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March 16, 2000 | A couple of issues back, the National Enquirer, that bastion of reliability and good taste, reported that Raphaël and her staff were recently rocked by a pornography scandal. The tabloid claimed that a high-ranking producer on the show was given the boot back in January after he was discovered filming porn after-hours in the show's offices. According to one source, images of the four-time Emmy award-winning producer, an "Oprah" veteran, in "all kinds of sexual positions -- with all kinds of people" were posted on a "raunchy Web site." Studios USA officials declined to comment. Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! But a Studios USA insider involved in the scandal aftermath swears it's all true. "It was quite a scandal on the set," he tells me. "There were all these skanky people running around." Sally Jessy herself, he says, was "pretty stunned." "And after everyone found out," he says, "they insisted on disinfecting the whole studio. They brought people in to wash it all down." That this is just the sort of scandal the talk shows live for hasn't been lost on the Studios USA people -- who also produce "Maury" and "Jerry Springer." "The big joke around here," the insider says, "is maybe we'll see him on one of the other talk shows." - - - - - - - - - - - - Into the deep "I think that 'Clueless' was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness." -- Alicia Silverstone, on the unbearably deep lightness of being clueless, in Britain's Sunday Telegraph. - - - - - - - - - - - - The rehabilitative effects of morning TV Only the most cynical among us could have predicted this: Mark Fuhrman, the telegenic former L.A. police detective whose racist rantings proved pivotal in the O.J. Simpson case, is becoming a highly sought-after TV commentator. ABC's "Good Morning America" has reportedly outbid its rival networks to win Fuhrman as a paid commentator on the murder trial of Ethel Kennedy's nephew Michael Skakel. Fuhrman's book "Murder in Greenwich: Who Killed Martha Moxley?" helped reopen the case. "Good Morning America" executive producer Shelley Ross tells USA Today that Fuhrman has experienced a "180-degree credibility turn." "He came forward and spent about a year of his life apologizing and acknowledging that he was ashamed," Ross says. "Unless we can accept that people can genuinely change ... then what incentive is there for anyone to change?" Gosh, I don't know. How 'bout a cushy TV deal? - - - - - - - - - - - - Puffy's passion "After an argument I do make some good love." -- Puff Daddy, providing the best explanation yet for his fiery temperament, on Dotmusic.com. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Start saving your allowance! Britney Spears is releasing an autobiography, due out in April, summing up all she's learned in her 18 years of life. Co-written by the singer's mother, Lynne, "Britney" promises to reveal "the secrets of her success" and "the importance of family communication." I'm sure you're, like, totally excited. Two years after Linda's death, Sir Paul McCartney is gingerly moving on. He has confirmed to the press that he and model Heather Mills are "an item." But he begged for privacy. "I'm not a politician and we're not spies," he said. "I don't want to be surrounded by photographers because that could wreck something." You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs ... Steven Spielberg: Stanley Kubrick's cleanup guy? Spielberg has announced that he'll complete "AI," the film Kubrick was working on before his death last year. The film, a futuristic story about a boy who is unaware he's a robot (AI stands for artificial intelligence), will go into production in July for a summer 2001 release. "Stanley had a vision of this project that was evolving over 18 years," Spielberg said. "I am intent on bringing to the screen as much of that vision as possible along with elements of my own." HAL phone home?
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