Make Some Money, And Hollywood Will Love You

Of late, Val Kilmer has been the man to hate in Hollywood. First, he bowed out of the “Batman” sequel (and was replaced by George Clooney). Then he was booed for causing the directorial change (two weeks into production) of his new film, “The Island of Dr. Moreau.”

But just a year ago, when “Batman Forever” was about to open, Kilmer was the bat’s meow.

“He definitely has an aura,” producer Brian Grazer told the July 7, 1995, issue of Entertainment Weekly. Added director Joel Schumacher, “I hate metaphysical mumbo jumbo, but you know when people say other people are old souls? There’s just something about Val…”

Remember, this is the same actor whom, Buzz magazine reported, one filmmaker called “the worst human being I have ever met.”

Loose talk

Actress Halle Berry on her near-nude posings in InStyle magazine: “I think it’s sexy to see what’s real… When things are pure and things are simple, you know what you’re getting.”

Somewhere, the Sundance Kid is blowing out candles

Robert Redford turns 59 today.

Tamed the West, won WWI AND he drank Coors Light

Yes, that is John Wayne’s image you see in that Coors Light television ad. And, yes, Coors is benefitting from The Duke’s presence with a 10 percent jump in sales. The price? Coors contributed a seven-figure fee to the John Wayne Cancer Institute.

Life is hard, and then you date a supermodel

Model/actress Angie Everhart, who once did the scene with Sylvester Stallone, has settled on a new man. “I’m with Ashley Hamilton,” she told Fitness magazine. “He’s the most gorgeous man I’ve ever seen or been with in my life. He’s as beautiful inside as he is outside.” Cool. Especially since, as she adds, “He’s a year sober.”

‘Cans of worms’: another term for Divine intervention?

In the same US magazine interview that she talked of her fear of marriage, Elizabeth Hurley also spoke of the English way of handling interpersonal miscommunication. “I’m sure the American way is healthier, that you thrash things out,” she said. But she noted that Britons “think it’s very unpleasant to open up cans of worms. You don’t know what you might discover.”

Three decades of alimony: another form of welfare?

So why is Adele Mailer, ex-wife of big-time novelist Norman Mailer, now writing an autobiography? Money, of course. “Memoirs of a Marriage” will both re-create the New York arts scene of the ‘50s and ‘60s and give the inside scoop on the marriage, one of six for Mailer, that was at its most notorious in 1961 when he was accused of stabbing her. Now, she claims, he pays her only a “paltry” bit of alimony.

You won’t notice a thing when the man scat sings

So how is 70-year-old singer Mel Torme doing following his recent stroke? “His mind is 100 percent,” his publicist says. “He has weakness on the left side and his speech is affected. Doctors say that will clear up.”

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