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Madonna saves Gwyneth from evil drug doom!
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Jan. 5, 2000 |
In fact, the lithe actress says she owes her smoke-free lifestyle to Ms. Ray of Light. After Gwynnie's dad, "St. Elsewhere" director Bruce Paltrow, caught her puffing away at age 12, she tells Entertainment Weekly Online, he called in a few lung-saving favors. "Leo Penn, Sean Penn's father, was directing some episodes of 'St. Elsewhere' for my father," explains Paltrow. "So he asked Leo Penn to ask Sean Penn to ask Madonna if she would write me a letter saying that she didn't smoke. So I have this letter from Madonna saying, 'Don't smoke, I don't smoke.'" Now Gwyneth doesn't either -- and her lungs are like a virgin. - - - - - - - - - - - - Good grief, Charlie Brown "All of a sudden I realize, he never got a chance to kick the football. What a dirty trick!" -- "Peanuts" man Charles Schulz on the injustice of leaving Charlie Brown in the lurch. - - - - - - - - - - - - Mrs. Beatty's pickles and ice cream Shall we chalk it up to hormones? No sooner has very pregnant Annette Bening finished dissing the Clintons in Vanity Fair -- "You feel like there's prevaricating, there's lying. You just don't trust them" -- than she's announced that she'll refrain from acting for the next year and a half. "I was just overacted," Bening tells More magazine of her decision to take a break. "If I had to come up with one more emotional moment, I was going to kill myself." At least now that Warren's nixed a presidential run she won't have to worry about acting like a first lady ... Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! - - - - - - - - - - - - Now she's lost all credibility! "I hope that people don't see it as a double standard." -- Monica Lewinsky on her decision to be a spokesmodel for Jenny Craig while proclaiming her reluctance to remain in the public spotlight, on "Larry King Live." - - - - - - - - - - - - Sarah's kiss is not on Selma's list Kissing lessons from Sarah Michelle Gellar, anyone? If Selma Blair's experience during the lesbian kiss scene in last year's "Cruel Intentions" is any indication, things might get a little rough. "I can't say that in my real life I'm comfortable with that much tongue," Blair confides in Details, "but [Gellar's] instructions were, 'Now put your tongue in my mouth and massage my tongue with your tongue!'" So that's how it's done. - - - - - - - - - - - - Stayin' alive ... with a vengeance "I look at people like John Travolta who had a taste of superstardom, lost it for a while and then came back. There's a sense of desperation in the amount of work he does." -- Actor Ethan Hawke on why he'd rather take it "slow and steady," in the Calgary Sun. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Am I the only one who finds a cartoon version of Kiss redundant? Q online reports that the quintessential '70s glam metal band -- Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley and friends -- are lending their voices and likenesses to a 3-D animated series on the Web, in which their characters go on an intergalactic adventure. I always suspected they were from another planet ... Talk about nailed to his perch. Monty Python star Graham Chapman may have been dead for more than a decade, but that didn't stop him from blasting off into space at the turn of the millennium. Chapman's partner David Sherlock explained that he'd delayed disposing of his lover's ashes according to his wishes because he "simply hadn't gotten round to it before." Maybe Scary Spice has something of a poetic soul after all. Where has she fled to after ditching out on her troubled marriage to dancer Jimmy Gulzar? The Thai resort of ... Phuket.
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