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Feb. 8, 2000 |
Bianca Jagger, it seems, was no Madonna. "She didn't breast-feed me," Jade gripes in the upcoming issue of Talk Magazine. "I woke up when I was breast-feeding my own child, thinking, 'What the f***? How can a woman feel an attachment to a child -- it comes out of your body, and you're full of milk -- without breast-feeding?'" Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! But even though being the only child of hard-living Mick and Bianca Jagger sucked, so to speak, her troubled childhood was not without its lessons. "I have tasted all those things that people find to be glamorous," Jade, currently peddling her own "hot rocks" as a successful jewelry designer, tells the magazine. "Now it's time for me to rethink how much I'm willing to participate in the personality that other people want me to be." Well, at least time is on her side. - - - - - - - - - - - - Oh, fickle, fickle royalty ... "She has been seen with a lot with cockers in the past couple of years and is said to be mad keen on them." -- Shooting Gazette editor Robert Gray, confirming to the London Express that spaniels have replaced corgis as "king of the castle" in the Queen of England's heart. - - - - - - - - - - - - Another daughter heard from ... Like Jade Jagger, Sara Karloff's got a gripe. But this one's about a different kind of mummy. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Boris Karloff's daughter is suing Universal City Studios for $10 million in royalties she says are owed her from the merchandising of her father's image. Sara claims her father's classic characters "Frankenstein" and "The Mummy," among others, "are some of the most valuable of the motion picture characters" licensed by Universal, and that the studio has "failed to pay monies owed" for their merchandising. What's more, she says, Universal also engaged in a monstrous "bait and switch" scheme to cheat her out of her rightful dough by peddling "generic" versions of these characters designed "to look confusingly similar to, but not precisely the same as, the Karloff characters." Her attorney, Allan Browne, says the studio "owes Sara Karloff a ton of money." Lawyers, so precise. - - - - - - - - - - - - Mother knows best? "My mother told me that actresses are very pretty with big eyes. She said I was not pretty. It would be more suitable for me to become a primary or nursery teacher. I did not think I would be an actress." -- Gong Li, China's most famous actress, on her mother's advice, in the London Telegraph. - - - - - - - - - - - - Dude Patrol Do their mothers know? In exchange for tuition and a small stipend, seven male students at the University of South Florida ("three straight, three gay, one undecided," all buff) have moved into a "dorm" outfitted with 12 cameras broadcasting their movements to the paying public, 24/7. And given the ruckus in the Tampa Bay community of Pinellas Park kicked up last week after the location of the DudeDorm leaked out, it's a safe bet their moms know by now. Bruce Hammil, vice president of site owner Entertainment Network Inc., protests that "this is a DudeDorm, not a NudeDorm," but the site itself tells a different story. "Hang with us when we're chillin', when we're working out, sleeping, showering, and tanning," the Dudes coo. "Don't be surprised if you see any of us naked." And those rounds of naked Twister? "That was something the boys in the house came up with on their own," DudeDorm spokesman Brian Barry tells me, "not something the company asked them to do." The Dudes concur: "This is our house, and we're all guys here so leave your inhibitions at the door, dudes!" Along with your credit card number. - - - - - - - - - - - - I see nussink ... "If he had not been murdered I definitely think he could have changed, and his motivation for change was his family. He did not want his children to grow up and look at him in a negative way. He loved the father role and he loved what he understood a good father to be." -- Minister Ed Beck on the late "Hogan's Heroes" star Bob Crane's desire to overcome his sexual compulsions, in an A&E Biography airing Tuesday night. (The actor was murdered in 1978 while making amateur porno videos in a seedy hotel room.) - - - - - - - - - - - - Birthday clash What would Diana say? The familial tension between Prince Charles and Prince William is apparently heating up over plans for young Will's 18th birthday party this summer. The Sunday Times reports that the royal father and son recently got into a full-fledged shouting match over William's desire to take over a London nightclub this summer and ring in adulthood with the urban fast crowd he favors. The Prince of Wales, meanwhile, wants a tamer affair at home in Highgrove. "William is at a vulnerable age and Charles does not want him spending too much time in the kind of places where drugs may be available," one royal insider told the London paper. "He thinks it's more fitting to have the party in the countryside where elder members of the family will also feel welcome." According to the source, "William is very independent and in control of his own social life, which is causing a number of problems." Like mother, like son.
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