Even For A Rock Star, Parental Attitudes Rule

Elderly advice can be a good thing. But it’s important to avoid hypocrisy when you’re handing it out. Younger folks can resent it.

That’s what Fiona Apple thinks. And who can blame her?

Apple, all of 20, got a bit upset when rocker Courtney Love criticized what she chose to wear in her video “Criminal.”

“I told her, ‘You’re out there wearing your underwear, too,”’ Apple said in Harper’s Bazaar. “Courtney’s one misconception about me is that she thinks I’m 9 years old.”

Love isn’t alone. Apple’s wardrobe choices also cause Mick Jagger to wince. On the Rolling Stones’ Bridges to Babylon tour, Jagger spied Apple backstage wearing a gauzy shirt over a halter top and a navel ring.

“Is that what you’re wearing?” he said.

Loose talk

Kathy Lee Gifford, joking to Kenny Rogers about a Bristol, Va. audience (as reported by New Woman magazine): “They all took a bath before they came tonight, Kenny. Ain’t they purdy?”

He’ll celebrate where no man has gone before

William Shatner turns 67 today.

Olmos no quiere Taco Bell; el quiere solamente respeto

Edward James Olmos wants Hollywood to get off his Hispanic back. “My counterpart is (Robert) De Niro, (Al) Pacino, (Dustin) Hoffman,” Olmos said. “I have yet to hear Hoffman called the great American-Jewish actor, or De Niro the great Italian-American actor. But I still hear Edward James Olmos called the great Hispanic-American actor.”

Her name is either Trixy, Party Babe or Bubbles

At age 40, Prince Albert of Monaco is apparently considering the improbable: settling down. “If things develop as I hope they will in my relationship with this woman, there is a real possibility it will be serious,” the Monaco heir said. He wouldn’t reveal the name.

Or is this just a good way to make a quick buck?

When the story of former teacher Mary Kay Letourneau and her young student first broke, no publisher gave it much more than a passing thought. Now, however, “All of a sudden, it got more complicated,” says Mirabella magazine editor Michael Solomon. “Was she a pedophile? Or was this a tragic love?” The result: Three books are in the works.

He said, ‘Badgers? We don’t need no stinkin’ badgers!’

Prince Charles recently underwent knee surgery. Was it to correct a polo injury? A Falklands War wound? No, it was to correct problems caused when the royal personage fell into a badger hole.

You can see the show better on TV anyway

Don’t expect to see Leonardo Di Caprio in Monday’s Oscar extravaganza. “He’s not planning on attending because he feels it would take away from everyone else’s moment,” said his spokesman. “He just feels it’s not his year. This is really a moment for James (Cameron), Kate (Winslet) and Gloria (Stuart).”

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