She’s Had Her Fill Of Peeping By The Enemy

Pretty woman? Turns out Julia Roberts is just another ugly American.

Roberts has been creating nothing but ill will among the media members covering her trip to Haiti as UNICEF’s new goodwill ambassador.

At a news conference with President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, when a Haitian radio journalist told them they were speaking too softly, Roberts replied: “Oh, well.”

Associated Press photographers invited to cover a Friday night cocktail party were prevented from taking pictures by security men who put their hands over the lenses.

And at a barbecue with U.S. forces, Roberts pointed to one shooter and said, “You, in the orange shirt. Out.” A photographer from the same agency took pictures of her private 1993 wedding to Lyle Lovett.

Loose talk

Wayne Newton, on filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection: “The thing I think distressed me the most is when I felt that people were feeling sorry for me. My ego cannot take that.”

Which works out to, let’s see, 006 times 007

Pierce Brosnan turns 42 today.

In college, they never stayed full for very long

Bill Cosby told Southern University graduates in Baton Rouge, La., on Friday how he got an A in philosophy by using his dad’s answer to the old riddle of whether the glass was half empty or half full: “It depends if you’re pouring or if you’re drinking.”

He wishes he could avoid Newt’s neighborhood

Mr. Fred Rogers, sharing life’s lessons with grads at West Virginia University, where he gave the commencement address Sunday: “I never became a veterinarian, a concert pianist or a commercial pilot. There’s a difference between wishing and realizing our wishes.”

To him, all that negative stuff is just the pits

Jay Leno was greeted by chants of “Dave! Dave! Dave!” when he wandered onto David Letterman’s home turf Saturday to interview drivers gearing up for the Indianapolis 500. “People have this attitude that I see in sports and everything, where you’re supposed to trash-talk the other guy,” Leno said. “I don’t.”

And the odds will still be stacked against him

Leno again, on Brian “Kato” Kaelin’s upcoming stand-up comedy stint in Las Vegas next month with Louie Anderson: “Performing in Vegas should be nothing new to Kato. You can sleep till noon, his room is comped, the food is free. … It’s like the old days, really.”

Some would’ve split, but they were sequestered

And this from former O.J. Simpson house guest Kaelin himself, during a recent trial run at a California comedy club: “This is the first time I’ve been judged by more than 12 people.”

The following fields overflowed: CREDIT = Compiled by staff writer Rick Bonino