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- Dec. 27, 1993: People
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Dec. 27, 1993 The New Age of Angels
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 85
- By Ginia Bellafante
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- <body>
- <p>TO THE INFOMERCIAL HIGHWAY!
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- <p> What will become of her? SHANNEN DOHERTY, 22, TV's most poisonous
- faux adolescent, isn't going to be part of the Beverly Hills
- 90210 family next season. Producers of the hit teen show have
- reportedly refused to renew the insatiable party girl's contract.
- How could they? 90210 producer Aaron Spelling is offering only
- a "no comment" on the alleged dismissal of Mrs. Ashley Hamilton.
- But we can assume her tabloidy misbehavior, on set and off,
- was no longer worth its weight in publicity.
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- <p>CONQUISTADOR
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- <p> Spanish actor ANTONIO BANDERAS may struggle with English, but
- he seems well versed in the language of fame, and today that's
- spoken in the dialect of anti-fame: "I don't want to be a star,"
- he says. "Stars always play themselves. I want to play characters."
- But avoiding celebrity will soon be difficult for the star of
- the art-house hit Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
- and the man whose Mastroianni-circa-1960 sexiness bedazzled
- Madonna in Truth or Dare. Banderas will begin shooting Interview
- with the Vampire with Tom Cruise, and he appears as Tom Hanks'
- lover in Philadelphia. Early next year he falls into the arms
- of Winona Ryder in the epic The House of the Spirits. As Banderas
- shuns fame, his House character shuns money. "Today there is
- no one like him," says the liquid-eyed Iberian. "There are no
- countries anymore, just banks."
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- <p>NOT A BLUE CHRISTMAS
- </p>
- <p> With Harry Connick Jr. and two-thirds of Wilson Phillips serving
- up wholesome collections of holiday song this year, you won't
- need those old Bing Crosby Christmas records. Even rapper LUTHER
- CAMPBELL--of 2 Live Crew and obscenity fame--is in Der Bingle
- mode, offering Christmas at Luke's House, a Yuletide R.-and-B.
- album. Campbell swears the disk is "clean because Christmas
- is a family time, a holy time."
- </p>
- <p>SEEN & HEARD
- </p>
- <p> A certain Massachusetts Senator may need to be reminded that
- while his first name is Ted, his last name isn't Danson. Wearing
- a Barney costume, TED KENNEDY entertained guests at his annual
- Christmas party with the sort of ribaldry befitting a Friars
- Club gathering. When his wife Victoria, playing straight man,
- mentioned screws floating in space during the Hubble telescope
- repair mission, Senator Kennedy riposted, "Floating screw...that's what people used to call me." One Barney-related line:
- "They don't call me Tyrannosaurus sex for nothing!"
- </p>
- <p> America had stopped expecting a book from ANITA HILL, the law
- professor who captivated the country during a single weekend
- in the fall of 1991. But Hill, who rejected numerous publishing
- offers after testifying at the Clarence Thomas hearings, has
- now signed a deal to write both an autobiography and a book
- on sexual harassment. Hill decided to turn author after receiving
- thousands of letters from people urging her to share her views.
- </p>
- <p> LARRY FISHBURNE has obviously developed a penchant for playing
- less-than-lucid '60s rock stars. The actor who brought us the
- unceasingly irascible Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do with
- It will star in a film chronicling the life of guitar god Jimi
- Hendrix. The film is tentatively titled 'Scuse Me While I Kiss
- the Sky.
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