Her Killer Material Isn’t The Stand-Up Type
Kathy Griffin isn’t the sort of comedian whom you should be telling, “Knock ‘em dead.”
The “Suddenly Susan” supporting player attended the 1989 trial of Richard “Night Stalker” Ramirez, who was convicted of 13 murders. She has a collection of serial-killer trading cards on her coffee table, and a portrait of Lyle Menendez.
“He’s smart and he’s sexy, and I love that he killed his parents who molested him,” Griffin tells People magazine. “I’m into all molestation victims killing their parents.”
Griffin doesn’t mind that Menendez married another admirer, because his incarceration wouldn’t give them “enough quality time together anyway.” However, she adds:”I’d be all over Lyle if he were out of prison.”
Loose talk
Kristen Johnston (“3rd Rock From the Sun”), on her medium (in Details magazine): “I know that I’m biting the hand that feeds me, but TV can really suck the brain right out of your body.”
Another step closer to the Land of Make-Believe
Fred “Mister” Rogers turns 69 today.
We imagine that she even went undercover
Ellen Degeneres, whose sitcom character will reveal she’s a lesbian on the April 30 episode of “Ellen,” is expected to come out for real in an April 23 interview on “PrimeTime Live.” At a Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation dinner Sunday, Degeneres said: “I started doing research for the character. There were so many people to consult.”
How’d they squeeze them into the script? Barely
Along with the previously announced Oprah Winfrey, Laura Dern, Melissa Etheridge and k.d. lang, guest stars for the TV Ellen’s coming out titled “The Puppy Episode” - will also include Demi Moore (“Striptease”) and Gina Gershon (“Showgirls.”)
Brando? Now that’s a horse of a different color
Following such less-than-notable big-screen efforts as “Destiny Turns on the Radio” and “The Cowboy Way,” Dylan McDermott has decided to try his hand at television on “The Practice,” a new lawyer show. “I’ve tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can’t,” he tells US magazine. “Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making ‘The Appaloosa’ a good movie.”
Guess he could have used better copping skills
Paul Michael Glaser is perfectly happy that “Starsky and Hutch” is just a distant memory. “I detested leaping in and out of that stupid striped Ford Torino and waving my gun around,” he says. “I was quite happy to leave Starsky in the hospital in a coma in the last episode.”
What did de studio settle? De claim, de claim
A month before the trial was scheduled to begin, Ricardo Montalban has settled his lawsuit against the creators of “Fantasy Island.” Montalban contended Columbia Pictures owed him 5 percent of the profits from the ABC show that ran from 1978-84.
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