Love Won’t Die, But One Can Hope She’ll Just Leave

Loose talk

Conan O’Brien on a raging current affair (on “Late Night”): “A judge has ordered John Bobbitt to pay child support to his illegitimate son. Reached for comment, Bobbitt said, ‘This is costing me an arm and a leg, which is a big improvement.”’ It’s beyond her 15 minutes, but Courtney Love is still grabbing magazine covers.

The ex-wife of the ex-Kurt Cobain, suicidal lead singer of Nirvana, is on the cover of Vanity Fair - the same magazine that printed stories of her drug use while being pregnant with daughter Frances.

But grudges are impossible to hold in the world of celebrity. Especially when the magazine prints a piece in which Love makes a promise to posterity.

“Dear World,” she says, “I’m not gonna die before my time.”

Of course, then it comes clear. The promise is really a disguised form of blaming. After Cobain’s suicide last year, Love says, “the American public really does have a death wish for me. They want me to die. I am not going to die.”

Woe to him who these days calls him ‘Trampas’

Doug McClure turns 60 today.

And, afterward, Louie’s letting him stay over

Kato Kaelin is headed for Las Vegas. The long-haired, airhead-like personality from the O.J. Simpson murder trial will appear with comic Louie Anderson at Bally’s June 8-21.

And, afterward, he’s going to go live with Kato

As if everything else about the O.J. Simpson murder trial weren’t already weird, Publisher’s Weekly reports that the ex-wife of Simpson attorney Johnnie Cochran has agreed to write a book. Barbara Cochran Berry will, uh, “write” something called “Life Without Johnnie Cochran: Why I Left the Sweetest Talking, Most Successful Lawyer in L.A.” The promised details: Stories of Cochran’s “philandering, mind games (and) long-term twotiming with a white mistress.”

Grisham must have seen ‘Indecent Proposal’

Give John Grisham credit. The man has definite views on how his films should look on screen, and he’s in the position to make his wants come true. He rejected director Joel Schumacher’s first choice as the lead to the film version of Grisham’s novel “A Time to Kill.” The rejected: Woody Harrelson.

Amanda just has to be at the heart of this

This just in from “Melrose Place”: Real-life lovers Grant Show and Laura Leighton are battling the splits. They’re said to be looking forward to separate vacations.

By the time your teeth go, the jar is long empty

Raquel Welch, always looking for that new role, is also looking for a new man. She’s split with long-time squeeze Robert Moore. “I was hungry to do something new,” the 54-year-old ex-sex symbol explained. “I was windowshopping for a challenge. With men, it’s like trying every color in the jelly bean jar to see what’s going to taste good.”

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