home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text id=94TT0035>
- <title>
- Jan. 17, 1994: The Arts & Media:People
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Jan. 17, 1994 Genetics:The Future Is Now
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 67
- By Ginia Bellafante
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>ABRACADABRA, A LITTLE GIFT
- </p>
- <p> A diamond is forever, but nothing says "Please don't leave me
- for Fabio" like a $2 million yacht. Proving that his love is
- not illusory, magician DAVID COPPERFIELD (1993 earnings: $26
- million) bought the Honey Fitz--used by President Kennedy--for new friend Claudia Schiffer. And lest you think Copperfield
- likes Schiffer for reasons that can be enumerated 34-24-35,
- you are wrong. "She is smart," he says. "She's been a top model
- for five years--that takes a lot of intelligence."
- </p>
- <p>RED HOT AND CONTROVERSIAL
- </p>
- <p> With his too many tattoos, abrasive demeanor and penchant for
- wearing skirts, ANTHONY KIEDIS does not seem the sort of young
- man who would relish the chance to do something special for
- Uncle Sam. Yet the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
- willingly enlisted in the government's newly launched anti-aids
- condom campaign. But when the feds learned last week that Kiedis
- had once been convicted of sexual battery--a well-publicized
- fact--they pulled his provocative radio spots pronto.
- </p>
- <p>THE GIRLS OF GATT
- </p>
- <p> Picture it: two Lyons housewives pack a Citroen for a weekend
- away from insensitive husbands Jean-Luc and Jean-Pierre. Kerchiefs
- billowing, they take to the road only to find their lives irreversibly
- altered when they must rebuff the advances of two drunken semioticians.
- Can the French look forward to their own version of Thelma &
- Louise? Probably. The agent who represents actresses JULIETTE
- BINOCHE and ISABELLE ADJANI is looking for a script that would
- pair them in a feminist road movie. Binoche, who turned down
- the Laura Dern role in Jurassic Park to star in the somber French
- drama Blue, doesn't think much of Hollywood ("It's all about
- hits and money, not great movies"), but enjoyed Thelma & Louise.
- As for a remake a la francaise, she says, "I'd love to do it."
- </p>
- <p>SEEN & HEARD
- </p>
- <p> We can only assume that her personal-grooming expenses have
- finally grown too high. Erstwhile sex symbol Loni Anderson,
- claiming in court papers that she will be broke by next month,
- has asked estranged husband Burt Reynolds for some private assistance.
- The presumably well-paid Nurses star believes her ex should
- supply her with immediate alimony payments to tide her over
- until the couple's acrimonious divorce is final.
- </p>
- <p> Famously ill-kempt nerd billionaire Bill Gates may not be the
- awkward shy guy the world believes him to be. A recent New Yorker
- profile painted the Microsoft chairman as a nerd with no social
- graces, a "very old little boy." But an upcoming story in Mirabella
- depicts the newlywed quite differently--as a Lothario who
- soon after college began "to cut a romantic swath through the
- world of computing." Gates, the story alleges, has had a notorious
- reputation for pursuing his female employees as well as attractive
- reporters covering the computer industry.
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
-
-