Without Beauty, Where Would A Spelling Be?
Tori Spelling says it’s easier to get dates now that her hair is dark red.
“Platinum hair is extreme looking, and it intimidates people,” she tells Cosmopolitan magazine. “Guys are more apt to approach me than they used to be.”
So, has Spelling heard any great tabloid stories about herself lately?
“There have been so many,” she says. “I read once that I wear nail polish with real diamond-and-gold specks in it. They also said that when my car broke down, I poured Evian water into the radiator.”
Spelling, who appears in the upcoming movie “Scream 2,” says she gives producer dad Aaron Spelling (“Beverly Hills 90210,” “Melrose Place”) advice about his TV shows “all the time. He has a habit of hiring good-looking people who can’t act.”
Loose talk
David Duchovny, on receiving invitations to strangers’ weddings (on “Access Hollywood”): I’ve been tempted to go and make a total (jerk) of myself. Just get drunk and start picking fights and go, ‘Hey, I got invited. I’m invited, are you?”’
“thirtysomething” is just a distant memory now
Melanie Mayron turns 45 today.
Have you heard? Phoebe’s gonna have a bee-by!
Lisa Kudrow, who plays the cerebrally challenged Phoebe on the NBC smash sitcom “Friends”, is expecting her first child with ad executive hubby Michael Stern. The 33-year-old Kudrow isn’t showing yet, but the pregnancy will be worked into the show’s story line - although it’s unclear whether her character will get married.
Those soaps always come up with plot wrinkles
Linda Dano of the TV soap opera “Another World” is getting a facelift, so her character, Felicia Gallant, will get one, too. The story line started last Thursday, when Felicia was accidentally pushed through a rooftop skylight. Results of the surgery - to be performed on-camera, no less - will be revealed Nov. 25.
Just walk right up and say, ‘Howl, do you do?’
If you run into original “Scream” star Neve Campbell on the street and ask her to let loose with one, don’t be surprised if she does it. “It happens all the time,” says the “Party of Five” actress. “I love screaming, so usually I do it. I like to cooperate. Plus, I’ve been screaming all my life. I learned how by doing ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ as a kid. Believe me, we spent the whole play screaming.”
Funny peculiar, or funny as in a-mute-sing?
Moon Zappa, on the other hand, has learned the virtues of silence. In honor of her 30th birthday last month, the daughter of the late rock eccentric Frank Zappa stopped speaking for six days. “I decided to go on this retreat and sit with myself,” she said. “I went crazy the first two days. By the fifth day, you want to live like that forever. When you start speaking again, it seems funny.”
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