He’d Still Like To Bury Her Under A Handy Rainbow
Imagine what it must have been like for Tony Roberts to perform in the Broadway musical “Victor/Victoria” with that bundle of neediness named Liza Minnelli.
After being in the show for two years, playing second lead to Julie Andrews, Roberts suddenly found himself “thrust into a different venue, with this huge radiating sun that is Liza Minnelli. Did she have any sense of sharing the stage? I don’t know. It was like having a brass band in the middle of ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ She doesn’t need anyone else. She doesn’t feed anyone else.”
That problem plus Minnelli’s habitual lateness, Roberts told the New York Observer, prompted his temporary walkout. But his return only exacerbated matters.
When he would sing, Minnelli fans would hiss. “I thought the whole world was going to hiss me for a long time,” Roberts said.
Loose talk
Bob Dole on integrity, as quoted from a speech in honor of George McGovern’s 75th birthday (from the Washington Post): “You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70, or given up all hope of the presidency.”
‘Animal House’ definitely was a boon to his career
Peter Riegert turns 50 today.
The original release plans are a total washout
We’ve been seeing trailers for months now, but don’t expect to see the Christian Slater movie “The Flood” anytime soon. As part of the usual pre-season shuffling of Hollywood’s summer film schedule, the movie is being moved from its original May 2 slot to fall at the latest. The reason: Paramount didn’t want it to get lost in the year’s collection of disaster films. The film may undergo a name change as well.
Why did she do it? It’s a complete mystery
Patricia Cornwell, author of the Kay Scarpetta mystery series (“From Potter’s Field”), admits that she had an affair with an FBI agent whose ex-husband was later convicted of attempting to kill the woman. “It was so stupid of me! So reckless. I mean, here she was, a married woman!” Cornwell said, “With two children!”
When it rains on this guy, it comes in a torrent
If we didn’t know it by now, Christopher Reeve’s latest accident proves that he indeed is not Superman. While moving the paralyzed actor from a stationary bike to a chair, two people dropped him, breaking his upper arm. “It was a complete fracture, like breaking a match stick,” Reeve said. He underwent surgery Sunday to have a titanium rod inserted in the bone between his shoulder and elbow.
They paved paradise, put up an Internet site
Say what you want about the so-called evils of the Internet, but Joni Mitchell’s long-lost daughter made good use of it. Kilauren Gibb, 32, recently reunited with her mother, actually located her through information she found on the Web. Mitchell, then a 19-year-old single woman, had given Gibb up for adoption in 1965. , DataTimes ILLUSTRATION: 2 Photos
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