Says Ex-‘Partridge’ Kid, Worrying’s For The Birds
Danny Bonaduce is no longer a TV talk-show host. And there’s only one person less broken up about that than, say, anyone who happened to watch “Danny!” Bonaduce himself.
Still working the 3 to 7 p.m. shift for Chicago radio station WLUP, the ex-“Partridge Family” star had tried to establish himself with an uncomfortable format.
“Even though I appreciated the job, I never really understood what I was doing talking to people about their problems,” said the 36-year-old entertainer. “I’m the last person they’d want to talk to. I probably had more problems than any of my guests.”
As for his future, he’s not worried. “I could not be more pleased,” Bonaduce says. “I’m not out of work. I saved enough money to put my daughter (13-month-old Countess Isabella) through college.”
Loose talk
Actress Madeleine Stowe on “12 Monkeys” co-star Bruce Willis (in People magazine): “I liked to tease him and say, ‘It’s good to be Bruce, isn’t it?’ And he’d say, ‘Bruce likes being Bruce.”’
And every day he still climbs that stairway to heaven
Jimmy Page turns 51 today.
Bernhard? She never, ever does anything easy
Sandra Bernhard is slated to take over as in-house attorney for “Chicago Hope.” Bernhard, whose character may earn full-time honors accorded to former regular Peter MacNicol, will debut Feb. 5. “If she works out, creatively and fiscally, we’ll use her a lot more,” says executive producer John Tinker. “We like to take chances.”
Also, he had to resist the advances of Marcel the monkey
While watching the filming of the hour-long “Friends” episode set to run Jan. 28, tennis star Andre Agassi squirmed. That’s because real-life girlfriend, Brooke Shields, locked lips on camera with cast member Matt LeBlanc. “It’s hard for him,” Shields said. “To watch the person you’re in love with kissing another person makes your stomach a little ill.”
And just think of the resulting publicity
When Alec Baldwin attacked a videocam operator trying to shoot him, wife Kim Basinger and their baby daughter, “Baywatch” star Pamela Lee cheered. “If somebody jumped into my window, especially if I had a child at home, I would blow ‘em out of the atmosphere,” Lee told TV Guide. “There would be no second-guessing to protect my family.”
Turns out she has both sense and sensibility
“Sense and Sensibility” star Emma Thompson is humble. “People asked if I wanted to direct ‘Sense,”’ she told Entertainment Weekly. “I think it would have been a little much: ‘She’s adapted it! She’s starring in it! She’s directing!’ Anyway, how can you direct in a corset?”
Some win, some show but the lucky ones are paid to tell
Nancy Sinatra, after displaying her surgically enhanced body in Playboy magazine, has at least one person wishing she would again disappear. “I wish she’d find something to do that doesn’t involve show business,” father Frank Sinatra told People magazine.
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