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April 19, 2000 | Iman recently confessed that she and David Bowie used an African fertility custom to help them conceive -- and Christie Brinkley pitched in like a trouper. The expectant mother told Rosie O'Donnell that, after months of failing to conceive, she borrowed Brinkley's child for a day, which is believed to aid fertility, and -- bango! -- she got knocked up. Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! "David is so excited," Iman told O'Donnell. "He looks so silly with his stupid grin, I keep on saying to him that people might think that he is back on drugs." Cindy Crawford, meanwhile, claims the birth of her child helped her shed her vanity like a placenta. At first, she admits in the upcoming issue of USA Weekend, she struggled with her body's "huge change." "You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei," she says. But now she's "less result-oriented," more relaxed and more inclined to scarf down dessert. Well, when a stomach like that growls ... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The love that dare not bark its name "There's constipation, and then there's love. These are the only two feelings everybody has. Whether it's man and woman, man and man, or ... dog and dog! WOOF, WOOF, WOOF!" -- Hanson's youngest member, Zac, on good songwriting material, in the London Observer. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - O. my What's up with Oprah Winfrey's friendship with Gayle King, the woman who's now serving as O. magazine's editor at large and staff liaison to Lady O. herself? Seems to me there's something a little strange going on there. In the current issue of the New Yorker, King claims that the two women are so tight, they not only share clothes -- they've shared underwear. "As Oprah's oldest and closest friend, I know what Oprah likes and what Oprah wants, and I'm here to see that she gets it," King tells the magazine. I mean, when you come right down to it, she says, she and Oprah are practically the same person. "We have so much in common. Our shoe size is the same, 10. Our contact lenses have the same prescription. Our phone numbers -- it just happened -- are the same, backward." Consequently, she says, "I know what Oprah thinks. I even sound like her. It's funny. When my three sisters hear Oprah on her show, they can't tell who's talking. They think it's me." And I think it's scary. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Habitrail turns "That's for Hammy." -- Romance novelist Sharon Kendrick, who allegedly smashed in the window of a high-end U.K. store selling a coat made of hamster pelts shortly after her own pet hamster passed away, in the U.K. Sun. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Being a multibillionaire has its advantages. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has just released an album -- inspired by Jimi Hendrix, the Eagles and Pink Floyd -- with his band, Grown Men. Allen says he and his buddies made the album "purely for fun." And after perusing lyrics from the Allen-penned first cut, "Whirlpool" -- "The smell of something burning somewhere on your floor/Right around the corner or it could be next door" -- I sure hope so. It's a little like Geraldo Rivera and Al Capone's safe. After an absurdly long and suspenseful buildup, the Rosenbach Museum's unveiling of Greta Garbo's letters to screenwriter Mercedes de Acosta revealed exactly nothing about a rumored lesbian affair between the two women. "I see nothing that refers to a liaison," Garbo's great niece Gray Horan observed. "I don't think there's much here to back it up. I only knew her to be interested in men." What an anticlimax. What's in a nickname? Apparently a lot. The Atlantic Monthly reports that, back in the '60s, George W. Bush had such a hard time coming up with his nickname for his secret society at Yale, Skull and Bones, he was assigned the name "Temporary," which became, well, permanent. What's more, his dad was dubbed "Magog," which, according to the magazine, "is traditionally assigned to the incoming Bonesman deemed to have had the most sexual experience." So that's what he meant by "read my hips." Guess it's not always good to be the king. Sweden's King Carl Gustaf got nailed for speeding in Denmark over the weekend while he was hightailing it to the queen of Denmark's birthday party in his Ferrari. According to Reuters, Danish police apparently made the collar after an anonymous caller told them he'd seen a car with Swedish plates zoom by and that he believed the driver was the king of Sweden. Carl Gustaf is contrite. "I'm sorry and I apologize," he told a Swedish news agency. Off with his head! Harry Potter and the Queen of Nice? Popcorn.com reports that Rosie O'Donnell may be the first big-name star to sign on for the big-screen adaptation of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." O'Donnell says she's had some preliminary conversations with director Chris Columbus about playing Mrs. Weasley, mother of Harry's buddy Ron. "I just think it's absolutely enchanting and I would love to be a part of it," O'Donnell told Popcorn. "I think it's going to go down in history as a 'Wizard of Oz'-type epic for the next generation." Click your heels and repeat after me: There's no place like Hogwarts ... there's no place like Hogwarts ...
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