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Dec. 14, 1999 |
Then so might this. According to a year-end survey conducted by StarStock.com, people would pick Donald Trump above all other celebrities to be their child's godparent, would trust Dr. Carter of "ER" to be their operating-room physician and would put their faith in Oprah Winfrey as president. They'd also rather have Jerry Springer than Dr. Ruth give their kids the first-time sex talk. Suggested birds-and-bees approach for the former mayor of Cincinnati: "Well, Billy, sex is something a man and a woman who love each other very much do together ... but if you're an elected official, it's best not to pay by check." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The fierce face of the new year "I am going to stockpile gold bricks. And then I'm going to sit in my apartment on top of the pile of bricks, with lots of bottled water and my rifle, shouting 'get off my land' at anyone who steps off the elevator." -- Janeane Garofalo on her Y2K preparations, in Glamour. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Now is the time in the 21st century when we dance At last, something to look forward to in the new millennium: a "Sprockets" dance craze. Dance historian Carol Teten, who's just produced a new video called "Dances of the Ragtime Era: 1910-1920," predicts that 'round about 2010, we'll all be jerking and twitching like Mike Myers' Dieter, the avant-garde German talk-show host. Teten describes the dance of the future as "very androgynous" with "very sharp, aggressive movements -- almost like karate." Some moves, she forecasts, will "verge on violence in the way that they use the body and demand that the body hit the space." She recommends that people start practicing their narcissistic jabs and jerks now "to be on the forefront of the new millennium and its culture." I'm game -- just so long as no monkey-touching is involved. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Parental pussy "My parents are very innocent. For years, we had a cat named Pussy. And they'd always go out into the backyard calling, 'Pussy, Pussy.' We only told them recently that 'Pussy' had another meaning." -- British actress Emily Watson on parents saying the darnedest things, in Mademoiselle. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Eat your heart out, Melanie Griffith Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! Puff Daddy was there. So were Simon Le Bon (who autographed one dancer's stomach), Chris Rock, Tobey Maguire, Lisa Ling of "The View," Pepa (sans Salt), both New York Yankee Chuck Knoblauch and New York Met Mike Piazza (who steered clear of each other) and a host of other celebs. But one person who it turns out was not at Maxim magazine's "Sub-Zero" winter bash last Thursday night: Antonio Banderas. That may come as a surprise to the partygoers who took a Banderas look-alike for the real deal. The dark, handsome doppelgänger arrived at the celebrity entrance of New York's Altman Building with an entourage, posed for pictures with Maxim's unsuspecting editors and mingled with the masses. "He fooled everyone, including Foxy Brown," said one attendee. "When she was introduced to him, she was all nervous and excited." A keen-eyed photographer sensed something slightly amiss, however, and Friday, when the Maxim people called to confirm that Banderas had attended, they were told that the actor had been out of town. And the rest of the revelers were out to lunch? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The temper-tantrum King "I wrote it and the critics hated it. Tough titty, said the kitty." -- Author Stephen King's reply to critics' cool reviews of his 1989 film adaptation of "Pet Sematary," in Entertainment Weekly. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Does President Clinton have celluloid dreams? The New Yorker magazine is airing rumors that Clinton may take over for Jack Valenti as head of the Motion Picture Association of America when his term is up. The White House people have denied the rumors, but Valenti points out one fringe benefit that might appeal to the prez: "If you're in the insurance business or run the New York Stock Exchange, you're not around beautiful women every day." And you know how those Hollywood moguls like their cigars. No more diva fits for Naomi Campbell. The U.K.'s News of the World reports that the supermodel checked herself into an Arizona clinic to learn to cope with her temper. According to the tabloid, Campbell was worried it was getting in the way of her relationship with Italian millionaire Flavio Briatore. Maybe Naomi could pass on a few tips to Stephen King.
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