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Jan. 26, 2000 |
In an upcoming interview in Rolling Stone, the dizzy diva divulges that her recent body image problems and obsessive diet regime are all Joan Rivers' fault. According to writer Mim Udovitch, Carey claims she developed a full-fledged eating disorder after Rivers said she looked fat at last year's Academy Awards. The singer apparently showed a little more spine during a recent trip to a Las Vegas restaurant, when a fan asked her to sing "Happy Birthday" to her boyfriend. Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! "She was going, 'I'll give you $100 if you sing, I'll give you $100,'" Carey tells Udovitch. "And I said, 'No, it's OK, you don't have to.' And she's going into her bag and pulling out money, and I was saying, 'No, it's OK! Keep the $100, it's not a problem.' ... I think it's pretty funny, after winning Artist of the Decade, to be offered $100 to sing 'Happy Birthday.'" Wonder what she charges for "Auld Lang Syne" ... - - - - - - - - - - - - A subtle distinction "I learned that I'm exactly like a gay woman, except I don't have sex with women." -- Sharon Stone on what she learned from playing Ellen DeGeneres' lover in the cable flick "If These Walls Could Talk 2." - - - - - - - - - - - - Hidin' his candy ... for posterity Is Marilyn Manson preserving his pickled mojo for the benefit of future generations? Q Online reports, somewhat skeptically, that the goth guru has told U.K. humor rag the Daily Sport he's boning up for the future as follows: "I will put my foreskin in the time capsule because my parents managed to save it from my circumcision. In that way, if anyone wanted to clone me, they wouldn't have any problem." How thoughtful. For now, however, the flimsy flap of skin "lies like a crusty Lifesaver in a plastic jar," says Manson. "I assume that they keep the jar next to my late grandmother's dentures." And you thought he was offensive before ... - - - - - - - - - - - - Not so far after all "We were foolish and young and out of our minds. That's one of the things that is different now -- we are older and out of our minds." -- Graham Nash, revealing that the reunited members of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young are still crazy after all these years, on Jam! Showbiz. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Pat Boone's desperate to do it Doggy style. The squeaky-clean '50s crooner says he's itching to do a rap duet with Snoop Doggy Dogg after meeting him during a taping for VH1's "The List." Boone has proposed that the two collaborate on the rap song "Back Bone," about standing up for your beliefs. Me, I'm holding out for the sequel, "Backpedal," about explaining to your fans why you've suddenly lost your marbles. Dave Eggers' memoir with footnotes, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," will start shipping to stores any day now. But don't expect to see him flogging it on "Oprah." "I don't think the average 'Angela's Ashes' reader will take to this," the McSweeney's editor predicts in a New York magazine interview. "And the word 'motherfucker' appears like 60 or 70 times." But who's counting? The wait to hear the judge yell, "Bob Barker, come on down!" just got a little longer. A libel suit filed by the "Price Is Right" host against Holly Hallstrom -- a former model on the game show, who told the press she was fired for getting too fat -- has been postponed so she can find a new lawyer. Hallstrom and her old lawyer had a "difference of opinion." He wanted her to bid $1. Will Harry Potter get the E.T. treatment? Good luck getting a straight answer out of Steven Spielberg. Speaking about his next project at the Directors' Guild of America nominations, Spielberg would say only that he was "interested" in bringing J.K. Rowling's books to the big screen. "Tell me what you'd like me to direct," he invited reporters. "I'm open to suggestions." Hollywood muggles can be so coy. Like her new best friend David Letterman, Hillary Rodham Clinton is using her mother to get her message across. According to the Drudge Report, the first lady and her buddy Harry Thomason are producing a series of "Hillary 2000" senatorial campaign ads, set to air in February, featuring the Hillary's mom. Who wants to host "Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire"? Marla Maples, apparently. Star magazine reports that Donald Trump's ex is in negotiations with Fox about fronting the show, in which 50 women compete to marry a deep-pocketed fellow. Anna Nicole Smith must have been busy.
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