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...their transgression was nothing compared to that of a Texas pitcher named Ed Vosberg. He may never be an All-Star, but Vosberg, who makes $125,000 a year with the Rangers, did become the Hugh Grant of baseball when he was cited for scalping his All-Star Game tickets outside the ballpark. For Ed it was almost "Welcome to the Hoosegow...
REALLY NOW, HOW LONG CAN the Western world remain obsessed with Hugh Grant's one-night tour of Sunset Strip? Three weeks ago, when the English actor was arrested in Hollywood for felonious fellatious activity with a hooker named Divine Brown, it was inevitable that late-night talk-show host Jay Leno would crack wise ("Welcome to Hollywood, or, as Hugh Grant calls it, Tonsiltown!"). But deep into July, Grant's peccadillo is still front-page news and late-night joke fodder. Last week, as he dutifully kept four talk-show dates in the U.S. to promote his new comedy...
...world beyond Hollywood, the incident was met with various questions: "Why did he do it?" "Why not?" "Hugh Grant is heterosexual?" and "Who's Hugh Grant?" If the story had any sizzle, it was because of the endearing persona the actor created in his one hit movie, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and in his eight-year amour with model Elizabeth Hurley. Snarly musclemen and tortured teen types, the Stallones and Depps, are supposed to misbehave; it's part of their public profile. But when the sinner is an Oxford grad peddling a boyish, domestic charm--the last good hope...
...mines around which he stumbles nonchalantly. Even with a script, Grant has a rougher time getting through a sentence unharmed than anyone since Jimmy Stewart. And so, in his weeklong mass-media confession, it took a while for him to become sure of himself--sure, that is, of the Hugh Grant he was playing for the largest audience ever to see him (the night he appeared, the Tonight Show won its highest ratings since Leno's first month as permanent host...
...SONS Obscure Julie Andrews TV movie is a sudden video hit-thanks to co-star Hugh Grant...