Like they say, perfection is in the eye of the beloved
FINDING THE PERFECT MAN may be nothing but a fantasy, but Heather Locklear wouldn’t have it any other way.
“Perfect doesn’t really exist. There’s no perfect man. There’s no perfect woman or person,” says the star of the recently released film “The Perfect Man.”
Locklear, who is married to Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora, doesn’t mind, though. Imperfections are what make people more exciting, she says.
“There are people that can be perfect for each other,” adds Hilary Duff, her co-star in the film.
Locklear plays a single mom who has an affinity for finding losers. Duff tries to solve things by creating an ideal – but fictional – beau.
“Maybe a year before I was Dakota Fanning‘s mother,” Locklear, 43, said about her movie “Uptown Girls” with the then 9-year-old Fanning.
“And then when I was in ‘Dynasty,’ I had a little baby; no one ever saw this baby.”
As for playing the 17-year-old Duff’s mom, she says, “I had to swallow my pride just a bit. But look at my daughter! How great!”
A perfect fool for love
Tom Cruise, who has literally been bouncing all over television talk shows raving about his romance with Katie Holmes, was at it again Friday on NBC’s “Today” show.
“I’m really happy,” he said. “And, you know, I’m engaged. I’m going to be married. I can’t restrain myself.”
Cruise, whose marriages to Mimi Rogers and Nicole Kidman ended in divorce, declined to say what Holmes has brought to his life that wasn’t there in the past.
“I don’t want to compare things,” Cruise said. “It’s that thing where you just – in life when it just happens. … You meet someone. And it’s – I can’t even describe it.”
Love doesn’t imitate art
Steven Spielberg, who directed Cruise in “War of the Worlds,” opening Wednesday, brushes off speculation that his star’s coupling with Holmes is a publicity stunt.
Cruise’s uninhibited, couch-hopping appearance on Oprah Winfrey‘s show “was exactly what Tom did with me when he first told me about Katie Holmes,” Spielberg tells Newsweek magazine.
As for the cynics, he says: “I think what that really says is that people think that the people who make movies are fake – our movies aren’t real, and our private lives aren’t real. … I think it’s more a commentary on Hollywood than a commentary on Katie and Tom.”
One less intimate for Elle
Australian supermodel Elle Macpherson and her partner, Swiss financier Arpad Busson, announced Friday that they are separating.
The couple, who have two sons aged 7 and 2, said that “whilst remaining the greatest of friends, we have decided to spend some time apart to consider our future.”
Macpherson, 42, one of the world’s top-earning supermodels in the 1990s, now has her own line of lingerie, Elle Macpherson Intimates.
After all, they are just kids
The members of Destiny’s Child may be going their separate ways, but it doesn’t mean the end of their relationship, says Beyonce Knowles.
“We don’t like the word ‘breakup,’ ” she says. “We’d like to say that it’s the end of a chapter in our lives.”
That chapter could have a sequel, adds Knowles, 23.
“Maybe we could do a play together; we’ve talked about that,” she says. “Who knows what’s ahead? This isn’t breaking up, what we’re doing; it’s growing up.”
The birthday bunch
Director Sidney Lumet is 81. Actress June Lockhart is 80. Singer Carly Simon is 60. Actor-comedian Jimmie Walker is 58. TV personality Phyllis George is 56. Singer George Michael is 42. Actress Linda Cardellini (“ER”) is 30.