People: Diddy Makes a Plea for Free Oil
By Vicki Walker
OK, you know gasoline prices are out of control when Sean “Diddy” Combs is bellyaching about them.
“Can you believe this? I’m actually flying commercial — that’s how high gas prices are,” he marvels in his latest YouTube video. “Even your boy is affected by gas prices.”
Sounds like “our boy” has only just touched down on Planet Earth.
Ed McMahon almost got evicted from his own house and Diddy’s complaining about not being able to fly his personal plane? If John Travolta is in the same boat, at least he’s keeping quiet about it.
“Gas prices are too (expletive) high,” he continues. “As you know, I do have my own jet, but I’ve been having to fly back and forth to L.A. pursuing my acting career. Now, if I’m flying back and forth twice a month, that’s like $200,000, $250,000 round trip. (Forget) that. I’m back on American Airlines.”
If AA expands its second carry-on charges beyond economy class, we may face another why-is-the-real-world-affecting-moi? video blog.
Diddy also made a plea for free oil.
“Give a shout out to all my Saudi Arabia brothers and sisters and all the brothers and sisters in all the countries that have oil — if you could please send me some oil for my jet, I would truly appreciate it,” Diddy says.
Hey, us too! We don’t have private jets, so we don’t need as much as Diddy. Pretty please?
THE SEX FILES: David Duchovny won a Golden Globe playing a sex- addicted writer on the Showtime series “Californication.” Now the 48- year-old actor is in a rehab center for sex addiction.
If anyone says he has to turn in his award because he couldn’t possibly be acting, we’ll punch ‘im in the nose.
In a statement to People magazine, Duchovny says he “voluntarily” sought treatment and, “I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family.”
Around the time he and actress Tea Leoni wed in 1997, both denied reports that he was addicted to sex. Duchovny told Playboy that the accusation “was hurtful to my family.” A more jovial Leoni, in Elle, admitted she found the rumor “very exciting. And then I found out it wasn’t true.”
According to the New York Daily News, the “X-Files” star was more forthcoming last month during a press tour when he told tales about himself and Leoni in a Vancouver sauna.
“The sauna wasn’t going to stop me,” said Duchovny, “and I recovered pretty quickly.” Leoni passed out.
Are their children old enough to be embarrassed yet? Let’s see, Madelaine is 9 and Kyd is 6. Yeah, probably.
MEOW MIX: The New York Daily News reports that director Christopher Nolan’s first choice to play Catwoman in his next “Batman” film is — brace yourself — Cher.
Oh, come on! You might as well have Cloris Leachman do “Dancing With the Stars.” Oh, wait “…
Cher, 62, does have more lives (and careers) than a cat, and like previous catsuit filler Halle Berry has won an Academy Award. So has Angelina Jolie, previously considered the frontrunner for the part.
Nolan apparently wants to take Catwoman in a different direction, says the unnamed studio executive who provided this scoop of litter:
“Cher is Nolan’s first choice to play Catwoman. He wants her to portray her like a vamp in her twilight years. The new Catwoman will be the absolute opposite of Michelle Pfeiffer and Halle Berry’s purring creations.”
NOT THE FOLLOW-UP WE EXPECTED: The death of Lindsay Lohan’s grandfather has prompted a cease-fire on the Lohan battlefield.
Richard Lohan’s death Thursday from colon cancer has prompted a truce between his son, Michael; and Michael’s daughter Lindsay, who were airing their conflicting views about the actress-singer’s girlfriend, Samantha Ronson, on online blogs and entertainment Web sites throughout the week.
“I was holding him, laying in bed with him, when he died,” Michael Lohan tells E! News. “Lindsay did reach out to me. She sent me a message this morning. She said, ‘Now Papa has found peace and maybe we can find peace in our lives, too.’”
Today’s People Column was compiled by Vicki Walker from news service reports. Comments? Write to us c/o the Times, P.O. Box 8099, Walnut Creek, CA 94596-8099. Or call 925-943-8323, fax 925-943- 8265, or e-mail vwalker@bayareanewsgroup.com.
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Originally published by Vicki Walker, Contra Costa Times.
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