News Around The Globe: Is Leo Now A Coke Freak?
Watch out, Leonardo DiCaprio. They’re after you.
That, at least, is the gist of a wire story carried by Tribune Media Services. The writers, George Rush and Joanna Molloy, decry a tabloid report that DiCaprio attended a recent party where (gasp!) cocaine was being used.
Titled “Leonardo’s Spinning Out of Control,” the Star report quotes the usual unnamed source - often identified as a “friend” - who says DiCaprio was at a party where there were “piles of cocaine on a coffee table.”
“Mind you, the story doesn’t say that DiCaprio did drugs of any kind,” write Rush and Molloy.
A DiCaprio spokeswoman would say only, “The story is filled with inaccuracies.” She did add, however, “DiCaprio does not use drugs.”
Loose talk
Drew Barrymore on Woody Allen (in Movieline magazine): “He’s brilliant and everything he says is everything you’d want to say, but articulated on the most eloquent level ever known to man.”
He takes his Geritol shaken, not stirred
Timothy Dalton turns 54 today.
Imagine if she were talking about Richard Nixon
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Leah Garchik recently wrote about a British woman amazed by the Bill Clinton scandal. Spying the headline “Willey’s Testimony to Hurt Clinton,” she said, “My God, what a dreadful country. Not only can the special prosecutor subpoena your president’s private part, the damn thing’s going to testify against him!”
Note to Monica: Your 15 minutes is about up
This also from Garchik: At a recent book party for talkmeister Larry King, Monica Lewinsky showed up and caused a flurry of neck-turning. One observer noted that gossip collector Sally Quinn “came in looking as if she was sniffing for truffles.” Spokane’s own Kitty Kelley even “came up to introduce herself to Lewinsky.”
The same can be said for stupid pet tricks
As a minority member of Bobby Rahal’s racing team, David Letterman tries to visit the track whenever he can. “When you get on the grounds of a race track,” the late-night host says, “the hair on the back of your hands starts to stand up. It’s a thrill to stand next to one of the cars and feel the rumble as the engine turns over.”
It began when the employee wouldn’t ask for her autograph
Looks like Anna Nicole Smith won’t be prosecuted for her actions, whatever they were, at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The Beverly Hills district attorney said that there’s not enough evidence to charge her for allegedly assaulting a hotel employee.
She’ll opt for a brain implant instead
Jenny McCarthy says she may pull her breast implants. They just “gave me something to make fun of,” she told Redbook magazine.
, DataTimes ILLUSTRATION: 2 photos
The following fields overflowed: CREDIT = Compiled by staff writer Dan Webster