Princess Di Is All Sighs Over Photos Of Her Thighs
You’d think that she might be above such trivia. But, apparently Princess Diana can’t let anything written about her go uncorrected.
To wit: the tabloid story that the royal personage is suffering from unsightly cellulite on her thighs, complete with photo.
Not so, trumpets one of her defenders, James Whitaker, who claims that the royal waif had not “a single ounce of it, on her legs or anywhere else for that matter.”
He bases his comments on the royal estrangement herself, who explains away the tell-tale photos as “stool bumps left on the royal thighs from sitting at her gym’s juice bar.”
Wright adds, however, that Diana didn’t react well to the photo, which appeared all over London. She was, he said, “shattered.” “She burst into tears of frustration,” Wright added.
Loose talk
Julio Iglesias, explaining to a Washington Post reporter the point of his new album: “So tell me, are you married? Yes? Well, I am finishing an album of tangos. It is for you to get together with the husband and the red wine and to make a pregnancy.”
She could wash any man right out of her hair
Heloise Cruse Evans turns 45 today.
He was one of the good ol’ boys drinkin’ whisky and rye
Vice President Albert Gore, it appears, is a big Garth Brooks fan. Seems Gore attended Brooks’ April 6 show in Landover, Md., staying for the entire 2-1/2-hour show. He even sang along to Brooks’ rendition of Don McLean’s ‘70s hit “American Pie.”
Let’s get this straight, now this is a part-time gig?
Time for some Brit-royal news: Sophie Rhys-Jones, Prince Edward’s steady, has taken a $75,000-a-year part-time job in public relations. “She can’t slop around in old jeans, sneakers and a jumper,” a friend told the Evening Standard. “She can’t go shopping with a hole in her tights. She must look her best at all times, and that costs money.”
Tell-tale signs from the land of the free, home of the brave
When he announced that he’d decided not to run for president, Colin Powell disappointed a lot of people. But not all, including his wife. “I don’t want to describe the hate mail we’ve gotten,” Alma Powell told the Ladies’ Home Journal. “You think everybody loves Colin Powell. Everybody doesn’t like Colin Powell. One day I got two letters, one telling me what a wonderful man I was married to and how much the country needed him; the other said Colin Powell is a scum bag and proceeded to list all his evils.”
Price of this column ($25) vs. its value (plugged nickel)
Much has been made of Entertainment Weekly’s list of spiraling movie-star salaries. Here, in contrast, are the magazine’s ideas of actors who are actual bargains (actual salaries vs. what the salaries should be): Samuel L. Jackson ($4.5 mil, $8.4 mil), Gene Hackman ($6 mil, $10.4 mil), Rene Russo ($2.5, $8.4 mil), Kevin Bacon ($2.5 mil, $9 mil) Susan Sarandon ($3 mil, $7.8 mil), Liam Neeson ($3 mil, $7.4 mil), Sigourney Weaver ($4 mil, $7.4 mil) and Holly Hunter ($2.5 mil, $7.2 mil).
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