When The Fighting Starts, Head Straight For The Host
Loose talk
Author Wayne Koestenbaum on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (in “Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting an Icon”): “I noticed that her head was unusually large - out of proportion to her body - and I remember thinking, ‘Stars have large heads, that’s why they are stars.”’
Geraldo Rivera couldn’t have planned it any better.
The day’s topic was jealous rage. On the stage were a number of cultural exhibitionists (or “guests,” as they are otherwise called), a pair of whom were big, beefy guys.
When one of the guys’ wife came back from a break with news that her husband had threatened her, the other guy chastised him. The result? Wrestlemaina.
“I ran to the stage to break them up and while I was pulling them apart, an equally beefy buddy in the audience swept me off my feet,” Rivera said on Wednesday.
The stage was quickly cleared, recalling a 1988 “Geraldo” show in which the host had his nose broken.
Tune in May 15 to see if karma strikes twice.
He still knows what becomes of the brokenhearted
Jimmy Ruffin turns 56 today.
Even Rodney’s mouse didn’t laugh at that one
Rodney Dangerfield, who lately has been feeding jokes cyber-style to World Wide Web, is glad things have changed. “Until now, I never had any luck with computers,” Dangerfield said. “One time, I bought an Apple computer. It had a worm in it.”
Bobbitt gives son’s mother a cut of his earnings
John Bobbitt will finally get to see the boy he fathered in 1992, the year before his then-wife Lorena cut off his penis with a carving knife. Bobbitt has agreed to pay support from funds earned from his “John Wayne Bobbitt… Uncut” video. “I look forward to seeing my son,” Bobbitt, 28, said. “I haven’t seen him in a long time. I haven’t seen him at all.”
It’s never too later, however, to get a brain transplant
“Tall, skinny women can get breast implants, and they become perfect,” says “Baywatch” actress Yasmine Bleeth. “But women who are small and curvy can’t get leg extensions. That isn’t fair.” Bleeth, all 5-foot-5 of her, is one of People magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People.”
When it’s over, will he call it ‘Spielberg’s List’?
Steven Spielberg’s next project: videotaping the stories of 75,000 Holocaust survivors. “This is a work that will never be over,” says the director of “Schindler’s List.” “This is a once-in-a-generation chance to rescue the truth about the Holocaust.” His goal is to speak with onefourth of the 300,000 survivors worldwide in the next two years.
If you can be with the one you love…
Gossip-monger W. Speers of the Philadelphia Inquirer wonders whether Robin Wright, shooting “Moll Flanders” in Ireland, should be worried? As Speers reports, “Natasha Wagner, daughter of Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood, has hustled off to New Orleans, where the father of Wright’s two kids, Sean Penn, is shooting his own movie.”
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