Guess That’s What You Call Going British Treat Singer
The latest on Prince Charles and Princess Diana, in honor of today’s official one-week anniversary of their divorce:
The London Sunday Mirror reports that Charles and longtime paramour Camilla Parker Bowles have been spotted lately slipping into the back row of the Astoria, a drab old theater near Bowles’ country home. Among their recent outings: “Mission: Impossible” and “The Piano.” Bowles pays for the $5.40 tickets, since the prince never carries cash.
Meanwhile, on Monday, Di visited with her two sons for the first time since the divorce was finalized, taking 14-year-old Prince William and 11-year-old Prince Harry to play tennis at London’s exclusive Harbor Club, where she regularly works out.
Loose talk
Chynna Phillips, on her marriage to actor Billy Baldwin (on TV’s “Extra”): “I’m educating myself and reading up on current events. That’s what makes our marriage kind of exciting. He keeps me stimulated and I keep him stimulated.”
It’s just another one of those unusual links
Tom Watson turns 47 and Raymond Floyd 53 today.
Actually, they’re just a pair a’ normal folks
TV Guide confirms that “X-Files” star David Duchovny and actress Winona Ryder are a couple. “I’m happy, and I’m in love,” he told the magazine. “I can’t really talk about who it is because it’s my personal life. I don’t want to do that.” While friends think they’ll “go public” at next month’s Emmies, Duchovny said: “I don’t know if I’ve got a date.”
Why bother stepping in that ‘I do’ doo-doo?
On her season premiere Tuesday, Oprah Winfrey, herself the subject of much marital speculation, declined to ask guest John F. Kennedy Jr. when he was getting hitched. “I purposely did not ask John about getting married,” she told her audience afterward, “because it’s the question I get asked most often, and unless you’re receiving an invitation, the answer doesn’t matter.”
Which is what Mick usually gives everyone else
Italy is a dangerous place for actors these days. Liam Neeson, who collapsed in pain Sunday at the Venice Film Festival, underwent emergency surgery Monday to remove an intestinal blockage, while Mickey Rourke, shooting a movie near Rome, was hospitalized over the weekend with what was described as a bad case of indigestion.
And then she ate the winning entry: her words
Lifestyle maven Martha Stewart, who last December told a Buffalo newspaper she would “think long and hard before I accept another invitation to your chilly and downright unfriendly city again” after criticisms that she left a book signing early, was back in town on Monday as part of the VH-1 music channel’s Labor Day “ultimate backyard barbecue” contest. Said Stewart: “I am happy to be coming back. I don’t want to be banned in Buffalo!”
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