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The frog prince of Bel-Air
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Jan. 28, 2000 |
The actress recently confessed to the U.K. magazine FHM that she's rather fond of the bottle. "I like to get wasted sometimes," admits Silverstone. "I love red wine and Sea Breezes, and I like a Bloody Mary, too." And while she didn't mention Sex on the Beach, Silverstone apparently has no aversion to sucking face by the pond. For a TV ad against dissection in biology classes, she cheerfully kissed a frog. Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! "It wasn't a real frog because as animal activists we don't believe in using animals to exploit them in any way. So I used a rubber frog," she explains. "The great thing was that I was able to fantasize about how I would really want to do it." And how, pray tell, does the "Clueless" star feel about Fuzzy Navels? She's quite fond of her own, it seems, and has even gone so far as to give her "belly" a name. "I'm not going to tell you what it's called," says she. "That's too personal." I'll drink to that. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Manchester Mosh Madness "Admittedly, I was willing to fall into the mosh pit, but I'll tell you something. You know why I did that? Because I think that exemplifies the kind of trust in people that is the heart and soul of the Keyes campaign ... And when you trust them, they will in fact hold you up." -- Republican presidential hopeful Alan Keyes, putting a positive political spin on his experiment with crowd surfing. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mud-covered, ink-stained wretches I love it when New York media types start slinging mud. And it's even more delicious when that irrepressibly arrogant British import Toby Young is involved. When he slings mud, look out for hidden rocks. Young is currently feuding with former New York Observer columnist Carl Swanson -- and it's getting nasty. In a New York Press article headlined "BCC, Dumbass," Young trashes Swanson for including the e-mail addresses of all his contacts in the "cc" field of an e-mail announcing his decision to ditch the Observer for New York magazine. "After I'd finished updating my Palm Pilot" with the contact info for big media names like Walter Isaacson, Kurt Andersen and Frank Rich, writes Young in the Press, "I sent the following message to everyone on the list: 'So now we know who all his sources are. That's such an elementary e-mail mistake, it's almost worthy of an item in [Swanson's column] Off The Record.'" Young's comment kicked off a flurry of indignant e-mails and tense phone calls. Later, some hoaxter got his hands on the list and began sending joke spam to New York City's media elite. This, of course, pleased Young to no end. He was still smarting from Swanson's harsh treatment of him in past columns. But lest you think Young heartless, he wishes his colleague "the best of luck at New York," adding, "You're going to need it, you dumb ass." Remind me never to send e-mail to Toby Young. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The bald truth "I've never felt so unsexy and sort of undesirable in my life." -- Emilio Estevez on going bald for the upcoming Showtime film "Rated X." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - First ladies first Who cares how Hillary Rodham Clinton's doing in the New York polls -- they love her online. In a surprise victory over stars like Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Lopez and Shania Twain, La Clinton was voted woman most wanted for a Valentine's Day date. The online poll, conducted by Dateable.com, also determined that women would rather exchange hearts and flowers with Bill Gates than with Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson, Denzel Washington or Ricky Martin. And they say online polls are unreliable ... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Honey, look what I picked up! "It's just like she has been shopping. She looks fantastic." -- Oasis front man Noel Gallagher, describing his wife after she gave birth to the couple's new baby, Anaïs. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Setting the spicy record straight That item about Sporty Spice stomping out of a Howard Stern interview in Wednesday's column? A couple of readers have written to let me know that it was one of Stern's minions, not the big jock himself, who startled the saucy Spice with sexy questions. "The funny thing about the questions," reports one reader, "was that he asked her, 'Have you had a lesbian experience?' and she calmly answered, 'No.' Then he asked if she had ever been with a black man and she screamed 'OH MY GOD, NO!!!'" Sounds like they named the wrong one Scary Spice.
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