To print this page, select "Print" from the File menu of your browser salon.com > People Dec. 22, 1999 URL: http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/1999/12/22/np1222 Wardrobe is hell Quaid, Byrne chafe, bitch, burn. Plus: Gwyneth Paltrow tired of blond Gwyneth Paltrow person. And, the bribe please ... Coach kicks in with kickbacks for Stone. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Amy Reiter Hollywood trend No. 1: Heavy-duds dissing Just when Kate Winslet and Helena Bonham Carter have clammed up about the miseries of corsets, a chorus of male actors seems to have taken up the "costuming is hell" lament. Dennis Quaid recently whimpered about the pro football uniforms he and his costars had to wear in Oliver Stone's "Any Given Sunday." "We had football camp for a month before," he whined to WENN news. The worst part, he said, "was the uniform weighs a lot, and you have to be in that thing all day long." But as they say in football, Dennis oughta just suck it up. He ain't got nothin' on Gabriel Byrne, who says in the December Maxim that the suit of armor he wore in "Excalibur" wasn't exactly as cozy as an old pair of jeans. The heavy armor, Byrne says, meant that "if you fell off your horse, they needed a crane to lift you up on it again. What's more, he confides, "sex was actually out of the question ... No provisions were made for urinating either -- the knights had to go right in their suits, and many of the actors got diaper rash." I'm all for getting into character, but that's just gross. - - - - - - - - - - - - Hollywood trend No. 2: color wars I have a confession to make: I'm not really a blond. Neither is Sigourney Weaver, but that hasn't stopped her from going platinum for the film "Galaxy Quest." Weaver's just one of several actresses who have recently chosen to redefine themselves by reaching for the bottle. Cameron Diaz will lighten up again for the Charlie's Angels flick, despite her deep desire to stay with the mousy brown look she sported in "Being John Malkovich." But no one speaks as passionately about the fabulosity of becoming a brownhead than Gwyneth Paltrow, who claims to "feel sexier and cooler as a brunette." "The director of 'Bounce' was very tired of the blonde Gwyneth Paltrow person. And I was too. I'm tired of her," the brunette Gwyneth Paltrow person prattled to Scotland's Daily Record. "So there's a new Gwyneth Paltrow person. I like it because nobody knows who I am." And could a name change also be imminent for Gwynnie? "There is this image of me that I feel isn't me; I don't feel connected to," she said. "In a way I wish that Gwyneth Paltrow wasn't my real name." She'd prefer maybe "Cher"? - - - - - - - - - - - - Moss, a model mom? "If I haven't met Mr. Right in a few years I'm going to do it anyway. Definitely." -- Supermodel Kate Moss on feeling "broody" enough to have a baby on her own, in the Big Issue magazine. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Heavy costumes are not a problem in Jason Priestley's feature directorial debut, "Barenaked in America." According to the Hollywood Reporter, the actor's documentary film about the Barenaked Ladies rock group will be one of six flicks featured next month in the Slamdance Film Festival's special screenings category. Everyone at the Peach Pit must be really proud. Looks like Sharon Stone's dabbling in impropriety again. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has ordered its 82 members to return the pricey watches the actress arranged to have sent to them -- just weeks before they vote on whether to hand her a Golden Globe for her work in "The Muse." HFPA president Helmut Voss told Daily Variety, "We were touched by her generosity, but this is definitely a no-no for a group like ours that wants to protect the integrity of its award." Generosity? The $295-$395 watches were donated by Coach. Yikes! salon.com | Dec. 22, 1999