Don't blame him. His wife made him say it ...

"It is a mistaken assumption that, when a bride says she will obey, it means she is going to be subservient. My wife said 'obey' and she is far from subservient."

-- The Bishop of Norwich, the Rt. Rev. Peter Nott, who will conduct the marriage of Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones, on the bride's decision to "love, cherish and obey" her royal hubby

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Sharon Stone and Ellen DeGeneres, a couple? It's not just the stuff of someone's deepest secret fantasy (you know who you are). Soon, it will be the stuff of celluloid history. The world's most famous pantiless leg-crosser and the world's most famous sitcomless lesbian are teaming up to portray a modern-day couple who conceive a child in a three-part film examining lesbian experiences (how closely is not clear) called "If These Walls Could Talk 2." DeGeneres will co-produce the film, and her real-life squeeze, Anne Heche, will write and direct. Said Stone recently, "I hope to glean a little something extra about comedy from these two experts." I think we all may learn a little something extra about all sorts of things from this project, Sharon.

Let those nasty rumors about their needing to be coached for the love scenes in "Eyes Wide Shut" finally rest in peace. According to an Us magazine poll, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman are the sexiest Hollywood couple around. With 47 percent of the vote, Cruise and Kidman outsexied Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston (21 percent), Will Smith and Jada Pinkett (20 percent), Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt (8 percent), and Hugh Grant and Elizabeth Hurley (5 percent -- Grant and Divine Brown would probably have scored higher!). Eat your heart out, Ellen and Anne.

Will whoever snatched the two-headed formaldehyde-floating fetal piglet from its display case at the MacKenzie Environmental Education Center in Poynette, Wis., please give it back? The center's director, Derek Duane, promises he won't press charges if you come forward now with his prize pickled porker. "We hope someone has their fun with it and gives it back," Duane told USA Today. "What are you going to do with it? Sit it on the shelf and look at it?" Which leads me to wonder (rather reluctantly) what Duane is going to do with it -- if those walls could talk ...
salon.com | June 10, 1999

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