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Celebrity free-fall-for-all
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March 31, 2000 | Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey
circus had aerialist Mark David
hoisted more than 30 floors up the side
of USA Today's twin towers in Arlington,
Va., Thursday, to do a few tricks -- a
foot hang, a neck spin, a couple of heel
drops. The goal? To boost awareness of
the circus' current stint in neighboring
Washington -- and maybe get a mention in
USA Today's Lifeline column. "You know me, Cesar," publicist Kerry
Lynn Bohen wrote to Lifeline writer
Cesar G. Soriano in an e-mail the
paper's staffers dubbed "flack pitch of
the week." "I'll keep sending you information about
things I'm working on, in the hopes that
eventually one of them will catch your
ear," Bohen wrote. "This one may, at
least, catch your eye -- particularly if
you look out the window at the right
time on Thursday morning!" Unfortunately for the publicist, Soriano
wasn't even around at 11 a.m., when
David began his upward journey on a
trapeze attached to the bottom of window
washers' scaffolding. "I didn't see it,
and no, we are not running it in
Lifeline," Soriano tells me. "For some reason, we don't really cover
things happening in our own building,"
Soriano says, but holds out this hope
for the plucky circus publicist. "Last
year, we had a sky diver jump off the
building, and we never even mentioned
it. But the Washington Post did a big
story on it." Bohen's apparently got her backup plan
covered. "We made sure our photographers
got pictures without the USA Today sign
in them," she tells me. Guess that's why they call it the
greatest show on Earth. - - - - -
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apparent "I wanted one of those Brazilian waxes
that make Naomi Campbell's nether
regions look so entrancing. But the pain
was so excruciating I ran out with my
knickers in my pocket." -- Celebrity ex-wife Paula Yates
on beauty treatments gone bad in the
U.K.'s Aura magazine. - - - - -
- - - - - - - Steak
knives at the ready! But USA Today's "flack pitch of the
week" has nothing on mine. This week, I
received a mighty thought-provoking
e-mail from John Wayne Bobbitt's
manager, Robert R. Yates. "I was wondering if you would be
interested in having your site auction
off a date with John Wayne Bobbitt,"
Yates writes, "something similar to what
www.ugo.com did with Gary Coleman. "John generates a lot of publicity no
matter what he does," Yates points out.
"When John feels like it, he does 40 to
60 radio shows a week worldwide, not
including TV and print. If we do
something like the Coleman thing, it
will bring a lot of worldwide press to
your company. "I have several media contacts and will
have them all run an article on it,"
Yates offers. "And if John is lucky he
will get a date and, you never know, it
just might be the girl John settles down
with. And if that happens the press on
that would be unbelievable. And John is
trying to find himself that special
someone. If interested send me an e-mail
or contact me ..." Well, it's certainly very, very
tempting, Mr. Yates, but I think I'll
have to pass. Any takers out there? - - - - -
- - - - - - - Ah-nold
Cusack? "I could be in films where you kill
someone and then say something cute:
'Hasta la vista, baby.' It starts there.
Before you know it, you have an
entourage." -- John Cusack on the career path
not taken, in the Toronto Sun. - - - - -
- - - - - - - Juicy
bits Did Catherine
Zeta-Jones go to the Halle Berry Driving
School? The Welsh actress is being
sued for more than a million smackers by
movie producer Petra Van Oelffen.
Van Oelffen says Zeta-Jones was
negligent when, swerving to avoid
hitting an animal, she rammed her car
into a tree. Van Oelffen, a passenger in
Zeta-Jones' car, suffered a broken ankle
in the accident. The tree has yet to
retain counsel. It's Bjork and Yorke! Icelandic
chanteuse Bjork and Radiohead
singer Tom Yorke are teaming up
on a song for the soundtrack of Lars
von Trier's new film, "Dancer in the
Dark," in which Bjork stars as a Czech
single mother working in a U.S. factory. How is Celine Dion spending her
retirement? Playing golf and playing
around. "We would both love for Celine
to be pregnant," Dion's husband Rene
Angelil recently told the press. "We're
working hard on it." Apparently it's not
only her heart that will go on ... and
on ... Whitney Houston's apparently not
done playing the bad girl yet. The singer
reportedly showed up four hours late for
a recent Jane magazine interview. When
she finally arrived, the magazine
reports, she was "extremely unfocused,
had trouble keeping her eyes open and
kept singing and playing an imaginary
piano on the table." During the course
of the interview, she volunteered that
she'd just as soon hang out with a
junkie as a U.S. president. "The
president gets off on the country. The
junkie gets off on a couple of hits.
They're the same, both cut from the same
cloth, they're just men, you dig?" Uh
... not really.
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