Tiny Trills Over Tonya? God Bless Us Every One
Hard to imagine anyone, anywhere, who actually feels sorry for felonious figure skater Tonya Harding?
Well, hello, Tiny Tim.
“That poor girl went through a terrible trauma,” says the ukelele-strumming singer, who had his 15 minutes of fame 27 years ago with “Tiptoe Through the Tulips.”
He’s even written a tune about Tonya - cleverly titled “The Ice Skater’s Song” - that goes like this:
“Though you are sighing, though you are crying, and everything has gone wrong/The world is waiting, keep right on skating, skate to the ice skater’s song.”
The ditty appears on his new album, “Songs of an Impotent Troubadour,” set for release in England.
Loose talk
Actor cum boxer Mickey Rourke, on what he fancies in his female companions (in New Woman magazine): “It’s like when I buy a horse. I don’t want a thick neck and short legs.”
She’s turning out to be a real rubble rouser
Rosie O’Donnell turns 33 today.
Acting, after all, demands some sacrifices
Still wondering whatever possessed John Lovitz to paw at Jamie Lee Curtis’ chest during the American Comedy Awards? It was a setup, Curtis confessed in USA Today: “I don’t want sweet, funny Jon Lovitz to take the heat from something that was prearranged. It was my idea. They came to us before and asked us to do funny things. … He was kind of, ‘Are you sure?’ … He was sweet.”
It took a lot of courage for him to pucker up
Keanu Reeves didn’t let six stitches in his mouth - the result of being high-sticked during a hockey game - stop him from filming a torrid love scene for the upcoming “A Walk in the Clouds” the next day. “It was so sad,” co-star Debra Messing told Entertainment Weekly. “He kept telling me, ‘Please don’t hurt me.”’
It gets really disgusting in the delivery room
Those actors pretending to be doctors on the CBS medical drama “Chicago Hope” aren’t just going through the motions during surgery scenes. As Peter Berg, who plays hunkish Dr. Billy Kronk, reveals in TV Guide: “They build these fake stomachs and fill them with actual cow organs.” , Guess which one’s less likely to lose his shirt?
Lucky Vanous, the well-chiseled construction worker ogled by an office full of women in the infamous Diet Coke commercial, has landed a movie role as a mystery writer involved in a real murder in “Chapter Perfect” - opposite gruff Quaker Oats pitch person Wilford Brimley as a police chief.
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