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Annette Bening: Once you start having on-screen sex, it isn't embarrassing anymore
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Feb. 22, 2000 | That over-the-top "American Beauty" sex scene
in which she and Peter Gallagher got
it on like a couple of royal bunnies? ("Do
you like getting nailed by the king?" "Oh
yes, your majesty!" "Who's the
king?" "Oh, you are!") Turns out, she and Gallagher
improvised much of their dialogue.
Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! "I haven't laughed that hard in a long time," Bening says of filming the scene in Los Angeles magazine's March issue. Gallagher toasts her sense of naughty fun. "I remember thinking at that moment, 'Man, that's great; you can be this kind of big shot and this talented and still enjoy your work this much,'" he says. And it's that slapstick-happy attitude toward on-screen love that got her through a scene in the upcoming film "What Planet Are You From?" in which she and Garry Shandling, who plays an alien from an all-male planet, go at it 126 times in a weekend. While it was a bit strange to get naked and hop in bed with "one of my husband's dearest friends," she recalls, once you start "doing it, all of what might have been weird kind of goes away." And apparently, it goes away over and over and over ... - - - - - - - - - - - - Someone needs Annette's help "After you've been simulating having sexual intercourse with someone, you still have to work with the actor for the rest of the day, and it's kind of hard to look him in the face. You think, 'Oh, my God, is this what we do for a living?'" -- Alicia Witt, on feeling embarrassed by her upcoming "Sopranos" sex scene (she can't say with whom), in USA Today. - - - - - - - - - - - - Don’t turn around -- oh, uh-oh -- Der Kommissar’s in town. Book your tickets now. A musical based on the music of Falco, the late Austrian '80s rocker whose hits included "Der Kommissar," "Vienna Calling" and "Rock Me Amadeus," is set to hit the Berlin stage in September. "Falco Meets Amadeus" will feature 20 Falco tunes and focus on a fictional meeting between the rock star and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. According to playwright Burkhard Driest, it is "a musical about the glory and the misery in the struggle for immortality." Funny, I didn't know Donald Trump was in Berlin. - - - - - - - - - - - - Bread and Circuses at 11 "At the end of those two hours, if you turned down the volume of your TV and you listened real carefully, you could hear Western civilization crumbling around you." -- Robert Thompson, director of Syracuse University's Center for the Study of Popular Television, on "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?" - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Going, going ... The upright Steinway piano on which John Lennon first plunked out "Imagine" will be auctioned off to the highest bidder in July on eOffer, a Web site being set up by Mick Fleetwood and auctioneer Ted Owen and set to launch in March. The piano (it's not the famous white one in the "Imagine" video, but it's said to be in good shape apart from two "fag burns") is expected to bring in something like one-and-a-half million smackers. Imagine all the people ... bidding like crazy fools -- ooo-hoo-oo-oo. Some harsh news for "Ain't It Cool News" creator Harry Knowles. His decision to post a "leaked" advance list of Oscar nominees apparently ain't cool with the Academy. No matter that the list turned out to be fake, probably the guesswork of ABC.com employees working on the awards' official Web site. Oscar's protectors say they may sue ol' Harry if, after investigating, they discover he broke any laws. And the loser is ... I hope Claudia Schiffer really loves her new hubby-to-be, because he comes with one humdinger of a father. Richard Jefferies, father of Schiffer's intended, Tim, hasn't stopped blabbing to the European press since his son got engaged to the supermodel a few weeks back. Now he's reportedly told a German tabloid that Schiffer didn't have sex with David Copperfield the whole time they were married and "then Tim came along and, from then on, things got going." And you thought your father-in-law was a talker. Ladeeee, you got me all wrong. Jerry Lewis has issued an apology, kind of, for his recent assertion that women comedians "set him back a bit" because he thinks of them as "producing machines that bring babies in the world." He "clarified" last week that only "when women, doing comedy, do routines written for them by drill sergeants, I take objection. Their filth makes me and many ashamed to be in our business, and to me women doing anything, especially comedy, are looked upon by me as one of God's great miracles ... they can make a baby." Now, don't we all feel silly for thinking he was sexist? Also misunderstood: Goliath? An
Israeli researcher believes that the
biblical giant was easy pickin's for wee
David because he may have suffered
from acromegaly, a condition associated
with gigantism that may have prevented him
from seeing the stone flying at his big,
inviting skull. Next thing you know,
they'll be saying that Samson forgot
to take his Rogaine.
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