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Sept. 8, 1999 |
It probably wouldn't do much for ratings, but it might make the sexy HBO show's star, Sarah Jessica Parker, a little more comfortable. In an upcoming Redbook interview, Parker says she's embarrassed by some of the frank talk in "Sex in the City," in which she plays, of all things, a newspaper columnist and "sexual anthropologist" given to breezy commentary on such steamy topics as male-member size, sex-toy addiction and -— oh my vapors! -– coital flatulence. "Anyone who knows me knows I'm a prude," Parker tells Redbook. "I had to say the word 'pussy' in the pilot, and it took me weeks to prepare. I don't use the F-word. These are just not things that I say." Strange. You'd think a seven-year relationship with drug-addled bad boy Robert Downey Jr. -- before settling down with Matthew Broderick -- would be enough to loosen anyone up. - - - - - - - - - - - - Breast-self-praising virus strikes again -- and this time, they talk back! "I love my breasts. They were never there before. And now I wake up in the morning and they look at me in the mirror and say, 'Hello, Leelee!' I put them away in a shirt, but I always leave a little bit showing." -- Seventeen-year-old actress Leelee Sobieski, apparently struck by the same ta-ta touting epidemic that's afflicted - - - - - - - - - - - - The Bard: Better 'n Viagra? Forget snazzy sports cars and sweet young things, Grecian Formula and Viagra. Paul Sorvino's got a spiffy new two-step strategy for passing 60 on the highway of life: 1) Let your hair go gray. 2) Brush up on your Shakespeare. Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! "I've gone through 12 different hair shades in the last 10 years and I would like to get back to my natural graying color," the meaty actor told Nothing Personal tipster Baird Jones at last week's premiere party for the film "Stir of Echoes." Sorvino also confessed he's been hot for the Bard since appearing in 1996's big-screen, big-name (Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes) take on "Romeo and Juliet," and said he'd like to slide into the director's chair -- as well as the lead -- and apply the same updated, but true-to-text formula to "King Lear." Sorvino conceives of the mad, misfortunate ruler as an aging rich New York powerbroker, sort of a "mix of Donald Trump and Robert Moses." (Ay, every inch a kingpin? In the Donald's case, it might be hard to sell the line "I am a man more sinn'd against than sinning." Just ask Ivana ... and Marla.) He'd also cast his famous daughter Mira as Cordelia, the king's only loyal progeny -- although he foresees no role in the flick for his youngest daughter, Amanda, also an actress. Cordelia's sisters, he says, should be "major names substantially older than Mira," such as Glenn Close. "Not like Sandra Bullock at all." So I guess that means Lear won't be banished to, say, Newark, N.J., on a runaway M104 bus? - - - - - - - - - - - - The Rupe is on fire! "I have heard cynics who say he's a very political old monk shuffling around in Gucci shoes." -- Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, raising worldwide ire with his comments on the Dalai Lama in the upcoming Vanity Fair. - - - - - - - - - - - - Pumping iron with the Lord If you're anything like me, when you exercise, all you're praying for is the end of your workout. But Gary Shields, owner of God's Gym (no, I did not leave out the "l") in Oakland, Calif., doesn't stop there; he's hoping his customers reach inspiration through perspiration. The born-again Christian -- who says he's "not trying to pimp God" -- has outfitted his gym with a huge mural of a buff-bodied Jesus, cranked up religious rap songs like "Gospel Gangstaz" and provided a place for his spiritually minded, physically oriented patrons to pump weights, quote scripture and get religiously ripped. Is it just me, or does "No pain, no gain" suddenly sound really, really deep?
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