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Celebrities are getting awfully good at ditching the press to get married. Gossip columnists went on nuptial red alert last week when The X-Files' DAVID DUCHOVNY (instantly recognizable despite the cheesy fake mustache) was spotted at New York City's marriage-license bureau. But the trail had gone cold by the next night, when the star wed actress TEA LEONI of NBC's The Naked Truth at lower Manhattan's Grace Church. Just a handful of family members attended the paparazzo-free ceremony. In January the two stars had begun a commuter romance between his show...
...color pink (or at least I think so). Cosmo, Vogue and Elle, while of dubious literary value and filled with appalling advertisements, provide hours of amusement ("Is he right for you? The fast, fun guide to men.") I now feel slumber parties just rock, especially when they involve gossip, hair-braiding and listening to the Dirty Dancing soundtrack...
...rest easy in the knowledge that only 16.5 percent of our fellow students are actually of the Hebrew faith. The late President A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1880, would be horrified that numbers have climbed even that high, but at least the crisis is not as bad as the gossip mill would have had us believe...
What is going on here? Are memoirs becoming the substitute for novels, or does their popularity simply indicate a culture sinking ever further into gossip, trivia and terminal narcissism? Last week's panelists in Manhattan addressed these questions, as panelists are prone to do, without answering them. McCourt told the crowd that he considered telling the story of his harsh Irish childhood, the subject of Angela's Ashes, in fictional form. "I attempted it, and it was awful. I am not a novelist...
...maybe it was just something to gossip about. In a series of TV interviews last fall, previously scheduled to promote a new CD but suddenly subjected to intense scrutiny because of the coming-out rumors, DeGeneres joked awkwardly that she was Lebanese, or that the real news was that a character named Les Bian would be joining Ellen's cast. She even kidded her own teasing reticence on an episode of The Larry Sanders Show that had her hopping into bed for man-woman sex with the fictional male talk-show host...