Put Them All Together, They Spell ‘Heartburn’
Some mealtime memories of famous folks’ moms, courtesy of Food & Wine magazine:
Joan Rivers: “My mom was not a cook. Her china pattern was a skull and crossbones … Whenever we were bad our punishment was being sent to bed with dinner.”
Tracey Ullman: “Mom worked in a laboratory testing food, and would bring home samples for our dinner. Sometimes she’d have to report that formula X had been found unfit for human consumption.”
Sally Jessy Raphael: “The great advice my mother gave me was to clean up as you go along and marry a man who can cook.”
Calvin Trillin: “The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”
Loose talk
Jazzman Joshua Redman, on jamming with fellow saxophonist Bill Clinton: “He sounded a lot better than I or anyone else expected him to sound. I mean that honestly. I’m not just saying that because it looks like he’s going to be re-elected.”
He’s getting too old to stay up that late
Tom Snyder turns 60 today.
It’s hard to imagine drinking two of those
Republican presidential hopeful Bob Dole’s dining habits, according to anonymous friends in an Associated Press report: oatmeal most mornings (“once in a while he’ll splurge and have hotcakes”), soup at his desk for lunch, and, for an evening cocktail, vodka and onion juice - “one drink, never two.”
From the Bob Packwood platform, part one:
Legendary 85-year-old White House correspondent Sarah McClendon, on fellow Texan and failed GOP presidential contender Phil Gramm (in Mother Jones magazine): “I don’t care for anything he does. I especially don’t like it when he comes up and kisses me … Believe me, I don’t stay around him very closely.”
From the Bob Packwood platform, part two:
If Cuban-born singer Gloria Estefan somehow became president, she tells George magazine, her programs would include more money for education, tax rebates for voting and “a National Massage Day, where people would exchange massages - or just neck rubs.”
In fact, the resemblance is downright eary
At the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner, unabashed liberal Al Franken, author of “Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot,” endorsed Christie Whitman’s Republican vice presidential candidacy, saying Americans love royalty and the New Jersey governor is “a dead cross between Princess Di and Prince Charles.”
Sounds like she’s pretty burned up about it
Supermodel Linda Evangelista is suing France’s far-right National Front over a poster the party put out depicting her as Joan of Arc, with her face superimposed on a picture of the 15th-century heroine.
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