Deep Inside, She Knew She’d Be Fine One Day
Michelle Pfeiffer, a movie star? The folks back home never would have believed it.
“I was kicked out of things. I was considered the black sheep of the family,” Pfeiffer, now starring with George Clooney in “One Fine Day,” tells Mirabella magazine. “Neighbors didn’t want their kids playing with me.”
As an adolescent, the actress adds, “I had that long, stringy, straight hair, hip-hugger jeans, short tops and thongs; I drove a red Mustang, I smoked.”
After high school, Pfeiffer lived at home, bagging groceries and studying to be a court reporter. Then she entered a local beauty contest on a whim, landed an agent, started doing commericals and got her bigscreen break in 1982 opposite Al Pacino in “Scarface.”
Loose talk
Woody Allen, on why his movies are particularly popular in France: “The subtitles over here are incredibly brilliant.”
Guess he’s the Highchairman of the Board
Frank Sinatra Jr. turns 53 today.
It’s hard to imagine Larry as a pray boy
The Rev. Jerry Falwell hasn’t seen a movie since becoming a Christian 45 years ago, and he’s not about to start now - even though “The People vs. Larry Flynt” chronicles his libel case against the Hustler magazine publisher. “I consider him mentally deranged,” Falwell said of Flynt. “I pray for him on a regular basis and have for years. I don’t believe he is beyond the grace of God.”
He’s just raking in those obscene profits
Meanwhile, Flynt’s daughter, Tonya Flynt, called the film’s depiction of her father as a crusader for First Amendment rights a “pack of lies” at a news conference held by the National Organization for Women. “He doesn’t give a damn about freedom of speech,” she said. “All he cares about is making millions of dollars out of the sexual exploitation of women and children.”
Why, Hugh, what a malignant thing to say
Ever-polite Englishman Hugh Grant, in Brazil with fiancee Elizabeth Hurley to promote his new medical thriller, “Extreme Measures,” lost his customary cool amid all the media attention. During a visit to Rio de Janeiro’s Modern Art Museum, Grant snapped at a pack of photographers following him: “I hope your children die of cancer.”
Now, if she only had Demi Moore’s money …
This week’s Star supermarket tabloid ran a two-page composite of what it calls the “perfect woman computer enhancement,” and is offering $4,000 to anyone who resembles the image - which includes Jane Seymour’s hair, Elizabeth Taylor’s eyes, Bo Derek’s cheekbones, Sharon Stone’s nose, Kim Basinger’s lips, Uma Thurman’s chin, Claudia Schiffer’s legs and Cindy Crawford’s breasts.
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