Political consultant James Carville, who was Bill Clinton's top campaign strategist, is "a pathetic and stupid country bumpkin." So says Gary David Goldberg, the TV producer behind Family Ties and Brooklyn Bridge. Goldberg is still bristling at Carville for what he deems Carville's lack of politesse with an invited group of Hollywood bigwigs, including Goldberg, who met in Washington on March 27 to discuss health-care policy.
Goldberg describes Carville's spiel at the meeting as "a self-aggrandizing, incoherent monologue" that sounded like "Anthony Perkins playing Fidel Castro on speed."
Of course, Carville already knows how Goldberg feels because, when Carville took what Goldberg considered to be an insulting attitude toward Goldberg's wife, author-producer Diana Meehan, Goldberg threw books and pamphlets at Carville and left the room. When we told Carville of Goldberg's latest remarks, he laughed and said, "I was country before country was cool."
STREISAND & MADONNA: THE TRILL IS GONE
Disregard what you've read elsewhere. Madonna and Barbra Streisand will not be recording a duel of Irving Berlin's "Anything You Can Do," from the musical Annie Gel Your Gun, for Streisand's next album Back to Broadway.
Streisand's manager, Marty Erlichman, says "scheduling" between the two women was the problem. He says they may record the duet in the future.
SCENT-IMENTAL JOURNEY
The latest entry in the celebrity autobiography sweepstakes: Peter Fonda. The actor, who says he intends to write every word of Don't Tell Dad himself, doesn't expect the task to tax his memory. "I haven't forgotten a thing [about my past]," says Fonda. "I remember where the trash can was, what was in it and what it smelled like."
MATINEE IDYLL
Tom Cruise and Nicole kid-man know a bargain when they see one. On Easter Sunday the two caught a reduced-price matinee showing—paying $3.75 each for tickets instead of the usual $7—of This Boy's Life, the new Robert De Niro-Ellen Barkin drama, at the Century City Shopping Center in Los Angeles. The pair sat near the front, shared a large bucket of popcorn and spent the movie with Tom's head on Nicole's shoulder and her arm around him.
A PLACE IN THE SUN
Despite all the publicity over Miami's crime wave (see page 57), big-name celebs are heading south. Sylvester Stallone is close to plunking down $8 million for a waterfront house just below Miami on what used to be called Millionaire's Row. This would put him only four doors down from Madonna's recently purchased $4.9 million abode. Cher, too, is checking out a house just 10 minutes away.
CLASS WILL TELL
A gentleman never leaves without saying farewell. Before departing the Crazy Girls strip club in L.A. on a recent evening. Charlie Sheen was spotted, according to a source there, going "out of his way to kiss three strippers goodnight."
Saved by the Bell Reunion
The hookups, the meltdowns, the memoires
The case reveals what was really going on what they think of each other now!
