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Bye-bye, Billy
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Feb. 15, 2000 | First Lisa Nicole Carson takes a break to recover from a mysterious ailment, which the Star reports was some kinda bad acid trip: "I smoked a joint that was laced with PCP, [which] may have triggered a collapse in my nervous system," the actress allegedly blabbed to the tabloid during her hospital stay. And now Gil Bellows announces that he's ditching the show as heartlessly as Billy skipped out on Ally and Georgia. With recent gigs opposite Vanessa Williams and Sharon Stone under his belt, Bellows apparently has a yen for other women, other roles. Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! "Gil [Billy] will be leaving the firm," Fox publicist Jonathan Hogan confirmed over the weekend. "He will be back as a recurring character next season. We'll wait and see how it plays out." Bygones? - - - - - - - - - - - - The nutty confessor "I don't like any female comedians. A woman doing comedy ... sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world." -- Jerry Lewis, failing to make 'em laugh during a Q&A session Saturday at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. - - - - - - - - - - - - Learning from Tattoo U Lesson of the day: One celebrity's body art is another celebrity's bummer. Britney Spears is proud of her freshly bejeweled navel and her multiply pierced right earlobe. But she's even more tickled about her brand-new tattoo. The small black-winged fairy at the base of her spine "made her feel like a little rebel," her chaperone, Felicia Culotta, gushes in an upcoming issue of USA Weekend. But before Spears says "baby one more time" to the needle, she may want to take a lesson from her beloved Ben Affleck. Fed up with having to be sprayed with makeup every time a script calls for him to strip down -- "It's the equivalent of being sand-blasted," he carps -- Affleck says he's thinking of having his half-dozen tattoos removed. "I was young. It was fun and cool," he tells the Calgary Sun. "I'm sorry now, but it is a good lesson in decisions that have important and long repercussions." - - - - - - - - - - - - Who wants to be a millionaire? "If No. 3 makes $500 million bucks, I imagine we'll back a Brinks truck up to all the actors' doors and say, 'Tell us when to stop shoveling.'" -- Wes Craven, opening the door to "Scream 4" in TV Guide. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Ground control to major dad: David Bowie and Iman are expecting a baby. They say they're "absolutely thrilled" to be looking forward to the patter of little feet in their golden years. But let's hope Bowie has learned a thing or two about the name game since his last paternal go-around. Zowie, the musician's 28-year-old son from a previous marriage now goes by "Duncan." Can you blame the guy? They say crime doesn't pay, but maybe it pays more than being a film critic. New York Observer film guy Rex Reed was arrested Saturday in New York City's Tower Records after he allegedly tried to abscond with three CDs, by Mel Torme, Peggy Lee and Carmen McRae. The critic told the New York Daily News the heist was nothing more than "a lapse in memory" -- albeit an embarrassing one. "The humiliation of having to get into a squad car in handcuffs," he said, "that was something I had only seen in the movies." If only Reed had stolen a kiss ... A Berlin tabloid has reportedly set off a fan frenzy by offering 1,000 marks (around $500) to "the Berlin girl who manages to kiss Leonardo DiCaprio" while he's in town for the Berlin Film Festival. But at least he didn't try to steal the queen's skivvies ... A London newspaper reports that a former British army officer has copped to trying to swipe the queen's undies during a 1992 fire at Windsor Castle. "I was helping to clear out her private apartment when I pulled open a chest of drawers," recalled Capt. Nick Carrell. "I was amazed to see it was filled with the queen's underwear and I put out my hand to take a pair. Suddenly I realized she was standing right behind me, watching my every move ... It was all very embarrassing." The sort of thing he'd only seen in the movies.
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