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...Howard Fuerst was perplexed by his stepdaughter the book publicist. The year was 1991, and she had sent him a volume called Quantum Healing by some sort of Indian spiritual healer named Deepak Chopra. Fuerst, a practicing internist in Hollywood, Florida, from 1955 to 1986, did his med school at the University of Pennsylvania, and Chopra's thesis--that the human spirit and the human body are intimately connected--had not been on the curriculum. He skimmed the book and put it aside...
...many accolades are enough? Candice Bergen, whose performance as Murphy Brown has won her five Emmys, counted herself out of the TV awards this year. "I think she decided to let the competition be among others," says her publicist. And what better excuse to skip the ceremony...
Celebrities, stay off your hogs! Billy Idol has fallen off his motorcycle and now another easy-riding idol, Keanu Reeves, has been felled in an accident on Sunset Boulevard. Police and Reeves' publicist agree it wasn't his fault (the driver of the Hyundai Excel who cut him off had better avoid Keanu fans). Reeves broke his ankle and was hospitalized for two days...
...told that one item, a faux-antique blouse, was manufactured in a New York City plant where workers were grossly underpaid. Gifford didn't hesitate. She dispatched her husband, TV sports presenter Frank, to hand out envelopes containing $300 each to some of the workers--accompanied by a publicist, natch...
...give up, fight the power,' or something like that," a witness told TV station kcal. Police restrained the star of Bad Boys, who was carrying a handgun in his pocket, and delivered him to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where his doctor diagnosed his condition as exhaustion and dehydration. His publicist said drugs weren't involved and that Lawrence (said to be taking in $5 million per pic nowadays) should be back on the set of Nothing to Lose with Tim Robbins this week...