• If you have ever wondered what it’s like to be a celebrity who suddenly is no longer in the spotlight (something I'm sure most of us think about a lot), Rosie O’Donnell is about to tell us. Her new book Celebrity Detox lets us know how horrible it is to go from a limo to a cab.
• A few years ago a good friend of mine was in the middle of his 40th birthday party when he got a knock on the door. Standing there was a group of guys with garment bags over their shoulders. One of them said, "Hi, we're the Four Tops, where can we change?" Turns out my friends best buddies hired the famous Motown group to perform at the party. Now if you have the money you can do the same. People magazine reports that for a mere million, Bette Midler will serenade you, just as she for did Johnny Carson on his last show. Or for two hundred grand Chris Rock can call you a F-----' A-- Hole, right to your face.
• A very Happy Birthday to Buck Henry. The writer and sometimes actor is 75. Back in the mid 70's Playboy Magazine sent Buck to Atlanta to do a story on this up and coming television station owned by this guy Ted Turner. That is where I worked at the time. We wined and dined Buck and he even did a bit with me on my show. We never heard another thing about it. Four years ago I ran into him at an event in New York. He remembered me and we talked about his visit to Atlanta. He told me when he got back to New York and told the folks at Playboy, '"That place is goin' nowhere." Of course "That place" is now the Turner Broadcasting System.
• Speaking of which, my favorite channel is Turner Classic Movies. When they pull out an old black and white short feature from the thirties explaining how sound movies work, the shear camp of it makes it fun viewing. Now, when they run a segment produced to promote the film "You've Got Mail" that was done, maybe three years ago, it looks stupid. Especially when the filmmakers try to explain this new thing called e-mail.
• Singer Anne Murray cancelled some engagements this week due to a severe chest cold. What do you expect from somebody that has a "Snowbird."
Does anybody get that but me?
• The other day NPR ran an audio clip of Hillary Clinton reading excerpts of “The Nutcracker” to a group of children. Does that mean she was reading from her autobiography?
• Hey, got to go. I must beat a hasty path to the video store, Gigli is on the shelves. The worst film of 2003 starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez can now be in your film library. Don't waste your money. "Gigli" is horrible and not even in a "it's so bad it's fun to watch" sort of way.
Posted by Tush at December 11, 2003 04:48 PM