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May 9, 2000 | I take two measly days off and what happens? The dish runneth over. For starters, after a full week of denials from their publicists, Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie tied the knot in Las Vegas Friday afternoon. The quickie, no-frills affair, in which both bride and groom wore jeans, was held at the Little Church of the West. No word on whether Jolie's brother, James Haven, was on hand to add to the traditional awkwardness of "You may now kiss the bride." Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! Then there was Kathie Lee Gifford's little run-in with a sack full of rambunctious rodents. The New York Post reports that Reege's soon-to-be former co-host flipped her wig during an autograph session in a New Jersey shopping mall when a man showed up carrying a bag of live mice and unceremoniously dumped a couple of them at her feet. Witnesses say Gifford screamed bloody murder as her tormentor fled the scene. Where was Frank to run interference when she needed him? And the scuttlebutt from across the pond is nearly as startling. It seems that Posh Spice has been getting death threats again, and this time the stalker took the time to include pictures. The U.K. Mirror reports that Victoria Beckham received a photograph of herself with a bullet and a blood-spurting head wound sketched on it, along with the following message: "You are going to get what's coming to you." Earlier this year, Victoria's in-laws received a photo of Victoria and David Beckham's baby boy, Brooklyn, doctored to depict the tyke bleeding from a head wound. Police are looking for the snap-happy harasser ... but if I were the Beckhams, I'd steer clear of paparazzi for a while. In other U.K. news, Prince Andrew and Fergie are hinting that they might make like Billy Bob and Angelina and get hitched. To each other. Again. "I don't rule remarriage out," the queen's second son told Tatler magazine. Then again, he said, "I certainly don't rule it in." His shape-shifting ex-wife, with whom he shares a mansion, agreed that "if it should happen, great. It is not in, nor is it ruled out." Is that clear? But the weirdest news of the week -- by far -- is that Gary Coleman is toying with the idea of running for the California Senate. The diminutive "Diff'rent Strokes" star apparently announced his intentions on Fox News, saying, "I'm such a radical. I might have to run independent." Needless to say, I had to follow up on the Coleman morsel. After all, it seems like the self-proclaimed virgin's current favorite method of getting his rocks off is seeing his name in bold newspaper type. So I contacted the folks over at UGO Network, a Web site that's been milking what's left of Coleman's celebrity for its own P.R. purposes for the last few months. Pay dirt. The idea was apparently hatched at a lunch attended by Coleman, several UGO muckety-mucks and a few reporters (from Rolling Stone, Ad Week and Interactive Week) a little more than a week ago. Coleman was spouting off on everything from independent film (he contends it's "going the way of the dodo bird") and Elián González (whose father, Coleman says, is "conspiring with Castro"), when someone suggested he consider a run for office. "The idea was thrown around, initially in jest," Sabine Heller, UGO.com's P.R. director, tells me. "If you knew Coleman, you would understand how it turned into a real thought ASAP. He is very impulsive and has strong opinions." So is it true? Will Arnold go the way of Gopher? "No one has confirmed anything about all of this," says Heller. However, if Coleman does decide to make a formal announcement and run, she says, UGO will likely back him in some capacity. Me, I'd sooner vote for Barbie for president.
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