No one can dispute that Jackie Mason is a success. He has won a Tony and an Emmy for his one-man show, ”The World According to Jackie Mason,” to prove it. But life wasn`t always so sweet for the rabbi-turned-comedian, and he explains why in his autobiography, ”Jackie, Oy!” (Little, Brown). Among other things, before he decided to be a full-time funny man, he found himself in an awkward position: ”I was telling people to worship God while I was worshipping blonds.”
Only in America-actually, only in L.A.-can you find food gurus who do
”refrigerator make-overs.” For a fee, ”food coach” Yolanda Bergman comes into your house, opens your fridge, takes inventory, then throws out stuff like fudge sauce and replaces it with, say, no-fat yogurt. In the October
issue of Self magazine, Kate Jackson, Carrie Fisher and Allyce Beasley tell how they`ve learned to love their veggies, whole grains and water-packed tuna. ”Women cannot live on cottage cheese alone,” Bergman says.
It`s hard to believe there are any more details about Lady Di that the whole world doesn`t know, but Ingrid Seward, who has written ”Diana: An Intimate Portrait” (Contemporary), thinks we`ll be surprised to learn that there was a time when Di, a high school dropout, supplemented her small trust- fund income by washing shirts and working as a maid; that when she wants to irritate Prince Charles, she tells dirty jokes; that her father is never invited to the family Christmas celebration at Windsor Palace; and that she loves to flirt and once promised that the first man who kissed her would become a prince. The taker was Philip Dunne, and he didn`t.
