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Dennis Rodman, auteur
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August 10, 1999 |
Rodman's dream, he recently told TV Guide, is to make a skin flick that's "cool
and sexy, so you can see us doing it, but it's still softcore." Lucky for us all,
Electra will likely be too busy airing other people's racy home movies as host of a
late Saturday night, too- Plus, Rodman, who changes his mind almost as often as he changes
his hair color, doesn't sound too committed to his co-star; he allegedly threatened to
ditch the magazine's photo shoot if Electra's name was so much as mentioned. In fact, his dream mate is, not at all surprisingly, himself. "If I could find a female
Dennis Rodman," he elegantly confides to the telly bible, "someone who wants to drink and
have fun, I'd be happy as s---." Take heart, Dennis, they can do so much more with mirrors these days than they
could, say, when the old "Patty Duke Show" was being made. Cousins ... identical cousins
doing softcore? Uh ... I think I'll pass. - - - - - - - - - - - - Time to break a few
fingers? "What impresses me most about Bill professionally and personally
is that no matter how successful he has become, he has never repaid me the 20
bucks he borrowed from me in 1971." -- Playwright/loan shark David Mamet on his defaulting buddy William H. Macy. - - - - - - - - - - - - Purported buffet is mere
morsel Remember that appetizing little NP
item about edgy actor Christopher Walken sautéing up an edgy new
cooking show for cable with edgy artist Julian Schnabel? Turns out I may
have gotten your stomachs anxiously churning for a little more Walken/Schnabel
kitchen madness than you're set to get. The two epicurially inclined celebs actually taped just one segment for John
Pierson's "Split Screen," which airs Mondays at 8 and 11 p.m. EDT on the
Independent Film Channel. The tasty segment, produced by Doug Stone
and P.H. O'Brien, features the actor and artist rustling up the grub for
unsuspecting restaurant patrons and will kick off the show's new season on
Sept. 6. The gastronomic gaffe was first brought to NP's attention by sometime "Split
Screen" collaborator Joe Corey, who claims that, while none of his
segments have included food preparation, he "always washed my hands before
touching the videotape." Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! That's great, Joe. Here's hoping that if wacky Walken ever realizes his dream of producing a cooking show in which "models would dice the food with their long fingernails," he learns a thing or two about digital hygiene from you. - - - - - - - - - - - - Snot funny "I learned interesting things from James Caan, like how to blow my nose without using a handkerchief. It's a Brooklyn technique. I'm pretty good now. It very rarely happens on British film sets. You almost never see Emma Thompson do it." -- Hugh "Phlegmatic No Longer" Grant, riffing on his brand-new Caan-do attitude toward nasal mucous disposal in the September Ladies' Home Journal. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits If the bio don't fit, you mustn't quit. At least not until you've churned out 18 friggin' pages about your sweet fancy self. Even Johnnie Cochran's fellow lawyers (not known to be a short-winded bunch) were startled by the long-ass biography the man who sprung O.J. Simpson turned in for a panel discussion about truth in the legal profession, which took place at the American Bar Association's annual meeting this weekend. (Former Monica lawyer William Ginsburg by contrast, turned in a tidy one-page bio, reports Reuters.) Cochran's tome touched on such career highlights as his inclusion on Ebony magazine's list of "one of the ten best dressed black men in the country" and appearances on "Guiding Light," "Roseanne" and the "Chips" movie reunion. Now Ponch and John, those are two guys who could cough up an interesting 18 pages. I believe a moment of silence is in order for Tish the fish, the world's
oldest known captive goldfish, who floated belly-up to that glass bowl in the sky
last week after at least 43 years of swimming around a tank in a loving British
home. The Hand family had cared for Tish since Peter Hand, then 7,
won him at a fairground in 1956. "I am very sad," said Peter's mother,
Hilda, after finding silver-tinted Tish lifeless in his tank. "Over the years
we have become very close and I could sense if he was happy or not." He will be
missed.
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