As For Us, We Continue To Bawl Over ‘Old Yeller’
When it comes to movies, some of Hollywood’s versions of real men do cry. Premiere magazine discovered the following:
Johnny Depp: “Every time I see ‘Terms of Endearment,’ I dissolve. When Debra (Winger) dies - oh, man. You could wring me out.”
Jean-Claude Van Damme: “(In) ‘Scent of a Woman’ I cried like a baby. When Al Pacino wants to kill himself, I need a box of Kleenex.”
Hugh Grant: “Um, well, yes. I hate that question. But, fine. ‘One Hundred and One Dalmatians.’ It’s very sad when the mean woman is after the poor doggies.”
David Caruso: “‘This is Spinal Tap’ hits every guy who ever wanted to be in a band and failed. It just kills me.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger: “When I saw myself in a dress in ‘Junior,’ I started to cry.”
Loose talk
Jay Leno on the last two jurors being removed from the O.J. Simpson jury: “Don’t think of it as losing two more jurors, think of it as, we’re gaining two more authors.”
He and his ego embodied the real love story
Erich Segal turns 58 today.
We give him good reviews for smart investing
You probably know that movie critic Gene Siskel once bought the white polyester suit that John Travolta wore in “Saturday Night Fever,” for $2,000. That was in 1979. Now we learn that Siskel, half of the thumbshandy critical team with Roger Ebert, could earn between $30,000 and $50,000 at a memorabilia auction to be held June 28.
Perhaps he should transmit his novels over the internet
Novelist Michael Chabon told the Washington Post that he’s gotten 300 positive e-mail messages to just one negative since his book “Wonder Boys” was published in April. Of the “seven or eight” letters, one was nasty. “If that’s the kind of conventional mail I’m going to get,” Chabon said, “I much prefer to hear from my e-mail friends.”
And would you like us to drown those fries in mayo, sir
Seems like every McDonald’s employee in the nation has seen “Pulp Fiction.” At least it seems that way to Samuel L. Jackson, who when he visits the fast-food outlets is invariably asked the same question. “It’s always, ‘Le Big Mac, sir?”’ Jackson told People magazine. “I’m like, ‘Yeah, with Le Fries.’ Mostly I go through drive-up windows now.”
And you don’t have to be a jackbooted thug to do it
Ordinarily, we can’t stand Dennis Miller. But he occasionally comes up with a good line. “You know, if you’re going to shoot a picture of G. Gordon Liddy, go for the head,” he said recently on “Dennis Miller Live.” “It’s unprotected by rational thought.”
Besides, he pre-empted those ‘Benny Hill’ reruns
David Letterman may be a hit in the United States, but the British have no use for him. Responding to the late-night host’s month-long stay in London, a BBC memo reported that most viewers “thought it was inane, irrelevant to the British people and a waste of license payer’s money.”
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