Do Something, Regis!
The mourning period has begun: on Aug. 1, the “Live With Regis and Kathie Lee” Fan Club will cease to exist as we know it. Information about the show’s schedule and its irrepressible cohosts will still be available on a fan Web site. But the personalized birthday cards, the newsletter and other priceless perks will end. Organizers say the club, with 5,000 members, grew too big to serve so personally. The fans–many without computers–are heartbroken. “It feels like they’re divorcing us,” says Renee Meado of Alexander, Ill. Let the letter-writing campaign begin.
Ally Oop: Casting About for the Right Star
In the world of near-miss casting disasters, it hardly rivals Lucille Ball auditioning for “Gone With the Wind.” Still, can you imagine Bridget Fonda as Ally McBeal? Fonda says she turned the part down. “I never wanted to do TV,” she says. A spokesman for “Ally” creator David E. Kelley says Fonda was only a “template” for the bony barrister. But Kelley admits he hired hunky Dylan McDermott for “The Practice” only after chunky Oliver Platt passed. The week’s weirdest casting call: writer Michael Herr says Stanley Kubrick once wanted Steve Martin for “Eyes Wide Shut.” “He’d loved ‘The Jerk’,” Herr says. Close call, Ms. Kidman.
Annulled and Void
After 22 years, four children and countless breakups and makeups, Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall have decided they were never married at all. The couple have agreed to seek an annulment–a tactic usually reserved for fraudulent or unconsummated unions. “It’s odd. Maybe it makes someone feel better to not call this another failed marriage,” says lawyer Marvin Mitchelson. The annulment probably didn’t affect the settlement. Hall, who filed for divorce after reports that Jagger impregnated model Luciana Morad, reportedly got $15.5 million. There’s plenty of satisfaction in that.
