G.I.S Overjoyed In Efforts To Access Gates Of Heaven

Note to Helen Hunt: Uncle Sam wants you.

Hunt, star of the television show “Mad About You,” heads the list of celebrities U.S. troops serving in Bosnia would most like to sit down and have a chat with.

“They think Helen Hunt’s so down to earth. They just genuinely like her,” said Johnny Grant, Hollywood’s honorary mayor, after returning from a Christmas trip to Bosnia.

Among the other celebs popular among the American military: Jenny McCarthy, Barry Manilow, Harrison Ford, Will Smith, Jack Nicholson, Halle Berry, Pamela Anderson Lee, Garth Brooks, Toni Braxton, Patti LaBelle, Michael Jordan, Tom Clancy - and Bill Gates?

“There was at least one computer in every group of soldiers I visited, and they were busy e-mailing home,” Grant said.

Loose talk

Unassuming movie star Brad Pitt to the owner of a Springfield, Mo., nightspot that he was visiting with friends: “Hi, I’m Brad.”

Time to give out with a good ol’ Fish cheer

Country Joe McDonald turns 56 today.

So who would Norton be? Kramer? George? Elaine?

Not everyone is happy about the cancellation of “Seinfeld.” “It’s rather sad that this is happening,” said Jerry Stiller, 70, who plays Jerry Seinfeld’s father on the popular sitcom. “I hope this generation of viewers sees this show the same way I look at ‘The Honeymooners’ and ‘The Jackie Gleason Show.’ They don’t go away.”

That island would have to be Atlantis

Not everyone is pleased by the Spice Girls. Duh. “I agree with whoever said they’re soft porn,” said Thom Yorke, lead singer of the rock group Radiohead. “They’re the Antichrist. I don’t want any part of it, and if I had kids, I wouldn’t want them to have any part of it, either. I’d move to an island where you can’t get hold of any Spice Girls stuff.”

He gets no kick from champagne

More Spice Girls news: Posh Spice (also known as Victoria Adams) reportedly will marry English football star David Beckham after this summer’s forthcoming World Cup.

What a drag it is getting oh-oh-old

Mick Jagger says, he is “happy in drag.” Uh-huh. Seems the Rolling Stone is starring in the film adaptation of the Martin Sherman play “Bent.” “It’s a serious film,” said Jagger, “but my part is comedic. And I loved dressing up, finding the right costumes. I started off with short dresses, which I knew I wouldn’t get to wear. But I looked a lot better in short dresses, to be puuh-fectly honest.”

All sing now, ‘To-GE-ther a-GAIN’

Look for a stamp bearing the likenesses of the late Princess Diana and the all-too-alive Queen Elizabeth II to be unveiled on Feb. 3. Actually the main picture is of Diana, but because the stamp is British, the queen’s portrait has to be included.

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