All The Attention Just Seems So … Unnatural
Counterculture cartoonist R. (as in Robert) Crumb is just trying to keep on truckin’ since the release of the documentary “Crumb.”
“When we saw the film, our urge was to hide in a cave,” said Crumb’s wife, Aline Kominsky-Crumb. “I’m not unhappy by the film, I’m terrified of the exposure. None of us had any idea that anybody would want to see a film on a has-been cartoonist by an unknown director.”
Crumb (“Mr. Natural,” “Fritz the Cat”) has taken to traveling in disguise, she said: “He has changed his hat. He threw it off a cliff, and when he went to see the film in San Francisco, nobody recognized him.”
As for the movie itself, she added: “There’s very little representation of our family, which is a very well-adjusted, healthy family. We’re not especially monogamous people, but that’s our own business. It works.”
Loose talk
Alicia Silverstone (“Clueless”), on her instant sex symbol status (in Rolling Stone magazine): “It’s strange to think of what other people might be thinking of me. It’s not nice to get written about. All of a sudden, people are fixating on you. It’s sad.” Then there are those well-suited to celebrity
Boxcar Willie turns 64 today.
The whole situation is taxing his patience
Criminal charges are still pending against actor Tony Danza, who allegedly kicked in a car window and grabbed the video camera of a fan who was taping Danza and his daughters romping on Malibu beach. “Fear - that’s exactly what we’re talking about,” he told TV Guide. “Why don’t I just invite them into the house if they’re going to be that close? They’re stalking me.”
So she’s not trying to be Jerry Seinfeld?
How does comedian Ellen DeGeneres keep her cool? According to her new book, “My Point … and I Do Have One,” through such daily “affirmations” as: “I bet nobody knows I’m crazy,” “I mean for my hair to look like this” and “I sing better than Bonnie Raitt. I have as many Grammys as Bonnie Raitt. I am Bonnie Raitt.”
Cindy’s looking for a more macho mantra
Following his split with supermodel Cindy Crawford, actor Richard Gere has fallen back on his Buddhism to keep him centered. Gere told Body Mind Spirit magazine that he recently spent an entire day walking around New York City without saying a single word, “Just thinking to myself: ‘I wish you happiness and the causes of future happiness.”’
Well, every actress has her favorite rolls
The aforementioned Alicia Silverstone finds her solace in meditations on everyday things: “I don’t know if we appreciate how much we have … So the things I do have, I’ll appreciate - like toilet paper. Just the other day, I said to (roommate) Jennifer, ‘Maybe we should stop using toilet paper.’ We decided to thank the toilet paper instead, so that’s what I do when I leave the bathroom. Thank the toilet paper.”
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