Di Is Exhausted By Her Life In A Royal Fishbowl

Time to give Princess Diana the Mark Fuhrman Award for paparazzi impatience. During a recent luncheon with her two sons at an Austrian ski resort, the royal estranged confronted an intruding photographer.

“Excuse me,” the angry princess said while putting her hand over the photog’s camera lens. “As a parent, could I ask you to respect my children’s space because … they are here for a holiday and they would really appreciate space. I have 15 cameras following us today and, as a parent, I want to protect the children.”

Later, Di told the London Daily Mirror, “I just cannot stand it.” “When I see them around all the time, it is like I am being raped. … I just don’t know what to do. I close the curtains but they are there. I know it. I feel it.”

Loose talk

Tom Hanks on winning two consecutive Oscars: “If I’m nominated for anything next year, there will be a collective wave of suicide jumpers from the third balcony of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.”

Always remember: He did not shoot the dep-you-tee

Eric Clapton turns 50 today.

Minus the ads, make that a mere 23 minutes

“Roseanne” cast member Johnny Galecki, 19, has his feet firmly planted. “You start to think that the show is the end-all and be-all of life,” Galecki told People magazine. “But then I’ll go home and realize that for the rest of the world, it’s just a half-hour in front of the TV.”

Question is, if they’re still in love, then why… ?

Some celebrity breakups, it seems, are downright pleasant. “Despite the current media furor, the parting is perfectly amicable and they still love and are in contact with each other,” said the publicist for Michael Hutchence of the INXS lead singer’s separation from wife Helen Christenson. “Both parties expressed sadness at the decision. Media pressures have obviously not made the situation any easier.”

And to be sure, dignified is as dignified does

“Forrest Gump” novelist Winston Groom, unmentioned during Monday’s Oscar telecast, dislikes people who claim the character for their personal ends. “The political people, they can all kiss my rear end,” Groom said. “It’s just a nice story, a story about someone who is put in very undignified situations who manages to retain his dignity.”

And then she shoves it in his … heh-heh, just dreaming

From the stop-it-we’re-already-nauseous file: An upcoming Pizza Hut ad features Donald Trump and his ex-wife Ivana. She asks him for a slice, and he says, “You’re already entitled to half of everything.”

Say that three Jim Belushi films from now

So why did 18-year-old actress Alicia Silverstone turn down a part in the television show “Beverly Hills 90210”? Because, the star of “The Crush” and “Hideaway” told Entertainment Weekly, “There’s no reason to get locked into a television show when you might be able to do a movie with somebody like Al Pacino.”

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