Word: demy
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...featured speaker was the editor of the National Enquirer, Steve Coz '79 (that's right, a Harvard alum). His compatriots were a celebrity lawyer, Marty Singer, who represents the likes of Demi and Arnold, and a paparazzo, Russell Turiak, who was there to plead innocent to the death of Diana. And their collective function was to argue about Russell's rights of access, Steve's salubriousness in print and Marty's malignancy in the courts--essentially, questioning the worthiness of celebrity journalism in America...
Even by Versace standards, the celebrity quotient at last week's spring ready-to-wear show in Milan was high. Demi Moore, Anjelica Huston, Peter Gabriel, Boy George and Cher all showed up. Linda Evangelista and NAOMI CAMPBELL made rare runway appearances. Even other designers, including Giorgio Armani, Karl Lagerfeld, Donna Karan and Miuccia Prada, came to offer support and perhaps to see what DONATELLA VERSACE, who has taken over design duties at the label since her brother's death, could do with a needle and thread. No one seemed disappointed--though it's hard to imagine anyone's being...
...recipients thanked their parents, and MADONNA even found time to give a little sermon about how people ought to treat celebrities. Perhaps participants were inspired by the fact that celeb guru Deepak Chopra was in the house--he has two records in the works, one to which Madonna and Demi Moore have reportedly agreed to contribute. Oh, yeah, a few bands won awards...
WHAT RHYMES WITH DEMI...
Renaissance-man alert: VIGGO MORTENSEN, who does a mean impression of a D.H. Lawrence-quoting, gun-toting trainer and sometime Demi Moore tormentor in G.I. Jane, is actually a published poet. No sniggering, now. The actor, who speaks Spanish and Danish as well as English, has a new poetry CD called One Less Thing to Worry About. He mines his day job in his verse, which is of the spare, dark, ruminating kind, as in "Edit": "The man you were/ For one short season/ Has been pruned/ Removed/ To a well-groomed graveyard/ That smells like popcorn." Although the acting...