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Perhaps Bill Clinton is a new paradigm: the Chief Executive as hipster. (His idol, John Kennedy, was probably the first, but no one knew at the time how swinging Kennedy's private life actually was.) It will be interesting to see what happens in the presidential race of 2000. Will candidates advertise that they are as pure as the driven snow, or will they say, I've had some wild times, haven't you? Already, Governor Roy Romer of Colorado and Mike Bowers, a leading contender in the Republican primary for the Georgia governorship, have acknowledged affairs with longtime aides...
Nearly 3 million people have visited Gaskins' home page--as many as 30,000 a day. It takes him an hour just to wade through the 150 e-mail messages he gets each day from kids hoping for contact with the screen idol. (Note to the Leo-struck: Gaskins has never communicated with the star or his handlers.) I would find all this very draining, but Gaskins does it for free. Is he a sucker? "I had someone appraise my site," he says. "The domain name itself is worth more than $75,000." Hmmm, maybe...
None of this is new, of course--Elvis claimed he wanted to be your teddy bear too. Teen idols have always served as erotic learner's permits, from those who went on to transcend the role like Frank Sinatra, James Dean, the Beatles and John Travolta, to more disposable incarnations like David Cassidy and New Kids on the Block. Michael Jackson, having never allowed himself to develop secondary sex characteristics, is like a teen-idol experiment gone horribly, tragically awry. But that is the kind of icky, confusing story that has no place in what publisher Nancy Pines of Archway...
...must be hard being a teen idol. This must have been the thought on Leonardo DiCaprio's agent's mind when he or she urged DiCaprio to take the starring roles in what must be the billionth (the Internet Movie Database lists six previous versions) adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Man in the Iron Mask (L'homme au masque du fer), the sequel to the even more well-known The Three Musketeers. "Leo, baby," one can almost hear the agent saying, "you need a break after Titanic. Why don't you take this film? You'll hardly have...
LONDON: In the beginning was Diana the Apparition: the late, lamented princess's face seen as a vision in a painting at St. James' Palace by grief-stricken vistors four days after her death. Then came Diana the Idol: Berlin's Free University held a series of seminars comparing her to the Virgin Mary. And now, Diana the Healer: Liz Tilberis, editor in chief of Harper's Bazaar, tells of how her ovarian cancer went into remission -- as a direct result of a chat with her friend Diana...