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Dec. 2, 1999 |
At a recent forum on privacy and the press, Coz held up the ex-Mrs. Willis as a primo example of celebrities whining about their privacy while flinging the doors to their personal lives wide open. "Demi will do anything in her power to create publicity, to create a sexy image for herself," carped Coz. "We don't pick on her, she thrusts herself at us." Just like the Alien Bat Boy! And speaking of celebrity whiners ... Arnold Schwarzenegger is $10,500 richer. German heart specialist and sports medicine expert Dr. Willi Heepe was ordered by a Berlin court to fork over an apology and compensation for pain and suffering resulting from a 1998 interview in which he predicted Arnold's heart might not hold out much longer. Maybe in Germany they call the movie "The Terminal." - - - - - - - - - - - - What's sex got to do with it? "People think that I act sexy but if you speak to my backing dancers, they say I am a prude. I won't allow certain movements and I won't allow too much show. I'd say I am quite old-fashioned." -- Tina Turner on keeping her famous legs crossed, in Britain's TV Times. - - - - - - - - - - - - Posh quashes rumors, embraces golden balls Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! You can call Posh Spice "Posh" or "Victoria" or "Mrs. Beckham," but whatever you do, don't call her skeletal. "I'm not anorexic, I'm not bulimic and I'm not a skeleton," the slender singer told the U.K. Mirror, taking exception to the media's "vicious" treatment of her. Sure, she said, she's lost a little weight, but that's because "my metabolism has changed as I've got older." She's still eating as much as ever. Why, just the other day, she shared, "For breakfast I had two bowls of Sugar Puffs, for lunch two chicken fillets with loads of vegetables. I'm eating some cod and more vegetables now, and when I get home my mum will have a dinner ready. Now does that sound like a woman with a weight problem to you?" No, but it does sound like a woman with a vegetable problem. And if Posh objects to being called Skeletal Spice, she might want to rethink the epithet she's lovingly bestowed on her hubby, U.K. soccer star David Beckham. "I call David golden balls because everyone's being so nice to him now after giving him such a hard time following the World Cup." Oh, sure, that's why. - - - - - - - - - - - - It's a conspiracy "Writers. You give them time, you like them, you sit and talk and hang around. They become like friends. Then they f--- you." -- Director Oliver Stone, on writerly duplicity, in Men's Journal. - - - - - - - - - - - - The boring list Hillary Rodham Clinton would like to thank the academy ... er, well, maybe not. The first lady has been selected as the Most Boring Celebrity of 1999. "She's the perfect example of someone who cannot take a hint to go away," says Boring Institute founder Alan Caruba. Other folks who Caruba says we're "sick of hearing about" include Gov. Jesse Ventura ("Minnesota's revenge on itself and the rest of us"), Tina Brown ("Enough Talk!"), Al Gore and Bill Bradley, Steve Forbes and the U.S. women's soccer team ("It will never be as popular as nude mud wrestling"). - - - - - - - - - - - - You mean he's not into younger women either? "I'm not my persona. I don't sit at home drinking liquor with writer's block. I don't have a bad relationship with my sister. I didn't kidnap my kid. I didn't grow up in Coney Island, and my father did not work bumper cars. But people think it's true." -- Woody Allen, clearing up a few common misconceptions, in USA Today.
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