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Paula keeps her pants on
She thought her publicist was talking to Penthouse about doing an article, OK? Plus: Christina and Britney, best friends 4ever! Sort of.

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By Amy Reiter

May 18, 2000 |  Paula Jones is apparently the one person on Earth who sincerely believes people read Penthouse for the articles.

A source close to Ms. Won't-Kiss-It tells me that Jones had no idea her publicist, David Hans Schmidt, was negotiating the terms of a nekkid spread on her behalf.

"She just hired him to get her some press," the source told me. "She thought he was talking to them about running an article about her."

In Penthouse? Come on!

"The remarkable thing about Paula is that, even after all she's been through, she's still naive," the source contends. "She lost the hair bow and the nose, but she's still the same small-town girl. And she still tends to trust the wrong people."

So does this mean that, this time, Guccione's people are out of luck on the nude Paula front?

"Absolutely," the source insists. "She won't do it. It won't happen."

Hmmm ... why am I not completely convinced?

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Cybill liberties

"These days I am sleeping alone. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night, put on my blue eye shadow and try to learn country dancing in front of the TV."

-- Cybill Shepherd, revealing that she's even more perverse as a solo act than she was during her numerous affairs.

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Christina to Britney: I turn to you

Note to Britney Spears: Christina Aguilera is waiting for your call.

"I have not been able to talk to Britney at length since we were best friends on the Mickey Mouse Club," Aguilera recently told the Canadian Web site JAM! Music. "I miss her a lot. I think she's a really sweet girl who's really talented. When we cross paths we definitely say, 'Hey.'"

The Grammy winner says she recently had a shared makeup person pass her phone number along to her old buddy. "We'll see if she calls," she said.

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What's beyond "The Full Monty"? Nada

"I've got to have an idea but I don't know what to do with these men. They've taken their clothes off and I don't know what to do next."

-- Simon Beaufoy, who wrote "The Full Monty," on why he hasn't been able to come up with a sequel to the film, on U.K. TV.

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A nose for comedy

Thanks to Tracey Ullman, Woody Allen's hip to a few new feminine beauty secrets.

For her role in Allen's new flick, "Small Time Crooks," Ullman says the famously neurotic director "would let me confer with him on stuff."

Like what? Well, for one thing, she tells Fashion Wire Daily's Juice Bar, "I think that he was a bit surprised when I came out with a Biore strip on my nose."

"Woody had no idea what it was, but I said, 'Now Woody, trust me. Every woman in America knows what these things are.'"

Allen wondered what the white strip did. "I said, 'It pulls blackheads out,'" Ullman recalls. "He said, 'Oh, that's gross!'"

Good thing she didn't tell him about Brazilian bikini waxing.

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Juicy bits

Don't pack up your wand and your owl just yet. The Hogwarts Express has been delayed. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the release of the big-screen adaptation of J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" has been pushed back from summer 2001 to November of that year. The delay is being attributed to the production's slow start and time needed for special effects. And no, they can't just do it with magic.

Ingmar Bergman, suicidal? His former lover and longtime friend Liv Ullmann says it ain't so, despite what the director himself said in a recent Swedish TV interview. "I don't like that interview -- and it is not true," the actress told the Toronto Sun. In fact, she maintains, he's happily at work on his next film. "That is more important than saying stupidly in a television interview that 'I want to take my life!' A creative person doesn't say that. Maybe a creative person thinks that, but he doesn't share it with millions of people." Or maybe a creative person shares it with millions of people, but doesn't think it.

No, you don't have to call him the artist formerly known as an unpronounceable squiggly symbol. Just call him Prince. "I will now go back to using my name, instead of the symbol I have adopted as a means to free myself from all undesirable relationships," Prince told reporters at a press conference this week. The pop star says he has no intention of changing his name again -- that he only did so to escape a long-term contract with Warner Brothers -- and that he's "in a really great mood right now." Next month he's gonna party like it's 1999.
salon.com | May 18, 2000

 

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