All Told, It Was Another Wild And Woolly Year

Tue., Dec. 23, 1997

Compiled By Staff Writer Rick Bo

One of the picks for People magazine’s annual “25 Most Intriguing” list is feeling particularly sheepish about it.

Dolly, the ewe cloned by Scottish scientists, became the third animal ever to make the list. Honored in previous years were gorilla Binti-Jua, who rescued a child from a zoo primate display, and Babe the movie pig.

“Not since the Golden Fleece has there been so much fuss about a sheep,” the magazine said of Dolly’s prominence.

Among the two-legged list makers: President Clinton, Princess Diana, Ellen DeGeneres, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bill Cosby, John F. Kennedy Jr., Andrew Cunanan, Elton John, Lucy Lawless, Drew Carey, Julia Roberts, Sheryl Swoopes, Tommy Hilfiger, Kathie Lee Gifford, Beck and septuplets mom Bobbi McCaughey.

Loose talk

Salma Hayek, on her celebrity (in InStyle magazine): “I look in the mirror and I see a familiar, friendly face. I don’t say, ‘Oh, whatta chick!”’

Hey, don’t let him anywhere near Dolly!

Harry Shearer turns 54 today.

You might even say they’re still suite-hearts

Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, and ex-husband Prince Andrew, treated their daughters - Princess Beatrice, 9, and Princess Eugenie, 7 - to a family night out Saturday that included an English National Ballet performance of “The Nutcracker.” The couple divorced amicably last year following a 10-year marriage and remain close friends.

He’s just not used to these uphill struggles

Prince Charles took his annual holiday skiing vacation in Switzerland, accompanied by 12-year-old Prince Harry - but without his perennial pal, ski instructor Bruno Sprecher, who could be sidelined for at least a year after recently tearing ligaments in his knee. From his hospital bed (with a big bouquet of flowers sent by Sarah Ferguson nearby), Sprecher told a Swiss weekly newspaper: “I am in great pain.”

To keep track, follow the prince in the snow

Charles, by the way, has announced he will visit Nepal in February as a guest of Crown Prince Dipendra. He last visited the Himalayan kingdom in 1980, when he spent three days trekking in the mountains and camping in addition to carrying out a series of official engagements.

There’s more inside him than Jell-O, friend

To say that Bill Cosby has had a hard year would be an understatement, with the murder of his son, Ennis, and an extortion attempt by Autumn Jackson, a woman claiming to be his daughter. How did he get through it? With the words of Rudyard Kipling, Cosby says, particularly the passage from “If” that reads: “If you can keep your head when all about you/Are losing theirs and blaming it on you …” “It was very calming, very calming,” Cosby said. “Because there were times when you wanted to yell out and just be a nasty person. Reading that paragraph over and over, I was able to suppress it.”

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