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Gobsmacked II
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March 14, 2000 | True, the actor, famous for once sending a critic a batch of pubic hairs "in the hope that they [would] help to avoid further grievance," has been all over the media muttering platitudes about his relationship with Madonna and thoughts on fatherhood. But in a Los Angeles magazine interview, Everett voices opinions on organized religion that would make Jesse "It's a crutch" Ventura proud. Educated at a Catholic boarding school run by Benedictine monks and "pleased to have a serious background of religious knowledge," Everett says he's now "managed to get myself through the whole hideous guilt that the Catholic Church puts you through." Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! But while he still goes to church, he says he's no longer a Catholic because "that's like being a gay Republican." And then there's transubstantiation. Everett believes that whole Eucharist and wine turning into the body and blood of Christ thing is a crock. "I think that's just fucking with our head," he says. "I think Jesus has been completely manipulated and used by organized religion." There goes his invitation to speak at Bob Jones University. - - - - - - - - - - - - Roberts revealed: A fan's perspective "The 100th time I saw Julia Roberts' breasts was too much. The first 99 were OK." -- A test-screening viewer on the push-up bras and micro-miniskirts favored by Roberts' character in "Erin Brockovich." - - - - - - - - - - - - The return of our favorite word Mike Wallace has been gobsmacked! Diana and Dodi's book-peddling bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, taught Wallace a very special new word during a "60 Minutes" segment aired on Sunday. The gobsmackerific lingual morsel popped up shortly into Wallace's interview with Rees-Jones and his fellow bodyguard Kez Wingfield. "Trevor says that after spending his days with Diana, Dodi often spent his nights with his girlfriend, Kelly Fisher, whom he had staying on a boat nearby. And then after Saint-Tropez, Trevor and Kez went off duty for two weeks, and when they returned, they said they were flabbergasted to learn that the princess and Dodi had gone back to the south of France for a private cruise on his father's yacht, the Jonikal," intoned Wallace. Then, clearly gobsmacked himself, Wallace turned to his interviewee. "Why were you so flabbergasted? I -- I think the word that I'd heard that one of you -- two of you used was 'gobsmacked,' which is a word I've never heard before." "Oh, gobsmacked. Same -- same thing: flabbergasted, gobsmacked, shocked," replied Rees-Jones, helpfully, before explaining that he and Wingfield would never have put Dodi and Diana together in a million years. "60 Gobsmacking Minutes" is born. - - - - - - - - - - - - Roberts revealed: The star's perspective "I have something in my closet that I call a dress. And then [Erin Brockovich] has something in her closet that I call a 'dre-.' The whole part that covers your ass just isn't there." -- Julia Roberts on her revealing "Erin Brockovich" wardrobe. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Diana, the musical? 'Fraid so. Germany's Nuremburg Opera is staging "The Lady Dies," an experimental opera riffing off the media frenzy surrounding Diana's death in 1997. According to company, the opera, in which Diana does not appear as a character but is evoked through multimedia images, is "about the hunt for sensation." Uh-oh, I feel a song coming on ... Has Puff Daddy found his Puff Mommy for real and for true? Puffy recently told the U.K. Sun that Jennifer Lopez is his "soulmate." "When we're together I don't see her as a singer or anything like that," he said. "Behind doors, she's Jennifer and I'm Sean." Awww. That's right; we bad: Richard Pryor has taken out a restraining order against his son. The move comes just weeks after Richard Jr. sought legal rights to his father's estate, claiming that the ailing comedian is unable to care for himself and has allowed Jennifer Lee, his agent and ex-wife, to use his assets without consent. Aaron Spelling has some good news and some bad news for "7th Heaven" star Jessica Biel. The good news is that, even though he's suing Bob Guccione Jr. for implying that he was involved in an issue of "Gear" magazine in which Biel appeared top-free, he's not mad at her. "I like Jessica ... She's a very good actress. I love to work with her," he tells USA Today. The bad news is he's disappointed in her. "If my daughter did that kind of layout at her age, I would have quit the business forever," Spelling says. Now he tells us. It's PETA vs. MADD in the battle of the activists. The Associated Press reports that anti-drunken driving activists have gotten their fur up over ads People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals plans to release on college campuses this week. Contending that the dairy industry is cruel to cows and that beer is healthier than milk, PETA is launching a series of "Got Beer?" ads, in which the famous milk mustaches are replaced with beer foam. The ads do not, PETA says, promote underage drinking. "College students are savvy," Bruce Friedrich, PETA's vegetarian campaign coordinator, told the AP. "Nobody's going to put beer on their Cheerios or get drunk and drive as a result of our campaign." Got a clue? Why, why, why wouldn't Steven Spielberg take on Harry Potter? Entertainment Weekly reports that the director clashed with author J.K. Rowling on a few key issues. Not only did he want a more "fanciful" approach than Rowling, he also wanted to cast Haley Joel Osment in the lead role. Rowling was adamant that Harry should be played by a British actor. Hollywood ... it's harder to negotiate than Diagon Alley.
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