That Guy From The Pig Lovers’ Organization?
Following a live appearance by Norm MacDonald, some University of Iowa officials probably were wishing they were dead.
At a charity golf tournament Sunday to benefit the school’s athletic department, the “Saturday Night Live” star performed a 50-minute routine laced with profanity and sexual references, including jokes about intercourse with pigs.
As most of the audience of 1,300 - which included several children - started to walk out, McDonald called after them: “What do you want me to talk about - losing my luggage at the airport?”
Then, SNL’s resident Bob Dole impersonator and “Weekend Update” anchor added: “What do they expect - for me to hold up a picture of Yasser Arafat and make a joke?”
Loose talk
A Christie’s spokeswoman, on why Princess Diana won’t be on hand when her old gowns are sold today: “We never like to have the client at an auction … It can be quite painful, and we don’t want someone crying in the middle of the salesroom.”
Guess she’s not exactly a lassie any more
June Lockhart turns 72 today.
Having it all except for an Emmy, that is
“All My Children” star Susan Lucci’s autobiography, “Having It All,” is scheduled for a July 7 release - the same day her character, Erica Kane, will have a book by that name published on the daytime soap.
Before you know it, he’ll be in high school
Luke Perry’s new co-star is a bouncing baby boy, Jack, delivered by his wife, Minnie, on June 15. Perry, who played heartthrob Dylan McKay on “Beverly Hills 90210,” recently appeared with Bruce Willis in the big-screen flick “The Fifth Element.”
Her choice: childbearing, or just plain baring
A Los Angeles judge has refused to dismiss former “Melrose Place” almost-player Hunter Tylo’s lawsuit against producer Aaron Spelling over being fired before her first appearance on the show for getting pregnant. “We’re dealing with a nighttime soap opera where (partial) nudity is the rule, not the exception,” a Spelling attorney said.
‘My Mother the Car,’ of course, came in second
According to TV Guide, the best television episode ever wasn’t an “All My Children,” or “90210,” or “Melrose Place,” but “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” from 1975 in which the cast mourns the death of Chuckles the Clown. Says editor Steven Reddicliffe: “It really opened the door for comedies to look at subject matters that they hadn’t before.”
And speaking of opening the closet door …
In honor of Gay Pride Week, the trendy Barneys department store in New York City set up a window scene with Ellen DeGeneres and gal pal Anne Heche (“Volcano”) popping out of a volcano - DeGeneres reading a newspaper account of the Southern Baptist boycott of Walt Disney - with Oprah Winfrey in the background flying an airplane bearing the banner: “I’m not gay!”
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