If The Earthquake Hits, It Truly Will Be Tool Time

Turns out Tim Allen isn’t as into home improvement as he would like us to believe. The television and movie star rebuilt his house, which collapsed during the last Los Angeles earthquake, on the same spot.

“The earthquake leveled it, took it all down,” Allen told the Los Angeles Daily News. “But we built it right back up, with safety glass this time and a few more steel girders. Hopefully, it will hold; but who knows, this place. It can go at any time.”

He doesn’t mind playing with fate. “Part of me says, does lightning strike twice? Are you less likely to get hit again exactly where it was, or more likely? My gut feeling says less likely.”

Besides, the location has benefits. “My house is real close to the Disney lot,” he said.

Loose talk

Howard Stern on his career goals (in the New Yorker): “My life isn’t about the First Amendment. My life is sincerely about envisioning a guy driving to work in his car and making him laugh.”

In the hospital, they call her the French patient

Juliette Binoche turns 33 today.

He must spend a lot of time listening to his own music

When asked by the Utne reader how he “puts on the brakes,” composer Philip Glass rejected the question. “I don’t slow down,” said Glass. “There are people who work a lot and then they get all frazzled. It isn’t that way for me. I have very little stress, I have very little anxiety and I don’t live with those components, so it is very calm around me.”

So, does that mean no guest-star shot on ‘Ellen’?

She’s already to marry “Terminator” director James Cameron, but Linda Hamilton believes that nothing is going to change the perception of her as being gay. “That’s something that’s been haunting me since I was in school,” she said. “I didn’t put out, so they said I was a lesbian.”

We nominate him for the Charlie Sheen Husbandry Award

Ashley Hamilton is becoming the king of Hollywood minute-marriages. After splitting from first wife Shannen Doherty less than two months in, he has topped that by filing for divorce from model Angie Everhart. Their stay: 55 days.

It’s daddy Culkin who shouldn’t be left home alone

Kit Culkin, patriarch of the movie-kid Culkin household, isn’t doing himself any favors in his effort to get custody of his children. He’s charged with beating up a photographer outside his Manhattan apartment building on Wednesday. The father of “Home Alone” star Macaulay Culkin allegedly did $5,000 worth of camera damage.

She likes being bound to the Man of Steel

Movieline magazine passed on printing a photograph of Teri Hatcher in last year’s spread on the “Lois and Clark” star. But that didn’t stop American Photo magazine, which boasts the photo - featuring the nude actress bound with rope - in its current issue.

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