We know she goes for younger men, but who knew my three-month-old pinscher pup would be Demi Moore’s latest fling?
On Sunday night at the Borgata, legendary mascaraed diva Diana Ross kept the capacity crowd of 2,400 on their feet as she wriggled and writhed her way through the best of her catalog — from her days with the Supremes to her channeling of Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues to her stab at being a disco queen — and through a series of garish, glitzy, high-slitted gowns (in which the impressively bottomed 63-year-old still looks damn fine).
Most of Joey Bishop’s legacy will be inextricably linked to Frank Sinatra and, more specifically, the Rat Pack. This is fine — there are worse clubs to be associated with. It’s disrespectful to consider Bishop a mere hanger-on, one of Sinatra’s many sycophants who aimlessly followed him around and used his acquaintance to bolster their own career.
Clearly, Bishop’s relationship with Sinatra helped propel him from struggling dive-bar comic to irreplaceable cog in one of Hollywood’s most revered gangs. He knew his place, but he never let it undermine his craft as a joke-teller. That was his job well before he ever met Sinatra, and something he did after the Rat Pack disbanded.
Bishop was interviewed for this magazine in 1994 by Mark Kram, Jr.. The resulting piece, “I Was a Mouse in the Rat Pack,” serves as the perfect eulogy for the charmed life of a kid from South Philadelphia.
From a spy: For those of you excited about celebrities flouncing around the area, you’ll be pleased to know that Terrence Howard, Oscar-nominated star of Hustle and Flow, received a manicure and pedicure this morning at Crystal Nail Salon in his part-time haunt of Lafayette Hill.
We’ll keep you updated as to whether or not he’s also getting a trim at Super Cuts.
Terrence Howard [IMDB]
According to a source at the Atlantic City Convention & Visitors Authority, actor Christopher Walken, best known for his bizarre diction and roles in Pulp Fiction, Deer Hunter, and Saturday Night Live, will soon hit our little Vegas to the East to shoot scenes for his upcoming flick Five Dollars a Day, in which he plays a con-artist living in AC.
The location is said to be the decrepit Resorts hotel, so you might have to brave the buffet if you want a glimpse of the 64-year-old actor. Though the film is slated to be released in 2008, there’s a pretty good chance that it will never see the light of day, as it’s already on its third director, Nigel Cole, whose resume includes little more than Saving Grace and “Nature” episodes.
Odd-nosed actor Owen Wilson’s role in the film version of Marley and Me is reportedly in jeopardy. The 38-year-old Wilson, who checked into a medical facility early last week after a failed suicide attempt, was scheduled to start filming his role as Inquirer columnist-with-gloomy-dead-dog John Grogan in January. Now that his fragile mental health has potentially cost him the role, the always forward-thinking Marley Maniacs are scouting for replacements.
