All Things Go Right In This Hipster’s Political Arena

We all know that he’s a man of Republican sentiments, a Hollywood big shot who’s more comfortable with the Newt Gingriches than any - dare we say it! - liberal politician.

But Bruce Willis feels no need to apologize. Of Ted Kennedy he told GQ magazine, “Can we somehow please get Teddy Kennedy out of the Congress? Can we somehow say, ‘Know what? It’s over, chief! Hit the showers! Go!”’ Still, he is no fervent fan of Pat Buchanan either.

“I think Pat Buchanan is a good instigator and a good populist kinda guy,” Willis said. “But I personally think that anyone who stands up and says he’s gonna repeal abortion - just tar and feather him. Run him out of town. The right to have an abortion has already been granted… For that alone, you lose my respect. Gone, bonehead.”

Loose talk

One-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Janet Cooke, who gave the award back after she admitted making up her story, on what her life is like now (in GQ magazine): “I’m in a situation where cereal has become a viable dinner choice.”

Just call him Luke Soapwalker

Anthony Geary turns 48 today.

In the same way that Charlie Brown can’t fly a kite

In the June issue of Esquire, the magazine polls a number of celebrities, performers and artists about their favorite things. “My favorite failed character was born years ago when I tried to create a cat called Feron that would rival Snoopy,” recalls “Peanuts” creator Charles Schulz. “I soon discovered that I didn’t want a dog-and-cat strip. Also, I learned that I couldn’t draw a cat.”

But then think of the marketing opportunities for Clearasil

Not getting enough sleep is embarrassing for “Friends” star Courteney Cox. “I need eight hours of sleep,” she told the Ladies’ Home Journal, “and if I don’t get it, I break out as if I were 13.”

Like, remember the time he danced with wolves?

In an article on Kevin Costner’s struggle to build a $140 million golf course in the Black Hills, Esquire writer Maryanne Vollers explains the actor’s reaction: “I try to live a normal life,” Costner says. “But there’s not a thing I can do, there’s not a private moment, good or bad, that can’t become a potentially public moment and very embarrassing.”

A 40-watt tribute to a 300-watt performer

Here’s our nomination for overheated prose of the week: Writes John Lahr in a New Yorker celebration of actress Fiona Shaw, “Shaw is all prowess and passion. She burns before the audience, radiating not just the heat of her imagination but the glare of her critical intelligence.”

Even Cliff wouldn’t take notes for Joffe’s ‘Scarlet Letter’

Critical brickbats keep coming at “The Scarlet Letter” with Demi Moore. Writing in Video Magazine, reviewer M. Faust says, “There’s no way to fathom what (director Roland) Joffe and scripter Douglas Day Stewart were thinking. ‘Scarlet’ is a mess that ultimately serves no one - including students looking to get out of reading the book for class.”

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