Let’s All Go Out And Sin One For The Gifford
So what’s really going on with Frank and Kathie Lee Gifford in the wake of his videotaped dalliance with a flight attendant?
“Right now, they’re down in the basement and the wind is howling outside,” marriage counselor Gary Smalley tells People magazine.
“I sensed right from the beginning that they are both very interested in working this out,” said Smalley, who featured the Giffords in his “Growing in Love” infomercial a few years ago.
Frank “has been so consistent to say how sorry he is, with tears and everything else,” although Kathie Lee remains angry.
“When I think of couples with the courage to go on, they are near the top of the list,” Smalley says.
Even Frank’s second wife, Astrid Gifford, is pulling for them. “I hope Kathie Lee gives him another chance,” she tells People.
Loose talk
Pamela Anderson Lee, on her raison d’etre (in the British editiion of Esquire): “I’m much more than just a pair of breasts … What I represent is success, hard work and fun.”
The pay’s not great, but you get good pips
Gladys Knight turns 53 today.
See it with your closet, er, closest friends
Anne Heche’s relationship with Ellen Degeneres has prompted the video re-release of “Wild Side,” in which Heche has sex scenes with Christopher Walken and Joan Chen. As a film company executive tells Entertainment Weekly: “Every man will have something to keep in his home, and it’s something every woman would like to see.”
Nothing artificial about Michael, no sir, no way
The new Michael Jackson-endorsed soft drink, a fruit-flavored beverage from Germany called Mystery Drink, has hit the European market. “At Michael’s request, we didn’t put anything artificial in it,” said a spokesman for the bottler.
Sounds like he’s taking a shine to the Polish
Jackson, who kicks off the German leg of his world tour on Saturday, will first stop in Poland to discuss a “major investment.” Said Warsaw Mayor Marcin Swiecicki: “It will involve not only (the) artist’s money but also his imagination and talent.”
They’re the barristers between good and evil
At a commencement speech over the weekend, Ralph Nader urged University of Dayton law graduates to stick to their principles, no matter what future clients might ask. “You go through life like legal Magoos, focusing very narrowly on retainers and forsaking the big picture,” the consumer advocate said. “Who is to say no to powerful clients if not their attorneys, who are supposed to be their counselors?”
Well, maybe so, but at least he got the girl
Former O.J. Simpson prosecutor Christopher Darden, who plays a detective in the upcoming TV movie “One Hot Summer Night,” tells People magazine he has no plans to star in the movie version of his “In Contempt” book. “I already did that,” he said, “and I screwed that up.”
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