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Fergie Chews the Fat

NBC Today correspondent Sarah Ferguson is making great strides in her battle of the bulge, but the Weight Watchers spokeswoman admits to still having a fondness for fatty egg salad sandwiches. When asked by the TV Guide Channel to name her favorite fatty food, the former Duchess of York says the hands-down winner is a fat-filled egg salad sandwich on white bread with butter. "With Weight Watchers, you don't have to 'cheat' because there's no such thing as no-no foods," she explains. "In other words, you can have your glass of wine for two points, which I like, because it relaxes the mom after a strenuous day." Ferguson, who claims to have battled weight problems since age 12, says she's working hard to teach her daughters how to process their emotions. "I was told that it was puppy fat and to grow up and stop being so silly," she recalls. "[I was also told] it would all fall off anyway, when I was 18. "I tried every diet there was in the book," she says. "

Sat, May 6, 2000

James Coburn Eliminates the Negative

Hollywood tough guy James Coburn has a confession to make ? he loves high colonics. "A high colonic is the greatest release of your bowels you've ever had," the 71-year-old Oscar winner (Affliction) tells Playboy. "It's like a glorious bowel movement for somebody who's been constipated for a week." Coburn has already undergone 15 high colonics to clean out his colon and upper intestine, and it sounds like he's ready for more. "It's different from an enema because it kind of squirts up, then it kind of cramps, then it flows back out again," the actor fondly recalls. "Then they pump some more warm water up and you see all that s--- that's been up there, for years probably." The outspoken actor also bares all on his years of "experimentation" with marijuana, cocaine and other drugs. "I was never addicted, and the thing I found was that after a certain period of time, it gets re

Thu, May 4, 2000

Rosie's Horrifying Nude Scene

What does Rosie Perez have in common with Calista Flockhart, Melanie Griffith and Ray Romano? She has no interest in seeing herself naked on the big screen. Perez, who sheds her threads in White Men Can't Jump and Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, tells Allure that her nude scenes have been a "horrifying" experience for her family as well as herself. "My father didn't say anything," recalls the buxom bombshell. "He just grabbed his heart." Titanic star Billy Zane, who stripped down for 1989's Dead Calm, says he also took some heat from his family. "My mom said I had my dad's ass," he says. "And I thought, 'I better get it back to him by midnight.'&nbsp;" Melanie Griffith has taken it off in countless pics (Night Moves, Joyride, Body Double, Something Wild) but the actress says it's still "really awful" seeing herself naked onscreen. "I can't look at myself,"

Wed, May 3, 2000

Connie and Maury's Hidden Heartache

The failed attempts by Connie Chung and Maury Povich to have their own child were well chronicled in the tabloids ? but the couple's heartache was even worse than audiences might have originally imagined. The veteran news anchor and her talk-show-host hubby actually suffered through several miscarriages during the early 1990s, according to an upcoming Lifetime Intimate Portrait. "I was determined and doggedly pursuing this goal," recalls Chung. The ABC newswoman says she never wanted to go public with her pregnancy attempts but found herself thrust into the spotlight when People magazine ? against her wishes ? wrote a cover story on the couple's baby plans. Eventually, Povich helped convince the headstrong Chung to consider adoption. "Gosh, I wish we had done it earlier," Povich says of their 1995 adoption of son Matthew. "She deserved a child the moment she wanted a child." The revealing TV bio also features an uncomfortable excha

Tue, May 2, 2000

Siegfried & Roy Just Want to Be Loved

Siegfried & Roy are two of the highest paid entertainers in the world, but life hasn't always been easy for the popular magicians. "Our audience is giving us what we missed in our childhood  love," says Roy Uwe Ludwig Horn on this Sunday's E! True Hollywood Story (9 pm/ET). The documentary traces the difficult childhoods of Horn and Siegfried Fischbacher, German-born magicians who both grew up in abusive households under the Nazi regime. "You grow up hearing, 'You cannot do this, you cannot do that. You're going to be no good,'&nbsp;" says Siegfried. "And you hear that all your life growing up, you believe into that. Now when you grow up and all of a sudden people say, 'You can do that,' that can be a very frightening experience. And that's the stress. You don't sleep. You get ulcers. The demons don't stop for me.'&nbsp;" Siegfried confesses that he eventually developed a drug addiction as a way of coping with the pain. The

Sat, Apr 29, 2000

Siegfried & Roy Just Want to Be Loved

Siegfried & Roy are two of the highest paid entertainers in the world, but life hasn't always been easy for the popular magicians. "Our audience is giving us what we missed in our childhood ? love," says Roy Uwe Ludwig Horn on this Sunday's E! True Hollywood Story (9 pm/ET). The documentary traces the difficult childhoods of Horn and Siegfried Fischbacher, German-born magicians who both grew up in abusive households under the Nazi regime. "You grow up hearing, 'You cannot do this, you cannot do that. You're going to be no good,'&nbsp;" says Siegfried. "And you hear that all your life growing up, you believe into that. Now when you grow up and all of a sudden people say, 'You can do that,' that can be a very frightening experience. And that's the stress. You don't sleep. You get ulcers. The demons don't stop for me.'&nbsp;" Siegfried confesses that he eventually developed a drug addiction as a way of coping with the pain. The addic

Fri, Apr 28, 2000

Forsythe's Angels Search

It's been almost 20 years since Charlie's Angels went off the air and actor John Forsythe still hasn't met two of the actresses who played his crime-fighting Angels on the show. Forsythe, who provided the disembodied voice of boss Charlie Townsend over a speakerphone throughout the show's five-year run, says he has yet to meet former Angels Shelley Hack and Tanya Roberts. Of course, meeting his co-stars was never easy, given that he recorded his lines at an audio studio and was never on the set. Over the years, the actor has met the four other actresses who played his Angels, according to a new book on the series, Charlie's Angels Casebook, by Jack Condon and David Hofstede (Pomegranate Press). He co-starred with Jaclyn Smith in the 1978 TV-movie The Users; he happened to meet Kate Jackson at Santa Anita Park racetrack; he

Wed, Apr 26, 2000

Andy Garcia's Dream Job

If you ever see actor Andy Garcia tossing in his sleep, chances are he's thinking about his next movie role. The veteran actor (The Untouchables, The Godfather: Part III, Night Falls on Manhattan) says on an upcoming edition of Bravo's Inside the Actors Studio that he dreams a lot and has actually induced dreams to help prepare for his acting roles. "There are techniques that you use to stimulate your subconscious to be active while you sleep," says Garcia. "It just connects you on a deeper level." Garcia, who next stars opposite Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder and Sam Shepard in Just to Be Together, says he has also been connecting on a deeper level these days through yoga. "The greatest things come out of a relaxed state," he says. "You are available to the emotional current." Garcia's not the only one in Hollywood who believes in the

Mon, Apr 24, 2000

Kristy Swanson's Man Trouble

Nude sunbathing, garters, bustiers and waterbeds all seem to add up to trouble for actress Kristy Swanson. The blond bombshell confesses to Maxim that she recently made the mistake of sunbathing nude on the balcony of her Miami hotel room while there to shoot CBS's now-canceled Grapevine. "I thought I was alone. But there were these big cranes on top of the hotel next door, and this one guy was up there, and he started waving at me. I was, like, 'Uh, tanning session over.'&nbsp;" Swanson, who's probably best known for her starring role in 1992's big-screen version of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, says she's actually had a number of embarrassing encounters with the opposite sex in her lifetime. A few years ago, for example, she made the mistake of trying to surprise her boyfriend by dressing up in a sexy outfit right out of a Victoria's Secret catalog. "I put on sto

Sat, Apr 22, 2000

Kristy Swanson's Man Trouble

Fri, Apr 21, 2000

Beverly D'Angelo's Maternal Instincts

Beverly D'Angelo says growing up with a "very proper" mother helped prepare her for her role as ultra-conservative radio talk show host Dr. Deborah on ABC's Talk to Me. D'Angelo tells the TV Guide Channel that her character reminds her in many ways of her real-life mother, a reserved Smith College graduate who never swore ? under any circumstances. "If she really wanted to vehemently disagree, she'd say, 'Not on your ninny-tin-type!'&nbsp;" the actress recalls. "&nbsp;'Bulldookey' was about as hard-core as she got." Sometimes, when young Beverly was really driving her family up the wall, her always proper mother would simply resort to some passive-aggressive behavior. "The way that I knew she was really angry when I was a little girl was she would call me Mabel," says D'Angelo. "&nbsp;'Well, you'd better get your elbows off the table, Mabel!'&nbsp;" D'Angelo c

Wed, Apr 19, 2000

Heche Leaps Lesbian Hurdles

Actress Anne Heche says she has the supportive family of partner Ellen DeGeneres to thank for helping her through an otherwise difficult coming-out process. The actress tells The Advocate that Ellen's mother, Betty, and brother, Vance (a correspondent on Comedy Central's The Daily Show With Jon Stewart), have given her the love and support she couldn't find elsewhere when the couple announced their relationship. Heche says Hollywood certainly didn't embrace her decision to go public with her lesbian lifestyle, and her own birth family was clearly turned off by the idea of her sleeping with the former sitcom star. "I thought they would celebrate with me, but they did not," she says. "One of the most important things I have come to understand is that until a person experiences di

Tue, Apr 18, 2000

WCW Honcho Plans Comeback

World Championship Wrestling guru Eric Bischoff is positioning himself to become a big-shot Hollywood producer after he's had a chance to help get Ted Turner's wrestling organization back on track. Bischoff, who recently returned to the WCW to help boost sagging ratings, tells TV Guide Online that his newly formed Fresh Horses production company has already lined up several deals he hopes will eventually allow him to broaden his horizons. The L.A.-based production company has a three-project commitment from Turner for action TV-movies or series; sports opportunities with Peter Guber's Mandalay Entertainment; and a deal with Will Smith's Overbrook production company to create a joint-venture comedy centered around wrestling. For now, he says, the Overbrook project is the only one his company is acti

Mon, Apr 17, 2000

Batgirl Refutes Sexy Bat-Tales

Don't necessarily believe all those tales you've read about wild sexual hijinks on the set of the hit 1960s TV series Batman. Yvonne "Batgirl" Craig tells TV Guide Online there's "no possible way" co-stars Adam "Batman" West and Burt "Robin" Ward were fooling around with groupies on the set, as suggested in Ward's 1995 book, Boy Wonder: My Life in Tights. "This could have been happening on the road or in Adam's dressing room but this could never have actually happened on the set," says the veteran actress. "There are too many people walking around behind flats for anything other than business." Craig is sharing her decidedly tamer recollections of life on the Batman set in a new autobiography, From Ballet to the Batcave and Beyond (for ordering information, visit www.yvonnecraig.com). The book also includes chapters on her former showbiz boyfrien

Fri, Apr 14, 2000

Fox Seeks Diff'rent Folks

Attention all Gary Coleman look-alikes: Fox wants you! Fox is on the lookout for a pint-sized actor to portray the 4-foot-8-inch former child star for a new TV biopic on the troubled cast of the 1980s sitcom Diff'rent Strokes. The so-called "mini-movie," named for its hour-long format and not for Coleman's height, is set to air May 16 on the network. Casting opportunities are not limited to diminutive Coleman clones: The casting department is also seeking actors to play co-stars Dana Plato ("Personality: bubbly, effervescent, charismatic ? ranging from wildly enthusiastic and/or manic to frightened and despairing") and Todd Bridges ("Ranging from tough, cocky, street-smart drug user to sweet, sober father and husband on his way back up"). Fox execs are also looking for actors to play Howard Stern and Robin Quivers, the radio duo who conducted Plato's final on-air interview just before her death from a drug overdose; Plato's form

Thu, Apr 13, 2000

Hurley and Grant Keep It Simple

Showbiz couple Elizabeth Hurley and Hugh Grant appear to be inseparable, but don't count on the two of them tying the knot anytime soon. "It's not something I've ever felt would make much difference in my life," reveals the statuesque actress-model in Glamour. "Since the day we met, I've always lived as if I were married. "Hugh and I drive each other demented half the time, but he really is my best friend," adds Hurley, who clearly has gotten past Grant's very public indiscretion with a Hollywood hooker back in 1995. "If we don't talk to each other for a day, it's torture. And if we split up, I'd feel like my brother had died. It takes a lot to come to terms with feeling that way about someone. If you've got it, hold on to it." Hurley, who's currently shooting a remake of the 1967 Peter Cook

Thu, Apr 13, 2000

E!'s Benza Longs for New York

Two years after moving to Los Angeles to become the host of E!'s Mysteries and Scandals, former New York City gossip columnist A.J. Benza is still having a hard time adjusting to life in La-La Land. "It's not good to wake up and there's oranges on your driveway every day," Benza tells the TV Guide Channel. "Keep the orange juice in the kitchen, not in the driveway. That's not life, you know what I mean? I wanna wake up to nasty, cold rain. Coffee smells like coffee in New York; here it smells like waffles. In this town, I got agents on the phone making deals. I want a homeless person to step over in the morning. I miss that ? is that wrong? "New York is my wife, L.A. is my mistress," he adds. "I feel like I'm cheating on New York when I'm here. I feel like I have a little girlfriend on the side, and she's a little stripper in L.A. with blond hair and big boobs and I come to see her for three weeks at a time and I go home to my wife and kids and they're all hap

Wed, Apr 12, 2000

Josh Brolin's Gypsy Past

Josh Brolin says his gypsy past helped him prepare for his starring role in CBS's upcoming remake of the 1955 movie Picnic. The 32-year-old son of actor James Brolin tells the TV Guide Channel that growing up in a Hollywood household ? complete with frequent traveling and yo-yoing fortunes ? gave him a "gypsy interior" similar to the character he plays in the upcoming drama. Brolin plays Hal Carter, a drifter who shakes up a small Kansas town. Brolin, best known for his work in such movies as The Goonies and The Mod Squad, says it took a little convincing to get him to sign on for the TV project. "I mean, I haven't done a TV anything for 10 years," he marvels. "I had a very solid reason for not doing it, because I thought it was pretty much all crap. "But really good actors are starting to make the leap back and fort

Wed, Apr 12, 2000

Alicia Silverstone Leaves Fat Behind

Actress Alicia Silverstone says she's left her fat behind and has her new vegan lifestyle to thank for the change. Silverstone, whose tight-fitting Batgirl outfit in 1997's Batman and Robin prompted some of the crueler tabloids to label her "Fatgirl," tells Shine that switching to a strict vegan diet two years ago really helped her win the battle of the bulge. "I'll never have to worry about my weight ever again," says the 23-year-old actress. "I don't know how much I've lost because I don't count the pounds, but the point is I don't have to worry now because the food I'm putting in my body is really healthy and good for me. "I've begun to sleep solidly through the night because my food digests more smoothly, my energy levels have suddenly gone whoosh and I've noticed it's made my hair and skin really shine," she adds. "And I feel much lighter when I'm walking around."

Tue, Apr 11, 2000

Desi Arnaz Jr. Just Says "No" to Castro

Years before he tried to lure Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba, Fidel Castro unsuccessfully tried to convince the son of famed Cuban bandleader and I Love Lucy star Desi Arnaz to visit his father's homeland. Desi Arnaz Jr. tells TV Guide Online that he turned down an invitation from Castro to attend Cuba's annual Ernest Hemingway Fishing and Tennis Tournament five years ago. The junior Arnaz, son of late Hollywood legends Arnaz and Lucille Ball, says he'd like to one day visit the country but he's not willing to do so as long as Castro's Communist regime remains in power. "If it ever becomes a free country, I'll have a house there," says Arnaz, 47, who today calls Nevada home. "People want to go ba

Tue, Apr 11, 2000

Boatman on Fox's Final Spin

Spin City regular Michael Boatman says he knew going into Friday night's final taping with exiting star Michael J. Fox that the cast would be performing at the top of their game. "It makes the performances sharper because everyone realizes that they're sort of working toward something that a lot of people will see and that a lot of people will consider to be somewhat special," Boatman told TV Guide Online just hours before the taping. "You sort of ride on the crest of a wave of excitement and it tends to make the show better. "It's more than the fact that he's leaving or that any one actor is leaving," Boatman says of Fox, who's exiting the show to focus on his real-life battle with Parkinson's disease. Next season, the show will move production from New York to Los Angeles and add star Charlie Sheen. "It's sort of the end of a hugely important experience in my life. I'm sure whatever happens in Los Angeles will be great, but whatever it is, it w

Mon, Apr 10, 2000

Goober-Fest Is Coming!

Step aside, Sundance ? beloved Andy Griffith Show regular George "Goober" Lindsey is angling to make his North Alabama festival the place for up-and-coming filmmakers. The former Mayberry resident and Hee-Haw star is busy gearing up for the third annual George "Goober" Lindsey/University of North Alabama Television & Film Festival, a three-day event set for April 27-29 at the actor's alma mater. Featured guests joining Lindsey at the free event (lunch not included) will be pals Stephen Root (NewsRadio) and former Nashville Network host Ralph Emery. "I was the starting quarterback here for two years," Lindsey tells TV Guide Online by phone from the UNA dean's office. Although the actor had a dirt-poor childhood in Alabama ? his mother's bum hip was treated with maggots a

Thu, Apr 6, 2000