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Actress comes clean: Porn stardom a dirty rumor
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July 20, 1999 |
In fact, Susan Olsen, the actress who helped make "Baby talk, baby talk,
it's a wonder you can walk" a household phrase (at least in my household), is now
37 years old, married to a salesman and finding fulfillment as a stay-at-home mom.
She's also helping TV Guide, in a delicious delve into the wacky world of TV
myths, dispel the rampant rumors about her alleged post-Brady misadventures. The story that she met an untimely end after her coat got caught in a bus (where
was heroic Peter to save the day?) started in the '70s, she tells the tube-watchers
bible, when someone else with her name did suffer such an accident. But the
rumors don't bother her a bit. "I always liked being rumored to be dead,
because it put me in company with, like, Paul McCartney," says Olsen.
"If you watch one of the 'Brady Bunch' episodes backwards, you can hear Greg
saying, 'I buried Cindy.'" And TV Guide attributes those porn-star rumors to an
Olsen look-alike who starred in 1996's X-rated "Crocodile Blondee." Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! Other shocking revelations: While Madonna's right breast does make a surprise bustier-busting guest appearance in her "Papa Don't Preach" video and Groucho Marx did really tell a woman with 22 kids who said she loved her husband, "I love my cigar, too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while" (the comment was never aired), Marilyn Manson is not nerdy Paul from "The Wonder Years" (although they could have been separated at birth) and the magazine deems it highly unlikely that, when asked "Where's the strangest place you ever made whoopee?" a "Newlywed Game" contestant replied, "That would be in the butt, Bob." OK, yeah, but Mikey really died from eating Pop Rocks and drinking a Coke, right? - - - - - - - - - - - - B-B-B-Elton and the Jets "The only long-term effect of the heart problem is that I have to carry a card explaining why I set off the alarms when I walk through airport security." -- Sir Elton John on his most recent snazzy accessory: a pacemaker - - - - - - - - - - - - Princess Diana: Soap star? Commandment No. 11: Thou shalt not take Princess Diana's name in vain, even if everyone else does. Especially if you're a smarmy new daytime drama. NBC's taking more hits than Prince Charles in a polo match over its decision to write dead Di into its new soap opera, "Passions." The story line, in which a character gets into a car crash in the same Paris tunnel in which Diana died and is subsequently visited by the ghost of the late princess, has not only ticked off viewers (even soap opera fans have their standards of decency, it seems) but also incited a furious royal flush or two. Prince Charles' cousin Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia told Soap Opera Weekly that she found the use of Diana's name to be "in exceedingly bad taste" and "totally inappropriate." (Given her country's woes, you'd think she'd have more important matters than soap plots to deal with, but hey, guess there's no accounting for princesstral priorities.) "To exploit other people's pain is always awful," she said. "To make money on someone who died like that is disgusting.'' The show's producers say they meant it as a tribute. Didn't anyone tell them they could exploit Diana's image all they wanted, provided they uttered the secret password: charity? - - - - - - - - - - - - If the show don't fit, it must be about zip ... "I go to the same barber shop as [Johnnie] Cochran, and he's given me his full support." -- Actor Phil Morris on a certain well-known lawyer's reaction to the prospect of being continuously lampooned in what may be the first "Seinfeld" spinoff, "The Jackie Chiles Show"
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