When Lauren Bacall played a seductress in 1944's To Have and Have Not, she only had to whistle to get Humphrey Bogart's attention. The sultry star, who appears this month in TNT's made-for-cable movie, The Portrait, thinks there's far too much sex onscreen these days. "Everyone walking around naked...it revolts me," says Bacall, 68, who has no plans to see, say, Body of Evidence. "Really, Madonna and Willem Dafoe—that would put me to sleep. I also don't want to watch them going at it because. frankly, I'd rather be doing it myself."
TO SIR, WITH LOVE
British TV star Sir David Frost has always been a class act, but now it's official. "There are many nice things about a knighthood," says Sir David, 53, who on New Year's Eve received that honor from the Queen. "It's your first name that gels used, and people say, 'Good Morning, Sir David,' not 'Sir Frost.' It's user-friendly. People slip into it quite easily." More easily perhaps than Frost himself. "It's quite a thought that one [has] changed one's name. It's something that a man doesn't have the opportunity to do when he gets married, so this is the only way you can do it." For now, Sir David has no plans to change the title of his PBS series, Talking with David Frost, to accommodate his elevation in status.
YOUTHFUL FLING
It's not unusual for singer Tom Jones's more excitable fans to toss their scanties at him on stage. "It was fun at the beginning," says Jones, 52, now hosting The Right Time on cable's VH-1 music channel. "Women were doing things that hadn't been done before, throwing underwear and room keys. Then it got tacky. It became a sexual thing with them, and I was gelling a bit annoyed. It became, 'Oh, yeah, Tom Jones, the fellow women throw knickers at.' " Today, though, many of the underwear tossers are young enough to be his granddaughters, and Jones is once again amused. "They pick up on the joke more than fans who have been following me around for years," he says. "If a youngster does it, you know it's a laugh. They throw things in jest, which is the way it was meant to be."
PEN PAL
"Bios are always so dull and boring." says pop rocker Patty Smyth ("Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough"), explaining why she asked her witty pal Carrie Fisher for help in putting together the curriculum vitae sent out with the press packet for her latest solo album. The resulting bio includes such entries as "Recovering fairly rapidly from the sting of not having been given a middle name...." Says Smyth, 34: "You normally don't sit down with a friend and tell her your life story—unless you've been drinking—so it felt weird, but Carrie's the funniest person I know. I had taken five years off [after earlier albums, both solo and with her band, Scandal] and she said, 'We'll just call that time fruitless introspection.' Now she's working on my 7-year-old daughter's sense of humor. She's teaching her about irony."
Saved by the Bell Reunion
The hookups, the meltdowns, the memoires
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