LOOK WHO'S DATING, AGAIN
Glamor gal Sharon Stone has a brand new boyfriend. He's restaurateur-movie producer Brad Johnson, a co-owner, along with ex-NBA star Norm Nixon and others, of the upscale Los Angeles soul-food eatery Georgia (PEOPLE, March 11). One of my spies reports spotting Stone and Johnson on April 6 looking chummy while lunching with his family at Barney Green-grass, the Beverly Hills branch of New York City's well-known deli. Stone and Johnson, friends for the last couple of years after being introduced by his mother, have been dating only since the Oscars and according to a source are already "hot and heavy."...
Look for Ellen DeGeneres to spend part of her four-month hiatus from her ABC sitcom Ellen recording a comedy album for Atlantic Records. And—hold the presses—she will also sing one song an the record. The deal was just concluded....
It was inevitable: Divine Brown (born Stella Marie Thompson), the L.A. prostitute who, in the wee hours of June 27, 1995, helped change the public's perception of Hugh Grant, wants to write a book. Brown's literary agent has begun peddling to publishers a proposal for Divine Revelations: Lessons from the Street. The two-page proposal promises Brown's tale of her front-seat encounter with the British actor and quotes her as describing Grant as "a lot kinkier than people think he is." She also intends to discuss her sexual techniques and devote a chapter to "Keeping Your Man at Home." Brown's agent Jeff Herman is hoping for a $50,000 advance from a publisher here in the U.S. and much larger paydays in Europe, but has yet to draw any firm bids....
Entertainment Tonight's John Tesh and his wife, actress Connie Sellecca, are hoofing their way through weekly dance classes at an Arthur Murray Dance studio in L.A. Tesh tells me, "I gave us a year's worth of dance lessons as a Valentine's Day present to Connie." Tesh praises his wife's progress in ballroom dancing but admits, "I still count out loud." The couple celebrated their fourth anniversary on April 4....
Studly Jaason Simmons, who has played Australian bad boy Logan Fowler for the last two seasons on Bay watch, has decided to quit the show. "My gut said move on," he explains. The 26-year-old Australian native asked to be let out of his Baywatch contract and tells me he plans to head to London to study theater....
British-born Lynn Redgrave has applied for U.S. citizenship after living in this country for more than 22 years. Redgrave, currently appearing on Broadway with Robert Goulet in Moon Over Buffalo, says she could have "stayed a green card holder forever," but wants to be a full-fledged, voting Yank. Not that she plans to become as politically outspoken as her sister Vanessa, but, as she puts it, "at least now I'll have a voice."...
And finally, hearing that actress Frances Fisher responded to Clint Eastwood's March 31 marriage to newscaster Dina Ruiz with a one-line comment, "I wish them well," reminds me of the Christmas card Fisher sent to friends last December. Pictured on the front were Fisher and her 2-year-old daughter by Eastwood, Francesca Ruth. Inscribed on the inside were the words: "Time heals." I guess it did.
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