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March 13, 2000 | Calista Flockhart, for instance, says she feels Monica Lewinsky's pain. And she believes that Linda Tripp is, in at least one respect, just like her. "All people talk about is the way they look," the "Ally McBeal" star protests in the April issue of W magazine. Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! Having been down that road many times before herself, the actress observes, "It's a cheap way to take away women's power. If you talk about the way she looks, you negate her intelligence." It's a whopping double standard: "They don't talk about the way men look. They don't talk about Harrison Ford as ever being tall or thin or losing his hair -- they talk about what a great actor he is." Charlize Theron's also grumbling about what she dubs Hollywood's "'You're too thin' or 'You're too fat' thing." "It's ridiculous, like putting somebody in jail for 20 years for smoking a joint," she tells Allure. "It's so minor -- why even pay any attention to it?" But never mind the strange simile, Theron's got a plan. "Maybe we can start a whole new trend with some round fat asses and really sloppy, floppy-looking tits," she says. "I'd be all for it." And so, apparently, would Kate Winslet. "People are always going on about fat, thin, but I just don't care," the actress told the BBC last week. "I just don't. I don't think that any of us should." Her solution? Pregnancy. "I'm fully expecting to blow up like a balloon," the expectant mother says. In fact, she can't wait. "I don't have a bump yet. I don't. No bump yet, which is annoying because I want my bump. I want my bump." Blame that little outburst on the hormones ... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - My, Clarice, what a deep voice you have "I'm 80. I've been in this business 30 years, and I know this: The only thing that matters is a good director and a good story. With those two things I could play Clarice Starling. Within two minutes the audience will forget Jodie Foster -- I promise you!" -- "Hannibal" producer Dino De Laurentiis, pooh-poohing concerns about Julianne Moore taking Foster's place, in Entertainment Weekly. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - What a difference a generation makes ... Who knew the good ship Lollipop would take us here? Shirley Temple Black's niece, Marina Black, is not a Playboy bunny, but she will play one on TV. TV Guide reports that Black will make her television debut as the "good bunny" in the ABC TV-movie "A Tale of Two Bunnies." "It's a very big break for me," Black told the magazine. She simply had to hop on it. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The King of nothing? "Nothing interests me less than Elvis Presley. I think [his] is a very sad story, and not an interesting sad story, just a sad story. 'He had a little world, and it was smaller than your hand.'" -- Warren Zevon, explaining that he could not care less about the man who inspired his new song "Porcelain Monkey," on JAM! Showbiz. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Calling all Indian cattle. Chrissie Hynde will stand by you ... in the middle of the road. Heck, she'll even go to the clink for you. Hynde and a bunch of PETA activists are protesting the Gap's use of leather from "cruelly slaughtered cows in India" in front of stores across the country. Last week, she and several other protesters were arrested in front of a Gap in New York after chanting "Shed your skin, Gap!" and ripping the store's fashionable leather togs with a knife. Guess she had more than brass in pocket that time ... Twenty bucks says the dull guy whomps the smug guy? The oddsmakers at Ladbrokes are placing 8-11 odds that Al Gore will be the next POTUS. That's a change from just a few months ago, when the U.K. bookmaker favored George W. Bush. A spokesman for the company explained that Bush's odds were lowered because his primary scuffle with John McCain was so costly -- to his reputation as well as to his pocketbook. Place your bets now. She may not look like Barbie, but Elizabeth Taylor is getting the full treatment from Mattel nevertheless. The company has just released a collectible doll in the likeness of Taylor as Cleopatra. It's the first in a series of dolls depicting the actress in various roles throughout her career. Barbie better keep an eye on Ken. Proof that Paul McCartney's getting his groove back? He's dancing on bars. After a little prodding from bartendress Michele Gascoigne, the ex-Beatle hopped up onto the bar at New York's Hogs & Heifers and shook his groove thing to Jerry Lee Lewis' "Whole Lotta Shakin.'" Gascoigne told the New York Daily News that she'd offered McCartney a challenge. "Mr. McCartney, we have a tradition here that only women can dance on the bar, but we're willing to break that tradition -- for one knight." Buh-dum-bum. So much for mad about the Bard. According to a poll published last Thursday, British readers have named Roald Dahl as their favorite author. Dahl beat out William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and J.R.R. Tolkien for the top spot. J.K. Rowling came in second. Those Brits are just wild about Harry -- but they're even wilder about "James and the Giant Peach."
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