Art Linkletter was wrong. It`s women, not kids, who say the darnedest things. In ”Hammer & Tongues” (St. Martin`s), Michele Brown and Ann O`Connor have collected some of the best of women`s wit and humor. Margot Fonteyn on whether she believed in women`s liberation: ”Not if it means I have to carry the male dancers instead of them carrying me.” Mrs. Woodrow Wilson on when her future husband proposed to her: ”I was so surprised I nearly fell out of bed.” Shelley Winters on nudity on the stage: ”I think it`s disgusting. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.”
Poor Rob Lowe. In the March-April issue of In Fashion, the actor says the role he plays in ”Illegally Yours,” ”a confused 25-year-old with a penchant for unstable romantic relationships,” is ”totally me. In real life I`m obsessed with every woman. I`ve been like that from the day I was born.” A couple of Lowe`s romances have been played out on the world`s stage. There were his two (broken) engagements to Melissa Gilbert and his fling with Monaco`s Princess Stephanie. Maybe that`s why Lowe says that when he gets depressed, it`s over women. ”It`s funny they keep me going and torture me at the same time.”
A rare portrait of Mick Jagger has been penned by Rolling Stones`
guitarist Ron Wood in ”Ron Wood” (Perennial Library). Ever since the assassination of John Lennon, Jagger, according to Wood, rarely goes anywhere without security guards, and frequently even these guards aren`t enough. ”He would come over to my house in New York, and I`d have to escort him back home in the middle of the night,” writes Wood. ” `Woody, will you please walk me back home?` Mind you, the guy lived three short blocks away from me. And then I`d think, who`s gonna walk me home from his house?”
