pregnancy,” Love admitted. “Otherwise I could have sued the hell out of them.”
So why was she so angry? Because, she said, writer Lynn Hirschberg got it “completely wrong. She made it seem like I was taking drugs into my second trimester.”
Loose talk
Sharon Stone on human aesthetics: “There’s nothing uglier on a woman than a pot belly.”
Her age is finally catching up to her body
Lynda Carter turns 44 today.
The crowd cries ‘Ke-a-nu,’ the next Elvis of Japan
Think maybe the rock band Dogstar will be a hit? Put it this way, Keanu Reeves is the band’s bassist. Musician Robert Mailhouse told Entertainment Weekly, “In Japan, if Keanu scratched his head, they screamed. If he went to tie a shoelace, people fainted.”
What does Mrs. Gingrich whisper about her rebel daughter? Following the fiction and non-fiction efforts of House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., Candace Gingrich, the speaker’s lesbian half-sister, has signed a book contract. Her book, tentatively titled “Family Matters,” promises to study “Newt’s path from an eccentric libertarian, up-front about his own foibles, to an arch-conservative closely aligned with hard-right, anti-gay crusaders like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.”
You only shoot them, or you shoot only them?
For your pleasure, some advance dialogue from the forthcoming Cindy Crawford movie, “Fair Game.” “Somebody’s trying to kill you!” a bit player says to Crawford. “Nobody’s trying to kill me,” she responds. “This is Miami - we only shoot the tourists.”
The Buzz is that Malle is in bad shape
Buzz magazine reports that French filmmaker Louis Malle, 63, is suffering from inoperable brain cancer. A spokesman for Malle’s wife, Candice Bergen, insists that he is recovering from viral pneumonia. “We check with Candy regularly and he’s recuperating in California with her,” the spokesman told USA Today. “Why doesn’t everybody leave him alone and let him recuperate?”
Think maybe there’s a part somewhere for Divine Brown?
Elizabeth Hurley is close to inking a deal with New Line Cinema to star in an as-yet-untitled action-adventure film to shoot in South Africa with Ice Cube and Ving (“Pulp Fiction”) Rhames.
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