If he listens to his mother, rapper Marky Mark won't be dropping trou—one of his patented moves—when he and his Funky Bunch team up with Marky's big brother, Donnnie Wahlberg, of New Kids on the Block, for a live concert in New York City airing this Thursday (April 2) on pay-per-view cable's Thursday Night Concerts. "She always reminds me to keep my pants on and has given me belts on a number of occasions," says Mark, 20, who lives with his mom in Braintree, Mass. "I'll come home and find a belt on my dresser with a little note, 'Please use this.' " And who picks out Marky's underwear? "I basically wear what's given to me. Calvin Klein sent me boxes and boxes of boxer shorts, which was really cool. They're so expensive—$15 apiece!—I couldn't afford to pay for them."
BUM STEER
Groupies, Harry Shearer has discovered, are not into nuance. "They tend to take you quite literally," says the 48-year-old actor-writer who moonlights as the bassist in Spinal Tap, the mock metal band that has just unleashed its second album, Break like the Wind. "They listen to your songs and apparently say, 'That's what they like!' There was the song 'Big Bottom,' on our last album, so we got a lot of girls with big bottoms coming backstage. It took me a while to realize what was going on. I figured, 'Ah, they heard that song as a request. "I You get what you ask for in the world of rock and roll."
SHEET MUSIC
Actress Sarita Choudhury, 25, not only makes her film debut in the romantic comedy Mississippi Masala, she also has her first onscreen nude love scene. "I felt very comfortable with him," Choudhury says of costar Denzel Washington, her movie beau. "We went into our scene very relaxed. We had music playing. We didn't look at it sexually. We approached it...like a slow dance. For us, it was a very quiet, slow, evolving thing. There's nothing that's exploitative. At the moment we were doing it, it seemed so private. But it's out there for everyone now."
THE PICKUP (THE PIECES) ARTIST
At the advanced age of 24, Molly Ringwald is making a comeback. After a string of flop movies, she starred on Sunday (March 29) in ABC's made-for-TV movie Something to Live For: The Alison Gertz Story and is looking for her next project. About accepting a TV gig, Ringwald says, "I'm not a snob. Acting is acting." The press, however, is another matter. "When people interviewed me for Betsy's Wedding [1990], I could tell from their questions that the movie wouldn't do well," Ringwald says now. "I could have written their articles in my head before they came out. 'Were you a brat?' I got asked that a lot. 'Were you a prima donna?' No! I was just growing up. Maybe I was in a bad mood occasionally. But come on, gimme a break!"
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