A hastily scheduled 6 p.m. teatime meeting with Barbra Streisand caused Prince Charles to be 90 minutes late for a dinner held in his honor recently at the Los Angeles home of producer Aaron Spelling.
According to comedian Phyllis Diller, also a guest of the Spellings, the prince's tardiness "was the talk of the party." Diller says the prince was so late, he completely missed the reception line, and though people understood that Charles "can do whatever he wants, there was the usual grumble, grumble, grumble among the guests." Diller adds that by the time the prince arrived, "I was getting loaded. It was such a long time to mill around and do nothing. Of course we couldn't sit down to dinner [until he got there]."
Angus Mackay, spokesman for the British Consulate General in Los Angeles, later quashed any romantic notions about the prince and the singer, saying that Charles and Streisand are "old friends." As for their tea, Mackay described it simply as "a short, private meeting."
POPPING THE QUESTION
In their new book Marry Me, from Angel City Press, authors Wendy Goldberg and Betty Goodwin tell how 35 famous couples met and eventually decided to get married. The authors say, for example, that Michael Douglas and the former Diandra Luker met at a party in 1977, when she was a freshman at Georgetown University and he was a 32-year-old actor and producer. She soon accepted an invitation from him to spend a weekend in Southern California. When she left for L.A., the authors say, Diandra told her roommate, "If my mother calls, tell her I'm in the library." Two weeks later, Diandra's roommate called her and said, "I don't think your mother believes me." A little more than a month later Michael and Diandra married.
And just a month after meeting Demi Moore at a Hollywood screening in 1987, Bruce Willis found himself suggesting wedlock to her in a steam room. "We could get married," he said offhandedly. Four months later they did.
THE O.J. SHOW?
We hear that O.J. Simpson's agent is trying to land a pay-per-view entertainment special for O.J., provided, of course, that he is .acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Sources tell us that Jack Gilardi, Simpson's agent at International Creative Management, is looking "for upward of $10 million" for the project and has already pitched the idea to HBO without success. Gilardi himself says, "This is the first I've heard of it, but it sounds like a good idea."
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