Ollie Aimed To Nail Him, By Hook Or By Crook
And now, your daily dose of “Nixon” bashing (the movie, not the man):
The Rev. Billy Graham says he won’t see the film because he wants to remember Richard and Pat Nixon “as they really were” - people who “served their country with dedication and distinction for over half a century.”
Frank Gannon, who helped Nixon research his memoirs, says director Oliver Stone’s own book of footnotes reveals several errors - including the film Nixon’s nickname for his wife, “Buddy,” which she discarded almost 10 years before meeting him.
But Joan Allen, who plays Pat, came to her defense in the New York Times: “I think she would have been a warm person, compassionate … People tagged her with the words ‘plastic Pat,’ but that’s unfair and not true.”
Loose talk
Bill Maher (“Politically Incorrect”), on Sen. Bob Dole: “If (he) gets elected president he’ll be 73 years old when he takes office and some people say that’s a difficult stage in life - too old for the White House and too young for Anna Nicole Smith.” By now, he should be over his Tammy phase
Jim Bakker turns 57 today.
‘God Save the Mistress’ does seem a bit awkward
Friends of Camilla Parker Bowles told the London Daily Express she expects to marry Prince Charles after he divorces Princess Diana, despite his denials and objections by Prime Minister John Major and the Church of England. Said one: “She is not prepared to be his mistress forever.”
Oswald had a big year, but Capone had the career
A 1990 Christmas card from Charles and Di, along with sons Prince William and Prince Harry, fetched $2,475 at a New York autograph auction - compared to $17,600 for a signed photo of Al Capone and $10,450 for a 1962 letter from Lee Harvey Oswald.
It still doesn’t quite strike us as model behavior
Yes, those were supermodels Vendela, Naomi Campbell and Kathy Ireland you saw munching potato chips - excuse us, Baked Lay’s Potato Crisps, with only 1.5 grams of fat per ounce - in those television ads during Monday’s Tournament of Roses parade.
Their new motto: Never trust anyone over 60
Among the celebrity baby boomers who will turn 50 in 1996: Diane Keaton, Naomi Judd, Dolly Parton, David Lynch, Gene Siskel, Gregory Hines, Sandy Duncan, Tyne Daley, Liza Minnelli, Timothy Dalton, Al Green, Hayley Mills, John Waters, Lesley Gore, Candice Bergen, Cher, Priscilla Presley, Barry Manilow, Sylvester Stallone, Richard “Cheech” Marin, Helen Mirren, Linda Ronstadt, Susan Saint James, Lesley Ann Warren, Tommy Lee Jones, Oliver Stone, Susan Sarandon, John Prine, Suzanne Somers, Pat Sajak, Sally Field, Patty Duke and Jimmy Buffet.
Wherever they are, it’s one hell of a floor show
And among those who didn’t quite make it: Duane Allman, Gram Parsons, Keith Moon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Gilda Radner, Freddie Mercury and Divine (the transvestite actor, not Hugh Grant’s gal pal).
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