Because Warren Beatty is so reluctant to discuss his private life, the press has been forced to make it up. ”They come up with all sorts of wild things,” he says in Suzanne Munshower`s ”Warren Beatty: His Life, His Loves, His Work.” ”They make me into an insane eccentric with an incredible fear of losing my youth, who lives in a bomb shelter, who contemplates or is going through plastic surgery, who has devastating relationships with women. It goes through cycles. First they say women like me too much; then that women don`t like me at all; then that they like me too much again. Somewhere along the way they say that I secretly like men–but then that men don`t like me! I`m old, I`m young, I`m intelligent, I`m stupid. My tide goes in and out.”
”When I was in my early 20s, I felt very troubled and dark,” says Andrea Marcovicci. ”The parts that came along called for me to be troubled and dark. The more I played them, the more troubled I became. I first got laughs on `Taxi` when I did a satire on the usual crybaby I played. Once I got laughs, I was hooked. I got happier and developed a comic attitude about life. It`s no secret that the roles you play seep over into your life. It`s hard to say, `It`s 5, get happy!` ” That`s why she was thrilled when she finally got a fun part on ”Berrenger`s.” So what happened? The series was cancelled.
Oh, boy! Boy George, ”the reigning king and queen of pop music,” lists the five worst-dressed (he should talk) in the May issue of Playboy. ”No. 1 on my list, Joan Collins, because she looks like an oven-ready turkey in those ball gowns she wears. Two, Maggie Thatcher, because she looks as if she`s still wearing the hangers. Three, Joan Rivers, because she borrows all her clothes and forgets to remove the return tags. Four, Brooke Shields, because she won`t stop wearing Michael Jackson. Five, Boy George, because he`s jealous none of their dresses will fit him”
REPLAYS
”I`ve given up reading books . . . It takes my mind off myself.”
Oscar Levant
”I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
Oscar Wilde
”When I am dead, I hope it may be said: / `His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.` ”
Hillaire Belloc
