Rushdie Marriage Went From Just Bad To ‘Verses’
Divorce is seldom easy, and the situation is only complicated by celebrity.
Novelist Salman Rushdie, for example, is feuding with ex-wife (and fellow novelist) Marianne Wiggins in the press. Rushdie told the The Guardian that he’s “sorry to read that Ms. Wiggins has been declared financially bankrupt just a few years after receiving a substantial six-figure divorce settlement.”
Under a death threat for having written “The Satanic Verses,” Rushdie is blamed by Wiggins for a variety of sins - including not supporting other writers suffering from censorship.
“It is no worse than entertaining,” Rushdie retorted, “to be called ‘self-obsessed’ by a person whose chief criticism of the Khomeini fatwa was that it interfered with her book tour.”
Loose talk
“Friends” star Matthew Perry, tongue firmly if painfully in cheek, on rejecting the Harry Connick Jr. role in “Independence Day” (in Entertainment Weekly magazine): “That was such a failure, that turning it down didn’t really bother me.”
Bet her low-fat cake will be frosted with the color purple
Oprah Winfrey turns 43 today.
Truth is, David, the laughs are out there
Life is hard for stars of popular television series. Just ask “X-Files” star David Duchovny. “In television, the star is king,” Duchovny told GQ magazine. “Nobody stands up to me. Everyone laughs at my jokes. It can be oppressive.”
Cindy’s career is taking off in a higher gear
If you have access to the French magazine Voici, and if you are a Cindy Crawford fan, you might like to know that the mag is printing nude photos of the supermodel and her boyfriend, Rande Gerber.
There’s a familiar sheen to their nuptial glow
After all of 55 days of marriage, the union of Angie Everhart and Ashley Hamilton is apparently on the skids. No one is talking much, though Everhart provided the rather ambiguous comment that, “We’re apart right now, but very much together.”
And then, ‘These Are Ones the Moths Didn’t Eat’
“Far Side” cartoonist Garry Larson doesn’t figure on ever returning to his popular comic strip. But there’s still hope for grieving fans. “They just discovered 1,200 of my really early cartoons that haven’t been republished,” Larson told Time magazine. “My last book was called ‘Last Chapter and Worse,’ so maybe my next one could be ‘I Lied: Here’s Some More.”’
Yeah that…BRAAAAAAAAPPPPP!!!!… Farley’s sure funny
So, who goes to Chris Farley movies? The former “Saturday Night Live” star has his suspicions. “My fans are the guys who can chug a beer in 10 seconds in big beer mugs,” Farley said on the Web site Mr. Showbiz, “the guys who can cheer and yell real loud.”
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