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Feb. 2, 2000 |
Fans who signed the site's guest book for a special sneak preview Monday apparently got a little more than they'd bargained for. "I started getting a stream of supposedly personalized e-mails from the actor himself," reports one hapless fellow whose friend signed him up. Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! Then, he says, "something at the site went terribly wrong." Every e-mail reply to an invitation to a special chat with Douglas was cc'ed to everyone on the mass-distribution list. In box overload! Unsuspecting recipients found themselves treated to responses ranging from the mundane -- "We'll be there with bells on!" -- to the bizarre -- "My groins are not very good, but I am trying to improve it. I nevertheless hope to could greet you." And after a landslide of automatically mass-distributed outraged objections -- "Fire the e-mail guys!" -- Douglas' people finally stepped in with a little spin control. "We would like to apologize for any inconvenience that you may have experienced in regards to receiving additional unsolicited e-mails from Michael Douglas' Web site," mewled Mike's minions. "It was an unfortunate accident so please do not let it reflect on Michael Douglas or his organization. Steps have been taken to insure that it does not happen again." Great. Now how are we ever going to find out if that guy's "groins" improve. - - - - - - - - - - - - Grab your Q-tips "It's amazing what you can do with ear wax now, isn't it?" -- British actress Jane Horrocks (aka "Little Voice") at the unveiling of her absolutely fabulous waxy likeness at Madame Tussaud's in London. - - - - - - - - - - - - The pen is mightier than the pout You know that saying about teaching a man to fish? UGO.com has clearly taken it to heart. And down-on-his-luck former child star Gary Coleman is the happy beneficiary. The Web site, which recently held an oddball online auction for Coleman, has given the destitute, diminutive "Diff'rent Strokes" star a job as a weekly columnist and correspondent "reporting from major entertainment events and conducting interviews with relevant figures." "I absolutely hated the press. Now I'm a part of it," says Coleman of his new gig. "They used to write about me -- now I write about other people. In a cosmic kind of way, I've come full circle." Am I the only one hoping he'll begin every column with "What you talkin' 'bout, Willis?" - - - - - - - - - - - - And another king ... "The thing is, I've become a bit like Elvis. There are sightings all over the place." -- Jordan's King Abdullah II, on his knack for disguises, in the upcoming New York Times Magazine. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Question to ponder: Would 'N Sync by any other name still sound as cloying? Two New Jersey recording execs, Richard Ford and Jason Summers, claim they hold the trademark to the name 'N Sync Inc., and have decided they no longer want to license it to the boy band who made it famous. "They are going to be called the Bobbsey Twins or whatever," Ford told the press, "but they are not going to be 'N Sync." Sounds like the boys are 'N trouble ... An offer they couldn't refuse? Variety reports that Don Corleones Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro may unite on screen for the first time in Frank Oz's "The Score," the story of a retired thief who gets sucked back into the game by an ambitious young upstart. Just when they thought they were out, they pull them back in. Just what you've been waiting for! Jewel has announced on her official Web site that she's planning to take time off from the music biz to pen another book of poetry, to be published by Harper Collins. "Chasing Down the Dawn: Life Stories by Jewel" will also include journal entries, short stories and sketches -- and is bound to have you chasing down the aspirin with vodka. Las Vegas entertainment mainstays Siegfried & Roy, whose names are as synonymous with cheese as they are with tigers, have just been named Magicians of the Century by the folks who bestow the Merlin Awards. Who's gonna break the news to David Copperfield? - - - - - - - - - - - - A new task for Barbara Earlier this week, I challenged Barbara Walters to goad Monica Lewinsky into saying something more outrageous than "I have learned not to put things in my mouth that are bad for me" when she interviews her yet again later this month. But since careful transcript perusal reveals that Lewinsky never actually said such a thing on "Larry King Live" (it's an urban myth), Walter's new challenge -- as I see it -- is to get her to say it now. "How do you feew about aw those wumows fwoating awound about you on the Web?"
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