Chuck’s Felt Really Down, But He’s Getting Better
You have to wonder where these Brit-royal types get their friends.
For example, the England’s Princes Charles says he has regrets. But is this Charles speaking? No, it’s a “close friend.” And is this friend speaking directly to the nation?
No, he gave an interview to the London Mirror newspaper.
“I’ve let the queen down, my family - including (Princes) William and Harry - and (mistress) Camilla (Parker Bowles). I’ve let down the whole institution of the monarchy. I’ve even failed (Princess) Diana.”
“From now on,” the friend said, “Charles will make a sustained effort to work for others… His aim will be to be more positive and to reach out to more ordinary people.”
Loose talk
Ex-“Monty Python” member John Cleese on growing older (in Playboy): “I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that’s to get rid of all my other desires.”
Get your snorkel - the party’s at Waterworld
Kevin Costner turns 42 today.
Depends on whether ‘Little’ Jerry survives his next fight
Put that next season of “Seinfeld” on hold. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards and Jason Alexander have banded together to demand $1 million each per episode. Jerry Seinfeld, who also executive produces the show, has been making $500,000 an episode and reportedly has agreed to a $1 million per-show paycheck for next season. (He made $40 million he has pocketed for syndication, a sum his co-stars don’t share.)
The moral: You shouldn’t drink - and skate
Her autobiography is headed for bookstores this month, just as Olympic figure skater Oksana Baiul, 19, is headed for court on a drunk driving charge. Her publisher, though, is making the best of it. “It might actually heighten interest in trying to understand her,” said Harold Clarke, president of Random House Children’s Publishing, which is responsible for “Oksana: My Own Story.”
There’s no such thing as bad publicity, part one
John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, may already on the outs. Then again, the tabloid stories being written about the two may be a result of Kennedy’s thumbing his nose at them by marrying in secret. Whatever, they remain cover-story favorites.
The pain comes from people talking about her… pain
Asked about actress Kristin Scott Thomas, “The English Patient” director Anthony Minghella waxed psychiatric. “Kristin is slightly cool and aristocratic,” he said. “But that’s just how she protects herself. And when you get glimpses of that fragility, it has this delicious sensation of discovery about it, of your thinking that you’re the first person who has seen this in her. You feel like there’s history in her. And pain.”
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