Smells Like A Teen Spiritual Phenomenon
The latest on the late Kurt Cobain, courtesy of Esquire magazine:
Following the Nirvana frontman’s cremation, widow Courtney Love took his remains to a Seattle psychic for a reading. Unfortunately, she forgot to take them all with her when she left.
“I kept calling her for two years to come get the ashes, but I never heard from her,” said the psychic, Thaddeus Gunn.
And by the time Gunn got around to cleaning up the ashes, according to an anonymous Cobain follower, they had formed an image of Jesus - which is now being visited by groupies.
“I’m sorry, I just can’t comment on anything having to do with the reading or the image,” Gunn says. “It would seem like I was trying to take advantage of a … situation.”
Loose talk
Belly-shirted No Doubt singer Gwen Stefani, on stardom (in Details): “People are suddenly starting to accuse me of selling myself, like obviously I knew 10 years down the line if I kept it up, I would make some money off this belly button.”
Suppose he’ll ever open for Michael Hedges?
George Benson turns 54 today.
He must want to leave behind a body of work
An album of “sub jazz” tunes penned by flute-playing Dr. Jack Kevorkian will be released in May by a Los Angeles independent label, with part of the proceeds going to open an assisted-suicide center. The cover will feature Kevorkian’s painting, “A Very Still Life,” which shows an iris growing out of a human skull.
Not now, Nana, I’m trying to finish this chapter!
And speaking of spanning genres, teen country star LeAnn Rimes has signed a six-figure deal with Doubleday to write a Christmas-themed novel, “Holiday in Your Heart,” about a young singer who gets so wrapped up in her success that she neglects a sick grandmother.
She’s always been hanging around the fringes
Tiffany Darwisch, who made her (first) name as a teen performing bubble-gum hits in shopping malls, is trying to carve out a country career at age 25. “I kind of got off on a little tangent,” she told The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville. “But I’ve always been into country music.”
Sounds like he’s a poor judge of journalism
A Los Angeles judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Penthouse magazine by Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee and his “Baywatch” babe wife, Pamela Anderson Lee, for printing semi-nude photos they claim were stolen from their home. The judge noted the pictures had been previously published elsewhere and were accompanied by a “newsworthy” article.
They’re not exactly a bunch of jolly ranchers
Michael Jackson, meanwhile, was not only cleared of wrongfully firing former staffers at his Neverland Ranch who cooperated with a grand jury probe into child molestation allegations against him, but two of them were ordered to pay $60,000 in damages for stealing sketches, notes, hats, toys and candy from the ranch and selling the stuff to tabloids.
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