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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...
...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 of vanishing gentility--he can expect to face the rude music. On his field trip into the Sunset night, Grant went out of character, played disastrously against type, punctured a popular illusion. As many moviegoers saw it, he didn't cheat on Hurley so much as he cheated them...
...axiom of modern show biz that every scandal is a career move," saysTIME's Richard Corliss. So it is that Hugh Grant may actually have the last laugh after his one-night tour of Sunset Strip. His recent talk show tour to apologize for his encounter with Divine Brown has become very good publicity for his two upcoming films "An Awfully Big Adventure" and "Nine Months." Grant does wonderful work as an actor in the former movie as a vicious, smooth-as-snake-oil director of a theater troupe in postwar Liverpool. Grant is assured, residing inside this rotter...
...British loveboat and one-man charm school HUGH GRANT, for reasons best kept to himself, visits the seediest stretch of Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood and invites working girl DIVINE BROWN a.k.a. Pancake a.k.a. Stella Marie Thompson into his rented BMW. They strike a deal that entails his giving her, among other things, $45. At about 1:45 a.m. the local constabulary interrupts. "I did something completely insane," says Grant later. Around the world, people agree. Day's Big Rumor: Brown...
...When the news hits Britain, where Grant is almost as popular as oxygen, people are baffled as to how he could have strayed from a lover with as many low-cut dresses as Estee Lauder spokesperson ELIZABETH HURLEY. The London Sun papers Sunset with posters offering $150,000 for an exclusive with Brown. Day's Big Rumor: Fox is panicking about prospects for Grant's first big-budget movie, Nine Months, out this month...