To print this page, select "Print" from the File menu of your browser salon.com > People Oct. 23, 1999 URL: http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/1999/10/23/npw1023 Bummed, waterlogged and de-shagged This is Marie Osmond off drugs; find Jimmy Hoffa, win a prize; new management book takes a look at Moses, MBA. Plus: Jennifer Aniston laments her hair; and Liddy Dole's do does her in. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Amy Reiter It was a week that began with the blues according to Marie Osmond, gained momentum when a boating magazine challenged its readers to find the world's longest missing Teamster and ground to a dreary halt when hair-impaired Elizabeth Dole dropped out of the presidential race. Thank goodness we only pass this way once. - - - - - - - - - - - - Monday: "Sad moms scarf Jif" She's a little bit country, and a little bit bummed. In an upcoming issue of TV Guide, Marie Osmond reveals that there's one sad, sad lady behind that smiley, smiley face. Osmond says she first found herself in an "incredibly dark place" after the birth of her seventh child, Matthew. It hit her one night in the kitchen. "I remember opening up the refrigerator and the cupboard, thinking nothing is here," she recalls. "I opened up a jar of peanut butter and ate it with a spoon and it was at that point I think I started to go into the depression." (The Skippy done her in.) Read the entire Nothing Personal column for Monday, Oct. 18. - - - - - - - - - - - - Tuesday: "Bobbing for Teamsters" Wanted: Jimmy Hoffa's waterlogged corpse. And there are a few extra G's in it for you. Boating magazine is offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who finds the vanished Teamster's body in Michigan's Au Sable River, where jailed killer Ricky Powell claims to have dumped it back in July 1975. "If you think about it, the Au Sable makes sense as Hoffa's grave more so than the goal line at Giants Stadium or the Florida Keys, where '60 Minutes' was once duped by a Hoffa hoaxter," asserts the mag of the powerboating set. "It's not a joke; it's really true," Boating spokesman Howard Greene tells me. He says the editors "think that the place is reasonable. They think that the story makes sense, and therefore, there's a reasonable chance that someone's going to find it." Read the entire Nothing Personal column for Tuesday, Oct. 19. - - - - - - - - - - - - Wednesday: "Thou shalt not pass the buck" So he hasn't parted the Red Sea, been handed the Ten Commandments by the man upstairs or had Charlton Heston play him on the big screen. AOL prez Bob Pittman is still the most Moses-like mogul around. Or so says David Baron, a Beverly Hills rabbi whose new book, "Moses on Management: 50 Leadership Lessons From the Greatest Manager of All Time," sets out to do for bosses what Rabbi Shmuley Boteach's "Kosher Sex" did for lovers. "I think Moses was flawed," Rabbi Baron tells me. "He was human. He made mistakes, and I think the great thing is he allowed people to make mistakes." Just like Pittman! Baron maintains the AOL chief handled the company's congestion problems in a "very Moses-like" manner. Read the entire Nothing Personal column for Wednesday, Oct. 20. - - - - - - - - - - - - Thursday: "Shag-a-delic no more" Guess what: You're not the only one regretting that Rachel hairstyle. Jennifer Aniston herself laments the shaggy-dog 'do. "All I have to say about that, looking back," she says in an upcoming W interview, "is, 'What the hell was I thinking?'" Don't know, Jen, but thanks to W, we do know what you think about fashion ("I remember thinking 'couture' was a designer. I thought, wow, this guy is everywhere!"), Joan Rivers ("Now there's a woman with taste! I try to stay far away from her") and getting your photo snapped by the paparazzi ("As long as I'm not bending over with my crack showing, I don't care"). Read the entire Nothing Personal column for Thursday, Oct. 21. - - - - - - - - - - - - Friday: "Bowl cut Dole?" Money? Ha! It was the helmet head that did in Elizabeth Dole. (A clear case of hair today, gone tomorrow.) So claims hairdresser Art Padilla, whose California spa, Amadeus, caters more to Tinseltown than Beltway heads. Padilla says Liddy's "hard, plastic" 'do kept voters from being able to relate to her. "Her look was too stiff. That puffy, sprayed, don't-touch-me sort of look," the stylist tells me, adding that everyday folks were "looking for something softer, more natural. Something that if you put your hand on it and rubbed it might move a little." Responsive hair that feels your pain. Read the entire Nothing Personal column for Friday, Oct. 22. salon.com | Oct. 23, 1999