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Feb. 5, 2000 |
However, on Tuesday, though the focus was still on boobs and measurements, the actual topic was the presidential tailor. And on Wednesday we traveled south -- to the fascinating, if not quite pleasant, "groins" problem at Michael Douglas' Web site. Thursday, for reasons beyond my control, the subject was once again breasts, though not real ones and not human ones. Come Friday, if mammary serves, the topic changed entirely as, in my continuing effort to keep you abreast of the latest goings-on between the pols and the media, we looked at John McCain, the press and a crazy little thing called love. Awwww ... Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Monday: "Oo! Wah dat? Naked Philippine actress" First they bust Barney under the covers with a hot topless Norwegian babe, and now it turns out the Teletubbies have a new breast friend. During a broadcast earlier this month on the GMA Network, a Philippine TV station, a still photo of a half-naked actress filled the screen for eight seconds after a station employee accidentally pressed the wrong button on a panel. And Jerry Falwell thought Tinky Winky was racy ... Read the entire Nothing Personal Column for Monday, Jan. 31. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Tuesday: "Power Suits, Inc." Where do U.S. presidents and vice presidents turn when they have a bunchy crotch, a bursting seam or -- heaven forfend -- a zipper problem? To Saul Obarzanek, tailor to Washington's political stars. "I've helped everybody, everybody," says Obarzanek, who's worked at Britches of Georgetown for the last 32 years. "Well, most of them." He was never in the Nixon or Reagan White House, and President Bush only met with him once before deeming his styles "too modern." But he has Ford's, Carter's, Clinton's and Gore's measurements down cold (42L, 43L, 44L and 44L, respectively). Read the entire Nothing Personal Column for Tuesday, Feb. 1. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Wednesday: "Oops.com" Sure hope Michael Douglas' wedding to Catherine Zeta Jones, the birth of their baby and the little missus-to-be's rumored conversion to Judaism go a little more smoothly than the launch of the actor/producer's ambitious new Web site. 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. Then, he says, "Something at the site went terribly wrong." Every e-mail reply to an invitation to a special chat with Douglas was copied 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." Read the entire Nothing Personal Column for Wednesday, Feb. 2. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Thursday: "Man's breast friend" One has to wonder if "Tonight Show" musical director Kevin Eubanks couldn't have found something a little more worthy to stamp out than "unnecessary pet breast implants." Eubanks has teamed up with John Sprengelmeyer and Rich Davis, the wacky fellows behind the online comic "Captain RibMan," to form the tongue-in-cheek "Unnecessary Implant Foundation," which aims to "bust vets for making busty pets" and "fight to keep 'ddalmations' and 'ddobermans' out of the dictionary." Davis tells me he and Sprengelmeyer hatched the faux foundation idea after they took a business trip to Beverly Hills. "Everywhere! Dogs with brassieres -- who wouldn't notice?" he says. Read the entire Nothing Personal Column for Thursday, Feb. 3. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Friday: "Reporters who love too much" The press doesn't just love John McCain -- it thinks he's "dreamy." 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." 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?" Read the entire Nothing Personal Column for Friday, Feb. 4.
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