Cloris’ new cry: Cougars rule!
There are some sights that just stay with you, know what we mean?
One such sight: Cloris Leachman, 32 years over the minimum AARP qualifying age – that’s 82 for the math-challenged among you – locking lips with Jack Black, 43 years her junior, on the episode of “The Office” that aired following the Super Bowl.
“Yes, that was a lonnng time ago,” wrote the Philadelphia Inquirer, “but we just CAN’T get it out of our frontal lobes.”
If you’ll recall, the episode involved Leachman seducing Black away from Jessica Alba (yeah, right). Black and Leachman are in a hot tub when they take off in oral lala-land.
“He’s a wonderful kisser,” Leachman later told Celebuzz.com.
The Inquirer went on to say that the segment “does fit the ‘cougar’ trend (mature woman, diapered male).”
Some of the more obvious contemporary examples: Madonna, 50, hanging around Brazilian model Jesus Luz, 22; Demi Moore, 46, pairing up with Ashton Kutcher, who turned 31 just today; Kristin Chenoweth, 40, making it with Charlie McDowell, 25.
“We’d count ‘Dancing with the Stars’ judge Carrie Ann Inaba, 41, and baby-doll squeeze Artem Chigvintsev, 26,” the Inquirer said, “but she just told People they’ve broken up.”
Drew is drawn to older guys
Looks as if Drew Barrymore, 33, is going the anti-cougar route, seeking men who are either age appropriate or are far older than she is. During a recent evening the New York Post’s spies spotted her running into Hugh Grant, 48 – “She squealed and jumped in his arms” – before later hanging with Clive Owen, 44.
No, this is not a joke
Britain’s august Royal Opera announced Thursday that it is planning a 2011 show based on the life of Anna Nicole Smith, the model/stripper who married an octogenarian oil tycoon, starred in her own TV show and died of a drug overdose in 2007.
Company spokeswoman Elaine Padmore, said the show “is not going to be tawdry; it is going to be witty, clever, thoughtful and sad.”
Listen: It’s Wanda time
The new president better prepare himself: Sharp-tongued Wanda Sykes (“The New Adventures of Old Christine”) has been chosen to speak at the White House correspondents’ dinner in Washington on May 9.
“The first thing I did when they asked me to do this gig – I made sure my taxes were paid,” said Sykes, 44, taking a dig at the withdrawal of former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle from President Obama’s Cabinet due to unpaid taxes.
Quotable quote
“I fear small places, airplanes, elevators, the world around me. I’m just a fearful person.” That’s filmmaker Steven Spielberg, courtesy of gossip columnist Cindy Adams, explaining some of his basic fears.
The birthday bunch
TV personality Hugh Downs is 88. Movie director Alan Parker is 65. TV personality Pat O’Brien is 61. Magician Teller is 61. Cajun singer-musician Michael Doucet (Beausoleil) is 58. Actor Ken Wahl is 52. Actress Meg Tilly is 49. Actor Zach Galligan is 45. Tennis player Manuela Maleeva is 42. Actor Simon Pegg is 39. Rock singer Rob Thomas (Matchbox Twenty) is 37. Actor Freddie Highmore is 17.