But He’ll Probably Never Have His Own Home Page
When we last left former O.J. Simpson hanger-on Kato Kaelin, he was being booed at a baseball game in Baltimore.
Now he’s been dissed in cyberspace, during an on-line forum for CompuServe subscribers sponsored by People magazine.
Asked one disembodied being named Andrew: “I just wanted to know if you ever feel guilty about the fact that your celebrity status is partially due to” the murders of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
Typed back the moderator: “Not a good question.”
But Kaelin chimed in, “Wait a second … Do you think I should feel guilty?” The questioner replied, “Maybe a little.” Kaelin’s response: “I appreciate your question. And I care about what you think. … Next.”
Dick Cavett, cyber-chatting about O.J. (on America On-Line): “If he is acquitted, I will renounce my citizenship. And if I converse with him at a cocktail party, I will say, ‘Well, there are so many people here who haven’t murdered anyone. I think I’ll go talk to them.”’
Now, is he the loser, or is it that younger guy?
Jeff Beck turns 51 today.
Not that this is a slow day for us or anything
At least somebody appreciates Kato. The National Society of Newspaper Columnists has honored him with its “Sitting Duck Award,” as “the target most useful to a columnist on a slow day.” President Sheila Stroup of The New Orleans Times-Picayune called Kaelin “a perfect example of fleeting celebrity - hair today, gone tomorrow.”
Like most movies, the ending will probably stink
“Sixty Minutes” executive producer Don Hewitt has long favored cameras in the courtroom, but the Simpson trial is changing his mind. “Letting cameras in can turn a courtroom into a movie set,” Hewitt told the New York Times. “In Los Angeles, we’ve got a movie in which the lead speaks no lines, a blonde bombshell turns out to be a man and the $5-a-day extras in the jury box keep walking off the set.”
Then they dedicated ‘Bang and Blame’ to Connie
Sporting shades, Dan Rather joined R.E.M. on-stage during a sound check at Madison Square Garden and sang along on “What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?” The title comes from an incident in 1986 when the CBS newsman was pummeled by a well-dressed stranger on the street who kept asking, “Kenneth, what is the frequency?”
He was carrying on like there was no tomorrow
Veteran talk host Tom Snyder lost it when his recent Washington-toRome flight hit turbulence, shouting: “This is it! No one will come out alive! We’re all doomed!” Following a 15-minute rant, Snyder put on sunglasses and kept quiet for the rest of the trip, while an unidentified female companion apologized to all around.
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