Eddie Murphy is following up on the success of his latest hit movie, Life, with a new production: His wife, Nicole, is expecting the couple's fourth child. That means a new brother or sister for Bria, 9, Myles, 6, and Shayne, 4.
Country singer Billy Ray Cyrus is a hero in Mulhall, Okla., a town that was virtually destroyed by tornadoes this month. After a concert in Little Rock, Cyrus drove his tour bus straight to a Wal-Mart Supercenter and loaded it up with toothbrushes, shoes, toys, comforters, pillows and shampoo, among other necessities. He paid the four-figure tab and even persuaded the store manager to donate water. Then Cyrus, with his manager and his bus driver, motored 300 miles to Mulhall, where they personally passed out the goods to grateful families.
Stanford University has an illustrious new guest who may be almost as famous as sophomore Chelsea Clinton: A Man in Full author Tom Wolfe is spending part of the school's spring quarter as a visiting scholar in the communications department. His mission is to soak up life on the Farm, as the school is known, while he researches a new novel on higher education.
Tim Allen and Patricia Richardson gave the cast and crew of Home Improvement a shining memento when the sitcom wrapped last month. Everyone received a gold ring with the show's logo embossed on the top and the years it aired (1991-99) on the sides. Inside, the inscription reads, "Love, Tim and Pat." Meanwhile, Mad About You's Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser bought TV sets as goodbye gifts for their group to commemorate their seven years together, while The Nanny's Fran Drescher presented Sony PlayStations to everyone involved in her show, which ended its sixth and final season May 12.
Screen legend Mickey Rooney feels that Hollywood today is a clubhouse and he's no longer a member. "Very few people can get in the clubhouse," Rooney says. "Jim Carrey, for example. I wrote a script for him called Mud. I called his agent and asked if I could get the script to him, and they never called me back. He's too important."
Fast takes:
Tennis star Pete Sampras was asked to leave Beverly Hills's trendy Crustacean restaurant—on his way to being seated—because he was wearing shorts....
I hear that Rod Stewart has a new red Lamborghini Diablo, perhaps to impress his new girlfriend, Kimberly Hefner....
An Austrian book, Class A: Austrian Product Culture, lists Arnold Schwarzenegger as Austria's most famous export, along with PEZ candy dispensers.
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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!
