Everybody Knows She Isn’t The Real Thing
British entrepreneur Richard Branson, president of Virgin Atlantic Airways and Virgin Records, is ready to take on Coke and Pepsi with his Virgin Cola - in a curvy bottle he calls “Pammy,” after Pamela Anderson Lee.
Branson told the Washington Post he got the inspiration after having dinner with Lee, who let him use her name for free. “It topples over,” he says of the bottle, wide at the top and bottom but narrow in the middle.
Not everyone is amused. “I think the idea of using Virgin as a corporate logo was offensive to begin with and the Pammy soda really just plays on schoolboys’ fantasies,” said Elizabeth Toledo of the National Organization for Women.
Replies Branson: “If people want to take it too seriously, they can take it too seriously.”
Loose talk
Madonna, on what little Lourdes has been up to lately (in the Boston Globe): “Stuffing dolls and toys into the VCR.”
Maybe a little something from Christian Dior?
Celine Dion turns 30 today.
She’ll probably start with a silk purse
Speaking of Pamela Anderson Lee, the former “Baywatch” babe is looking to make over her image following her latest split with rocker hubby Tommy Lee. She recently met with designer Marc Bouwer, a favorite of Whitney Houston’s who helped Toni Braxton and Lisa Marie Presley with their new looks.
It wasn’t a happy ‘Hunting’ party
Minnie Driver won best Oscars-ceremony hair honors in an Allure magazine poll, but her night was far from fun. Driver, recently dumped by “Good Will Hunting” co-star Matt Damon, not only failed to win an award, she broke into tears after running into Damon and new squeeze Winona Ryder at a post-awards party.
They can’t say they were happily married?
Neve Campbell’s divorce settlement from three-year husband Jeff Colt includes language forbidding either of them from publicly talking about their union, even “fictionalized.”
Guess they shouldn’t have filed their briefs
“Titanic” star Leonardo DiCaprio has sued Playgirl magazine in an attempt to prevent the planned publication of nude photos of him in its July issue. Brad Pitt filed a similar suit last year, and a judge later prohibited further distribution of the magazine.
At least until he makes it to ‘Modern Maturity’
Matthew McConaughey never gets tired of seeing his mug on a mag. “I actually like walking past a newsstand and seeing my face on the cover of a magazine,” he told the Orange County Register. “Those covers are a measuring stick in this town, and I frankly think it’s pretty cool to have my face right there on the cover for the whole month.”
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