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July 1, 1999 |
The chic New York fashion guru and Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey have unveiled a new line of hospital gowns
that -- while slightly less airy than those open-in-the-back peekabooty numbers so popular in hospitals across the land -- will surely add a
little zip to any sick room. For women feeling under the weather, Rowley's put together a saucy little mid-calf-length shift with a mock turtleneck and three-quarter
length sleeves with snaps. For men on the mend, it's drawstring pants, an understated short-sleeve shirt and a snazzy matching robe to
pull it all together. Kids will be the height of fashion making their way to their tonsillectomies in ankle-length gowns with trendy
drawstring pants. (I predict those all- "I have always believed that what one wears on the outside affects the way they feel about themselves on the inside," color-me-healthy
Rowley told the Associated Press after her disposable duds made a robust runway debut to cheering throngs and heart-pumping
music. "Once we fixed up our food, the gown was the No. 1 complaint," noted Hackensack's president, John P. Ferguson. Next on the hospital's agenda: jewel-encrusted bedpans, intravenous Merlot and doctors with good breath. - - - - - - - - - - - - Yet again, Hollywood's to blame "He has always loved the 'Mary Poppins' scene where she flies up a chimney and dances on top of it." -- Startled mom Rebecca Grosvenor, whose 9-year-old son, Jonathan, spent five hours stuck in a chim-chimney,
chim-chimney, chim-chim-cheroo after trying to reenact a scene from "Mary Poppins." - - - - - - - - - - - - The art of money Ich bin ein fan of capitalism. Probably as big a fan as the next guy -- unless, of course, the next guys happens to be headline-grabbing
German film director Christoph Schlingensief. Schlingensief (fun to say, more fun to type) is preparing for a Jerry Maguire-esque show-me-the-money moment this Friday evening,
when, he says, he'll toss 100,000 German marks (about $53,000) off the Reichstag parliament building in Berlin as a special tribute to
capitalism. (If you're strapped for cash, but enjoying a surplus of frequent flyer mileage, take note: The scrambling starts at 8:30 p.m.
sharp.) Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! "Money is the only thing that really gets people moving," Schlingensief told Germany's Bunte magazine. "We'll throw the money away and [your readers] can pick it up. That's culture for the masses." Schlingensief's fabulous financial fling comes courtesy of the Deutche Bank, which gave the danger-digging director a 100,000 mark budget for his cultural presentation. "I'm calling our culture program 'Save capitalism, throw the money away,'" says Schlingensief, who claims to be a big fan of both capitalism and the Deutche bank. Now that's Really Useful theater -- no apologies to you, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber. - - - - - - - - - - - - Gone like greased lightnin' "Allan always used to give a big July Fourth party. This is a hell of a way for him to skip his own party." -- Actress Suzanne "I upstaged Bob Newhart for years" Pleshette on summer lovin' "Grease" producer Allan Carr, who died Tuesday. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits The Force was apparently not with the three Wisconsin whippersnappers who swiped the copy of "The Phantom Menace" from a local theater last month during the height of prequel-mania. (The heist proved something of a comedy of errors: The film unraveled, was crumpled into a car, was dowsed in water as the sticky-fingered snatchers flung it in a bathtub to rid it of their fingerprints, and was finally cut up, stuffed into garbage bags and ditched in a Dumpster.) Charles Phillips and brothers Mark and Matthew Stearns, who copped to their cinematic crime just days after the film-napping, were sentenced to five days in the slammer by Dunn County Circuit Judge Rod Smeltzer, who told them, "It's important you have a taste of being confined." If the judge really wanted them to suffer, he'd have sentenced them to five days in lockup with Jar Jar Binks. But meesa think that really would be cruel and unusual punishment. Sophia Loren eats meat, revels in the stuff ... and she wants you to fix it up nice and revel in it, too. (Raaar!) That's the message the pro-vegetarian Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has gotten from the forever young Italian beauty's cookbook, "Sophia Loren's Recipes and Memories." The committee's members have voted the book the "least healthy celebrity cookbook," sniffing that it's all about red meat and "barely offers any healthy options." Me, I'd eat raw antelope eyeballs if I thought they'd keep me as well preserved as lovely Lady Loren -- just so long as they were served al dente with a nice marinara sauce. As if we needed further evidence of Americans' overwhelming desire to live clue-free or die (give them stupidity or give them death!),
the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has polled the masses and found that only 47 percent of Americans are aware that the phrase
"Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" is in the Declaration of Independence, whereas 79 percent know Nike's slogan is "Just do it."
Interestingly, 99.9 percent of those polled knew they wouldn't be caught dead dressing up in 18th century garb and living every friggin'
day as if it were the day before the Revolutionary War.
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