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Feb. 19, 2000 | A week that began with Sarah Michelle Gellar protesting the display of Cameron Diaz's "butt crack" and ended in a conversation with TV's multimillionaire groom's psychiatrist couldn't have been all bad. But I gotta wonder: Is this what the gods had in mind when that first pollywog sauntered out of the primordial ooze? Anyway, there were some redeeming moments toward midweek as we heard about Gwyneth's desire for an onscreen lover and Lisa Nicole Carson's probs with real, real wacky tabacky. And then there was the scandalous happening at the Senate press gallery restroom, but I'll let you find out about that by reading on ...

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Celebrities' compulsion to reveal the most intimate details of their sex lives and to comment on their own body parts has gone too far! So proclaims Sarah Michelle Gellar, in the upcoming issue of TV Guide.

"I do not want to see Cameron Diaz's butt crack on the cover of Vanity Fair," harrumphs the vampire slayer.

And she's not too impressed with "Felicity" star Keri Russell for revealing the details of how she lost her virginity in a recent Jane magazine interview. "I want to know about their jobs and their hobbies," Gellar says of her fellow actresses, "but I'm not interested in when or how they lost their virginity."

Read the entire Nothing Personal Column for Monday, Feb. 14.

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Tuesday: "Bye-bye Billy"

Is all that on-camera craziness rubbing off on the "Ally McBeal" actors or what? 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.

Read the entire Nothing Personal Column for Tuesday, Feb. 15.

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Wednesday: "The passionate Ms. Paltrow"

Gwyneth Paltrow has been whining to the international press about the loneliness of boyfriend-free celebrityhood a lot lately, but it looks like she'll soon have someone to lock lips with. A female someone, that is ...

The blond-again actress is set to play a web-footed Venetian transvestite who falls in love with a woman in a film adaptation of Jeanette Winterson's "The Passion." And the actress she'd most like to make love to onscreen? Juliette Binoche.

Read the entire Nothing Personal Column for Wednesday, Feb. 16.

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Thursday: "Courtesy flush, please! "

An interesting tidbit from the Senate press gallery has been leaked my way. Due to press gallery renovations, a source tells me, the men's bathroom has been made coed: A big computer-printed sign blaring "UNISEX RESTROOM" graces the door, and two out of the bathroom's four stalls are reserved for women.

"'Ally McBeal,' sadly, is the reference on everyone's lips," reports my source. And cheap jokes about "stream of consciousness writing" and "below the Beltway" are swirling around as well.

Read the entire Nothing Personal Column for Thursday, Feb. 17.

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Friday: "Analyze this multimillionaire"

I've spent the better part of the last hour chatting with a shrink -- and I feel more depressed than ever. Dr. Mark Goulston, the psychiatrist hired by the producers of "Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire?" to coach the moneyed groom, has done his best to assure me that there's hope for Rick Rockwell and Darva Conger, who married within seconds of meeting one another on prime-time TV.

"I'm giving it a 50-50 chance," Goulston, who regularly doles out relationship advice on Lifescape.com, chirps optimistically. "It could last forever or it could end today. It all depends on their mindset."

Read the entire Nothing Personal Column for Friday, Feb. 18.
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