Tuesday Weld tells all! In the February issue of Celebrity Plus, Dobbie Gillis` old TV girlfriend has this to say about former lover Elvis Presley:
”He was just a hurricane. He walked into a room, and everything stopped. He was just so physically beautiful. And he was funny, charming and complicated.” About ex-husband Dudley Moore: ”He doesn`t deserve (to be mentioned).” About former costar Gregory Peck with whom she once did a love scene: ”He got into bed with his pants and his shoes on-big clunky businessman`s shoes, laced up, with socks. What more can I say?”
Willie Nelson can thank a certain radio exec in Vancouver, Wash., for his singing career. Back in the `50s, when he was a disc jockey, Nelson recalls how one day, elated by his ratings, he stormed into the program director`s office and demanded a raise. ”After he stopped laughing, he said no, so I quit,” Nelson says. ”I told him to try and do without me. They`ve been doing very well without me for all these years.”
”King Charles III,” by Anthony Holden (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), proves that Lady Di`s husband has a way with a bon mot. When told that St. Paul`s Cathedral, his choice for his marriage, had a longer processional than the more traditional Westminster Abbey and would therefore need more troops to line it, he replied, ”Tell them to stand farther apart.” Once, after a foreign hostess he had complimented on her excellent English told him her father believed in educating girls, Prince Charles replied, ”I wish that had been the philosophy in my wife`s family.”
