Liddy’s One Old Soldier Who Refuses To Fade Away
G. Gordon Liddy has made the most of his 15 minutes of fame. The ex-White House “plumber,” has been a prison inmate, lecturer, author, actor and now talk-radio host.
Take his uncensored opinions, which he shared with Playboy magazine, of the three network news anchors:
NBC: “Tom Brokaw is the smartest and also the most physically fit. He has the graciousness to admit he is liberal and not unbiased.”
ABC: “The prettiest is Peter Jennings. He proves that to be a network anchor you must have a superb head of hair, but there doesn’t necessarily have to be anything underneath it.”
CBS: “And then there’s poor old Dan Rather. The only people who still watch Rather are those who always sit at the first turn of the Indianapolis Raceway because they want to see a car crash.”
Loose Talk
Olympian Florence Griffith-Joyner, on coaching her husband, Al Joyner, for the Olympic decathlon and triple jump: “I always tell Al we would have been home sooner if he hadn’t cried all day in practice, if he could just get on the track and take it like a woman.”
Turns out he’s still afraid of Virginia Woolf
Mike Nichols turns 64 today.
And so, another modern celebrity simply fades away
Estella Thompson, aka Divine Brown, enjoyed an extended moment of fame following her arrest for soliciting sex with Hugh Grant. She subsequently modeled lingerie, made a television commercial and allegedly was paid in five figures by a British tabloid for her story. But on Wednesday, Thompson became just another inmate at Los Angeles County Jail as she began a six-month jail sentence.
Not only that, but it’s pretty cramped, too
So why did Mandy Patinkin leave the cast of “Chicago Hope,” the show for which he won a Best Actor Emmy as troubled, brilliant Dr. Jeffrey Geiger? “I just fell apart,” he told TV Guide. “I wept uncontrollably. Geiger’s head is not the greatest place to be.”
Perhaps she said, ‘Sir, sideways isn’t in my lexicon’
Opera diva Jessye Norman is suing Classics CD magazine, charging that an article mocked her speech in an effort “to ridicule and caricature her and all persons of African-American background and descent.” The offending article read in part, “It is still hard to envisage the grand, statuesque 49-year-old as the libidinous adolescent (“Salome”) on stage stripping off the seven veils. This is the woman who got trapped in swing doors on her way to a concert and when advised to release herself by turning sideways replied: ‘Honey, I ain’t got no sideways!”’
They were all just bubbling over with delight
When Jim Carrey left impressions of his hands and feet in a cement block at Man’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood on Thursday, close friends Rodney Dangerfield, Nicholas Cage and Jay Leno helped him share a bottle of champagne with some of the hundreds of fans, friends and family who showed up.
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