Life Is Good In Monaco, Even With A Lack Of Grace

What with the randy ways of Europe’s young royals, it’s no wonder that aging monarchs are holding on to their crowns.

For example, Prince Rainier of Monaco is 72, underwent heart-bypass surgery in November and would seem to be ripe for retirement. Wrong.

The diminutive royalette isn’t yet ready to hand power over to his heir, 36-year-old Prince Albert.

“Prince Albert is still developing his judgment while actively taking part in government,” Rainier told the French newspaper Le Figaro. “But no date has been fixed…. The transition must be a gradual one,”

The widower of Princess Grace says he wants to rule until at least 1997, the 700th anniversary of Grimaldi family rule over Monaco.

Kate Capshaw on being the wife of Steven Spielberg during the shooting of “Schindler’s List” in Israel (in W magazine): “I felt responsible to dress a certain way, which reflected a certain sobriety. I wore a lot of berets; I always covered my head, which is a Jewish thing.”

He’s just now contemplating his endgame

Bobby Fischer turns 51 today.

And, no, the second character’s names is not O.J.<

Following is a description of the double role played by Brian “Kato” Kaelin in the television series “The Watcher”: “Castle, a rotten husband killed by his wife and her lover, is given a second lease on life when he is returned by an angel to Earth in the body of Eddie, a much beloved black man.”

And others would throw themselves inTO the truck

The quote: “Either people passionately adore me and would throw themselves in front of a Sara Lee truck for me, or they can’t stand me. There’s no middle ground.” The speaker: Fitness guru Richard Simmons. The occasion: Self-promotion, what else?

This just in: Carly Simon lived in O.J.’s bedroom

Carly Simon admitted to reporters covering the Grammy Awards that she once lived in the Brentwood house owned by O.J. Simpson. “I hope the tabloids aren’t going to say ‘she lived in O.J.’s bedroom,”’ she said.

It smelled like green eggs and ham, Sam I am

Now the truth can be told. Jerry Seinfeld’s breath smells like, well, “pepper and eggs.” At least it did in high school, reports Seinfeld’s exsweetheart Lonnie Seiden, 40. Seiden said on “Geraldo” Friday that the comedian’s breath “was like home cooking. It wasn’t like pepper, like the green pepper. It was like the pepper you sprinkle on eggs.”

Assuming, of course, that such a thing is possible

Here’s a horrible thought. Roseanne, expecting a child with new husband Ben Thomas, promises that, come the birth, she’ll be “more obnoxious that Kathie Lee.” That, at least, is what she told Jay Leno Tuesday night.

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