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Roberts Has No Problem Baring Her Better Assets

Compiled By Staff Writer Dan Web

Oh, to live in the Big Apple. Only there can you wake up and buy two newspapers bearing photographs of Julia Roberts soul-kissing another woman in a bar called Hogs & Heifers.

In the New York Post on Monday, photog Gary Miller said he saw the kiss: “I saw their tongues come out… There was one big, long tongue-to-tongue kiss that lasted between 30 and 50 seconds. Then Roberts pulled the other girl close and started to lick her neck.”

Roberts’ spokeswoman pooh-poohed any randy suggestions about the movie star’s sexual orientation. “No, Julia isn’t gay,” she said. “She was just having fun, out dancing with friends.”

And, in the process, removing her black bra - a 34B - and donating it to the bar’s collection.

Loose talk

Pittsburgh native Michael Keaton on what he did during that city’s recent celebration of “Michael Keaton Day” (as reported by the Associated Press): “I went back to my old haunts, but most of them have been shut down by the Board of Health.”

Down in Dallas, they still call her Sue Ellen

Linda Gray turns 56 today.

The title of his next film should be ‘Big Brother & Me’

Michael Moore, the documentary filmmaker (“Roger & Me”) and television satirist (“TV Nation”), says this year’s presidential election is much ado about nothing. “The Republicans are the Democrats, and the Democrats are the Republicans,” Moore said Monday while in Flint, Mich., to promote his new book “Downsize This!” “Why are we talking third-party when we don’t even have two parties?”

He’ll try not to use any words of more than two syllables

All you Brit-royal fans should mark your calendars. Britain’s Duchess of York is scheduled to appear on the Nov. 18 David Letterman show. “She seems to be the kind of personality that Dave can really click with” Letterman guest booker Joanna Jordan told the New York Daily News.

Nothing will happen, though, if they just live in sin

Speaking of Brit-royals, one Windsor family observer says that Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles have decided never to marry. Parker-Bowles, says Ingrid Seward, “realizes it would probably cost the man she loves his inheritance were he to make her his wife.”

The drinks were watery, but the hostess was Divine

Here’s a tardy-but-still-tawdry item: On Sunday night, a woman named Divine Brown was arrested in the casino area of the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. The charge: loitering with the intent to hook and resisting arrest. You may recognize her name. Movie star Hugh Grant sure would.

In a strange twist, she’d rather make her living on her feet

Speaking of paid consorts (see above item), Sherry Rowlands, too, wants a new career. Rowlands, you’ll recall, is the $200-a-night companion of former Bill Clinton advisor Dick Morris. And what does Rowlands ideally want to be: a stand-up comic.

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