BITS AND PIECES 03/08 Part 1
PUSSSYKATT
--As part of a plea agreement, Hawaiian prosecutors saying they will erase
Whitney Houston's record for marijuana possession now that a substance abuse
counselor has said she doesn't need drug rehab.
--O.J. Simpson asking the California Supreme Court to review the state appeals
panel's refusal to overturn the $33.5 million wrongful death judgment against
him.
--One day after representatives for Arnold Schwarzenegger said the movie star
won't run for governor of California next year because of a full movie slate,
the actor issues another statement saying he still hasn't made up his mind.
--The producers of last month's Grammy Awards suing Napster just a day after
the song-swap service was slapped with an injunction. Producers claim Napster
illegally facilitated the trading of MP3s of the ceremony's performances,
including the Eminem-Elton John duet, "Stan," which now may never be
commercially released.
--Meanwhile, EMusic.com, another Internet music firm filed a copyright
infringement suit against Napster. EMusic calls itself a legitimate alternative
to Napster and has long been outspoken critic of the embattled company.
--Academy Award producers chopping the length of Björk's performance of "I've
Seen It All" from Dancer in the Dark from six minutes to three. As a result,
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke will not be performing a duet with her for the
telecast.
--The Dave Matthews Band's new album, Everyday, entering the Billboard album
charts at number one, selling more than 732,000 copies in the U.S. in its first
week. It's the band's second straight chart-topping studio album, following
1998's Before These Crowded Streets.
--Aerosmith becoming the 10th highest-selling act in music history as the band
has now sold more than 59.5 million albums, placing number 10 on the cumulative
gold and platinum certifications list, according to the Recording Industry
Association of America.
--A federal jury hit 20th Century Fox Studios with $19 million in damages
Tuesday in a copyright infringement case involving its film Jingle All the Way.
The jury sided with an independent producer from Detroit who accused Fox of
ripping off his script, Could This Be Christmas?, after rejecting his pitch
back in 1994.
--Until the End of Time, a new double album of previously unreleased material
from the late rapper Tupac Shakur, scheduled to hit stores later this month.
E! ONLINE...by Chuck Kim
--ER's Noah Wyle won't have to worry about his bedside manner in Enough.
Jennifer Lopez stars in the Columbia Pictures thriller as a mother who learns
her new husband (Billy Campbell) harbors a vicious and lethal temper. J.Lo must
stand her ground for her own survival. Wyle plays an enigmatic character with a
key secret. Filming is already underway.
--Wesley Snipes plans to mete out justice on Linda Fiorentino and Oliver Platt
in Liberty Stands Still. The three actors are slated to star in the Lions Gate
drama. Snipes plays a father whose daughter has been gunned down. He kidnaps a
woman (Fiorentino) after learning she and her husband (Platt) supplied the gun
to the killers. Cameras are already rolling in Vancouver.
E! ONLINE/PRINT SOUP....by Simon Brennan
--Denis Leary, celebrated composer of the "Asshole Song," is the only person we
know who goes into a strip club and gets his own, well, flipside waved in his
face. As relayed in the March Maxim, one naked girl at a club told him she
really liked to shake her rear to his "Asshole." "And minutes later she's up on
stage dancing to it," Leary says, "and another naked girl comes up crying and
says, 'I'm the original "Asshole" dancer. She stole my routine!' " Think for a
moment about how this situation will never, ever happen to you. Okay, now back
to our story: "So, the first girl finishes to a standing ovation," Leary says,
"and then this original "Asshole" dancer goes up, and she's terrible and she
gets booed." Which means that her booty got booed for her interpretive
"Asshole"? Is that even possible? "And by the way," Leary ponders rhetorically,
"who calls themselves the 'Original Asshole Dancer'? If that's what your
fuckin' job moniker is, you really need to get yourself a life, okay?" Like the
celebrated composer of the "Asshole Song" is any better, Denis?
--"He was the only person I've met that's weirder than me, that dressed worse
and looked stranger." --Dolly Parton in Interview, on Andy Warhol. Clearly, she
didn't bump into Elton John at the Grammys
--It's not enough that Wyclef Jean recently played Carnegie Hall; now it looks
like he's angling for some bookings at the Vatican. As he spaketh in the April
Playboy, the hip-hop impresario has thoughts on the New Testament and its most
celebrated fallen woman: "When Christ saw Mary Magdalene, he didn't say, 'Yo,
are you a hooker?' He approached her with his mack game; he had his pimping
game on. He was like, 'Hey, girl, what are you doing working this strip?' And
she said, 'You know, I'm chilling, daddy.' And he said, 'I just want to take
you to the higher ground, find out what's going on.' " You know, we don't
necessarily know why he's telling this either, but we will say that we can't
wait for his remix of the Book of Revelation! Apocalypso now!
--"Either we're jumping into a big pile of funny or just an empty vat of
silent, creepy death." --Andy Dick in Entertainment Weekly, on what to expect
on his new TV show. Wait a minute, didn't we already see that on an old Tom
Green Show?
NY POST/MICHAEL STARR...
--"Sagwa," an animated series about a Chinese Siamese cat that's inspired by
bestselling author Amy Tan, premieres next fall on PBS.
NY POST/PAGE SIX...
--JERRY Seinfeld made a surprise appearance at the Comedy Cellar in the West
Village Tuesday night - and delivered a surprising slap at his former
"Seinfeld" co-stars. After performing 20 minutes of stand-up, Jerry took
questions from the crowd. When someone asked if there would ever be a
"Seinfeld" reunion, he replied, "Yes, when all of our careers turn to [bleep] -
and two are down already." We assume he didn’t mean Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who
is developing a sitcom for NBC, but was cracking wise at the expense of Michael
Richards and Jason Alexander.
--METS slugger Mike Piazza, who narrowly missed getting injured by Roger
Clemens’ thrown bat, received a black eye courtesy of Fox football
commentatorTerry Bradshaw. No, the two jocks didn’t get into a brawl. Sources
tell us that Piazza and Bradshaw were filming an MCI commercial on a Fort
Lauderdale golf course the other day when Bradshaw accidentally whacked Piazza
with his club. Piazza’s rep was with him in Florida yesterday and couldn’t
be reached for comment.
--Secret Service agents guarding Al Gore as he made his way to his Columbia
journalism class told a band, waiting on the green for him, that under no
circumstances should they play "Hail to the Chief" . . .
--Molly Sims, supermodel and House of Style host, will star in Old Navy’s
latest spring ad campaign as a fashion reporter . . .
--The diamond necklace Monica Seles has been wearing lately is no token of
affection from a suitor. It was presented to her by IGA supermarket chain
chairman Tom Haggai after she won the IGA U.S. Indoor championship.
--THE famous McEnroe clan temper reared its ugly head Tuesday on Don Imus’
radio show, simulcast on Msnbc, when tennis legend Patrick McEnroe threw a fit
and quit as Imus’ tennis/sports commentator. "We thought it was a joke at
first, but then he called later to say he really had quit," said Mark Chernoff,
program director for WFAN. "Patrick is in California and he has to get up very
early to do the show and sometimes we get backed up and he doesn’t get to go
on," Chernoff said, explaining McEnroe’s burst of anger. "I can’t say
it’s actually finalized as I can’t get ahold of [McEnroe], but I wouldn’t
be surprised if he still called in from time to time."
--NEW Haven obviously isn’t as much fun as New York for young Barbara Bush,
one of President Bush’s twin daughters. On Saturday, just three nights after
a raucous evening at Bowery Ballroom, the Yale freshman attended a private
party at 14th Street and Third Avenue given by a teacher with the New York Film
Academy. Barbara talked about the small role she had in "The Faculty," and
enjoyed herself until around 1 a.m. "She was very nice," said a source. "She
didn’t talk about her dad at all."
NY POST/NEAL TRAVIS..
--TALK-SHOW host Rosie O’Donnell really loves Lucille Ball and has been
showing her audience pop artist Charles Fazzino’s paintings to commemorate
the 50th anniversary of the first "Lucy" program. The material is on display
(along with the works of artists like Susan Swartz and Clement Briels) at this
weekend’s Artexpo at the Javits Center.
NY POST/CINDY ADAMS...
--DENISE Rich daughter Liona Malka Rich is hotting up as an artiste. She's
showing in Miami galleries. She does kinetic things, whatever they are. Garish,
kitschy pastel humanoids, yappy puppy dog-types, and cat sculptures with
light-bulb eyes. I mean, Rembrandt she's not. But hot she is.
--EMMA Thompson readied for her nude scene in "Wit" by playing strip poker with
her crew . . .
--Michael Rooker, who's in "The Sixth Day": "I once had confrontation scenes
with Stallone. I could shove him over easily. Arnold's tougher to move around.
Can't budge him. I had to smack him with a gun butt before he toppled." . . .
--Sean Connery stuns the Bel Air Country Club golfers. Schleps his own bag . .
.
--Diane Keaton, producing Miramax's female buddy film "So Shoot Me," was
looking toward Parker Posey for it. "But," she says, "Miramax wants Gwyneth in
everything." . .
--Anyone but me not know that DiCaprio had his mom and granny doing bits in
"The Beach"?
--ROSEMARY Harris, now in the film "Blow Dry," has a favorite neighborhood chow
meinery on 63rd & Second, which just packed away its chopsticks. Rent's gone
too high for its $4.95 lunches. Rosemary, always sitting in the window at high
noon, was a regular. "My husband loved the roast duck and brown rice, and I
always had stir-fry vegetables. I don't know how to break it to him that the
place closed."
--David and Courteney Cox Arquette kicked their 20-a-day cigarette habit via
hypnosis . .
--Catherine Deneuve: "I'm a woman who is not happy. Happiness is no permanent
state of being. But pleasure is something I cultivate assiduously." . . .
--Neve Campbell, when doing "Party of Five," "Scream 3," "Drowning Mona" all at
the same time, had facial zits. Now that she's off TV's "Party of Five," no
prob. She says: "My life is saner these days."
--FREDDIE Prinze Jr., whose dad died of drugs, doesn't even smoke. The four
Quaaludes found in his father's body definitely affected him profoundly . . .
--Sarah Michelle Gellar's recent weight loss was due to shedding baby fat, not
anorexia .
--Laurence Fishburne: "I was in Bed Bath & Beyond the other day. It seems to
surprise people that I actually walk into stores." . . .
--Pierce Brosnan, whose wife just had a really rough childbirth, to make his
next 007 in Ireland . . .
----Fergie's kids' future school Aiglon College, called "A little piece of
England in the Alps," also boasts Sophia Loren's offspring as alumni.
CHRISTINA Aguilera, who goes nighty-night with the light on: "Who's to say
ghosts don't exist. There are lots of things we don't really know. I only know
I can't sleep in the dark."
--Kate Winslet telling friends she needs a lengthy break from acting . . .
--U.S. soccer star Michelle Akers on teammate Brandi Chastain's nude magazine
photo: "The message it sends to young girls is not ideal. They should know
women athletes can be awesome without being naked." . . .
--Tom Cruise, now filming Cameron Crowe's "Vanilla Sky," had told Crowe: "I
want to play a character in one of your movies. Not the big starring part with
the golden haze around me. More like a John Cusack role." Cusack so far is not
making Cruise's $25 mil a flick.
--OZZY Osbourne on when he checked into the Betty Ford Clinic: "Mrs. Ford came
up to me and said, ‘Welcome' and the first thing I asked her was, ‘Where's
the bar?'" . . .
--Alexander Hamilton on our new $10 bills got a facelift. Ken Kipperman of the
Bureau of Engraving: "I took liberties. I gave him a little chin reduction. I
didn't like Hamilton looking like Jay Leno." . . .
--Ralph Fiennes: "American actresses seem ready to rip off their clothes with
alarmingly little warning. One might say I've been compelled to steel myself
against temptation."
NY POST/LIZ SMITH....
--ANNA NICOLE SMITH says she wants to remake "all those Marilyn Monroe films"
First up's gotta be "How to Marry a Millionaire"! - though they'll have to
change it to "Billionaire" in deference to Anna Nicole's rich marital success.
In fact, the towering blonde is said to seriously considering a remake of
"Don't Bother to Knock" - the one where MM is a whacked-out baby-sitter . . .
NY DAILY NEWS/RUSH AND MOLLOY...
--Third Eye Blind frontman Stephan Jenkins seems to be way over Charlize
Theron. He was entertaining a bevy of Playmates after his band's performance at
shoe designer Steve Madden's party at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas the other
night. Don't worry about Charlize, though. Fashionwire Daily reports that, last
week at a dinner in Milan, the actress loudly gave a girlfriend advice on
French kissing. "You have to stick your tongue deep in there!" Theron
reportedly roared. "Down the throat! Now swirl it around." Thanks, coach.
--Jay Leno doesn't forget. The funnyman (and reformed preppy) has donated
$10,000 for a scholarship in memory of his favorite history teacher, David
Robichaud, at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. Robichaud was equally fond
of Leno. Before his passing, he visited the "Tonight" show to issue an official
pardon for Leno's old speeding misdemeanor in the Andover parking lot....
--Camryn Manheim will be ordering two birthday cakes this week from here on in.
The actress, who celebrates her 40th birthday today, gave birth Tuesday to a
son in L.A. Milo Jacob Manheim weighed in at 9 pounds, 2 ounces. A rep for the
star of TV's "The Practice" stuck to the single mom's policy of not saying who
the lad's father is . . .
--Tatum O'Neal is ready for another shot at wedded bliss. The 37-year-old
actress, who had a rocky marriage to tennis champ John McEnroe, is engaged to
35-year-old Miramax exec Steven Hutensky. The two aim to wed this summer, US
Weekly reports. Meanwhile, the mag's "Hot Stuff" column reports that Gwyneth
Paltrow and Courtney Love are new best friends. Gwynnie recently put in a good
word for Love's 8-year-old daughter, Frances Bean, to attend an L.A. private
school. "Nine years ago, I wouldn't have even liked her," mama Love tells Us.
"But she's great. I love her."
--London's loss is New York's gain. Victoria Albert, British host of
YoNewYork.com, will definitely be sticking around town now that her boyfriend,
"Guiding Light's" Ryan Brown, just popped the question and she popped back a
"yes." Victoria's dad, Dickie Arbiter, is so trusted by Britain's royal family
that Queen Elizabeth made him a press secretary even though he'd served as
spokesman for Princess Diana. Victoria, star of the lifestyle Web site, is so
perky — she has played Snow White in a Disney production — she'll probably
anchor a morning show before you can name the Seven Dwarves....
--Donald Trump (him again!) and Melania Knauss throw a party tonight to unveil
Winter Olympic artwork by Thomas Kinkade, Howard Behrens and Simon Bull at Ohm.
NY DAILY NEWS/MITCHELL FINK...
--High-powered divorce lawyer William Beslow called to tell me I got it wrong
when I said last week that he had a photograph of his newest client, Nicole
Kidman, among the family photographs in his office. A quick trip to Beslow's
office on Fifth Ave. revealed that while there was a framed photo of a
nice-looking redhead on his office credenza, it wasn't of Kidman. It was a
picture of another Beslow client, Sarah Ferguson, the former Duchess of York.
Beslow also wanted to set the record straight about his recent trip to
Hollywood. While he was in Los Angeles to work on Kidman's case, he was
attending to other business, as well, from his temporary digs at the Four
Seasons Hotel. Beslow said the suggestion that he was there at Kidman's "beck
and call," as I had reported, was simply not true. Beslow refused all comment
about Kidman and the recent divorce action by her husband, Tom Cruise, except
to say that the mountain of speculation in the media thus far "has been all
wrong."
--It's no accident that Carmela Soprano looks as though she stepped right out
of an '80s New Jersey mall. Edie Falco, the Emmy Award-winning actress who
plays Carmela on "The Sopranos," and her hairdresser say that was the idea. "We
pretty much went overboard with the makeup," says Falco's stylist, Kymbra
Callaghan, in the April issue of W magazine. "But every time I thought I'd gone
overboard, I'd look around at the women in my Hoboken neighborhood, and my work
was completely validated. "Every time I look at Carmela, I want to channel all
these women I used to see when I was a cashier at the A&P, the ones who'd come
grocery-shopping in a fur coat." "I had the big-hair thing going on, but I
never did it well," adds Falco about her days growing up on Long Island. "I
always tried to follow the popular girls' styles and attempt my own version of
them, but they always turned out lopsided and funky. I thought, 'I'm a loser.'
" Well, not any more.
--Even Martin Sheen flubs his lines—repeatedly. Sheen was the emcee at
Tuesday's PBS taping of "The Irish Tenors," a concert on Ellis Island featuring
Anthony Kearns, Ronan Tynan and Finbar Wright. During the intro, when Sheen
quoted from Emma Lazarus' famous "huddled masses" inscription at the base of
the Statue of Liberty, he mispronounced the word "refuse," and said "refuge."
So they stopped the tape. Sheen then made another mistake, and the tape was
stopped again. Looking out at the audience, Sheen said, "This is how we do it
on 'The West Wing.' "
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> E! ONLINE...by Josh Grossberg
> --Academy Award producers chopping the length of Björk's performance of
"I've
> Seen It All" from Dancer in the Dark from six minutes to three. As a
result,
> Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke will not be performing a duet with her for
the
> telecast.
That's so they can use those 3 minutes for an interpretive dance tribute to
"Erin Brockovich", I guess :P
Evelyn
Ron Turner
>won't run for governor of California next year because of a full movie slate,
>the actor issues another statement saying he still hasn't made up his mind.
Warren Beatty -- Democrats
Donald Trump -- Reform
looks like we have to add Ahnold for the Republicans. Another celeb who can't
make up his damn mind about running.
>--The Dave Matthews Band's new album, Everyday, entering the Billboard album
>charts at number one, selling more than 732,000 copies in the U.S. in its
>first
>week. It's the band's second straight chart-topping studio album, following
>1998's Before These Crowded Streets.
Is it true Dave Matthews is South African? My little sister said she heard he
was. Not sure if she was right.
>--Secret Service agents guarding Al Gore as he made his way to his Columbia
>journalism class told a band, waiting on the green for him, that under no
>circumstances should they play "Hail to the Chief" . . .
>
Hehe. But why does Al Gore get Secret Service protection. I thought VP's were
dumped flat?
>--NEW Haven obviously isnt as much fun as New York for young Barbara Bush,
>one of President Bushs twin daughters. On Saturday, just three nights after
>a raucous evening at Bowery Ballroom, the Yale freshman attended a private
>party at 14th Street and Third Avenue given by a teacher with the New York
>Film Academy. Barbara talked about the small role she had in "The Faculty,"
and
>enjoyed herself until around 1 a.m. "She was very nice," said a source. "She
>didnt talk about her dad at all."
Ah, methinks I'm in love. But where was she in "The Faculty"? Never knew
that.
>--EMMA Thompson readied for her nude scene in "Wit" by playing strip poker
>with her crew . . .
Melike. How far did she go?
>--Sean Connery stuns the Bel Air Country Club golfers. Schleps his own bag .
>.
Of course that's because he's cheap bastard who refuses to pay for a caddie.
But what the hell.
>--David and Courteney Cox Arquette kicked their 20-a-day cigarette habit via
>hypnosis . .
Does hypnosis work in stopping smoking? My aunt Angie is seriously thinking
about doing that. I thought it was fake.
>--Alexander Hamilton on our new $10 bills got a facelift. Ken Kipperman of
>the Bureau of Engraving: "I took liberties. I gave him a little chin
reduction. I
>didn't like Hamilton looking like Jay Leno." . . .
Here's something for those crazy anti-Reagan critics to choke on.......the next
big fan campaign is to put Ronnie on the $10 bill. :-)
>--ANNA NICOLE SMITH says she wants to remake "all those Marilyn Monroe films"
>First up's gotta be "How to Marry a Millionaire"! - though they'll have to
>change it to "Billionaire" in deference to Anna Nicole's rich marital
>success.
>In fact, the towering blonde is said to seriously considering a remake of
>"Don't Bother to Knock" - the one where MM is a whacked-out baby-sitter . . .
>
I always thought she had a freaky complex over Marilyn Monroe.
>--Even Martin Sheen flubs his linesrepeatedly. Sheen was the emcee at
>Tuesday's PBS taping of "The Irish Tenors," a concert on Ellis Island
>featuring Anthony Kearns, Ronan Tynan and Finbar Wright. During the intro,
when Sheen quoted from Emma Lazarus' famous "huddled masses" inscription at the
base of the Statue of Liberty, he mispronounced the word "refuse," and said
"refuge."
>So they stopped the tape. Sheen then made another mistake, and the tape was
>stopped again. Looking out at the audience, Sheen said, "This is how we do it
on 'The West Wing.' "
And yet he trashes Bush for flubbing lines. Hypocrite.
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Aozotorp
>>--ANNA NICOLE SMITH says she wants to remake "all those Marilyn Monroe
>films"
>>First up's gotta be "How to Marry a Millionaire"! - though they'll have to
>>change it to "Billionaire" in deference to Anna Nicole's rich marital
>>success.
>>In fact, the towering blonde is said to seriously considering a remake of
>>"Don't Bother to Knock" - the one where MM is a whacked-out baby-sitter . .
>.
>>
>I always thought she had a freaky complex over Marilyn Monroe.
>
The only thing she could remake would be an XXX Rated remake of Moby Dick!
Ann
Ron Turner wrote:
> >--The Dave Matthews Band's new album, Everyday, entering the Billboard album
> >charts at number one, selling more than 732,000 copies in the U.S. in its
> >first
> >week. It's the band's second straight chart-topping studio album, following
> >1998's Before These Crowded Streets.
>
> Is it true Dave Matthews is South African? My little sister said she heard he
> was. Not sure if she was right.
>
Yes, Dave Matthews was born in South Africa by American parents. His family moved
back from South Africa to upstate New York when he's two years old. He donates a
significant amout of his income to Nelson Mandela.
Smoot
(Ron Turner) wrote:
>>--The Dave Matthews Band's new album, Everyday, entering the Billboard album
>>charts at number one, selling more than 732,000 copies in the U.S. in its
>>first
>>week. It's the band's second straight chart-topping studio album, following
>>1998's Before These Crowded Streets.
>
>Is it true Dave Matthews is South African? My little sister said she heard he
>was. Not sure if she was right.
Yes, Matthews was originally from South Africa. I don't know how old he
was when he moved here. I think it was while he was still a youth.
Emma
--
To Alanis Morrisette: Irony is not finding a fly in your
chardony. Irony is naming a national airport after the guy
who fired all the nations air traffic controllers.
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magazine
> photo: "The message it sends to young girls is not ideal. They should know
> women athletes can be awesome without being naked." . . .
She posed nude? Where? If I recall from when she ripped her uniform top off
after scoring the winning goal in the World Cup, she isn't all that endowed.
--
Joe
"Hello? Trent? You haven't seen the girls?...are your parents there?...are
they in town at all?...have you done anything to prepare for this
hurricane?...yes, hurricane! Trent, I want you to come over and wait for the
girls here. You'll be safer...then put some on! And get over here now, young
man!" (hangs up) Doesn't anyone in this town wear pants anymore?" - Helen
Morgendorffer on "Daria"
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> NY DAILY NEWS/RUSH AND MOLLOY...
Meanwhile, the mag's "Hot Stuff" column reports that Gwyneth
> Paltrow and Courtney Love are new best friends. Gwynnie recently put in a
good
> word for Love's 8-year-old daughter, Frances Bean, to attend an L.A.
private
> school. "Nine years ago, I wouldn't have even liked her," mama Love tells
Us.
> "But she's great. I love her."
>
Wonder how Madonna feels about this...
Regina
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