EVANDER HOLLYFIELD is going into the music business, saying "I think boxing and the music business is pretty much the same." The father of 9 children hasn't yet retired from his sporting career, as his goal is to be undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. Good luck in both endeavors.................ROBERT DOWNEY Jr. is back down for the count, having relapsed in his battle to fight drug addiction. He was dumped from the NBC sitcom GOD, THE DEVIL AND BOB. He had hoped to avoid jail time by coming clean with the court, after refusing a drug test, but the judge jailed him until an August 5 probation hearing.................... GERI HALLIWELL dropped out of the SPICE GIRLS to make it on her own, so when she blew into town last week to promote her new recording SCHIZOPHRENIC, we thought we'd send our cameras to get a view. Well, it seems GERI'S record company is a bit schizo--they want to sell the cd's but didn't want our cameras there. Gee, I'll run right out and buy that disc. A bit of unsolicited advice, wait until you've made it big as a solo artist before you start turning your nose up at the press.............Another yawner--KATZENBERG and EISNER have settled their feud. $100 million, 200 million, who cares...............Italian voters apparently don't care much for celebrities--recently GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA and director FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI were trounced in European Parliament elections................ELTON JOHN has applied for a $40 million dollar care package to pay off and restructure debt. It seems the superstar is a compulsive shopper and has amassed credit card bills that would choke a horse................MARIE OSMOND has phillied her seventh child with husband BRIAN BLOSIL. Whoa!..........RICHARD GERE is a father for the first time with gal pal CARIE LOWELL of LAW & ORDER, and not with CINDY CRAWFORD who days ago had her first child, with husband RANDY GERBER. Are they competing?..............Look for the birth of a new sitcom--THANKS--about the Pilgrims adjustment to America. The new show stars CLORIS LEACHMAN, arguably the best actress working today with 8 Emmys in different roles on TV and an Oscar for her work in THE LAST PICTURE SHOW. Her roles on MEL BROOK'S films are some of my favorites--NURSE DIESEL, FRAU BREUHER, now that's funny stuff!................Word on the talked about MARY and RHODA show, which was to have materialized as a sitcom but now is being discussed as a TV movie for next season. The more things change, the more they stay the same--PHYLLIS, MARY and RHODA on the tube in the year 2000. .................. Oh and DAVID BOWIE will have a new cd out in October called HOURS.

ENTERTAINMENT MEMO
6-22-99

The Reverend JERRY FALWELL is at it again, with ridiculous claims that THE LILITH FAIR is named after a demon, in an attempt to get young God fearing Christian kids to stay away from the touring women's concert troupe.. Helllloooo JERRY, it may be named after a demon, and it is run by, and blessed with performances from a whole coven of demons like those with special musical talent and ability. How about picking on the hypocritical demons that populate organized religion instead.................On the subject of antichrist like figures, did you read MARILYN MANSON'S very reasoned and thoughtful expose in THE ROLLING STONE? The ghoul has a head on his shoulders. In a 3 page essay entitled 'COLUMBINE: WHOSE FAULT IS IT?', ole glass eye takes on TIME magazine and the rest of the organized media for glorifying the teenagers who murdered their peers at the tragic high school in Denver. "The media just created two new (folk heroes) when they plastered...DYLAN KLEBOLD and ERIC HARRIS pictures on the front of every newspaper. Don't be surprised if every kid who gets pushed around has two new idols." That is dope show, man....................ALICE COOPER said essentially the same thing in an interview we conducted with him recently at a TOWER RECORD'S promotional event. COOPER was the shock rocker of the 70's, biting heads off of chickens in full make-up and regalia during his day. He looks great, and says that entertainment is not to blame for the madness that is going on in some teens heads these days................On madness-HBO has bought into the AUSTIN POWERS frenzy, ordering 13 episodes of an animated series, which has yet to be drawn. It will debut in the summer of 2000............Meanwhile, the SHAGGY SPY earned $31 million in its' second week of release, topping $100 million in 9 days. But it wasn't the highest grossing film over the weekend. That honor went to TARZAN, which brought in $34million............... WIMBLEDON tennis has begun, and is anyone else ready to pull their hair out if they hear another high drama, cornball dialogue by JIM LAMPLEY covering the grand slam for HBO. He was great as ABC'S COLLEGE FOOTBALL REPORT anchor on Saturday afternoons, but his "colorful" commentary sounds as if he is reading for a creative writing class at WELSLEY, or auditioning for a new off-off Broadway production of WUTHERING HEIGHTS..............RUPERT EVERETT and MADONNA are an item these days, being seen about town on the clock and off. They are filming THE NEXT BEST THING in Los Angeles, about a separated couple--her straight, him gay-battling custody and trying to raise a child. We all know how MADONNA likes to blur the line between her persona and her person. Will LOURDES have a sibling soon?.............And on the subject of shocking gay revelations-LARRY KRAMER, a gay activist and writer for Illinois' JOURNAL-REGISTER asserts that he has read the private diary of PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S secret homosexual lover. Historians have long known that LINCOLN and JOSHUA SPEED shared a bed for 4 years, although that was apparently commonplace at the time. KRAMER claims to have access to writings from SPEED that detail a sexual relationship. Now that ought to keep FALWELL busy for a couple more weeks...........

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