To print this page, select "Print" from the File menu of your browser salon.com > People Jan. 25, 2000 URL: http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/2000/01/25/np0126 Careless Talk costs Liz Marianne Faithfull puts an end to vicious ancient rumors, starts new ones; Elizabeth Hurley makes a new friend at the Talk magazine Golden Globes party; and John Galliano triumphs with offensive chic! - - - - - - - - - - - - By Amy Reiter In the interest of getting a fresh start in the new millennium, Marianne Faithfull wants to clear up a few long-since-forgotten rumors: 1) She did not give Jim Morrison the fix that did him in. 2) The romantic interlude with a Mars bar that was rumored to have taken place at Keith Richards' country home, Redlands, is pure fiction. In fact, she tells the London Times, "I don't like Mars bars." And while it's true that the rock 'n' roll icon -- who claims that "nearly all the songs that were written in the '60s were written about me" -- is quite tight with a whole batch of young supermodels, she's not interested in bedding them. Or in being their mother. "They're just friends of mine," she says of Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. "We do our nails together and gossip a lot." She does, however, like to look at them. "I put a high value [on beauty]. I always did," she admits in the Times. "What I really like about Kate and Naomi is that I really look at them and I don't want anything from them. I don't want to take their picture; I don't want to have sex with them." So even though she allows that Campbell is "not the most tightly packed sandwich in the picnic box," she nevertheless finds her "enchanting. I could look at Naomi for 50 years and not get bored." Ah, the unfathomable depths of celebrity friendship ... - - - - - - - - - - - - And the award for most repulsive simile goes to ... "Film is a bit like 'Alien': It lives inside of you and then explodes out, leaving you lying on the floor covered in blood, exhausted. Theater is more social, more romantic." -- "American Beauty" director Sam Mendes, graphically expressing his love of theater at the Golden Globe Awards. - - - - - - - - - - - - When good parties turn bad At last, an answer to the age-old question: "What happens when Tina Brown throws a party and the security guys forget to show?" Things reportedly got a little out of hand at L.A.'s Mondrian Hotel Sunday evening at a star-studded Talk magazine party before the Golden Globes. Security just wasn't as tight as these A-listers are used to, leaving revelers like Claudia Schiffer, Kevin Spacey and Portia Di Rossi trying to escape the clutches of the rambunctious masses. According to the British tabloids, Elizabeth Hurley got the worst of it. When a drunken gaper tried to grope her, she doused him with wine and -- as Hugh Grant hollered on his cell phone for help -- spat out, "You're simply disgusting. Go away." - - - - - - - - - - - - Anyone ... anyone? "Why should they be free to put my face on someone's naked body and sell it?" -- Sarah Michelle Gellar (aka Buffy), asking politicians to draft greater controls over faux celebrity pornography on the Web. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Poor Babs -- her dogs are barkin'. After snagging the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes Sunday night, Barbra Streisand confirmed that she's fixing to hang up her stage mike. Why? "I just don't like it," said the notoriously stage-shy singer. "I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up onstage and my feet hurt." More heartbreaking news: Variety reports that the "Party of Five" is over -- and that it's time to call it a day for "Beverly Hills, 90210," too. You can blame puny ratings, high production costs and the defection of key cast members (Neve Campbell from "Party of Five" and Tori Spelling and Brian Austin Green from "90210") for the shows' demise. "There's nothing official, but there are negotiations going on and the return of the shows looks unlikely," confirmed one Fox publicist. It's a sad, sad day at the Peach Pit ... Homeless fashion, easy? The tattered duds introduced by newly crowned arbiter of bad taste John Galliano for Christian Dior in Paris last week may look like something you can whip up at home (rip a sleeve, sling on an empty whisky bottle and go), but it took a team of 22 primpers and teasers more than three hours to get the models in appropriately tatty form to make it down the catwalk. The London Telegraph reported, "Jagged edges had to be 'pinked' with care, chiffon hems torn with delicacy and collars and sleeves set just so." salon.com | Jan. 25, 2000   - - - - - - - - - - - - About the writer Amy Reiter is a staff writer for Salon People. For more columns by Amy Reiter, visit her column archive.