One Of The Ghosts Cries ‘Off With Her Head!’
Time for another Brit-royal update.
When last heard from, Prince Charles’ true love, Camilla Parker Bowles, was getting a divorce from her husband of several years, Andrew.
Now comes word that, as part of the couple’s divorce settlement, Parker Bowles had to move out of the 18th-century house that once served as a hideaway for her and the prince. It was sold to Nick Mason, drummer for the rock band Pink Floyd, for $2.1 million.
The house, which comes with a gatekeeper’s house and resident ghost, isn’t an object of Britroyal fascination for its new owner, however.
“I’m not really interested in the royal connection,” said Mason. “I’m more interested in the ghost.”
Timothy Hutton, whose film career has seen better days, on what it’s like to be referred to as a one-time Oscar winner (In Newsweek magazine): “It’s better than ‘serial killer.”’
The key words for her are don’t look back
Julie Christie turns 54 today.
She wants to be the Cuban-like Robert De Niro
The truth is out: Marisa Tomei gained 18 pounds to play the role of Dottie Perez in “The Perez Family.” She also confessed to the Los Angeles Daily News that she wore tan body makeup.
And that was before she had the salsa for lunch
In Haiti as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, Julia Roberts offered her first impressions of the climate: “It’s hot!” she said.
How to be a celeb: Become a professional dysfunctional
First it was Patti Davis who made family dysfunction a subject of study. Now Roger Clinton is getting into the act. The president’s brother, whose country-singing career is going nowhere, will appear at the Learning Annex in San Francisco on July 20. The title of his talk: “An Evening With Roger Clinton: On Growing Up and Overcoming the Obstacles of a Dysfunctional Family.”
That’s kind of like what male executives do with blondes
If you want to be cool in the Big Apple, rent an animal from the Pet Department Store, which has costumed animal companions for hire. “A well-dressed dog is a woman’s best accessory in New York,” says owner Leigh Applebrook.
Sometimes, though, a career change just uh hurts
MTV personalities aren’t all just fluff and wash. Some actually have something to say. “I’d rather have a good life than a good career,” Karen “Duff” Duffy said in Psychology Today. “So I treat my career like a rental car. I take chances and have fun with it.”
The following fields overflowed: CREDIT = Compiled by staff writer Dan Webster