On a November state trip, Prince Charles turned a deaf ear to decorum and joined Bulgarian President/Beatles fan Petar Stoyanov in a chorus of "All You Need Is Love." He had plenty to sing about, having orchestrated in June the successful first meeting of longtime lady friend Camilla Parker Bowles and his son William, over tea at St. James's Palace. Meanwhile, crumpets blared as Princess Anne's daughter Zara Phillips, 17, opened her mouth to reveal she'd had her tenth-in-line tongue pierced.
What the World Needs Now Is Oliver's Army'
Sixties smoothie Burt "Walk On By" Bacharach, 70, teamed with former acid-washed punk Elvis Costello, 44, for Painted from Memory, an album of melancholy pop love songs.
It's a Small Cyberworld After All
Oops! On June 16, in what was billed as the Internet's first live birth, Elizabeth Ann Oliver, 40, delivered 7-lb. 8-oz. son Sean into the monitors of some 1.2 million viewers. Among them were eagle-eyed authorities in Orlando, who recognized her as being wanted for writing $1,300 worth of bad checks. Two weeks after the blessed event, Oliver turned herself in and was freed on $9,000 bail.
Bizarro Jerry Real-Life Love Triangle!
No sooner had he ditched his hit sitcom than Jerry Seinfeld made headlines as a home-wrecker by dating Jessica Sklar, 27 and inconveniently married just four months to the scion of a wealthy New York theater family. Instructively, former Jerry's girl Shoshanna Lonstein exploited her 15 minutes of fame, unveiling a line of lingerie for the "amply endowed" woman.
'Lock Him Up, He Did a No-No'
In April, George Michael, singer of the 1987 hit "I Want Your Sex," got caught with his pants down in a public men's room in a Beverly Hills park. Busted by undercover cops and charged with committing a lewd act, he was fined $810 and sentenced to 80 hours of community service. Michael took the opportunity to satirize the incident in his "Outside" video.
Gee, Thanks for Sharing
From the "Way Too Much Information" files: Two out of three venerable institutions offered enthusiastic endorsements of the anti-impotence pill Viagra. Former Senator Bob Dole, 75, pronounced it "great" and signed on to make TV ads for Viagra-maker Pfizer Inc. Newly separated Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, 72, dubbed it "the greatest recreational drug ever." But for Julio Iglesias, 55, the drug's side effects brought an unfamiliar complaint: Not tonight, querida, I have a headache.
Hey, Al Gore: Let's Get Ready to Rumble!
Inspired by Jesse "the Mind formerly known as the Body" Ventura's stunning landslide victory in the Minnesota gubernatorial race, "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan threw his tights into the political arena by announcing his candidacy for the presidency in the year 2000. "I'm 10 times more popular than [Ventura]," said Hogan. The new guv's dignified response: "He's nothing but a Jesse wannabe."
'Love and Marriage, love and Marriage, Go Together Like Whipped Cream and Cabbage'
Heads up! Yes, there will be a quiz. On Nov. 14 in Las Vegas, basketball freak show Dennis Rodman—whose manager later claimed he was too drunk to know better—married ex-Baywatch babe Carmen Electra, only to file for annulment nine days later. The marriage of Robert Evans, former head of the studio that made Love Story, and actress Catherine Oxenberg lasted only 12 days in July before they called off the conjugal bliss, something that Carol Channing claimed did not exist in her house. Divorcing manager Charles Lowe after 42 years of marriage, Channing announced they'd had sex only twice.
I'm Not a Chair-Slinging Lowlife, but I Play One on TV
Everyone from incestuous siblings and two-timing parolees to cradle-robbing grandmas and born-again bigamists was shocked—shocked!—when the tabloid show Extra alleged in April that among the melees televised daily as The Jerry Springer Show (sample topics: "My Girlfriend Is Really a Man," "Bachelorette Party Fights"), some are staged. Get out!
Opie This Here's Holden. Holden, Opie
Barney rules. In At Home in the World, a memoir that delved into her 1970s affair with J.D. Salinger, Joyce Maynard revealed that the reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye was a die-hard fan of The Andy Griffith Show.
and more!
•Tom Cruise reprised his hero role, coming to the aid of a London woman who had just been robbed of her jewelry. But who says chivalry pays? Soon after, he was denied a video rental because he couldn't show proper ID.
•While filming a biopic of the late comic Andy Kaufman, Jim Carrey ended up in a neck brace—as did Kaufman in 1982—courtesy of wrestler Jerry Lawler.
•Former Mouseketeer Darlene Gillespie, who spent 1955-1959 on TV in Disney's Mickey Mouse Club, was convicted of F-R-A-U-D for using worthless checks to purchase stock.
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!
