Comedy With A Raw Edge Doesn’t Play The High Seas
To some people, the perfect nightmare vacation is an ocean cruise with people you can’t stand yet can’t get away from.
Just ask the vacationers on the recent cruise ship that had hired comic Sandra Bernhard as entertainment. Seems Bernhard’s hard-edged style didn’t go over with the crowd.
According to New York Magazine, Bernhard, apparently unhappy with her accommodations, “took out her aggression on the audience.” And her fellow performers. For one thing, she questioned whether full-figured Nell Carter could even fit into her cabin.
Bernhard got so insulting with the audience that one enraged man threw his drink at her. Bernhard, who left the ship the next night, insisted she had a “fabulous time,” though the booking agent admitted that her act had been “just a little strong.”
Loose talk
Omar Sharif, 64, on coming home (in the British tabloid The Observer): “For many years, I felt I had lost my identity. I was a foreigner everywhere. When I came back to Cairo and saw childhood friends, it made me realize that I want to spend my last years here. I want an old man’s routine, to sit and chat about the past with people who remember.”
Some of us still fall into her ‘Parent Trap’
Hayley Mills turns 50 today.
The judge was not obliged to make a Rush decision
The case: Radio commentator Rush Limbaugh had sued fellow radio personality Aaron Harber for $20 million. The alleged offense: Limbaugh charged that Harber’s show, titled “After the Rush,” capitalized on his name. The verdict: A judge on Monday dismissed the suit, saying that a name change resolved the dispute. The clincher: Harber’s new program name is “Against the Rush.”
As for the rest, we hear it makes good compost
On Monday Jerry Garcia’s friends and family threw his remaining ashes into San Francisco Bay. Earlier, his widow, Deborah Koons Garcia, had dumped some of the ashes into India’s Ganges River.
When it came to movies, he never really blew it, man
Dennis Hopper is into self-revelation, man. “People used to say, ‘How many drugs do you do?”’ he recently told the New York Daily News. “I said, ‘Hey, man, I only do drugs to cover up the fact that I’m an alcoholic.’ I’d often do cocaine so I could sober up and drink more. That’s the truth. Through it all, I never gave up on making films, even when I was putting all those substances in my system.”
Any similarity with Dennis Hopper is mere coincidence
Eric Roberts turns 40 today. And as a sign of his new-found maturity, he offers the following assessment of his acting career: “In my 20s I made eight or 10 movies I was really proud of and they were all box-office flops,” he said. “So I decided to forget quality, I’ll go for quantity. From 1986 to 1996 I made 30 movies and a lot of them stink.”
On this day, the reporters really did dog Liz
When asked to list what she most valued in her life, Elizabeth Taylor answered, “My family, my children, friends and Sugar.” Who’s Sugar? The Maltese puppy she was holding at the time.
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