Cadaverous guitar player Keith Richards says Stones are misunderstood gentlemen
Cadaverous guitar player Keith Richards says Stones are misunderstood gentlemen
Cadaverous guitar player Keith Richards says the Stones are simply misunderstood musicians, not debauched rock ‘n’ rollers with Falstaffian appetites for carnality in all its forms. “We’re probably four of the most straight-up, moral guys you could actually meet,” he told GQ magazine. Presumably he means the kind of moral that includes narcotics, Rebel Yell whiskey and groupies. Speaking of which, “It wasn’t just ‘boinky-boinky”‘ with them, Richards assures the world. “They used to take care of you. They used to rub Vicks on your chest if you had a cold.”
Leave Britney alone! says Madonna
Having once, long ago, been a young pop tart in the glare of the media spotlight herself, Madonna, 49, is feeling a bit motherly toward Britney Spears these days. The media “need to step off,” she said in a radio interview. “For real, let’s go save her.” She said her 11-year-old daughter, Lourdes, feels the same. “She doesn’t really watch TV or read gossip stuff, but I think she sort of gets the drift of what’s going on, and I think she feels very protective of Britney.
Teller loses $5,000 betting on ‘Dancing with the Stars’
It was a 30-1 shot, but Teller, of Penn and Teller, put down $5,000 on his partner to win it all on “Dancing With the Stars.” Teller (he’s the quiet one) stood to win $150,000, but more important to him was supporting his pal. Penn (he’s the largish one) “danced amazingly,” Teller said. “He was perfectly in time, his footwork was amazing. I think the judges just have a blind spot for grace in men with size 14 shoes.” Teller is out the five grand, though. Penn was bounced this week.
Report from the infirmary
• An Allman Brothers Band member says Gregg Allman is unable to play several upcoming concerts because of his treatments for hepatitis C. Drummer Butch Trucks says the band has canceled appearances in Florida next month and bowed out of its annual run of shows at Manhattan’s Beacon Theatre in May. Allman began undergoing treatment last year.
• Frenchie Davis, the big-voiced “American Idol” contestant who found success on Broadway in “Rent,” will undergo surgery to remove a vocal cord polyp. Editing by Alice Liu