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I am diva, hear me mewl
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Oct. 11, 1999 |
Perhaps a little time on the couch would help the pop music princess come to terms with her power issues ("In this world, I call the shots, and I think I know best"); resentment toward her ex, record exec Tommy Mottola ("I'd had the desire to go into acting for a long time, but my relationship didn't allow me to explore that side of things"); and Peter Pan complex ("I still need to go out and have fun. I need to hang out with my girlfriends, blast music in a car and go to a club if I want"). And then there's that diva thing: "The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is," she tells Glamour. "But, you know, the way people are using the word these days, anybody who has one record is suddenly a diva. I mean, give me a break ... You have to earn that title." Mmm-hmm. Well, Mariah, our time's up for today ... - - - - - - - - - - - - Someone's bucking for a book club endorsement "Oprah, I love Oprah. Oprah would always be my first choice ... If she'd do it, she'd be fantastic. I mean, she's popular, she's brilliant, she's a wonderful woman." -- Donald Trump on who he'd most like to be his running mate, on "Larry King Live." - - - - - - - - - - - - Pop go the presidents Well, it ain't gonna make Casey Kasem's countdown, but it may help the world. Jubilee 2000, which aims to cancel the debts of Third World countries by the stroke of Y2K, has launched an e-mail campaign featuring a cartoon "superpower pop group." In the downloadable animation, Bill Clinton blows sax, Tony Blair strums guitar (back in the '60s, the U.K. PM played for a pop band called Ugly Rumours, which may have foreshadowed his career in politics), Germany's Gerhard Schroeder plays stand-up bass, Japan's Keizo Obuchi pings along on the triangle and Boris Yeltsin, sporting a backward baseball cap, mans the mixing boards. Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! "The Funky Debt Beat" features lines like "Hey, boys and girls, what's it gonna be? We're gonna eliminate world poverty." Says Jubilee 2000 supporter Bono, "This is what we want from our politicians ... vision, balls and an ear to the ground." But not an ear for music. Really, Bono, what more in the name of love? - - - - - - - - - - - - One mystery solved ... "I think if left to his own devices, he might have ended up hosting 'Unsolved Mysteries' on TV or something." -- Ron Reagan, son of Ronald and Nancy, explaining on "60 Minutes" that his mother "kept pushing and kept pushing and kept pushing" his father into the presidency. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Does Michael Flatley know about this? In Rob Reiner's upcoming "The Story of Us," action man Bruce Willis does something that's been termed, somewhat redundantly, "a funny 'Riverdance' imitation." The impromptu Irish step dance was Willis' brainchild; "Don't you think Ben's the kind of guy who would 'Riverdance' at an inappropriate moment?" he reportedly asked one of the film's writers. Guess he was sick of playing armed men. Split: King of pop Michael Jackson from his wife of three years, Debbie Rowe Jackson. Denied: Milton Berle's defamation lawsuit against Lambda's Out!, for showing him in drag and implying that he's a "queen." Coming your way: James "The Cad" Hewitt's blab-all book about his affair with the late Princess Diana, "Love and War." Is anyone else royally underwhelmed? Newt's cutie, Callista Bisek, has been ordered to testify in the Gingrich divorce case after all, despite her contention that her constitutional right to privacy would be violated by allowing Mrs. Newt "to rummage through every aspect" of her personal life. (Not unlike what her adulterous beau and his buddies did to "that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.") The first question I think Marianne's lawyers should ask Bisek: "What on earth are you thinking, getting involved with that man, Mr. Gingrich?" Hold it right there. Variety reports that Farrah Fawcett has signed on to appear on an episode of "Ally McBeal." Miss Flippy Hair will play a magazine editor who gets fired and sues for sexual harassment. Oh, Charlie ... Whatever happened to "always look on the bright side of life"? Apparently peeved that his former colleagues in comedy -- John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones -- all backed out of the stage show he'd organized in honor of the 30th anniversary of Monty Python's Flying Circus, Eric Idle skipped a recent charity screening of "Life of Brian" attended by the rest of the comedy group. "He doesn't want to play with us at the moment," Jones told the BBC. Here's hoping the group's relationship isn't dead, just resting.
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