To print this page, select "Print" from the File menu of your browser salon.com > People August 11, 1999 URL: http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/1999/08/11/jerryhall If this boat's a-rockin'... Jerry Hall and Paul Allen makin' waves in French waters? Oasis members get good and gobsmacked. The cut-ups at the K.C. Star take clowning too far. Plus: Money talks, "Bulworth" walks, Beatty for prez! - - - - - - - - - - - - By Amy Reiter Let that Brazilian baby-photo-peddlin' model, Luciana Morad, have the whoppin'-lipped wonder known to the world as Mick Jagger. Rumor has it the rock icon's former non-wife Jerry Hall's got a brand-new billionaire beau: Paul Allen, the fella who founded Microsoft with Bill Gates and racked up an easy-PC fortune before bowing out of the biz to embark on his own ventures in 1982. Hall's pals recently tipped off the British press to a potential thang goin' on between the model mom and $22 billion man, who owns, among other things, the Seattle Seahawks and the Portland Trail Blazers, reporting that the two have been hitting the waves together in the south of France. "Jerry has definitely been around Paul recently," a Hall buddy blabbed to the Daily Telegraph. "She is one of the people who has been on his boat." Hope that loose-lipped mate wasn't aboard ... - - - - - - - - - - - - The Dalai Lama's hidden desires "Sometimes in dream I have violence or am meeting women. Then in dream I remember, 'I am monk.'" -- The Dalai Lama admitting that, like Jimmy Carter, he has sometimes lusted in his heart. - - - - - - - - - - - - Whoops! Wrong photo Someone really needs to quit clowning around in the Kansas City Star's photo department. A Star photo editor's failure to check identification on the back of a stock photo recently resulted in one of the most disquieting newspaper errors in modern memory. The smiling clown used in the paper's July 30 Preview section to illustrate a "family fun" calendar listing of National Clown Week turned out to be none other than serial child murderer John Wayne Gacy in his "Pogo the Clown" get-up. The photo of the late sexual psychopath, who sometimes used magic tricks to manipulate his victims into submission, ran with an ominous-sounding caption: "It's a rule. You MUST celebrate Clown Week, starting Sunday at the City Market." The paper apologized for the error the very next day, expressing its regret for "the inappropriate use of the photo." But according to Star columnist Miriam Pepper, readers were freakin'. Some accused the paper of having some sort of "sick agenda." Others expressed sorrow for the clown community, who, wrote one reader, "I'm sure do not want to be associated with this man, this animal, the killer of children." And one snickering foo' snarked, "What a hoot! I told all the neighbors. I can't believe you did this." Maybe the feckless photo editor can find a nice safe suburban crawl space to hide out in until all the hoopla passes. - - - - - - - - - - - - Oasis overtaken by gobsmacking epidemic "Liam and Noel knew nothing of this. They are absolutely gobsmacked." -- A source close to the Brit rock group Oasis on the reaction of band brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher to being ditched by guitarist Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs; Noel publicly played down Bonehead's bolt as "hardly Paul McCartney leaving the Beatles." - - - - - - - - - - - - Can Annette Bening fill Hillary's shoes? Warren Beatty for U.S. prez? The pretty boy actor's got columnist Arianna Huffington's vote. Huffington, who's snuggled up to both the political right and the left, is calling on the man behind the politics-bating film "Bulworth" to give it a go at the White House as the "anti-politics" candidate in Y2K. Beatty's name is, she says, "being whispered with growing regularity." "I don't see out there in either party, on the left or the right, anybody representing the bulk of the American people," TV and film god Norman Lear recently told Huffington. "The closest I've seen is 'Bulworth' -- the closest to a populist voice reaching a mass media audience." "I have a notion," agreed frisky former Sen. Gary Hart, "that Warren could dramatize politics in a way that hack politicians never could. He entered the world of politics in '68 with Bobby Kennedy's campaign and that is the time he, like so many of us, wants to recapture." Even TV journalist heavyweight Bill Moyers ventured an opinion on the potential power of a Beatty run, saying, "If Warren can speak the truth to power on the stump as well as he did in 'Bulworth,' he can change politics, too." Could Beatty, running on a system-dissing platform, become not just the famous people's candidate but the people's candidate? Who knows? Just so long as he doesn't try that rap thing again. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Calling all shoe fetishists. (Are you listening, Chuck "Marla Maples' sneakers seduced me" Jones?) Finally, the sole-ful moment you've all been waiting for: 200 pairs of Imelda Marcos' shoes will be put on display in a new shoe museum in the Philippines' shoemaking capital, Marikina. The exhibit is a mere fraction of the 1,220 pairs (size 8 1/2) the former first lady of the Philippines left behind when she and her husband high-tailed it out of their palace digs. But those soft on leather will enjoy gaping at a pair with gold trim, another rhinestone-studded duo and a couple pairs of slinky knee-high boots. Sadly, the museum was unable to score the battery-operated jobbers that flashed when Marcos cut the rug. They lit up her life. Another reason to be thankful you've made it safely out of high school. The California Prune Board has managed to convince a growing number of schools to serve students big, moist prune burgers, a mix of hamburger meat and prune purée. "The one word everybody uses when they try them is 'juicy,'" board spokeswoman Peggy Castaldi told the press on Monday, noting that plans are in the works for prune pizza and prune turkey meatballs. I'm sure there'll be a real run on the prunish delights ... and I don't mean in the cafeteria. salon.com | August 11, 1999