Under That Fine Exterior, Emma’s A Regular Person

She’s beautiful and talented, but there is something even more unique about actress Emma Thompson: She has little of that traditional English reserve.

When addressing reporters outside her London home about the breakup of her marriage to Kenneth Branagh, Thompson started to recite the agreed-upon statement. “Due to the pressures of work…,” she began.

But then, saying that she felt “pretty ropey, actually,” Thompson begged off. “God, don’t ask me,” she said. “I can’t even string a sentence together this morning.”

Those pressures included little time together. Branagh has said, “I have to make an appointment to see her.” For her part, Thompson, when asked whether the couple might have kids, has said, “Kenneth is so tired even his sperms are on crutches.”

Loose talk

“Baywatch” thespian Pamela Anderson on her marriage to Tommy Lee (in “Extra”): “We’ve been married twice already, and we want to get married again in Venice, Italy, possibly on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day… We just want to get married everywhere, and eventually my mom will be able to come.” Bet she’ll put only 29 candles on the cake

Romance novelist Jackie Collins turns 54 today.

How about New Hampshire-Vermont, Arizona-New Mexico?

Leah Garchik, columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, offers up this tidbit: Dan Quayle may have needed spelling lessons, but Garchik points out that John F. Kennedy Jr.’s new magazine George has a problem with geography. The political mag printed a map of the United States in which “Wisconsin and Minnesota have changed places.”

Now, there’s a way to make a marriage last

The quote: “They are now closer than they have ever been since they split up.” The speaker: An unnamed Brit-royal official. The significance: The spokesperson was commenting on reports that Prince Andrew and the Duchess of York recently took a secret holiday together in Spain and are spending up to four nights a week together.

Perhaps if they’d come up with an article of clothing?

To raise some money for the Mexia (Texas) High School Ex-student Association, they auctioned the 1985 yearbook that featured one of Mexia’s star graduates: Anna Nicole Smith. Unfortunately, the auction was a bust. No one would come up with the minimum bid of $200.

Remember, that’s Geena, not Gina or Jeana or Gino

“Do you have anyone I can talk to about never being mentioned in your magazine again?” wrote Geena Davis to Entertainment Weekly. “I’m serious - bad or good. Even if I were in the ‘Hot’ column of ‘What’s Hot/ What’s Not.’ Just never brought up again. See, every time you talk about me, you get something wrong.”

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The new “Star Trek” movie scheduled for late 1996 will feature only “Star Trek: The Next Generation” characters. Patrick Stewart is still not on board, but executive producer Rick Berman says, “They are almost all signed, sealed and delivered - but everything will work out.”

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