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- - - - - - - - - - - - Sharon Stone started it. The recent rash of celebrity I'm-not-gay-but-I-wish-I-were confessions began when Stone told reporters that working on HBO's "If These Walls Could Talk 2" with Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche taught her that she's "exactly like a gay woman except I don't have sex with women." Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! Now Camryn Manheim has piped up with a similar admission. "I really wanted to be a lesbian," Manheim told Australia's New Weekly magazine. "I tried to be a lesbian. I would have made a great fucking lesbian. But no, I had to be a heterosexual, which is no fucking picnic." Even Sean Connery's getting in touch with his female side. The retired James Bond recently told the London Times that he finds a certain port-wine-stained former Soviet leader nothing short of irresistible -- a far better choice for "sexiest man on the planet" than he. "I can't answer for women but I find Mikhail Gorbachev very attractive as a man's man," Connery shared. "He has an extraordinary combination of intelligence, baldness and serenity. Almost Buddha-like." Whoa, Sean, way to leave us all shaken, not stirred ... - - - - - - - - - - - - V. bad casting? "The only good thing, I suppose, is it isn't Meg Ryan." -- London Mail columnist Suzanne Moore on Renée Zellweger being cast as the lead in the movie adaptation of "Bridget Jones' Diary." - - - - - - - - - - - - Sensitive new-age actors Further evidence that even macho actors have their sensitive sides: Harrison Ford is very shy. He viewed his recent speech before the American Film Institute, which honored him with a lifetime achievement award, as "a mixed bag of terror and anxiety" because he's deathly afraid of public speaking. "Even when I'm acting as a character in a film and I have to make a speech, I get that same nervousness," he told the Associated Press last week. "It's very weird. I think that if I had to go on the live stage again, I would have [that feeling]. I prefer the comfort of having some control of the environment that one has on a film set." And you thought being afraid of snakes was bad ... - - - - - - - - - - - - The universality of Ally "This might be a big universal secret, but the truth is that a lot of men feel exactly the same way as Ally McBeal. And listen: some of us are even more emotionally neurotic." -- "Ally McBeal" creator David E. Kelley on the human need for love in the London Telegraph. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits No seat for a whistle blower? According to the Hollywood Reporter, Jeffrey Wigand, the former tobacco company exec whose story inspired "The Insider," has not been invited to the Oscars. Never mind that the film has been nominated for no less than seven Academy Awards, including a best-actor nod for Russell Crowe, who played Wigand. The Academy people reportedly told Wigand that the Oscar ceremony wasn't the Super Bowl, and that tickets were in short supply. Show business can be so cruel. The Bay City Rollers song title "Yesterday's Hero" now has an added poignancy. The BBC reports that one of the Scottish '70s band's founding members, Derek Longmuir, has been arrested in Edinburgh for possession of child pornography. Longmuir, now a nurse, claims the 117 pedophilic photos discovered by Scottish police belonged to an American friend. The police, of course, will try to make him sing. What do Princess Diana and Darva Conger have in common? Great ratings. Nielsen Media Research shows that Conger's "Good Morning America" interview brought the ABC show its biggest audience since Diana's death in August 1997. And, for many, it was just as painful. And if you think Conger's going to slip off into obscurity without a fight from certain questionable sectors, think again. Internet porn mogul Seth Warshavsky has placed an ad in the Los Angeles Daily News offering the hapless bride $1 million to pose in "a tasteful nude pictorial" to be featured on his site clublove.com. Stay tuned for Fox's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Media Ho?"
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