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Nov. 23, 1999 |
The proprietor of HowardSternDivorce.com, a Web site that excerpts and links to media coverage of Stern's separation from his wife, Alison, says Stern's trying to muzzle him. The site's mastermind, who calls himself "Bad Boy," received a letter from Stern's attorneys at Schweitzer, Cornman, Gross & Bondell LLP on Friday, demanding that he stop publishing the site and immediately transfer its domain name to their client. While Stern's people are notorious for going after misuse of their client's name, Bad Boy insists his site provides "legitimate" and "journalistic" coverage of what he considers to be a "hot story" and notes in its prominent disclaimer that it is "in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Howard Stern." He also points out that Stern's lawyers' objections to links to what they term "pornographic" sites -- Bad Boy's SexReporter.com and TrueDirtyStories.com among them -- is "bizarrely ironic" coming from Howard Stern "of all people." After all, he says, this is a guy "who has porno pick of the month and has porno stars on his show every day." Bad Boy's still deciding whether he'll fight to keep the HowardSternDivorce.com URL, especially since traffic to the site is dying down. But he's so sure he'd win if he did that he's already gone ahead and registered SeinfeldDivorce.com. Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! "As soon as I heard he was engaged," he says, "I knew it was only a matter of time before that domain name would be useful." - - - - - - - - - - - - He gave enough ... "It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough." -- A kernel of wisdom from gay icon Quentin Crisp, who died Sunday at age 90. - - - - - - - - - - - - The unreported Drudge Did Fox News let the viewers decide whether or not Matt Drudge should keep his TV job? Shortly before its decision to release Drudge from his contract, Fox News slipped a few questions about the online/TV gossip into its regular political polling. One pollee tells me he was asked how favorable he found Drudge and whether he sympathized with Fox News' or Drudge's position in the scuffle over showing a photo of a fetus on the air. But when the results of the poll were released, the Drudge results were strangely absent. A Fox News spokesman confirmed that the network asked about Drudge in a recent political poll, but declined to share the results or say how they might be used. "From time to time, we include questions about talent," said Fox's Rob Zimmerman. "How do you feel about this person? Do you like this person?" These questions, he explained are "not designed to be released to the press. They're more for internal research than for any public release." Perhaps Matt himself would like to follow up? - - - - - - - - - - - - Getting deep with Johnny "There are times when you say, I don't want to be Johnny Depp today. I want to be Johnny ... Depth! ... I don't want to be Johnny Depp, you know, some kind of product." -- Johnny Depp, announcing to the world that he is "not a toy," on BigStar.com. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Talk about an odd couple. Jack Klugman is embroiled in a nasty palimony suit. The actor's ex-girlfriend, Barbara Neugass, says he promised to take care of her for the rest of her life and then treated her "like a racehorse" and put her "out to pasture." Klugman denies it. Really, Oscar, what would Felix say? The guy really does know how to hustle. The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Larry Flynt is planning to build another Hustler "mega-store" (after the success of his West Hollywood, Calif., store) on a one-acre commercial site in Monroe, Ohio. Flynt foes are itching for a new fight over the store, but the porn publisher's brother Jimmy says it will be an "upscale boutique ... that is not offensive to anybody." Just like the magazine! Here's a charity I know you'll all want to dig deep for in this season of giving: The Chris Farley Foundation, designed to promote awareness of drug and alcohol abuse. A dozen performers, including Tom Arnold and Bob Saget, kicked off the public appeal on Friday with a big show in Madison, Wis., Farley's hometown. And you thought Farley'd done enough to make us all aware of drug and alcohol abuse.
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