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March 30, 2000 | Tyler tells Allure that when she read a
newspaper report that her lippy dad,
Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, "had
bought us [matching] emerald nipple
rings and that we were going to have
them installed," it "almost made me pass
out." "How vulgar!" she exclaims. "Who would
ever say that about a father and
daughter?" Maybe they were thinking of Angelina Jolie
and her brother. - - - - -
- - - - - - - No sex
please, he's British "I didn't want any orgies because orgies
are boring." -- Ridley Scott on why his
upcoming flick "Gladiator" focuses more
on violence than sex. - - - - -
- - - - - - - Who was
that masked man? Here's one for the
what-goes-around-comes-around file: Covering a Kiss tour of Japan back in
the late '70s, writer Michael Gross was constantly
mistaken for Paul Stanley. He
blames his hair. "No one knew what those guys looked like
out of makeup," Gross tells me. "And I
had these angel curls." He was
approached by Stanley fans so often, he
began signing autographs. Cut to ... last week's celeb-filled L.A.
launch party for Gross' new book
about the baby boom, "My Generation:
Fifty Years of Sex, Drugs, Rock,
Revolution, Glamour, Greed, Valor, Faith
and Silicon Chips." Stanley and band
mate Gene Simmons, with whom
Gross has remained friendly, showed up
at the Standard Hotel to fete the author
and rub shoulders with the likes of
Rosanna Arquette and Vanna
White. But when Stanley, Simmons and Gross
wandered into the hotel lobby, a leggy
blond approached Simmons. "Are you
Michael Gross, who wrote the book?" the
woman asked the famous rocker. "The wheel does go 'round," chortles
Gross. Then again, this time he can't
blame the hair. "I think I'm much
prettier than Gene," he tells me. "But
then, he's a lot richer than I am." - - - - -
- - - - - - - Forget
the paintbrush "Knowing how to give pleasure to a woman
is the nearest most men get to being an
artist." -- Sir Peter Hall on the art of
love in the U.K. Telegraph. - - - - - - - - - - - - He's
all shook up Elvis is alive -- and he's running for
mayor of a small Midwestern town! A part-time Elvis impersonator who has
legally changed his name to Elvis
Aaron Presley is running for office
in Phillips, Wis. If elected, Presley
tells the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
he'll raise money for the city by
staging an Elvis concert. The King apparently got his inspiration
from the Body. "If the people of
[Minnesota] can put a wrestler in
office," the candidate says, "I don't
see what's wrong with the people in
Wisconsin electing an Elvis
impersonator." Presley says he hopes his famous name
will work in his favor. Then again, he
says, "it also works against me. Some
people might think: We don't want this
guy to be mayor. He doesn't seem to even
know his own identity." But he sure can swivel his hips ... - - - - -
- - - - - - - Juicy
bits You can't keep a party-lovin' supermodel
down. At least not for long. Just two
days after Kate Moss was released
from the hospital following a severe
kidney infection, she was back on the
club scene, tossing back the booze.
Unnamed witnesses told the U.K. Sun that
Kate and her buddies "were all downing
sake" over dinner, tossing back the
champagne afterward and -- most
horrifying of all -- "singing out of
tune" on their way out the door. Hope
her kidney doctor's handy with livers,
too. A group of Tasmanian schoolboys
reportedly got a little saucy Wednesday
as Queen Elizabeth and Prince
Philip took a little stroll during
their tour of Australia. The kids hurled
a rotten tomato at the British royals --
missing them by just a few feet. A
Scotland Yard detective gave chase --
but he apparently couldn't ketchup. Home alone with Harry
Potter? Chris Columbus
has been tapped to direct "Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone," the first of four
films based on J.K. Rowling's
bestselling books. "I'm thrilled and
honored to bring J.K. Rowling's classic
story to the screen," said Columbus, who
directed "Mrs. Doubtfire" and "Home
Alone." Thank God Macauley
Culkin's too old for the part. Hilary Swank is in hot water with
JoAnn Brandon, whose daughter
Swank portrayed in "Boys Don't Cry,"
because she referred to "Brandon Teena,"
rather than Teena Brandon
(Brandon's daughter's given name),
during her Oscar acceptance
speech. "That set me off," Brandon
said. "She should not stand up there and
thank my child. I get tired of people
taking credit for what they don't know." Tell me you didn't see this one coming:
After word leaked out that Kathleen
Turner doffs her duds in the
West End stage production of "The
Graduate," ticket sales have gone off
the charts. A production spokesman told
the BBC that the exponential sales
increase "is not just because people now
know she is naked in it. It's also
because the word is out that it is a
terribly good production." Uh-huh. And
most men read Playboy for the articles. Welcome back, Kaplan? Gabe
Kaplan, who played Gabe Kotter in
that classic TV sitcom "Welcome Back,
Kotter," is returning to the comedy
stage with a gig in Mobile, Ala.
According to the Associated Press, the
actor left show biz back in the early
1980s to pursue investments and
high-stakes poker, but says stand-up
comedy is "the only legitimate job I
ever had." Who's gonna break it to the
Sweathogs?
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