TIM ALLEN: FLOOR PLEASE
Posh Beverly Hills hotels are loaded with celebrities and out-of-towners during award season. A recent elevator ride at The four Seasons proved amusing. Tim Allen got on the first floor elevator and it filled up with children, visitors, and employees. As the packed lift slowly rode a little girl remarked to her mom “It’s crowded in here!” From the back of the elevator Tim piped up “That’s because it’s MY elevator!” The mother turned to look at him and gasped with recognition, and other riders laughed. When the ride reached the 8th floor there was a slightly haggard looking woman in black tights wearing a lot of makeup. She looked at the crowd and said, in a VERY deep and familiar voice “I think I’ll wait for the next elevator!” the door closed and people suddenly realized it was almost unrecognizable Kathleen Turner! (currently doing Virginia Woolf onstage in LA) The little girl asked her mom “Why didn’t she get on?” From the back Tim joked “Because it’s MY elevator!” It was a fun ride.
We have fond memories of Drew Carey – and so does just about every waiter who ever served him. In fact, they fall all over each other to get to him first. The hefty TV star recently dined at Arnie Morton’s with a female companion described as “a petite dishwater blonde and pretty – not the amazonian stripper type he used to prefer. ” The fun couple had steaks and champagne and the dinner tab was $250. Drew, always a big tipper, left a TIP of $400 – that’s $650 total. And he no longer has a series!
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Eddie Murphy, shown here with his girlfriend Tracy Edmonds and Jesse Jackson, had an awkward moment last night at the Black Enterprise Top 50 Hollywood Power Brokers event at the Beverly Regent Hotel. It’s the first time Eddie and Tracy have been in the same room with her exhusband Babyface, who USED to be a close friend of Eddie’s! They’re not friendly since Eddie and Tracy hooked up. Other attendees watched with interest as the former buddies reportedly stayed in different corners of the large ballroom at the event, but were very conscious of each other all night.
Since Melissa Etheridge is showing off her new twins, we are again inspired to speculate about paternity. In 1997 Melissa’s then-partner Julie Cypher gave birth to a daughter named Bailey and a year later their son Beckett was born – also by in vitro fertilization. The father was identified as drug addled, overweight musician Dave Crosby, who also had a liver transplant. At the time Melissa was best friends with Brad Pitt and the idea of HIS providing sperm had been discussed. We still contend that Brad is the REAL father of her babies and they identified Dave to throw everybody off the scent. We have yet to see a picture of these two older kids to see if they resemble Brad – but we bet they do. The new twins (Melissa’s current partner Tammy Lynn Michaels is the mom) are a toss-up – they might be Brad’s or they might not. But they ARE awfully cute.
