”It`s one thing to write about sex,” says Alexandra (”Great Sex: How To Make Love to Each Other”) Penney, ”it`s another to talk about it. I was brought up in Darien, Conn., in a family where you didn`t mention the word. I can write about it because I`m a reporter, but talk shows were torture. The first one I did was Tom Snyder`s after I wrote ”How to Make Love to a Man,`
and my husband Norman came with me. He was sitting in the green room watching me with a couple of guys who were also guests. They saw me, and one said to the other, `Funny, she doesn`t look like a hooker.` ”
The self-proclaimed ”toastmaster general of the immoral majority,” Van Halen`s David Lee Roth, is to flamboyant what the Sistine Chapel is to striking, according to Rock magazine. Needless to say, Roth attracts a lot of attention, much of it negative. But critics don`t bother him. ”I won`t battle wits with an unarmed person,” he says. ”If you stick your head above the crowd, somebody`s going to throw a rock at it. I think it says that in the Bible. And I`m on a box, man.” Of course, that doesn`t keep Roth from firing the occasional pot shot himself. About Boy George, he says, ”If he is waking up with the house on fire, you can bet Boy Dave set the blaze.”
Everyone knows what a Peeping Tom is, but how many people know how he got his name? ”The Dictionary of Eponyms: Names That Became Words” explains that after Lady Godiva accepted a dare from her husband to ride naked through Coventry, she issued a proclamation ordering everyone to stay inside with the shutters closed. This way she`d be able to accept the dare and maintain her modesty as well. Everyone stayed inside, except–you got it.
REPLAYS
”Dying is easy. Comedy is dificult.”
–Edmond Gwenn
”Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.”
–Steve Martin
”In the end, everything is a gag.”
–Charlie Chaplin
