Roman Catholic Tastes
Just because he is pro-choice and a Protestant, is it not kosher for Nebraska Senator BOB KERREY to take Communion in the Roman Catholic Church? Kerrey had been doing that for more than a year-only to discover to his embarrassment that it’s against church rules. After an official of Nebraska’s Right to Life committee complained, Kerrey announced that he would no longer participate in Communion ceremonies, but plans to continue attending Mass anyway. “It’s a great church,” he says. “I like the values.”
SEEN & HEARD
DARRYL STRAWBERRY was bounced from baseball last week after flunking drug tests (again) and also had a sorry day in court. After pleading guilty to evading income tax on $350,000 earned from autograph signings and such, Strawberry was told to report next month for his sentence-perhaps three months in jail and a fine of up to $250,000. Strawberry told the New York Post he had been so depressed that he “thought about” suicide but changed his mind because he has “a lot of hope.”
In The Silence of the Lambs, Oscar winner ANTHONY HOPKINS ate people, but that doesn’t mean he likes to eat with them-specifically his fellow professionals. “I’m not very sociable,” he said last week. “I like actors, but I don’t want to go to dinner with them.”
Fantasy Becomes Reality
As a teenager, British folk-soul singer DES’REE, now 26, imagined herself a star. “I’d be on the stage,” she says. “I could hear the applause, the musicians. But I didn’t tell anyone.” At last her secret is out, and her single, You Gotta Be, is No. 6 on the charts. What she never imagined was that she would appear on Saturday Night Live, as she did last weekend-she’d never heard of it. With her coffeehouse sound she avoids the clichas of big-piped soul singers. “I can wail, and I can shout,” she says, “but I just don’t do it. It’s just the way I feel.”
Cents and Scents Ability
Since 1981, ISABELLA ROSSELLINI, the astonishingly beautiful daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, has been plugging Lancome cosmetics under a contract that has paid her as much as $315,000 a year for 35 days of work. Along the way, Isabella had two other, less successful careers-as a movie actress (Blue Velvet, Wyatt Earp) and wife (she is divorced from film director Martin Scorsese and model Jonathan Wiedemann). Now that she has reached a certain age-she’s pushing 43-Lancome, according to some reports, has decided that it wants a fresher image. Whether she was pushed or quit, Rossellini and the company have parted ways-but she is not out of work. Last week she announced that she has a new job: vice president of the international marketing department, as well as model and pitchperson, for the European cosmetics firm Lancaster, which makes Joop! perfume. Asked if she will “make any money,” she smiled her ice-cube-melting smile and said, “That’s not a correct kind of question. But look, I am very rich, so don’t you worry.”
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