Why Should We Care? Because It Be Coz

Sun., Jan. 12, 1997

Compiled By Staff Writer Rick Bo

So who haven’t we heard from yet in the big Ebonics debate? How about Bill Cosby.

“I didn’t hear any ignoromics spoken this morning,” the entertainer told the Congressional Black Caucus. “There are more than 100 people and nobody said ‘liberry.’ Nobody said, ‘We bein’ here.”’

At a fund-raiser for Morehouse College, a historically black school in Atlanta, Cosby said, “Some speakers called it Mo’house and some said Morehouse. Being the smart aleck that I am, I got up and said, ‘I wish someone would explain for me, please, the difference.”’

Replied the school’s president: “The difference between Morehouse and Mo’house is that the ones that already have a job say Mo’house.”

Loose talk

Fidel Castro, at age 12, in a letter to Franklin Roosevelt (as quoted in Time magazine): “I have not seen 10 dollars bill green american and I would like to have one.”

Actually, they have a common language: moronics

Rush Limbaugh turns 46 and Howard Stern 43 today.

And the winner is … the Village people

Speaking of speaking, Hillary Rodham Clinton has been nominated for a spoken-word Grammy for the recorded version of “It Takes a Village,” her best-selling book on child rearing. A spokeswoman said the first lady hasn’t decided whether to attend the awards ceremony.

And which one has the biggest alter ego?

Former White House aide George Stephanopoulos will make a cameo appearance on the TV sitcom “Spin City,” but won’t show up in any scenes with similar-looking series star Michael J. Fox. “It does raise an interesting question, does it not?” said White House press secretary Mike McCurry. “Are there in fact two humanoids?”

The world may someday heed her lips

Lauren Bush, the 13-year-old granddaughter of former president George Bush, is trying her hand at modeling. New York magazine reports she’s been photographed for an Abercrombie & Fitch ad.

So, fame made him cruel to his mistress

Barbara Pfafflin, mother of Dick Morris’ 6-year-old love child, said he’s been paying $5,000 a month in support but hasn’t seen the girl since she was 2. “I’m part of his secret life that he never wanted anyone to know about,” Pfafflin said. “It was like being the permanent girlfriend of royalty. I got to hear all about the ball but I never got to go.”

But which of them will get top Bill-ing?

Speaking of balls, the talent lineup for the Washington Presidential Gala the day before President Clinton’s Jan. 20 inauguration: co-hosts Michael Douglas, Whoopi Goldberg and Candice Bergen, along with performers Trisha Yearwood, Yo-Yo Ma, Mikhail Baryshnikov, the Dave Matthews Band, Sandi Patti, Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, Kenny Rogers, Kenny G and Aretha Franklin.

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