Dim Bulbs Have Burned In The House Of Windsor
Loose talk
Grammy winner Sheryl Crow, on her next career move: “I’ve had tons of acting offers. But for me to blow my credibility as a musician by displaying how horrible an actress I can be would not be too intelligent.”
Poor Prince Charles. He can’t really help it - it’s in his genes.
Norman Barson, the former footman to Charles’ father, Prince Philip, told the British tabloid Today about a night in 1948 when Philip was preparing to eat loganberries and raspberries at the end of a meal.
“He looked at the fingerbowl and instead of dipping his fingers in it and drying them on his napkin, he reached forward, put it on top of his plate and said, ‘Norman, there’s water in this,”’ Barson recalled.
“I felt a right idiot but I emptied it. Then, rather than let me serve him, he took the bowl and poured the lot into this fingerbowl and topped up with cream.”
Queen Elizabeth II, meanwhile, merely looked away.
Didn’t he used to be a line dancer or something?
Brian Bosworth turns 30 today.
That would’ve been nowhere near as much fun
Crow’s high school prom date was among the most surprised to see her win Grammys for best record and best new artist. “I figured when she grew up she’d marry a doctor or a lawyer,” Russ Huffstutler said, describing Crow as a good dancer and “very proper and polite.”
Monkfish, of course, is a mainstay of the menu
Grammy host Paul Reiser (“Mad About You”) told Entertainment Weekly he was a natural for the job. “I was a classical-piano major in college,” Reiser said. “I still play. My friends come over and we do Gregorian chants. We do this in robes eating fish sandwiches.”
But what really got to us was the organ solo
To Bill Maher, the most memorable Grammy moment came when David Crosby joined Graham Nash and Stephen Stills. “It was really touching to see the support he got,” the “Politically Incorrect” host said. “When they finished, groupies threw their livers on stage.”
No backgammon, no beaches - just a big bore
Among the juicy tidbits that leaked out before the Marcia Clark child custody case was sealed: ex-husband Gordon Clark said he learned their marriage was over as they drove to his parents’ house on Christmas day in 1993. “To my shock and amazement, Marcia informed me that I was not ‘intellectually stimulating’ enough for her,” he said.
Looks are one thing, billable hours are another
Author Dominick Dunne, covering the O.J. Simpson circus for Vanity Fair magazine, is none too impressed with the former football star’s lawyers. “This is one of the scuzziest defense teams I have ever seen,” he said. “As members of the (legal) profession, they have to know just how cheap they look.”
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