Looking On The Bright Side Really Hurts His E
For comedian Richard Lewis, known for his neurotic, whiny schtick, happiness is an acquired taste.
“It’s not easy being happy all the time,” he told the Orange County Register. “I have to practice not wearing black.”
Lewis, who formerly starred with Jamie Lee Curtis in the TV sitcom “Anything But Love,” will team up with former “Saturday Night Live” player Kevin Nealon next fall in a new ABC series, “Hiller & Diller,” about a pair of comedy writers.
It all began when his high-school principal dismissed a school assembly and kept Lewis behind to lecture him about being disruptive.
“For a class clown, that was like winning an Oscar,” Lewis said. “I knew what I was going to do for the rest of my life.”
Loose talk
Supermodel Linda Evangelista, on her lot in life (in New Woman magazine): “It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren’t, then I’d be a teacher.”
Golly, Wally, the Beav’s sure looking Lumpy
Jerry Mathers turns 49 today.
You really have to watch out for those squatters
A fan who had been camping on an island on country star Wynonna’s Tennessee spread was arrested for trespassing after her husband, Arch Kelly, discovered the man standing on their porch. “Mr. Kelly approached the subject and asked him what he was doing,” the police report read. “The subject said that he wanted to leave a present for Wynonna.” Police didn’t say what the present was.
The bridge over Copper Creek, by any chance?
Oregon author Ken Kesey is selling the California cabin that was a hangout for hippies, beatniks and artists in his “Merry Pranksters” days of the ‘60s and ‘70s. Kesey’s wife, Faye, said the rustic retreat was too difficult to maintain from so far away, and they needed money to settle a lawsuit filed by a police officer who fell from a bridge on the property.
Just the latest edition of Martha Stewart Livid
Authorities in East Hampton, N.Y., are looking into allegations that lifestyle maven Martha Stewart backed her car into her neighbor’s landscaper while shouting curses at the man - an accusation she calls “totally ridiculous.” Stewart and real estate magnate Harry Macklowe have been feuding for two years, first over shrubs he planted along their property line, and more recently over a fence.
Hope he doesn’t come stalking us at midnight
Suicide doctor Jack Kevorkian, who has released an album of original compositions titled “A Very Still Life,” tells Jazziz magazine that his biggest influence is J.S. Bach, “the greatest mind in human history.” As for his jazz heroes, he says: “The man they call Dr. Death is a huge fan of Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw. The swing tune ‘Celery Stalks at Midnight’ can always be counted on to make me smile.”
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