NEWS LITE : STALLONE FINDING LIFE A ROCKY ROAD.Sylvester Stallone says his movie career is pretty much on stop and he's shunned by Hollywood. ``I have not made a dime in two years,'' the actor told feminist author Susan Faludi, who interviewed him for her book ``Stiffed: The Betrayal of the Modern Man,'' out next month. ``I see everyone else working and I'm not doing anything. I'm in total limbo.'' Stallone says he's been dead meat since the box-office flop ``Cop Land,'' for which he gained 40 pounds to play a small-town sheriff. Talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to Faludi over lunch at Spago, the actor told her: ``I'm surprised they even gave me this table. I'm like driftwood here.'' He fingers Miramax chairman Harvey Weinstein and agent Arnold Rifkin as his nemeses. Says they've got him frozen as an action hero. Calls Weinstein ``the Don King of cinema'' and says he's fired Rifkin, who ``sold me out.'' Compares muscle roles to the ``world of exotic dancing with women. You qualify for nothing - like the Chippendale dancers.'' Faludi says Weinstein never made good on a promise to cast Stallone in ensemble films. ``I don't exist,'' said Stallone. ``It's like people see right through me.'' His dream is to do ``Rocky 6,'' in which the 50-year-old boxer returns to the ring to raise money for a community center. Taylor recuperating after injury to back Elizabeth Taylor Noun 1. Elizabeth Taylor - United States film actress (born in England) who was a childhood star; as an adult she often co-starred with Richard Burton (born in 1932) Taylor , who suffered a back injury at her Bel Air Bel Air may refer to: Places in the United States:
The 67-year-old actress has been recuperating at home since her release from the hospital Aug. 29, 10 days after she suffered a compression fracture compression fracture n. A fracture caused by the compression of one bone, especially a vertebra, against another. compression fracture Compression axial fracture, crush fracture Orthopedics 1. of a vertebra vertebra /ver·te·bra/ (ver´te-brah) pl. ver´tebrae [L.] any of the 33 bones of the vertebral (spinal) column, comprising 7 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral, and 4 coccygeal vertebrae . . Miss Taylor was ``expected to have a full recovery, has a great outlook and is dedicated to getting her health back,'' Dr. Leroy Perry said Monday. ``We're doing therapy every day with her,'' Perry said, adding that she is ``walking and has incredible stamina.'' Game show model stumbled upon role Though she's certainly not complaining, the new model on ``The Price Is Right'' is completely baffled as to why the show chose her to show off prizes and hold price tags. Why? Because Nikki Ziering Nikki Schieler Ziering (born August 9, 1971 in Norwalk, California) is an American model and actress. She is part Norwegian. She was Playboy's Playmate of the Month for September 1997 which is credited for getting her noticed for acting roles. is a self-described complete klutz. During Ziering's first taping of the game show, she slipped and fell, dropping the price tag - which host Bob Barker had to pick up - and threw her arms up into the air. ``Everyone was wondering, `Why is that girl doing the wave?' '' the former Playboy centerfold told ``TV Guide'' in its Sept. 18 issue. Ziering said she and her husband, Ian Ziering of Beverly Hills: 90210, laughed hysterically when she was offered the job. ``That's because I'm the biggest klutz in the world,'' she said. ``Around the house, I'm always dropping things, spilling things, falling down the stairs Adv. 1. down the stairs - on a floor below; "the tenants live downstairs" downstairs, on a lower floor, below .'' Dalai Lama calls for Y2K See Y2K problem and Y2K compliant. Y2K - Year 2000 activism The turn of the millennium will be ``just another day and night'' for the Dalai Lama, unless mankind resolves to end the kind of suffering going on in East Timor and other trouble spots. Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, opening an international conference Sunday on science and spirituality, said compassion must lead to action if the next era is to be any different. ``When we see these sort of unfortunate things, just to feel sorry . . . that is not sufficient,'' he said in Dharmsala, India. ``The new millennium is nothing special, just another day and night.'' The Dalai Lama has lived in exile in Dharmsala since 1959, when he fled Chinese rule in Tibet. Nolte's private life redefines peculiar Actor Nick Nolte has played some not-quite-there characters (``U-Turn,'' ``Afterglow''), and now it seems his own character is a bit questionable. In a bizarre interview with Esquire, the star details how he regularly extracts his own blood, breathes ozone from an oxygen tank, stands in urine and shoots up strange, unidentified vitamin and hormone cocktails until he nearly loses consciousness. While talking with stunned writer Daniel Voll, Nolte pricked his own finger and began squeezing out blood. And soon Crazy Nick, joined by young son Brawley, shouted, ``Who wants a shot of B-12?'' and injected Voll despite the reporter's protests. Nolte also injects human growth hormone human growth hormone (HGH): see growth hormone. into his stomach, though the chemical is generally only legal to combat dwarfism dwarfism, condition in which an animal or plant is less than normal in size and lacks the capacity for normal growth. Dwarfism is deliberately produced and perpetuated in certain species (e.g., in breeding miniature dogs and cultivating dwarf plants). . ``If I'm feeling stressed, I'll shoot a little B with a pull of folic acid folic acid: see coenzyme; vitamin. folic acid or folate Organic compound essential to animal growth and health and needed by bacteria as a growth factor. , which is good for the heart, and a little B-12,'' he says. And when things really get bad, Nolte fills an IV bag with 13 different vitamins and minerals and slowly drips them through a needle into his bloodstream. ``He's quite sane, honestly,'' swears Nolte's rep. ``That's just Nick.'' Author to end `life' of lovable character J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, says she'll kill off one of the beloved characters in the series. ``I am writing about someone, Voldemort, who is evil,'' Rowling is quoted in this week's Time magazine. ``And rather than make him a pantomime villain, the only way to show how evil it is to take a life is to kill someone the reader cares about.'' OH, OPRAH; Letterman gets cold shoulder The feud between talk show titans Oprah Winfrey and David Letterman is alive and well, says The New York Post The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.[3] Since 1976, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and is one of the 10 . It all started five years ago - Oprah sure can hold a grudge - when the late-night funnyman fun·ny·man n. A humorous person, especially a professional comedian. was hosting the Oscars. Letterman's running gag about Uma Thurman's and Winfrey's unusual first names wasn't all that funny, but it especially fell flat with Oprah, who was reportedly already sour about a sensitive subject. ``Dave used to make fun of Oprah's weight,'' a staffer admitted. ``It can't have pleased Oprah.'' Wednesday night, Letterman had chat host Rikki Lake on as a guest. Dave asked Rikki if she knew Oprah. Before Lake could stop him, Letterman dialed Winfrey's office on a speaker phone. So what happened? On-air fireworks fireworks: see pyrotechnics. fireworks Explosives or combustibles used for display. Of ancient Chinese origin, fireworks evidently developed out of military rockets and explosive missiles and accompanied the spread of military explosives westward to ? Cutesy cute·sy adj. cute·si·er, cute·si·est Informal Deliberately or affectedly cute; precious: a cutesy boutique for children's fashions. make-up? Well, neither. ``Rob Burnett, the show's producer, picked up and kept on waiting for hours. He had to sit there listening to the Oprah theme song ad nauseam,'' said a staffer. During a commercial break, Letterman was fuming fuming /fum·ing/ (fum´ing) emitting a visible vapor. fum·ing adj. Producing or emitting smoke or vapor, as for certain concentrated nitric, sulfuric, and hydrochloric acids. while he was kept on hold by Winfrey's people. ``A delivery man would have a better chance of getting Oprah on the phone than I would,'' he muttered off-camera while Lake squirmed. News Lite is compiled by Karen Duffy from Daily News staff and wire reports CAPTION(S): 3 photos PHOTO (1) Celtics hopeful George Clooney chases a loose ball during a pick-up basketball game Monday in Gloucester, Mass. Associated Press (2) Stallone (3) Nolte |
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