When Grandma Speaks, The Brit-Royals Do Listen
The Brit-royals are back in business.
Seems the Queen Mother has been having a fit about Prince Charles’ relations with his long-time “friend” Camilla Parker Bowles. Meanwhile, Prince Andrew may be reconciling with his wife, the Duchess of York.
According to London’s Sunday Express, the 95-year-old mother of Queen Elizabeth II has said no way to Charles’ request to have Bowles, and not Princess Diana, accompany him to official functions.
“The British people would never accept a divorced king and queen,” the dowager declares. “It would divide the country.”
As for Andy and his randy mate, The News of the World quotes Fergie as saying that the prince “wants me back. I love him, and we both love the girls. I don’t know what’s stopping us.”
Loose talk
Stephen King on his personal system of therapy: “People pay a shrink $50 an hour to get rid of those sick thoughts. I write them down and people pay me.”
All together now, Good Morning to you, too, Joan!
Joan Lunden turns 44 today.
Celebrity helps when you have such dear ‘Friends’
What’s the ratio of pleasure to pain for a modern television celebrity? People magazine can tell you. “I’d say 88 percent of it is great,” says “Friends” star Matthew Perry, “and 12 percent of it is a little scary.”
It’s not like you can read her zip code
Shawntel Smith turned 24, modeled her swimsuit and won the 1995 Miss America Title - all on Saturday. And though contest organizers had put it up to an audience vote, Miss Oklahoma for one wasn’t surprised at the overwhelming vote in favor of keeping the spandex parade. “Personally, I feel the suit is modest enough that I don’t think I’m compromising any of my beliefs or values,” Smith said.
Question is, did he leave the seat up or down?
According to The Hill, President Clinton had to go while on the golf course recently. Since no restroom was in sight, Sen. Charles Robb asked a woman standing at the edge of the course if Clinton could use hers. After he did, the group heard her tell her husband, “God, this is a great country. Can you believe it? The president of the United States uses our bathroom, and Ernie, you didn’t even vote for him.”
And then he ran over his dog with his pickup
Some musicians don’t stomp cowpies. David Bowie, for example, shared this anecdote with Seconds magazine: “When they were carting Buddy Rich into the hospital, the doctor leaned over and asked if he was allergic to anything and he said, ‘Yeah, Country & Western.”’
That’ll all change come December
Elizabeth Berkley, star of the controversial movie “Showgirls,” which opens Friday in Spokane, told David Letterman what performing nude in the film did to her. “I’m not very comfortable in clothing right now,” she said. “I’ve spent the last 4-1/2 months naked.”
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