To print this page, select "Print" from the File menu of your browser salon.com > People Oct. 6, 1999 URL: http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/1999/10/06/noperwed Something blue Tommy and Pammy to retie knot, drop pants; the Royal Philharmonic does R.E.M.; Gore scandal a snooze. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Amy Reiter Get ready for the bestselling wedding video of all time. British tabloids report that Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee are planning to retie the knot on the cusp of the new millennium ... in the nude. "We want to feel free, at one with the sky and earth around us -- and being naked will make us all aware of how much a part of nature we really are," the former "Baywatch" babe reportedly told her friend Kelly Price. "Getting rid of clothes puts you in your real place in the world and makes you feel tiny, a small part of everything that's around you." Guests will also be encouraged to strip down and get small. "If we're naked and they're not, it will spoil the mood," Anderson said. But clothes will play a symbolic role in the "spiritual" ceremony. Before saying "I do" at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, Pamela and Tommy will bury items of each other's clothing and stones representing lingering first-marriage hurts. They might as well throw Pam's old implants in there, too. - - - - - - - - - - - - Good grief "I have at times felt like a grief mop as an actor. Not a grief mop for someone else's grief but a grief mop in that I have to scoop out and wipe down my own grief to put it on film." -- Nicolas Cage, janitor of his own psyche. - - - - - - - - - - - - Classical rock This one goes out to the one they love: Michael Stipe. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra has just released an album putting its own classical spin on 12 R.E.M. hits including "Losing My Religion," "Drive," "Shiny Happy People" and "Stand." And although the British orchestra has fiddled its highfalutin way through tributes to Madonna, U2, Meatloaf and Oasis, it's Stipe and company whom they hold particularly dear. "They're huge R.E.M. fans," says Lydia Sherwood, spokeswoman for the Music Club, which put out the album. And the orchestra's musical director, Michael Infante, backs her up, saying the band has had as big an influence on classical musicians as Brahms or Beethoven. What's the frequency, Ludwig? - - - - - - - - - - - - Sizzlin' -- yawn! -- scandal "It seems Gore's campaign chairman, a guy by the name of Tony Coelho, is being accused of fiscal mismanagement when he ran the World's Fair in Portugal last year. Isn't it amazing? Even Al Gore's scandals are boring." -- Jay Leno, sticking it to Al on the "Tonight Show" this week. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits The gal's got a new lease on life. Marianne Gingrich, Newt's soon-to-be ex, reportedly turned out looking fresh and fabulous in a strapless gown and clingy stole at a gala fund-raiser in D.C. last week -- and basked in the glow of a whopping standing O. Eat your heart out, Callista Bisek. Elvis may have left the building, but the wacky stories about his life just keep on coming. According to a new book, "On the Throne With the King: The Ultimate Bathroom Elvis Trivia Book," a certain Mr. Pelvis once sprinkled grape Kool-Aid on the floor of a car in order to give it a "new car smell" and used to carry around a knife and fork in his back pocket because he was supremely afraid of touching anyone else's utensils. Except, of course, Priscilla's. The queen of daytime talk as commander in chief? Not gonna happen. Rumors that Oprah Winfrey would make a play for the presidency in Y2K have, it seems, been greatly exaggerated. "Oprah has no intention of running for the office of president," her spokeswoman, Audrey Pass, told the Chicago Sun-Times on Sunday. Apparently, Oprah has no intention of running at all. salon.com | Oct. 6, 1999