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March 28, 2000 | Thanks to all that public snuggling she's been doing with her brother, James Haven, and her Oscar-acceptance declaration that she is "so in love" with him, I've got all sorts of inquiring readers coming out of the woodwork, wanting to know. "How many times is Angelina Jolie going to tongue kiss, feel up and fawn over her brother at awards shows before someone in the press (ahem) calls her on it?" writes one reader, who adds with a pant, "Wish I was Angelina's brother." Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! "You have to write about it," orders another. "There was tongue! I saw tongue!" Never mind that I'd like nothing better than to move beyond the most boring Oscars ever -- clearly, I'm a girl columnist, interrupted. "I am never concerned about going too far," Jolie told reporters backstage at the Oscars. "Friendship between siblings of divorced parents is very close. [James] is the sweetest person I know." But, despite her on-air tribute to her family, Jolie then hinted at what her brother recently called "a weird kind of competitiveness from our parents." (Neither their mother, Marcheline Bertrand, nor their pops, Jon Voight, called to congratulate Jolie for two days after she won the Golden Globe, Haven told Parade.) "All our lives, we grew up in this business," Jolie said Sunday night. "Dad has an Oscar. It's the big thing ... it's always been a big deal to us." Why don't they all kiss and make up? - - - - - - - - - - - - A likely story "That was wrong. I never thought that was funny." -- Mike Myers, currying favor during his Barbara Walters interview Sunday night by jokingly denouncing the late Gilda Radner's "Baba Wawa" persona. - - - - - - - - - - - - The lawyer who "shioked" me Pity the people of Singapore. They may never get to see Calista Flockhart kiss a girl. The Television Corporation of Singapore has announced its refusal to air the "Ally McBeal" episode in which Ally and Ling suck face and the Biscuit spanks Nell with a hairbrush. The problem? "Alternative sexual explorations" aren't kosher for their viewers, said the TV station. "As a responsible broadcaster, we are very careful to monitor and take action against overtly sexy or alternative themes." No doubt their audience would enjoy very carefully monitoring overtly sexy themes, too. - - - - - - - - - - - - Scream MXXVIII "Even 'The Haunting' made money, which is really scary." -- Barbara Walters on Catherine Zeta-Jones' golden box-office touch. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits How much would you pay for a bed once slept in by Barbra Streisand? $33,000? That price tag apparently went down like buttah for one lucky bidder at a sale held by the Mansions Hotel in San Francisco's Pacific Heights neighborhood. The hotel, which closed on March 20, also sold off a typewriter said to have been used by Jack London to write "The Call of the Wild" and a piano with ivories once tinkled by Liberace. Do we have a bidder on Robin Williams' used shower cap? Going once ... Going twice ... You know you're a lame duck president when ... your vice president watches, smiling amiably, as you're viciously skewered before a howling crowd. At the Gridiron Club's annual roast Saturday night, Al Gore didn't flinch as an actor dressed as Jimmy Carter ripped into President Clinton in a song set to the tune of the Beatles' "When I'm 64." It went: "Bimbo eruptions, who's gonna care -- when you're out the door? Who's gonna hiss you, or even miss you, when you're 54." Ouch! Julianna Margulies wants her "ER" co-star back, stat. The actress recently confessed to the New York Daily News that she's so desperate for a nurse Hathaway/Dr. Ross reunion on her final episode before leaving the show, she's been calling George Clooney's answering machine every day, begging, "Help me." There are loose ends, she says, that need to be tied. Suture! And Golden Raspberry award for the worst movie of 1999 goes to ... "Wild Wild West." The stinky Barry Sonnenfeld flick also won Razzies for worst direction, screenplay, song and screen couple (Will Smith and Kevin Kline). "It swept, to the surprise of no one who saw it," Golden Raspberry foundation President John Wilson told the Associated Press. "It personifies what you need to do to win a Razzie in modern Hollywood -- spend too much, entertain no one and fall flat on your face." Hey, no one ever said Tinseltown wasn't tough. Mickey Mouse-tache? The Orlando Sentinel reports that the tight labor market has induced the Walt Disney company to relax its ban on facial hair for theme-park employees. But while hairy lips are now OK, the prohibition against beards is expected to remain. Funny, I thought Minnie was Mickey's beard.
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