It`s rather encouraging to know that in matters of the heart, even movie actors are insecure. In the September issue of McCall`s magazine, Scottish actor Tom Conti, who won an Oscar nomination for ”Ruben, Ruben,” says:
”When I first met Cara (his actress-wife and the mother of their 11-year-old daughter, Nina), I felt like a total dimwit. I was thinking, `Oh, my God. All the other men she knows must be terribly exciting.` ” Conti, who stars in ”Saving Grace,” goes on to say: ”I`m basically a woman`s man. Women have the right end of the stick as far as life is concerned. When a woman goes into a relationship, she is more careful because women recognize their vulnerability.”
Fitness guru Richard Simmons travels 300 days a year trying to bring thin thighs to the world. He says the most selfish thing he ever does is ”turn off my phone. Otherwise, I`m on it constantly. I get 10,000 letters a week and every weekend I`ll call 50 to 60 people at random. Just to say, `Hello, Alice? This is Richard. What are you eating?` I save lives. I`m not an actor. I`m certainly not a personality. I`m a motivator. Just because I left the seminary, it doesn`t mean I stopped caring about people. I have a little, tiny Franciscan priest inside me.”
After you`ve been Ziggy Stardust and the Elephant Man, what could be next? David Bowie may try his hand at directing. In Steve Gett`s biography
”David Bowie,” the actor is quoted as saying, ”One can`t fight the urge to play around with film and video; it`s a magic world. When you can create that little world and portray its environment and the characters in it, it becomes obsessive.”
REPLAYS
”As one gets olde, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.” Noel Coward
”Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only certainty is oblivion.” Mark Twain
”Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.” Eric Hoffer
