To print this page, select "Print" from the File menu of your browser salon.com > People Dec. 7, 1999 URL: http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/1999/12/07/np1207 Does Carrey need to exorcise? Is Jim possessed by Andy? Can a direct hit by a T-shirt cause $25,000 in damage? Is Hollywood evil? Will the Lady P end lines to the loo? Get all the answers here! Plus: Finally, you can buy a piece of Gilligan's Island! - - - - - - - - - - - - By Amy Reiter If the smog doesn't get you, the flying T-shirts will? Tinseltown's getting more dangerous by the day. Readers are urged to note two recent additions to the Nothing Personal Hollywood travel advisory. Travel alert No. 1: Avoid actors who take their roles too seriously. Jim Carrey recently claimed he was so immersed in Andy Kaufman's persona while filming the late comic's biopic, "Man on the Moon," that he lost himself completely. After the film wrapped, Carrey said, "I spent three weeks thinking, 'What do I like again? What do I believe? How do I feel about that?'" When travelers hear an actor talk like this, they are advised to grab their cameras and run. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Carrey and Kaufman's best buddy, Bob Zmuda, suddenly slipped into the roles of Kaufman and his creepy alter ego, lounge lizard "Tony Clifton," and terrorized an unsuspecting group of journalists during an L.A. press junket on Saturday. During the "tussle," the two Tinseltownians defaced the walls of the Four Seasons Hotel with graffiti, flung iced tea and smashed reporters' equipment. At one point, "Clifton" even proffered a prosthetic penis. Carrey, who reemerged looking dazed and confused after the brawl, claims to have been sucked into character on the spot by Zmuda and has volunteered to pay for the damaged equipment. But remember, "sorry" and a couple of bucks won't bring back those snaps of the kiddies at Disneyland you took for grandma. Travel alert No. 2: Beware the flying freebies. Don't let what happened to Stewart Gregory of Cincinnati, Ohio, happen to you. In a suit filed against NBC, Gregory claims he was sitting in "The Tonight Show" studio audience, waiting for Jay Leno to wow him, when he was "forcefully struck in the face by a T-shirt." The hapless victim wants Leno & Co. to fork over $25,000 to cover treatment for his injuries, "pain and suffering, disability, lost wages, emotional distress, humiliation and embarrassment," reports the L.A. Times. Freak accident? Sadly, no. According to court papers, warm-up comics toting air guns regularly pelt the audience members with gratis "Tonight Show" gear before the show. Travelers are advised to wear protective clothing within Burbank and not to respond to taunts and verbal abuse from any unknown comics. - - - - - - - - - - - - Easy for him to say "People say Hollywood is evil. It's greedy and obnoxious, but it's not evil." -- Actor Gabriel Byrne, who probably never had a T-shirt fired at him from close range. - - - - - - - - - - - - Chalk one up for modern ingenuity I'll never complain about long ladies' room lines again. A Dutch inventor named Marian Loth has come up with a solution: a female urinal called the "Lady P." It looks and functions much like a man's urinal -- and Loth maintains it's more hygienic and six times faster to use than your standard-issue terlet. But the new contraption is receiving mixed reviews from women giving it a whirl at a London bar. "No, no, no, no, never," one woman told the U.K. Guardian. "If you think I am going to squat there with my worst gray knickers around my ankles and my fanny to the world, you've got to be joking. I don't care how long the queue is. I'll wait." Others are more willing to take the plunge. "Like most girls I hate waiting for the loo, so anything that is faster is a great idea," said a less testy tester. "I just wonder whether my thigh muscles are strong enough." Oh my. - - - - - - - - - - - - Who wants to give birth to a millionaire? "At the moment, we are calling her jane.com." -- Actor Greg Wise on the temporary name of his and Emma Thompson's newborn daughter. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Madonna's next incarnation: '70s hippy chick? The material girl-turned-earth mother has recorded a new version of Don McLean's "American Pie," to be released early next year. The remake was inspired by a scene in her flick "The Next Best Thing" in which she and Rupert Everett sing the classic tune. I dunno -- "Vogued my Chevy to the levee" just doesn't have the same ring. Grapple with this: Variety reports that World Championship Wrestling's Goldberg (aka Bill Goldberg) will co-author an autobiography with his brother, Steve. The tome, due out around Christmas 2000, will trace the Jewish wrestler's rise, from his Tennessee roots through his NFL career to the lofty heights of the WCW elite. Perfect for everyone on your holiday shopping list. Little Buddy to the rescue! A West Virginia charity will auction off several items autographed by the cast of "Gilligan's Island." Bob Denver, known to the world as Gilligan, has donated a "Gilligan's Island" play set and autographed denim shorts worn by Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on the '60s TV show. Ginger's feather boa is not up for sale ... but what the heck was Gilligan doing with Mary Ann's short-shorts, anyway? salon.com | Dec. 7, 1999