Gossiplist Newsletter 7.1.02
MOVIELINE JULY/AUGUST 2002 #1
That pop music diva loves to shop at every hip sinfully expensive boutique on the map, and she usually has great taste when picking out her items. But when it comes to manners, well, she just doesn't have any. One afternoon last spring she swooped into New York's edgiest, most exclusive shop with her entourage and demanded the owners shut down for two hours so she could make her selections without prying eyes on her, The sales people complied and she proceeded to rack up a bill well over $15,000. When the manager asked for the doll's credit card, the star sniffed and said she thought all the goods were free. "Why shouldn't they be? she said, "I give your store publicity." When the shop owner politely and firmed refused, she threw a hissy fit and was asked, just as politely and firmly, to leave sans the goods - and to never return.
Editor Adds: There is a picture of JLo on the same page...lol.
Answer: Jennifer Lopez..
Ted Casablanca's E! Online Blind Item
Fainting femmes lined the barricades of a recent premiere, hoping to catch a glimpse of the macho flick's leading man. When the handsome dude hit the red carpet, the reporters could barely hear his rhetoric over the screaming sweeties.
Despite his semi-cemented status as a heartthrob, the studio didn't leave anything to chance. They wanted to make sure everyone knew this sorta he-man was making the girls swoon. So, they planted an adoring chica in the crowd, with a huge sign begging him to make her his very own. Just to give the night a little extra-hormonal charge. Did it work? Well, from the looks of the box office, it certainly didn't hurt.
Oh, how crafty. How '50s, really. Some things never change.
Answer: Matt Damon. Coverage of the 'Bourne Identity' premeire was featured on several news programs and a fan waving a sign saying 'Marry Me Matt' was prominently seen.
MOVIELINE JULY/AUGUST 2002 #3
He has a squeaky clean image as an athletic and energetic hunk. His concerts are vibrant and he always seems alive and alert. But when then international singing sex god meets the press, he's far more amped up. Whenever he shows up for interviews he's worn out, boring and, worst of all, so stoned out of his head he can barely answer even the simplest of questions. Word is that he's always dazed and confused because his best friend is a drug dealer and there's always plenty of green stuff in the green room.
Answer: Ricky Martin. He's definitely an international star. He sold millions of records worlwide before ever breaking into the US market.
MOVIELINE JULY/AUGUST 2002 #2
That rap and hip-hop sensation is young, hot, street, built for sin and sells faster than sliced pizza. But, yo, yo, yo, Movieline wonders whether the urban dude's swaggering braggart image will take a hit once his dissatisfied conquests start going public about his major...ummmm...shortcomings south of the belt line. What's much more damning, thought, is the unflattering nickname women have given him - "The Six Second Man."
Answer: Ludacris. He is featured on the Missy Elliot single 'One Minute Man'
We just found a very interesting post on the Usenet group, alt.gossip.celebrities, regarding a dinner party at Halle Berry's house. Apparently, she is not a good hostess..
For the first time ever on this forum Hollywood's most finicky and destructive hostess is revealed. Halle Barry, Bondgirl extraordinaire and protegee of Luticia Baldridge recently hosted a dinner party for the cast and crew of Bond 20, the new picture out this November. One observer writes "Halle's beautiful, but she's beautiful the way a manniquin is beautiful. What I mean is "perfectly beautiful". She cannot do a scene unless her fingernails are perfect. She gets touchups three times a day. Her hair is redone twice a day, and puts on new lip gloss every twenty minutes. She has 47 designer gowns and never wears one twice. She wants to be one of the 400. A social maven. She resorts to the old fashioned custom of the dinner party, when the cocaine party would be better attended.
On entering the house, guests were instructed to remove their shoes. The WHITE carpets were pure white still. They sat on Divans not couches. They were told to wash their hands before eating. "There's soap and towels in the guest bathroom please use them." She served a seven course dinner with four forks per place setting. Her china was Limoges. She had four wine glasses. She called the guests to dinner with a bell. She then sat them boy/girl, boy/girl. Guests were not permitted to leave the table until they had cleaned their plates. One guest was instructed to finish their pecan pie so everyone else could be served coffee.
One couple paged themselves from the cellphone while hidden in the bathroom and pled a babbysitter emergency. A newly pregnant woman claimed morning sickness at 10:30pm. The rest stayed the course in agony. I think it was her first dinner party because the help had all quit by the end of the evening. The guests were told "The Limoges is directly from Germany". Most people wore light summer dresses and sandals or a sports jacket. Halle wore a full length sequin gown complete with diamond earrings and necklace. The tiara was left at Tiffany's I suppose. Guests were not permitted to put coffe on adjacent furniture but had to hold it on their laps.