Friday, May 21, 2004
Latest report hasJackson on the bottle
Just when you thought the train wreck that has become Michael Jackson's life couldn't get any weirder: Former child star Macaulay Culkin's reclusive father, Kit, said he once discovered his young son, Rory, sitting on the floor with Jackson, both of them sucking on baby bottles.
In an exclusive interview with "Inside Edition"'s Stacey Gualandi, airing tonight on Fox, Culkin, the father of the "Home Alone" star, who famously became one of Jackson's child friends, previewed some of the material in a book he is preparing.
Culkin recalled one particularly surprising encounter: "There was Michael, sitting on the floor in the corner with my 2-year-old son, Rory. Both of them, yes, both of them, sucking on baby bottles. This, as might be imagined, backed me up some and caused me to simply exclaim, 'Michael.'
"He at first ignored this utterance, his eyes shifting from place to place about the floor. But when I repeated his name in the same manner, he did manage to glance up at me, before sheepishly shrugging and returning to this bottle-sucking business. And, I should perhaps here note, that it was not one of my son's bottles that he was so busy with, leading me to surmise that he had a collection of his own."
'Idol' judge's moneyis on songbird DeGarmo
Know who's going to win "American Idol" next week? According to caustic judge Simon Cowell, it'll be Diana DeGarmo.
Cowell deems the 16-year-old songbird the show's "Seabiscuit," in a New York Times interview.
"I thought she was a stage-school brat when I first met her," he said. "But she's quite a nice girl."
Seinfeld, Supermantake a road trip
NEW YORK -- Seinfeld and Superman are together again for another adventure.
Jerry Seinfeld and the superhero are co-starring in a second online short film, titled "Hindsight Is 20/20," which premiered Thursday afternoon.
It's available on the American Express Web site alongside the first short they did together, "A Uniform Used to Mean Something," which debuted in March.
In this new four-minute film, again co-written by Seinfeld and directed by Barry Levinson, Superman and Seinfeld go on a road trip to Death Valley, Calif., in one of the comedian's classic cars.
Today's Birthdays
Rhythm and blues singer Ron Isley (The Isley Brothers) is 63. Actor Richard Hatch is 59. Musician Bill Champlin (Chicago) is 57. Comedian Al Franken is 53. Actor Mr. T is 52. Actor Judge Reinhold is 47. Actor-director Nick Cassavetes is 45. Rapper Havoc (Mobb Deep) is 30. Actress Ashlie Brillault is 17.