Come On, They’re Just Two People In Lava
Now that Ellen DeGeneres is officially out, who’s she going out with? In case you haven’t heard by now, it’s “Volcano” star Anne Heche, a former flame of Steve Martin’s who played Johnny Depp’s wife in “Donnie Brasco” and will film a romantic comedy with Harrison Ford this summer.
Heche, 27, who will appear with DeGeneres (12 years her senior) on today’s “Oprah,” said they met at an Oscar party where “we just connected immediately.” They’ve since been seen making lovey-dovey everywhere from the L.A. premiere of “Volcano” to Manhattan’s Meow Mix lesbian bar to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
As for the openness, Heche says that her fundamentalist minister father, who killed himself in 1983 after contracting AIDS, was a closeted, club-cruising homosexual. “I won’t repeat his mistakes,” she vows.
Loose talk
Twice-divorced actress Sally Kirkland, on her love life at age 51 (on ET Online): “There’s a man in my life and I’m exploring my bisexuality right now.”
Suddenly, every unmarried woman is a suspect
Jill Clayburgh turns 53 today.
So, King’s about to drag along another queen
Guest speaker Jon Stewart, at the White House dinner: “I commend (DeGeneres’) courage in coming out. Although I still think it’s a ruse to get Larry King to stop hitting on her.” (King, by the way, is talking marriage with would-be Wife No. 7, “infomercial goddess” Shawn Southwick.)
Reports of his appearance were premature
One person you won’t be seeing on Oprah Winfrey’s show is cross-dressing basketball bad boy Dennis Rodman. Winfrey canceled a planned appearance by Rodman after reading his new book, the obscenity-laced “Walk on the Wild Side,” in which he claims he once had an affair with a transsexual and plans to legally change his name to “Orgasm.”
Like they say, spare the child and spoil the rod
Barbra Streisand’s ex, Elliott Gould, blames himself for their 32-year-old son Jason being gay. “It’s a result of conditioning,” Gould says in “It Only Happens Once,” a new Streisand autobiography. “Barbra won custody when we were divorced. I left him in that environment without me. I think he was affected by not having love at a vital stage in his life.”
Or about 20,000 fewer than Liberace had on him
Liberace’s 1956 Ford Thunderbird, a sporty white one with red leather seats and red carpeting, fetched $28,750 at an auction over the weekend. The car had only 18,000 miles on it.
Ellen or not, women still have to watch their step
The Spice Girls, one of England’s hottest musical acts, upset members of the Maori tribe by doing a war dance only men are supposed to perform during a visit to Bali (some New Zealand rugby players taught them how, but failed to explain the meaning). Said a Maori spokesman: “It is not acceptable in our culture, and especially by girlie pop stars from another culture.”
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