He’s Just Acting Out His Neurotic Fantasies
Public reaction to his romantic relationship with Soon-Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of former wife Mia Farrow, almost drove Woody Allen out of show business.
“When I go into a public place, like a restaurant or a ball game, I know some people are looking at me and thinking that I’m a terrible person,” the actor/director told the New York Times.
“I seriously considered whether I still wanted to entertain, to work hard at whatever gift I had to offer these people. Then I told myself that not everyone was that way, that some still believed in me. So I went on.”
As for Soon-Yi, he added: “She’s a marvel. And she laughs at all my jokes. She thinks I’m hilarious, and that doesn’t hurt the relationship one bit, I can tell you.”
Loose talk
Suzanne Somers, promoting her new exercise device, the ButtMaster (on “Entertainment Tonight”): “My butt is an inch higher than it used to be. And that’s good!”
Her friends are throwing her a Whoopi to-do
Whoopi Goldberg turns 46 today.
Must’ve been one of those Oprah/Umabombers
David Letterman, who flopped as host of the Oscars in March, says it’s a mistake for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to pass him over for 1996 in favor of Whoopi Goldberg. As he told fellow talk host Tom Snyder: “Many more would have been watching next year if I was hosting. Who doesn’t like watching a sleepy guy defuse a bomb?”
Hope she remembers to watch her goose step
Remember the “Soup Nazi” from a couple of “Seinfeld” episodes ago? He’s based on an actual surly soup peddler in Manhattan named Al Yeganeh, who appeared none too pleased with the “Nazi” nickname during an interview with “A Current Affair.” Says “Seinfeld” co-star Julia Louis-Dreyfus: “I’m dying to try his soup.”
He won’t stop trying to climb every mountain
Former “St. Elsewhere” star Ed Begley Jr., one of Hollywood’s leading environmentalists, has resigned his posts with two California conservation groups but says he’ll “still be getting around by bike, bus or rail, checking my solar panels, growing my food and hiking through the last bit of undeveloped hillside while it lasts” - undoubtedly with new lady friend Linda Doucett, Garry Shandling’s statuesque ex.
She’s in good company, generally speaking
O.J. Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark has signed a $4.2 million book deal with Penguin USA the third-largest nonfiction book contract ever, topped only by Norman Schwarzkopf and Colin Powell.
O.J., of course, got one for Most Sealed Lips
Among the World’s Most Beautiful Lips awards announced by Blistex: Kelsey Grammer (“Frasier”), Most Freudian Lips; Courteney Cox (“Friends”), Most Friendly Lips; John F. Kennedy Jr., Most Eligible Lips, and Cal Ripken Jr., Most Durable Lips.
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