One Thing Is For Certain: This Time It’S True Lust
There have been many rumors surrounding Don Johnson’s San Francisco stay. The 48-year-old “Nash Bridges” star has been linked to a teenage co-star and a 60-something socialite.
Now the truth comes out: He’s engaged to a 29-year-old former debutante.
Kelly Phleger, stepdaughter of a prominent San Francisco attorney, is wearing a 5-carat, square-cut diamond engagement ring. This will be her first marriage.
“I made a decision a long time ago to keep my private life private,” she told reporters. But when asked whether she was happy, she laughed and replied “Yes!”
Johnson had two early marriages annulled. He has a son with actress Patti D’Arbanville-Quinn, and he twice married and divorced actress Melanie Griffith (1975-76 and 1989-96), with whom he has a daughter.
Loose talk
“Politically Incorrect” host Bill Maher on how well he really knows long-time friend Garry Shandling: “You never get a straight answer out of him. I mean, I don’t know whether he’s killing little boys in the basement or working for Mother Teresa.”
It’s her party and she’ll cry if she wants to
Lesley Gore turns 52 today.
Only a kid would make such a titanic mistake
If you sleep with somebody, be careful. Especially if you’re the hottest actor in the known universe. A British stripper named Karen Butler is making money off stories that she spent the night with “Titanic” star Leonardo DiCaprio. “Leonardo is a raw sexual lover and he held me in his arms until I exploded,” she claims.
Is this what Ginger, Posh et al mean by girl power?
It’s baby time again for Melissa Etheridge and Julie Cypher. Cypher, who delivered the couple’s daughter, Bailey Jean Cypher, is once again pregnant thanks to artificial insemination, reports Mitchell Fink, of CNN and People magazine.
Garry Lewis and his band were on hand to play, boy
Hugh Hefner, on hand with wife Kimberly Hefner, made a rare public appearance on Thursday to accept induction into the American Society of Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame. “It takes something special to get me out of my pajamas,” Hefner said, “and this is special.”
Life’s not been all that good since Bogey died
Lauren Bacall took a two-episode role in the series “Chicago Hope” for a couple of reasons. One, the part is “not a stereotype.” Two, there aren’t many good parts out there. “They were certainly not breaking down the doors for me, anyway,” she told the Los Angeles Times.
It must sound more impressive in a French accent
After handing her an Order of Quebec, the Canadian province’s premier, Lucien Bouchard, praised songbird Celine Dion for attaining “heights unequaled in the history of francophone song.”