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They're no angels

Lucy Liu and Bill Murray engage in less-than-angelic on-set behavior; Tom Green and Drew Barrymore make a deposit; and Monica Lewinsky ... coming soon to a theater near you?

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By Amy Reiter

Bad news, Charlie. All is not happy in Angel-land.

Reports are swirling that Bill Murray and Lucy Liu mixed it up -- and nearly came to fisticuffs -- on the set of "Charlie's Angels" recently. According to Variety, the trouble started when Liu took issue with the film's script midtake. Murray came to the dialogue's defense. A raucous argument ensued.

The rest of the cast made a beeline for their trailers, and the shoot was called off for the day.

The next day, all interested parties -- Liu, Murray, Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore -- reportedly met with the director for a little smoothing over. And Liu's spokeswoman, Carri McClure, swears that now everything is A-OK.

"There were some creative differences last week," McClure told the New York Daily News, "and then it was over."

Perhaps, but I'll bet the flick's producers are regretting all those fighting lessons they gave the Angels right about now.

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Just don't get them in a wad

"I love the way women's pants fit."

-- Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland on why he prefers wearing women's pants, in W.

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No deposit, no return

Drew Barrymore, meanwhile, apparently took a little time away from the action on the "Charlie's Angels" set to visit a sperm bank with her boyfriend, MTV scamp Tom Green.

Green, who recently had a cancerous testicle removed, tells the upcoming Us Weekly that he brought the Drewster along when he went to make a ... uh ... deposit, in case he needed it later. An attendant pressured him into putting Drew's name down as a designated recipient, even though they'd only been going out for three months.

"They give you a jar and put you in a room upstairs with a porno movie," Green says. "Talk about performance anxiety."

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Suddenly sexually curious?

"I envision myself in a marriage with children ... But there's many women I find very attractive."

-- Brooke Shields, copping to a little curiosity in The Advocate.

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Famous former intern, unzipped?

I suppose we shouldn't be surprised ...

According to the New York Post, Monica Lewinsky is considering making her big-screen debut.

The handbag-monger reportedly so impressed "Unzipped" director Douglas Keeve after meeting him at a party that he handed her a copy of his new screenplay, "Crimes of Fashion." It's about a designer who gets involved with the mob -- and Keeve is dying to write her into it.

"I really liked her. She's bright and funny and very with it," the director told the paper. "She has a great sense of humor."

"I just plopped [the screenplay] into her arms," he said. "She said, 'I'll read it, and then what do you want me to do?' I told her, 'Call me, and we'll figure it out' ... I'm waiting for Monica's call with bated breath."

With tape recorder in hand?

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Juicy bits

Oh, Dr. Kevorkian! A source assures me that the Senate press gallery staffer overheard sweetly asking reporters, "Anybody else need physician-assisted suicide?" was handing out press releases, not commenting on the quality of debate on the Senate floor Thursday. Darn, and it sounded like such a generous offer ...

Would you like a little apple pie with your fava beans and Chianti, Sir Anthony? On Wednesday, Anthony Hopkins became a U.S. citizen in a short ceremony in Los Angeles attended by his buddies Steven Spielberg and John Travolta. "He has been here a long time, and it seems like the right thing to do," the Welsh actor's spokeswoman told the press.

David Hasselhoff on "Baywatch Hawaii": Get that show a lifeguard! "They need to get their you-know-what together," Hasselhoff recently told TV Guide Online. "Everything was put in the hands of one person who forgot about the stories we used to tell. It was about more than beautiful guys and girls." It was?

Looks like I missed my chance with Ted Turner. Rumors are flying that the Jane Fonda-free tycoon has found himself a perfect 10: Bo Derek. While Turner's camp insists that the rumor is "not true." Derek's spokeswoman says that "there's no romance," but the two have been "friends for a long time." That's what they all say.

Whitney Houston is one lucky lady. Prosecutors have reportedly decided not to press charges in connection with the discovery of 15 grams of pot in her bag at Hawaii's Kona International Airport in January. What are those people smoking?
salon.com | April 14, 2000

 

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Amy Reiter is a staff writer for Salon People. For more columns by Amy Reiter, visit her column archive.


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