Manny The Hippie And His Mommy, The Happy
David Letterman’s “Manny the Hippie” turned out to be Micah Papp the parolee.
Papp, a 20-year-old Haight-Ashbury street person, acted as a correspondent when Letterman’s “Late Show” visited San Francisco in May and has lately been doing movie reviews (rating them “schwag” for bad, or “diggity dank” for good).
But now he’s in jail for violating parole by leaving his home state of Ohio, where he was convicted last year of selling marijuana. An extradition hearing is scheduled Tuesday.
“Someone in our probation department spotted him on TV and said, ‘He’s one of our cases,”’ an investigator explained.
So why did Micah/Manny risk showing his face on national television? To make his mom proud. “At least I can say I made her happy,” he said.
Loose talk
Rapper Coolio, on his personal philosophy (in USA Weekend): “When opportunity knocks, I handcuff it and put it in the trunk.”
Oh, no, not another one of those Traffic jams
Jim Capaldi turns 52 today.
He’s saying the cops are quick on the trigger?
Rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg (aka Calvin Broadus), who reached an outof-court settlement Tuesday in a civil lawsuit over a 1993 shooting in which he was acquitted of criminal charges, was back in court Thursday for felony gun possession. Complained his attorney: “The nature of his music has been such there are portions of society who don’t care for it. That has a lot to do with what’s going on.”
Did she get cold feet? No, just hot hands
When former funk star Rick “Super Freak” James was released from Folsom State Prison on Wednesday, he had planned to marry Tanya Anne Hijazi, the mother of his 4-year-old son. Just one problem: She’d been arrested for shoplifting on Monday.
He’s really starting to relate to old growth
Sting, long involved in efforts to preserve the rain forests, is denying rumors that he cut down century-old trees on his British estate to make room for a lake. “I would never fell a tree of any kind,” he insisted.
Actually, we thought it was more like Ex-Lax
Kiss guitarist Paul Stanley, on the band’s comeback (in Newsweek): “At some point, everybody gets a little tired of hearing people sing about how terrible life is, especially when we live in America, the land of opportunity. If you want misery and bad news, pick up the newspaper. If you come to our show, maybe we’re musical Tylenol.”
Their ties to Jerry will never dye, er, die
Former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, on the future of the Deadheads (in Rolling Stone): “They are the Grateful Dead now. I feel confident they will perpetuate the experience somehow … And when it’s gone, the world won’t be a better place.”
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