Disney theatrical producer Tom Schumacher, on the impact of upcoming cast cuts to the tabletop number "Be Our Guest," in Broadway's "Beauty and the Beast." "There will be some adjustments to the cutlery, but all your feature condiments containers are safe.
Tap-dancing catsup bottles of the world unite! True, he says, "We've worked together on GATT and NAFTA over the years." But stumping for Pat? Nader, who says he'll decide early next year about his own presidential run, was emphatic. Surprise! When I got Nader on the phone, he allowed that he'd spoken to Choate about Buchanan but shrugged off the rumors that he'd be shouting "Go Pat Go" any time soon.
But, he maintains, the two men see eyeball to eyeball on matters of trade and international policy as well as campaign reform and "the right for third-party candidates to be in national debates." He says he'd be "very surprised" if Nader did not pipe up with a hearty Buchanan endorsement. And I'm sure Ralph would have good things to say about Pat and his integrity, though he disagrees with him on social and many other issues" including abortion, says Choate. I called Choate, a key Buchanan Reform Party supporter, in hopes of getting the lowdown on this latest rumor. The alliance was brokered by their mutual bud, former Reform Party vice-presidential candidate Pat Choate.
Washington wags are whispering about a new White House-focused political alliance between the meanie and the Greenie, who long ago joined forces against their common foe, NAFTA. Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader, together again for the first time?! Aging rocker Chrissie Hynde, showing early symptoms of the dread disease one NP reader has termed mammarius self-approbitis, in the London Telegraph. "I have never wanted to show the world how great I look without my clothes on, although I must say, I do. Sharon Stone has confirmed that she was so unpopular on the sets of two of her early films, "King Solomon's Mines" and "Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold," that members of the crew peed in a barrel of water she had to swim around in. (One look at him in "The Sixth Sense" could have told you that.)īut, hey, here's one that is true, though I must admit I had never heard it before.
And Bruce Willis does not insist on having the special-effects department in his films digitally sketch in a full head of hair. Reports that Barbra Streisand was in a porn flick back in the '70s? "Totally fallacious," Streisand's handlers insist. According to Movieline, Gere was in India on the night of the alleged rodent removal. hospital the night Richard Gere was brought in to have a gerbil plucked from his body's own internal Habitrail, it just ain't true. You think Washington's the only town with rumors in desperate need of dispelling? Ha! Hollywood's got the little lawmaking burg beaten by a mile.Īn upcoming issue of Movieline magazine rounds up the 50 most persistent (and toothsome) Tinseltown rumors of all time, and - sniff, sniff! - debunks some of my personal favorites.įor instance, even though your cousin's best friend's boyfriend's aunt swears she was on duty at an L.A.