Coin A Catchy Phrase, And The Force Is With You
Arnold Schwarzenegger once launched a movie catch-phrase craze with his “Terminator” threat, “I’ll be back.”
He plans to do it again this summer in “Eraser,” with: “Relax, you’ve been erased.’ Movie studios are falling all over themselves trying to come up with this year’s version of that profound “Forrest Gump” mantra, “Life is like a box of chocolates.”
“You can’t manufacture a catch phrase,” Susan Pile, an MGM publicity executive, tells Entertainment Weekly magazine. “But if it makes it on the streets, it definitely doesn’t hurt the movie’s grosses.”
Jim Carrey’s tag line from the forthcoming “Cable Guy” is “I’ll juice you up,” while Laurence Fishburne repeats “We gotta fled” in his upcoming action movie, “Fled.”
Loose talk
Brigitte Bardot, on life at age 61 (in Le Journal du Dimanche): “I have wrinkles and white hair. I accept them … If I see myself (mentally) deteriorating, I’ll suddenly leave in glory. Like I left the movies.”
You can almost hear her pips starting to squeak
Gladys Knight turns 52 today.
Then there’s his younger brother, Lumpy
Counterculture icon Wavy Gravy, of Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream flavor fame, on turning 60: “The first 100 years are the hardest, that’s what Methuselah said. I always tell people my epitaph will be Happy Birthday and death was Patrick Henry’s second choice.”
Not to mention surrounding property values
And speaking of catch phrases, Elle magazine reports that Dennis Quaid prepared for his role in the upcoming movie “Dragonheart” by shouting “Shiver me timbers!” for hours every morning. This is said to have lowered his voice by two octaves.
In other words, sort of like O.J. Simpson
Mel Gibson is being sued by a woman who says the actor’s dog attacked her near his Malibu home last May. The suit claims the pooch exhibits a “vicious and violent propensity” and was “free to roam, unleashed, unrestrained and uncontrolled.”
And they’re also much easier to housebreak
Actress Halle Berry is hurting from the breakup of her marriage to Atlanta Braves outfielder David Justice. “Why can’t all men be like dogs?” Berry wondered aloud to an interviewer - specifically, two little white Maltese named Petey and Bumper. “They are the only men in my life,” she said, “because they have unconditional love.”
Another helping of stir-fried poodles, please
Former sex kitten Brigitte Bardot, an outspoken animal rights activist, is calling on South Korea to ban the sale of dog meat - a national delicacy - if that country becomes host of the 2002 World Cup soccer championships. Many Koreans believe that eating dog will enhance their health and sexual prowess.
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