Although Kenny Rogers, 55, will appear in a CBS special, A Day in the Life of Country Music (Oct. 1), he won't be singing. Instead, Rogers, a passionate photographer, will be shown taking Hillary Clinton's picture at the White House. During his visit, Rogers, who has photographed Presidents Carter, Ford and Reagan, found out that Bill Clinton is a fan. Told that the country star turned shutterbug was in the Map Room setting up his lights, the President tentatively asked an aide. "Can I go in there?" "It was like the movie Dave," says Rogers, recalling the recent film in which Kevin Kline stands in for the real President. "He seemed unsure of what his rights are."
FORK LIFTS
Veronica Blume, 16, who hails from Barcelona, started modeling only five months ago, but as the winner of last month's Supermodel of the World contest, she now has a $250,000 contract with the Ford Modeling Agency—and the chance to bunk with some other young models at agency founder Eileen Ford's home whenever Veronica's in New York City. "It's like going to school," says Blume of living with Ford. "She wants us to be educated. We learn a lot of manners and to be ladies. Sometimes, at the table, you have two forks and you don't know which one to take and you take the wrong one and Eileen is looking at you and you go red. But you get used to it."
LOVE'S LABORS NOT LOST
Whether causing static as the teen tease in TV's Twin Peaks or playing a callous sexpot in the controversial film Boxing Helena, Sherilyn Fenn has never bowed to convention in her acting career. Now pregnant with her first child, due in December, Fenn has no immediate plans to marry the baby's father, musician Toulouse Holliday, who worked as a grip on her upcoming Fatal Instinct. "We're still getting to know each other," says Fenn, 28, who is also acquainting herself with what goes on in the birthing room. "I watched a friend give birth a few weeks ago. I knew the baby was in there, but I couldn't believe it when it came out! I badly want to be a good mother. But I'll probably be like my friend, who told me, 'I was a perfect mother—until I became one.' "
PURELY MONKEE BUSINESS
Micky Dolenz, hoping to finally get the Monkees off his back, has a wake-up call for daydream believers: The Monkees was a TV show, not a rock band, and he is an actor, not a drummer. "Comparing us to the Beatles is like comparing Star Trek to NASA," says Dolenz, 48, whose memoir, I'm a Believer, offers a behind-the-scenes account of the 1966-68 rock-comedy series inspired by the Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night. "To this day, I think Hollywood producers think of me as a drummer. Nothing could be farther from the truth. We had studio musicians, and the TV show had a soundtrack. I had to learn to play the drums so that we could [eventually] play the music on the road. When did we become a real group? Did Leonard Nimoy really become a Vulcan?"
Saved by the Bell Reunion
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