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March 7, 2000 | Environmentalists in Thailand are reportedly still so steamed about destruction allegedly caused last year by the filming of Leonardo DiCaprio's "The Beach" that they're planning to lynch and burn an effigy of young Leo at the film's Thai premiere Tuesday night. "We are not trying to stop the public watching the movie," Phuket Environmental Protection representative Sirinee Yommana told the Agence France-Presse, "but we are asking them to wait and watch it on video." Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! Then again, judging from the flick's U.S. box-office performance, Yommana and her buddies may have gotten their wish before they even set match to straw. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From the horse's mouth "There are so many people with so little talent making so much money." -- Sporty Spice Melanie Chisholm. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Reformed! Is Robert Downey Jr. bucking to be the U.S. penal system poster boy? The actor, currently serving a three-year sentence for violating parole on a 1996 drug bust, says he's a changed man. "I wouldn't wish a prison term on anyone," Downey says in the March issue of GQ magazine. "The psychological and physical affliction is indescribable." But it's not without positive effects. "I have undergone a profound change internally," he proclaims. "I feel an immense sense of waste and regret for the harm I have caused myself and so many people I care about." What he did, he says, "was wrong in every sense, including morally." Let's hope they award time off for good publicity. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Someone needs life lessons from Downey "I'd heard Roman could be extremely rigid, and he was, but he never actually tried to give me line readings. If he had, I'd probably still be in jail." -- Johnny Depp on how he'd have reacted if "The Ninth Gate" director Roman Polanski had given him the same treatment he once gave John Travolta, in the Calgary Sun. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Vindication, at last Who says you shouldn't believe everything you read? Not Bijou Phillips. In fact, the reformed wild-child daughter of John Phillips (of The Mamas and the Papas fame) and half-sister of Mackenzie Phillips (of "One Day at a Time" fame) has decided to make a cause of dispelling those pesky rumors about rumors not being true. Not only are most reports about her true, she says, but the same also goes for rumors about other celebrities, despite their denials. "Let me tell you something about the press," Phillips told Howard Stern on his radio show Monday. "It's all true ... I need to make a stand on this." Some stars help needy children ... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Porn star Lolo Ferrari (Miss Tits Europe and Miss Air Bag 1995) died at her home in France on Sunday at the age of 30. She'd had 18 operations to build her bust up to a size 58F with the equivalent of 12 pints of beer in silicone implants as well as surgery on her lips, nose and cheeks. "I hate reality," she once said. "I want to be wholly artificial." Her death, however, appears to have been of natural causes. What wouldn't I do for you readers? Watch Katie Couric's televised colonoscopy. Yes, I know "Today" executive producer Jeff Zucker insists that the segments on Monday's and Tuesday's shows were done with "tremendous sensitivity," and that they "don't show a lot of her colon" and are "not going to gross anybody out." But I'm sorry, that's one inside scoop I think I'll pass up. Dueling cyberbabes: Last week, Variety reported that Angelina Jolie was in final negotiations to play Lara Croft in a film version of the hugely popular video game Tomb Raider. And this week, Pamela Anderson Lee announced she's taking her V.I.P. character in the other direction. In V.I.P., the game, players will be able to maneuver a computer-generated version of Lee as bodyguard Vallery Irons as she protects "some of America's biggest celebrities." Now if they had her go mano a mano with Tommy, that'd be a game worth playing. Next month, Philadelphia's Rosenbach Museum and Library will unveil the collection of letters, cards, telegrams and poems Greta Garbo sent to the woman rumored to have been her lesbian lover, Mercedes de Acosta. So much for "I vant to be alone." What a loser: Tom Hanks shed 40 pounds to look appropriately gaunt for a portion of his new movie "Cast Away," in which he plays a FedEx exec who gets stranded on a desert island. Sometimes life is like a box of chocolates you're not allowed to eat.
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