Posted on 10/29/2002 4:09:56 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
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HARRY Belafonte's characterization of Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice as "house slaves" isn't winning him many new fans. Robert Woodson, founder of the conservative National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, led a group of fellow African Americans in a protest the other night outside the Washington Hilton, where Belafonte was being honored at an Africare gala. The protest was "to express our outrage that this self-appointed king of black America, who is nothing but a bad calypso singer, feels qualified to sit in judgment of the secretary of state and the national security adviser," Woodson fumed to the Washington Post.
Yea! Standing up for right! Love it!
MANHATTAN private eye Joe Mullen will never forget his run-ins with hell-raising "Harry Potter" actor Richard Harris, who died Friday at 72 from Hodgkin's Disease. Mullen recalls sending his two sons, Tom and Mike, to spy on Harris on behalf of the star's suspicious then-wife, actress/model Ann Turkel. The Mullen brothers found Harris at a hotel bar in Toronto. But he outsmarted them by getting them so drunk, they were too hung over to follow him the next day. Another time, Mullen tried to serve Harris legal papers in a hospital bed. (Hard-living Harris was no stranger to hospitals. He nearly died from a cocaine overdose in 1978, was said to have been in intensive care five times, and been given his last rites twice.) Because Harris had tubes coming out of his arm, Mullen left the room and told Turkel he was afraid Harris' condition would worsen if he was served. "I waited in the stairway, and Ann went in," Mullen recalls. "Within five minutes, the air was ringing with alarms. The nurse ran in and yelled, 'My God! What the hell are you doing?' " Ann was performing oral sex on him.
SHE'S baaaaaack! Barbra Streisand - despite a plague of misspellings, a misattributed quote, and a mixup of Iraq with Iran - has a new harangue on her Web site. "There has never been a more important time to get out the vote," Streisand writes. "If the Republicans end up with control of the presidency, the Senate, the House of Representatives and the federal courts, there will not be any check on the power of the right wing. The result would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability."
Hey Babs, BOO!
Hey, I went by McDonalds and their new Hapy Meal toy is Hello Kitty. Love Hello Kitty! I'll have to buy two Happy Meals, one for me and one for Laney. :-)
JULIA Roberts got dressed up Saturday for what she thought would be a nice dinner and dancing at the Players Club. The star was dumbfounded when she found 100 of her closest pals waiting for her, all dressed in black tie, shrieking "Surprise!" Danny Moder went all out for his new wife's 35th birthday, renting the club and booking the Noel Freidline Quartet to play for his bride - who recently learned how to ballroom dance for her role in "Mona Lisa Smile."
Yowzer. I hope that's an old picture they stuck on this story. Memo to Julia: Don't ever be too far from make-up!
Robert Blake not only needs a shrink, now he needs an attorney.
Fleeing the scene
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Robert Blake needs a lawyer. Harland Braun, who had defended the actor since Blake's wife Bonny Lee Bakley was murdered last year, resigned yesterday, saying that he objected to the actor's decision to go on television and discuss his case.
"He insists on doing an interview on-camera with Diane Sawyer," Braun said. "No lawyer in the country would allow a defendant to do this."
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Actress Winona Ryder went to a posh Beverly Hills department store armed with a stealing kit - and then gave herself a sticky-fingered five-for-one discount, prosecutors said yesterday. Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Ann Rundle said she'll present evidence that the Oscar-nominated actress went shopping with a pair of scissors to cut sensor tags, a long garment bag to conceal stolen items and tissue paper to wrap articles of clothing.
Police and prosecutors concede that Ryder did buy four items that day at Beverly Hills Saks Fifth Avenue - but took 20 more without paying. The allegedly pilfered items added up to $5,560.40.
"For every item Ms. Ryder purchased, she helped herself to a couple little extras. Actually it was five extras," Rundle said.
Rundle told the jury of six women and six men - who've been barred from shopping at Saks for the duration of the case - that the evidence against Ryder will be overwhelming and lead them to convicting her on grand theft and burglary charges.
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According to reports, Angelina Jolie has plans to live part-time in her adopted son's homeland of Cambodia, but she fears for her son's safety.
Her fear? Landmines.
Jolie has said that she had the land around her Cambodian home cleared of the mines, but she is still worried about 1-year-old Maddox.
"I'm terrified that he could go for a walk and step on something, so I'm very aware of what the parents there must feel," she said in a recent interview. "It's so unnecessary and so cruel."
Jolie adopted the little boy while working on a film in Cambodia, where she also learned of the danger of landmines. She has since been a supporter of the Adopt-A-Minefield charity, donning a helmet and flak jacket as she watched and learned how de-miners dispose of the explosives hidden in the ground.
"Cambodia, Afghanistan and Angola are among the most heavily minded countries in the world," said Jolie. "When we were filming we were told 'You can't go here, you can't go there, you have to stick to the footpaths,' and I didn't understand why. They explained about the land mines and I just wanted to help."
Thanks Mom! Adopt me, take me to America, where we live in the lap of luxury.... THEN MOVE US TO CAMBODIA!! Neat-o. Can we go to Iraq for vacation?!
Popular biographer Christopher Anderson didn't snag interviews with President Bush and his wife for his just-released "George and Laura: Portrait of an American Marriage," but he did talk extensively with Laura Bush's 83-year-old mother Jenna Welch, whom the White House usually manages to keep under wraps.
Welch confided that after her daughter's first date with the future president, the fact that they lived in far-flung Texas cities -- she in Austin, he in Midland -- seemed an insurmountable hurdle. "You know, it was like 'Fat chance,' " Welch quoted her daughter. " 'I really like him, but how is this going to work?' " Later, when the romance heated up, Welch fretted that Dubya was blowing it. "I thought George was a great catch, but I was afraid he was pushing so hard he might ruin the whole thing," she recalled.
Other tidbits:
• Former Bush fiancee Cathy Wolfman, who nearly ordered up the wedding invitations three decades ago, described their breakup to Anderson: "When he asked her to spend another summer with the family at Kennebunkport and she refused, he was dumbfounded. 'I don't want to go to Maine, George,' she told him. 'And I don't think this is going to work out.' She slipped the engagement ring off her finger and handed it to him. George, stricken, began to weep."
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And even when it dies, the family carries it on.
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