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To Insult Or Not Insult, That Was Sandra’s Choice

Compiled By Staff Writer Dan Web

Loose talk

Husband-filleter Lorena Bobbitt on her feelings about the opposite sex (on “The Maury Povich Show”): “I do like men. I mean, I want to become a mother. I want to become a wife. That’s something for a woman.”

One of the fun views on cable television is the Comedy Network’s “Politically Incorrect.” Behind the quips of host Bill Maher, a panel of guests sounds off on current issues.

Sounds like “The McLaughlin Report,” right? Well, maybe - but only if that self-important little gathering were to add such diverse presences as, say, RuPaul or John Bobbitt.

For it is exactly that kind of mix that provides “Politically Incorrect” its sometimes volatile atmosphere.

At Tuesday’s taping, for example, Washington Times columnist John Lofton and comic Sandra Bernhard got into a dialogue that nearly led to blows. Finally, Bernhard approached Lofton, spit at him and said, “If I had you, you’d be an abortion.”

She’s just a hop, skip and a jump from middle age

Jackie Joyner-Kersee turns 33 today.

Michael’s new style is the Pete Barbutti look

Remember George Michael, the soulful pop singer who popularized the unshaven look a few years ago? Well, he’s still around. In the March issue of InStyle magazine, he shows up in a picture from an AIDS concert belting out a song with Elton John.

He kept asking, ‘What’s the frequency, Dino?’

In the Martin Scorsese film “The King of Comedy,” Jerry Lewis portrays a television talk-show host who is stalked by a would-be comedian. In another case of life imitating art, a man will be sentenced on April 25 after pleading guilty to stalking Lewis. Gary Bentson, 51, once dated Lewis’ ex-housekeeper and admitted to repeatedly visiting Lewis’ Las Vegas house and making threats.

He’s still got time to make it an even dozen

The drawn-out melodrama involving Anthony Quinn, 80, his wife of 33 years, Iolanda, and 32-year old Kathy Bevin, who is the mother of an 18-month old girl with the actor, is heating up. Iolanda Quinn has filed for a separation. “I do not want to be with a man who chooses to be with another,” she said. Quinn has fathered 11 children with three women.

And she likes Mickey Mouse, she really does

The quote: “I made a mistake and I’ve paid for it. I’m still paying for it, literally, financially and mentally, and I mean it’s taken a lot out of my life. I feel like I’m 30 instead of 24.” The speaker: Tonya Harding. The venue: “Hard Copy.”

He’s now into Manilow music and ‘Brady Bunch’ re-runs

It’s official. Gangsta rapper Tupac Shakur, imprisoned for his part in a sexual assault, is through with the thug life. “If it’s real, let somebody else represent it because I’m tired of it,” the 23-year-old performer told Vibe magazine.

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