Tilly Loves Taking It Off To Get A Contract Renewed

Unlike most celebrities, Jennifer Tilly just loves to do nude scenes.

“At first, it was scary,” the actress said about having to strip for the film “The Getaway, “but you know there’s something very freeing about taking your clothes off in front of 50 people.”

Working in that film with actor Michael Madsen, Tilly had no time at all to get overly nervous. “On my first day on the set they said, ‘Jennifer meet Michael, now take off your clothes.”’

“I thought at first I should have lost some weight before I took all my clothes off, but they said it was fine,” Tilly explained. “So I was on top and there was no hiding anything. I just told him, don’t let anything get in the way, and don’t touch anything. Of course, there was a lot to get in the way, if you know what I mean.”

Loose talk

Dennis Rodman’s take on the late Chris Farley (in People magazine): “He was partying too much and had no sense of direction.”

He can still say Elfego Baca five times real fast

Robert Loggia turns 68 today.

And now he makes enough to pay the… well, you know

Long before he took the role of the transvestite Angela in the hit Broadway musical “Rent,” 24-year-old Wilson Cruz had already resolved much of his uncertainty about being gay. “I got to relive and come to terms with a lot of adolescent angst and let go of it finally in ‘My So-Called Life,”’ he said.

Here’s the true tale behind a famous toy story

Now you can buy the history of “America’s Greatest Fighting Man,” the one and only GI Joe. The book, which comes with a replica of the 1964 plastic action figure, is part of a “Masterpiece Edition” package. According to author John Michlig, he and (and GI Joe creator) Don Levine worked together to get the book out. “All I knew is that as a free-lance writer, I dropped everything to do it.”

It likely will all go up in a Puff of smoke

Puff Daddy has a dream for New Year’s Eve, 1999. “I want to rent Central Park for all the kids of Harlem, Brooklyn and the Bronx,” the hip-hop artist told the New York Times. “I’m going to throw them a big ol’ party and invite the whole world. If I could have a dream, that’s it.”

Start humming and make appropriate chopping motions

Ted Turner’s quite the man. In, apparently, more ways than one. Not only does he contribute heartily to charity, he told the New York Post that he gets, uh, intimate with wife Jane Fonda three times a day.

And I no longer feel the need for… zzzzzzzzzzz

Few things are worse than a former addict. “I found myself in a social situation only able to talk about the fact that I couldn’t drink anymore and didn’t take coke,” Elton John told Interview magazine. “And people were dying of boredom in front of my eyes. They would see me come into a room and throw themselves out the window.”

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