Jerry, George, Kramer? We’ll Miss Elaine Most

Mon., March 2, 1998

Compiled By Staff Writer Dan Web

She may be out of a job, but Julia Louis-Dreyfus is going out with style. The “Seinfeld” star was named the funniest supporting female performer in a television series.

Dreyfus was only one winner at the Feb. 22 American Comedy Awards. Others included: Helen Hunt and Jack Nicholson, funniest actress and funniest actor in a movie (“As Good As It Gets”).

Joan Cusask, funniest supporting actress in a movie, “In & Out.” David Hyde Pierce of “Frasier,” funniest supporting male performer in a television series (for a third straight year).

Carol Burnett was a repeat winner for her work on “Mad About You,” earning her second consecutive award for funniest female guest appearance in a TV series.

All the winners will be announced on the March 17 broadcast on Fox.

Loose talk

Fugees member Wyclef Jean, on being asked at Wednesday’s Grammys broadcast to rate album-of-the-year winner Bob Dylan (in the Hollywood Reporter): “I think Bob Dylan is one of the illest lyricists, if you know what I mean.”

In an alternate universe, he’s known as Jon Mal Jovi

Jon Bon Jovi turns 36 today.

She loves it so much she wants one a decade

Some people love romance. That apparently applies particularly to novelist Danielle Steele. Not only has the 49-year-old writer written 70 quick-reads in all, she’s planning a marriage - her fifth. Steele is set to marry Thomas J. Perkins, 65, a venture capitalist.

Start saving your coupons now, boys and girls

In the market for a Manhattan condo? Donald Trump has just the space for you. It’s a nifty five-bedroom, 52nd-floor penthouse that features 5,500 square feet of living space, a 25-by-20-foot master bedroom, 21-to-28-foot ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows, eight bathrooms with Jacuzzis and steam showers, marble hallways and electronically controlled window shades. The price? Just $17 million.

At least she wasn’t humming along with ‘Like a Virgin’

If you watched the MTV special on Madonna Sunday night, here’s what you missed: 53 seconds worth of her daughter, 16-month-old Lourdes, bouncing to a tape of “Macarena.”

For most people, that takes place at the dinner table

So how would crooner Roger Whittaker prefer to die? “I’d like to one day be onstage, singing a high note and then just drop,” he said. “Boom! That’s it. I’d love it. It would be wonderful to go doing what you love best.” Whittaker, 61, is best known for “The Last Farewell.”

The divorce announcement will be in simple burlap

FYI: People magazine reports that the 70 silk and ostrich-feather-festooned invitations Sharon Stone and Phil Bronstein sent out for their Valentine’s Day wedding ceremony cost $100 each.

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