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The Sensitive Male Is A Rare Breed In Hollywood

Compiled By Staff Writer Dan Web

So what exactly do the leading men celebrities think of women? The editors at Marie Claire magazine report the following:

Warren Beatty (early on): “My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.”

Kevin Costner: “Calling a woman a slut is really a term of endearment because such women usually speak their minds. I like that.”

Mel Gibson: “A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there’s a secure family atmosphere.”

Mick Jagger: “I’m thinking about entering politics; I’d love to do it, but I haven’t got the right wife.”

Jack Nicholson: “They hate us, and we hate them. But they’re stronger and smarter, and they don’t play fair.”

Loose talk

Wilbur Rimes, father of country sensation LeAnn Rimes, on his daughter’s tender age: “She’s 14 goin’ on 40.”

As for the party list, he’s still looking for Richard

Al Pacino turns 57 today.

A stereotype is a stereotype is a stereotype…

Yes, pro golfer Fuzzy Zoeller’s made a tasteless joke about Tiger Woods. Jay Leno, meanwhile, cracked wise at Wednesday’s Academy of Country Music Awards. Dressed in a black hat and rhinestone-decorated suit with green sparkling cactuses, Leno said, “I wore this to the rap awards and didn’t win a thing.” He added, “Everyone made fun of my possum outfit last year. This one probably goes to some pork and rib restaurant.”

The truth is they get along as if by magic

Teller of the magic duo Penn & Teller snorts at reports that they are the Siskel and Ebert of illusion. “We’re the executors of one another’s wills, for Christ’s sake,” Teller said. “There’s the easy kind of friendship and the hard kind of friendship. And this is the hard kind of friendship.”

Hey, we hear The Met is available - or Mootsy’s Tavern

So why did Michael Bolton nix a scheduled $1.2 million concert tour, thereby attracting a lawsuit? Australian promoter Michael Coppel says it was an ego thing. “His management said, ‘The dates that you’re doing aren’t going to sell out, and we can’t deal with him playing less than sold-out shows. His ego is too hard to handle,”’ Coppel told Time magazine.

Get yer Hustler here, yer red-hot Hustler, fresh off the press

“Hustler” publisher Larry Flynt is returning to the city that jailed him in 1977. “We’re going back to Cincinnati in June and we’re going to sell Hustler,” Flynt told the Dayton Daily News. “They say if anybody sells it in Cincinnati, they’re going to be arrested. Well, we’re going to sell it on street corners if we have to.”

He was concerned that she’d scratched the car’s finish

Speaking of smut rags, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl is suing Penthouse for printing a cartoon of him leering at his naked wife sprawled across a limousine. The cartoon appeared in January’s German edition.

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