As the host of Colin Quinn's Manly World, a new comedy-sports program that premiered on the MTV cable network last month, COLIN QUINN recognizes the ingredients needed to be manly. "To be manly one needs a deep, strong lack of purpose, a false sense of one's own worth and a powerful mediocrity," says Quinn, 30, best known for his painfully poor singing on MTV's Remote Control game show. "My parents were divorced, so it wasn't that masculine a family. Actually, I grew up in more of a feminist family when I think about it. My aunt and mother would sit around trashing men." Quinn, who has done stand-up, says he doesn't agree with the hypermanly approach of such shock-comics as ANDREW DICE CLAY. "I think it's misogynist and easy," says Quinn. "When I was 9, there was a kid on my block who'd come up to us and curse, and we'd all laugh—but we were 9! We weren't paying $20 a ticket."
MOLLY BLOOMS
Author ERICA JONG's daughter, MOLLY, 11, is a chip off the ol' writer's block. "Molly knows she can go off in the world and do anything because she has a mommy who went off and did everything," says Jong, 47, whose new novel, Any Woman's Blues, is a best-seller about a woman addicted to sex. "I'm sure she'll give me plenty of s—as the years go by, as I gave my mother. She probably will go through all of the horrible things I went through, and I'll sit and bite my fingernails. But she has tremendous self-esteem. She thinks her mom is a softy. When I told her I was getting married [last August, to her fourth husband, lawyer KEN BURROWS], she said, I hope you have a good prenuptial.' "
THE HOT SOMERS SON
Proud mom SUZANNE SOMERS says her 24-year-old son, BRUCE SOMERS (from her first marriage), a film major at USC, has shot his most, uh, interesting work thus far, called In Her Space. "It's a comedy about yeast infection," says Somers, 43. "It's got a bunch of guys dressed up in acidophilus uniforms. There's a lot of pink and a lot of cellophane and an occasional G on one of the walls for the 'G spot.' It was a student film, and I made him be imaginative. Thank God, he didn't ask me to be in it because I'd do anything for him."
TWINKIE, TWINKIE, LITTLE STAR
The only thing funkier than rock star PRINCE's music is his diet. CARMEN BONILLA, who worked as Prince's personal chef for only five weeks before quitting recently, told a Minneapolis reporter that one of the reasons she resigned was because of Prince's pedestrian feeding habits. "He eats a lot of junk food," Bonilla said, listing the 31-year-old Prince's fondness for macaroni and cheese, cake mixes and canned cake frosting. "He hasn't had the opportunity to develop his palate. He wants the comfort food he grew up on."
GROWING A DAISY
Actor TIMOTHY BUSFIELD, who plays Elliot on ABC's thirtysomething, has an idea for raising his 1-year-old daughter, DAISY, that's just swell. "I wish there were some sort of way to bypass the first eight years of her life to a point where I can hang out with her. Like those sponges you put in water which grow instantly, I wish I could put her in a tub and watch her grow to 8. I can't talk to Daisy about myself yet, "jokes Bus field, 32, who'll host Don't Divorce the Children, a documentary about children coping with divorce, airing on the Lifetime cable network on Feb. 28. (Busfield himself is divorced and has one son, WILLY, 7, from his first marriage.) As for thirtysomething's future, he says, "We won't be here more than two more years at the most. [By then] I think everybody will be moving on."
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