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March 22, 2000 | Shields claims to have resisted her mother's invitation to turn on. "My mom would say, 'You wanna do drugs? Fine. Do them. Just do me a favor. Let me do 'em with you. I'll get you the best stuff. This way I know you're not going to die,'" she tells Nylon magazine. "And the whole thing was so unappealing to me." Not so Phillips. On an A&E "Biography" that aired Monday night, the actress said her father, the Mamas and the Papas' John Phillips, got her hooked on smack. Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! "My father taught me how to shoot up," Phillips recalled. "I remember he had his half-glasses on the edge of his nose and he's looking down at my arm with the needle. That was the first person that ever shot me up." Ain't family life grand? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Never mind the crop tops "I may dress provocatively, but people in ninth grade have been around the block more times than me." -- Mariah Carey on her sexy rep, in Australia's New Weekly magazine. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ridin' with the dogs Given her recent hit-and-run troubles and her reputation as a "Berry, Berry bad driver," who on earth would want to be chauffeured around by Halle Berry? Well, no sane human. But that's apparently not a problem for the traffically challenged actress, who says her two lapdogs are her favorite car companions. "They're great for unconditional love," Berry says in an upcoming USA Weekend interview, "and I love them back and spoil them terribly." What's more, she says, "I take them everywhere when I travel. In my car, I strap them in like babies in their little doggie car seats." Hope she straps 'em in tight. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Speaking of cruelty to animals ... Let Michael Douglas fight for nuclear disarmament and Leonardo DiCaprio take on global warming. Goldie Hawn's got a cause of her own: Circus elephants. What, you think it's fun being a performing pachyderm, balancing colorful objects on your trunk and lifting your leg on cue? Think again. "Circus elephants are denied almost everything important to them, including family relationships, privacy, mental stimulation, physical exercise and emotional outlets," Hawn wrote in an open letter encouraging the General Assembly in her home state, Maryland, to pass a bill outlawing the use of live elephants for entertainment. "When they are not performing, which is approximately 98 percent of the time, their lives consist of chains, transportation in boxcars in the blazing heat or freezing cold, thirst (water is withheld to prevent unsightly messes in parades and performances) and being hit." And they work for peanuts, too. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Guess he never saw "Truth or Dare" "She's a nice, sweet, simple girl. She is a very nice person. She is very responsible and will make an excellent mum for Guy's baby." -- British director Guy Ritchie's father, John, speaking to the U.K. Sun about Madonna, who will soon give birth to his new grandchild. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Who wants to be Jerry Orbach? Who knows? But the "Law & Order" actor is convinced that someone does. Orbach is suing eBay and a used-book dealer for exposing him to "identity theft" and credit-card fraud by displaying his Social Security number during an online auction of two of Orbach's contracts from 1958. Why anyone would want Orbach's old contracts -- let alone his identity -- is anyone's guess. The muscles from Brussels has lost his foothold in cyberspace. Variety reports that Jean Claude Van Damme has been kicked off the board of the Entertainment Internet Inc. (TEI), which oversees the online casting service CastNet.com, because he wasn't a man of action. Sounds like that's it for "the last action hero." Rabbit returns from the grave? Well, not exactly. But John Updike will pay tribute to his most famous character, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, in his upcoming collection, "Licks of Love." The collection will include the novella "Rabbit Remembered," in which Rabbit's wife, Janice; his son, Nelson; and his friends and acquaintances wax nostalgic about the late character. Updike told the Associated Press he was compelled to return to Rabbit because "there were a lot of unresolved issues." The question for Yusuf Islam (the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens) is no longer "Where do the children play?" Now it's "How will the children learn about the Islamic faith?" Islam has released a new album, "A Is for Allah," which teaches children the Arabic alphabet as well as "faith and morality." Maybe he should have called it "D Is for Didactic.
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