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Feb. 4, 2000 |
So joked Time magazine's Matt Cooper, ribbing his media colleagues for their adulatory coverage of the Arizona senator at the Washington Press Club Foundation's annual Congressional Dinner Wednesday night. Before introducing speakers including Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Cooper got big laughs from the 1,000 tuxedoed and sequined media and political types in attendance by poking fun at them with his "top 10 ways you can tell the press loves Sen. McCain." Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! For instance, Cooper nudged, it's a clear tip-off when the first question at a McCain press conference is, "Sen. McCain, how does it feel to be the only person in Washington who tells the truth." And, he jabbed, you might get a pretty good inkling when you overhear someone tell McCain, "If you think I'd be more useful to you on the outside, Sen. McCain, I'll stay at the Los Angeles Times," or when ABC "saves" Sam and Cokie with "This Week With John McCain." But Cooper's No. 1 way you can tell the press is the senator's love slave? "Two words: Keating Four." Ouch. - - - - - - - - - - - - Fame to claim "I hate to see a young man get ahead on the basis of a famous family name." -- Sen. Edward Kennedy on his one problem with George W. Bush. - - - - - - - - - - - - Monster in a bottle? It's balding gray ... er ... Spalding Gray who told intrepid tipster Baird Jones that, while he has "considered using some of the baldness remedies you hear about all the time," he will never, ever dye his hair. "It really has to do with the words. I am a Gray who is very afraid of dyeing." Ba-dum-bump. The punning monologist explained at the premiere party for VH1's upcoming "The Two of Us" that "it's like a hidden message in the words telling me to avoid death." Furthermore, he seems to fear chemicals as much as homonyms. "Somehow I keep imagining I would get some fatal allergic reaction and have a heart attack," he says. "I'm very fatalistic about words." - - - - - - - - - - - - They're just like you -- Capeesh? "The Soprano family is like Everyman's family -- just take the mob away." -- Tony Sirico, who plays henchman Paulie Walnuts on "The Sopranos," in the upcoming issue of USA Weekend. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Are "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and "The Rock" quarterback material? The World Wrestling Federation is taking a flying mare into a whole new sport: football. WWF Entertainment chairman Vince McMahon announced plans to create a brand new pro football league, the XFL, slated to kick off in February 2001. Hut, hut -- hey, watch the feather boa, pal ... Coincidence? The very same week supermodel Naomi Campbell pleaded guilty in a Canadian court to grabbing a former assistant by the throat and beating her on the head with a telephone, she announced she would spend less time strutting her stuff on the catwalk. "I find it really stressful doing 16 shows and then having to do fittings and dress rehearsals," she told reporters. "I just want to chill out a bit more." Sounds like a chill pill is just what the doctor -- not to mention the judge -- ordered. Regis Philbin, civil rights crusader? "Why is it that nearly all our contestants are white men?" Philbin asked at the beginning of one of this week's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire." He and his producers are appealing to "everyone out there who has thought about being on the show who isn't a white male" to "dial that 800 number, and let's get into the game." And that's his final answer. Madonna's dance remake of Don McLean's '70s classic "American Pie," featuring Rupert Everett on backup vocals, is due out next week. So what does McLean think of it? "I dunno," Madonna told the Edmonton Sun. "I hope I haven't horrified him." Try to keep this one down: California singer-songwriter Laurie Daily has just released a blues CD dedicated to eating disorders. "Sweeter Than Chocolate" features bulimia-based lyrics such as "Are you willing to confess/What you ingest/To keep the thighs that go with that shape/And keep your head in the toilet/Trying not to spoil it." You know, suddenly I don't feel so good ...
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