It’s A Whole Lot Cheaper Than Those Shrink Raps
What’s the best thing about having your own television show?
Being able to cut back on your therapy sessions, says Dennis Miller, whose “Dennis Miller Live” airs on HBO.
“I have a great place to rant: my show. Most people don’t,” the former “Saturday Night Live” player told USA Weekend. “It’s therapy. It’s the same stuff I used to say to my shrink.”
Miller, who gripes about everything from gutless politicians to obnoxious activists, saves his sternest scoldings for those who try to bully others to adopt their philosophies.
“It’s narcissistic to think you can change someone’s beliefs,” he said. “I don’t think people can influence each other on core issues like abortion. Whether to use AT&T or MCI? Yeah, people flip back and forth. But core issues? No.”
Loose talk
Media mogul Ted Turner, on the tube: “Sometimes I’m so sick of watching half-hour TV shows and two-hour TV movies; at least when you’re dead, you don’t have to watch them anymore.”
A clown? Actually, he’s rather cosmopolitan
Michael Richards turns 48 today.
Who knows what she left in those old closets
Ellen DeGeneres, who bought a $3 million house near Beverly Hills earlier this year, has sold her former home in the Hollywood Hills to an unidentified writer/producer for the “Seinfeld” show for $1 million, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Life’s a ‘Beach,’ and then you take it easy
Former “China Beach” star Dana Delany is planning to return to the small screen next year in another series, but she’s not divulging a lot of details. “It’ll be like ‘China Beach’ in that I’ll sort of be the center of it, and there’ll be a lot of great characters, but I won’t have to work as much,” she told the New York Daily News.
Stringfield unattached; strings still attached
Sherry Stringfield, who left the smash series “ER” to spend more time with her boyfriend, businessman Odell Lambroza, has since split with him. Because she broke her contract with NBC, Stringfield is forbidden from doing any other TV show for two years and must get the network’s permission to appear in movies.
He’s an incredible hulking admissions clerk
Abe Benrubi, who plays the hulking admissions clerk Jerry Markovic on “ER,” says his inspiration to become an actor came from Spiderman and Batman. “I wanted to do stuff I couldn’t do in real life,” Benrubi, an avid comics fan, tells People magazine. “I’m an actor because I’m an escapist. No pretenses of ‘art.”’
Stop it, stop it, now, Andre, you’re killing us!
So what’s next for Andre Braugher after abandoning his role as the intense Detective Pembleton on the “Homicide” series? “I can play funny,” he told The Philadelphia Inquirer. “I’m very funny. Immensely funny. Side-splittingly funny.”
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