To print this page, select "Print" from the File menu of your browser salon.com > People Feb. 10, 2000 URL: http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/2000/02/10/npthurs We won't get boobed again! Let's See Action! Who fans boo Cindy Margolis; Gwyneth banishes statuette; and -- horrors! -- the man behind the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync forms another Frankenband! - - - - - - - - - - - - By Amy Reiter Say what you will about Cindy Margolis, the Web's most downloaded woman for four years running. Just don't call her shameless. Sure, she once slew a certain international man of mystery with her Fembotic machine-gunning gazongas. And true, she did put on a wet T-shirt for Howard Stern -- "He makes you do things you'd never ever do in any other place" -- but even a celebrity cyberbabe has her limits. "The only thing I won't put on my Web site is nudity," Margolis tells Men's Fitness magazine. "My Web site is very sexy, fun and fresh, with a light tone, but no nudity. It shows just enough." But Margolis confesses she unwittingly showed more than enough while introducing the reunited Who to thousands of fans. "I ran out onstage because I was so excited, and my boob came out of my shirt," she says. "I didn't know it until the audience started screaming." But when she tucked herself back in, she set off a chorus of boos. "I guess that was my first taste of nudity," she muses, "in front of 100,000 people, and over the Internet -- I think 5 million people at one time were on." So what does Margolis herself find "incredibly sexy"? Her own feet, which she says are "one of my best assets," and "watching men blow-dry their hair." - - - - - - - - - - - - Probably not Cindy's kinda guy "You just gotta dig yourself." -- Bruce Willis on coping with hair loss, in USA Weekend magazine. - - - - - - - - - - - - Tarnished gold Anxious? Fitful? Still haunted by the memory of Gwyneth Paltrow's teary breakdown at last year's Oscars? So's she. And the gold statuette she then so gratefully received is now but a painful reminder of her self-described televised "wimp"-hood. "It's in storage," she recently told the U.K. magazine Woman's Journal. "I don't want that thing in my house. It scares me." But how does she feel about the dress? - - - - - - - - - - - - Cry no more "Michael's got to come up with something brand-new, something people haven't heard from him. He's got to stop with that little cry at the end of each sentence that he sings, each phrase. He's got to stop with that whole little finger-snapping flick of the wrist stuff. That's old. He's got to sort of reinvent himself." -- Michael Jackson's producer, Walter Afanasieff, holding forth on what the king of pop has to do to hold onto his crown on Wall of Sound. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Move over, Hallmark. Pfizer has taken out ads in several magazines claiming to be "an 'official sponsor' of Valentine's Day." Roses are red/Viagra is blue/Valentine's Day's coming up/and so are you? Heidi "Linda Tripp" Fleiss? The former Hollywood madam is suing E! Entertainment Television for slander for allegedly falsely depicting her as a police informant. The portrayal apparently didn't go over big with her fellow prisoners at the Dublin (Calif.) Federal Correctional Institution when the segment aired last year. Throw the little black book at 'em! Variety reports that Patrick Warburton, who played Elaine's boyfriend David Puddy on "Seinfeld," will star in a live-action TV version of "The Tick." Barry Sonnenfeld -- who says he's been "a huge fan" of the big, blue cartoon superhero for years -- will direct. High five! Being Björk has its perks. For one thing, you get your own private island. Iceland's prime minister, David Oddsson, has arranged for the singer to have exclusive use of Ellidaey Island "as a royalty payment" in recognition of all she's done for "the popularity of Iceland." What ever happened to a nice homey parade and keys to the city? Another day, another boy band. Lou Pearlman, the man you have to thank for Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, has selected another batch of boys to form a band called O-Town. The band will make its debut on an ABC series later this month. Somebody stop this guy ... salon.com | Feb. 10, 2000   - - - - - - - - - - - - About the writer Amy Reiter is a staff writer for Salon People. For more columns by Amy Reiter, visit her column archive.