He Has A Few Things To Learn About Spin Control
Jesse Camp, the 6-foot-5 18-year-old who beat out 4,000 others in MTV’s “I Wanna Be a VJ” contest, has been passing himself off as a semiliterate, quasi-homeless doofus.
But his cover has been blown in Spin magazine by his father, J. Holden Camp, who heads the humanities department at the University of Hartford.
The senior Camp calls Jesse, an avid reader who was educated at an exclusive boarding school and speaks three languages, “a good, sweet kid who has created a bit of a facade … My son understands the history of TV and he knows that this image will work right now.”
Responds Jesse: “You gotta know, not how to play people, but where people are comfortable. My whole thing is, just, like, don’t own up to everything you know.”
Loose talk
Hollywood music supervisor David Was, on writing film scores (in Musician magazine): “Better to picture some bony Canadian foghorn belting out one of them eternal love anthems that work with anything from ship sinkings to killer asteroids.”
And what will he do to celebrate? Just chill
Coolio turns 35 today.
Most of their time will be spent in makeup
KISS members Gene Simmons, Peter Criss, Ace Frehley and Paul Stanley will, in an upcoming movie, play themselves in “Detroit Rock City,” a “coming-of-age story” about four teenagers’ attempt to crash a sold-out KISS concert in 1978.
Guess they’re claiming bleach of contract
Debbie Harry’s plans to reunite her old rock band, Blondie, have been put on hold because of a lawsuit by two former band members who weren’t included in the new lineup. The band broke up in 1982 but the six members remained financial partners.
They’ll have to bury him two times, baby
Jim Morrison may be dead, but he’s apparently not standing, er, lying still. Because of the graffiti and litter his grave attracts in Paris’ classy Pere Lachaise Cemetery, French authorities plan to dig up the Doors singer’s remains and move them when his lease expires in 2001.
Listen up: There’s no meat for this Beatle
In Animal Times, the quarterly magazine of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Paul McCartney vows to carry on the animal rights activism of his late wife, Linda. McCartney said he’s been suspected of being “a secret meat-eater” but “that’s not the case.”
That fills the bony Canadian foghorn slot
Barbra Streisand is making big plans for what could be her final concert tour next year, which may include Madison Square Garden on millennium New Year’s Eve. Among her rumored performing partners: Celine Dion, with whom Streisand scored a duet hit, “Tell Him.”