Oprah And Uma Are Quaking In Their Boots
So what’s David Letterman been up to lately, besides hanging out in San Francisco?
Eating: “I gave up smoking cigars about two months ago, and ever since then all I am is hungry,” the “Late Show” host said. “All I want to do is eat. I just want to eat now. I can hardly wait to get off the phone.”
Not making fun of struggling CBS quite so much: “I think it’s only fair, on a humanitarian level.”
Moving the fictional home office of his Top Ten lists to the Nebraska town of Wahoo, population 4,000, which got Dave’s attention by sending in a cow-dung clock.
Talking about again hosting the Academy Awards show, now that Whoopi Goldberg has bowed out: “I want that trepidation. I want people to actually be visibly shaken.”
Loose talk
Priscilla Presley, on the sartorial challenge of playing a nurse on “Melrose Place” (on “Extra”): “That was the hardest thing, trying to find a uniform that would look professional enough, but yet halfway decent.”
The one who does those TV ads for old music?
Harvey Keitel turns 57 today.
It’s so big-o, and wide-o, and high-o
Former Johnny Carson sidekick Ed McMahon has been honored by his home town of Lowell, Mass., where a park bench at Middlesex Community College was named after him. “I expected a small bench like I have in the back yard, but this looks like an elaborate, industrial-strength one,” McMahon said as he sat eating hot dogs.
Shouldn’t it be ‘Blue Suede Slippers’?
Priscilla Presley is expected to be on hand when the full-length ballet “Blue Suede Shoes,” the first to be set completely to the music of Elvis Presley, opens in Cleveland on May 24.
Luckily, his mouth was all he shot off
Actor/comedian Martin Lawrence, arrested with a gun in his pocket after an obscenity-filled tirade in a busy Los Angeles intersection last week, is out of the hospital and ready to return to work. A publicist denied earlier reports Lawrence had a seizure after failing to take medication, explaining: “He was just a little bit overloaded.”
She’s ready to say, ‘The hell with it’
Roseanne, saying she dumped abusive hubby Tom Arnold after O.J. Simpson’s ex-wife was murdered, tells Ladies’ Home Journal she wants to leave L.A. in light of Simpson’s acquittal: “Heidi Fleiss may go to prison while O.J. Simpson walks around free. This is Dante’s Inferno.”
They’ll be treating her with kid gloves
Meanwhile, Bo Derek, who initially canceled her scheduled stint tonight on a British talk show where O.J. is also a guest, has agreed to appear on the condition that she have a separate dressing room and not be on screen with Simpson or come face-to-face with him.
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