London’s Streets Aren’t Safe For This Brit-Royal
Think about what it would be like to have your every move shadowed. To be unable to leave your home without camera stobes flashing in your face.
That’s what Princess Diana must put up with, and it is wearing her down. In a confrontation with a couple of free-lance photogs, Di said that the situation might force her to leave London.
“What can I do? I can’t live in London anymore,” the princess told paparazzi Mark Saunders and Glenn Harvey in comments that were aired by Hard Copy. Saying that she wasn’t sure what the answer was, Di insisted that she “cannot sit here and be battered every single day because someone is making money out of me.”
About her divorce from Prince Charles, when the photogs suggested that the “problem here is probably not us,” Di replied, “I’m telling (you) the problem is you.”
Loose talk
Non-Jew Arnold Schwarzenegger on receiving an award for supporting the Simon Wiesenthal Center: “I would make the best reform Jew. Never go to the temple, I every so often sneak a little bacon, and I married a shiksa.”
He’s no longer that ‘16 Candles’ nerd
Anthony Michael Hall turns 29 today.
Does that make Yale the equivalent of, say, wood pulp?
Lisa Kudrow, who earned a degree in biology from Vassar, feels humble around Harvard-educated Mira Sorvino, her co-star in the film “Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion.” “She speaks Chinese!” Kudrow said. “She went to Harvard. Harvard is like rock and Vassar is scissors. Rock beats scissors, Harvard beats Vassar.”
You’d find that video in the bargain bin soon enough
The process of outing gay movie and television stars is popular among some entertainment media. But at least one gay screenwriter sees a problem. “Why do gay gossips attempt to out only the cutest and most heterosexual movie stars?” said Paul Rudnick (“The Addam Family”). “How come no one ever insists that, say, Pauly Shore is gay and they’ve got the video to prove it?”
And the only thing bigger than Hale-Bopp is Mailer’s ego
Norman Mailer, never one to mince word or express false humility, has this to say about Nobel Prize laureate Saul Bellow. “No one has ever written a successful novel about a graduate student,” Mailer said. “The only thing more boring than a novel about a grad student is anything by Saul Bellow.”
Bet he’ll never eat lunch in that town again
Michael Ovitz’s forthcoming biography - written by Robert Slater - should be required reading by anyone fascinated by Hollywood. Slater didn’t get Ovitz’s OK, but he did manage to snare interviews with the likes of Tom Cruise, David Letterman, Michael Crichton and others.
We see Gary Coleman playing Dennis in the movie
And as long as we’re speaking of biographies, expect Dennis Rodman to follow up his “Bad As I Wanna Be” with a sequel titled “Walk on the Wild Side.” Look for it April 30.
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