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Sizing up "Tattoo's" lost years
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August 16, 1999 |
According to a juicy Villechaize profile on E!, the demi-actor who in the late '70s
and early '80s played Tattoo, "boss"-chanting elbow-high sidekick to Ricardo
Montalban's suave Mr. Roarke on the original "Fantasy Island," was anything but demure in the years leading up to his suicide six years ago. Villechaize had a
little trouble with the sauce, his former assistant, Roger Neal, asserts,
and was an angry drunk who sometimes directed his ire at "Fantasy Island"
producer Aaron Spelling, with whom he had quarreled bitterly about
salary. After chugging a couple of bottles of wine, says Neal, the 90-pound thespian
would occasionally "watch an episode of 'Fantasy Island,' and he'd be cursing and
screaming at Aaron Spelling." What's more, he was also something of a Lilliputian lothario, fond of
playing a game called "Spin the Midget," his buddy Edward Artis recalls
on the cable special, explaining that Villechaize would stretch out -- hands over
head -- in a circle of women and ask someone to spin him. Then, whomever he
ended up pointing to, he'd take out to dinner and, Artis says, "whatever else would
transpire." Well, maybe not everything about the guy was itty-bitty. - - - - - - - - - - - - Terlet talk: God's favorite
giggle? "I tell you, my biggest fear is that I die and I go to heaven and God says, 'Did you
hear the one about the two guys who crapped on the lawn?'" -- High-end funnyman Albert Brooks on the proliferation of Adam
Sandler-esque lowbrow humor. - - - - - - - - - - - - No such thing as a patriotic
thong If you start her up she never stops, never stops, never stops -- causing a ruckus. Brazilian model Luciana Gimenez, mom to Mick Jagger's latest
out-of-wedlock offspring, has stirred things up not only in the former
Jagger/Jerry Hall household (the American model's marriage to the lippy
singer was officially annulled last week) but in her home country's government as
well. In an apparent reaction to Gimenez's appearance with her baby on a magazine cover
clad in nothing but a Brazilian flag, Brazil's Senate approved a ban on the use of
the flag on string bikinis and other "inappropriate and degrading settings," including
underwear, curtains, napkins and tablecloths. Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! "One cannot admit the use of the national flag in situations which are not recommended for the sobriety and the dignity of a symbol of the nation," the Senate's Constitution and Justice Commission said last week. So unlike America, where thongs -- flag-emblazoned or not -- are displayed in the government's most inner sanctums not just with impunity, but with pride. - - - - - - - - - - - - Bustin' out all over "I have great breasts." -- Modest Michelle Williams, of "Dawson's Creek" fame, who recently objected to photos of her taken by Maxim (a magazine whose motto may as well be "More cleavage than Cosmo, more phallic symbols than Hot Rod") because she says they "trivialized and sexualized" her. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Professor Plum in the billiards room with a birthday candle? "Clue," the preferred
board game of the murder- It's a solo Spice world after all. Baby Spice Emma Bunton has just been given her own weekly show on VH1, and Sporty Spice Mel C is gearing up to make her solo concert debut in the U.K. later this week. Guess what these piquant pretties wanted -- what they really really wanted -- all along was to ditch the Girl Power shtick and go it alone. The truth is out there, and so, "X-Files" star David Duchovny apparently hopes, is the money. The moody-faced TV actor has filed suit against Rupert Murdoch's 20th Century Fox Film Corp., claiming the studio has cheated him out of millions of dollars by selling the series to its own affiliates at a discount, thus lessening his cut of the show's profits, Variety reported on Friday. Duchovny also alleges that "X-Files" creator and executive producer Chris Carter was in on the conspiracy. (Cue creepy music.) Do you suppose the Smoking Man has something to do with this? A distinction NP hopes never to receive: the world's oldest bridesmaid.
Ninety-seven-year-old widow Flossie Bennett has just made it into the
Guinness Book of Records after eschewing aid from her wheelchair and practicing
walking down the aisle in the hospital. At least she won't have to spend too many
more years contemplating what to do with that $300 mauve taffeta dress hanging in
her closet.
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