She May Dine On Lobster, But She Can’t Eat A Seal

Paula Zahn is tough, but she’s not near tough enough to be a SEAL.

The co-host of “CBS This Morning” became the first woman to train with the elite Navy commando unit, and she seemed to have at least some credentials to do so.

She runs 40 miles a week, and she was a champion swimmer in college. It was the upper-body stuff that did her in.

“I did fine in the running and swimming, but I’m still working on one pull-up,” says Zahn, a 40 year-old mother of two. Most of the male recruits did 30 pull-ups.

Zahn did perform 37 of the 50 required push-ups, and she believes other women could do even better. “I didn’t feel wimpy,” she says. “I’m convinced we have elite female athletes that can make it through a SEALS program.”

Loose talk

Demi Moore on new-age guru Deepak Chopra (in the British magazine Hello): “Through his teachings I hope to live to a great age - even 130.”

These days, his stage name might be Glenn Taurus

Glenn Ford turns 80 today.

That Margot, she’s always been such a Kidder

Actress Margot Kidder is recovering with a sister in Toronto after having an apparent nervous breakdown last week in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, the ex-husband who Kidder claims was out to kill her - novelist Tom McGuane - reports he hasn’t seen Kidder in 20 years.

Ineffective? Some folks think she slept with Bill Clinton!

The critic who miffed Gennifer Flowers wrote the following of her performance in an Allentown, Pa., revival of “Oh! Calcutta!”: “She is the only cast member who does not fully undress, and if her musical ineptitude is not a sufficient negative, she’s an ineffective actress.”

But his new CD is certainly selling well

So how much is Stone Temple Pilots lead singer Scott Weiland suffering from the effects of drug abuse? Weiland, 28, who was arrested in May for cocaine and heroin possession, has been ordered to serve a week in a Pasadena, Calif., jail and then enter a six-month drug program. “All you have to do is look at the guy,” said Deputy District Attorney Michael Grosbard. “He’s clearly hurting badly.”

Weekends at Spago, it was always a Dunne deal

So, with whom did writer Dominick Dunne share his inside news of the O.J. Simpson murder trial? “I used to have lunch with Nancy (Reagan) every Saturday,” he said, “and lunch with Elizabeth (Taylor) on Sundays and go over everything with them,” he told TV Guide.

When it came to music, Julio always had a goal

On his way to a professional soccer career at age 19, crooner Julio Iglesias was severely injured in a car accident. Now, 52, he credits that accident for turning him to music. “Without the accident I wouldn’t be able to reach people the way I do today,” Iglesias says. Playing Caesars palace this week, Iglesias has sold in excess of 200 million albums.

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