WHISPERS AT NBC ABOUT JIMMY FALLON
Within NBC, the buzz about Jimmy Fallon hitting the bottle too hard has “gone from being a whisper to a chatter,” Nameless Insider tells the N.Y. Post. “Sources say NBC is worried that Fallon’s drinking has turned excessive,” the paper reports.
The story calls the Tonight Show host “a happy drunk” but notes that he has had three domestic accidents in four months and hints that they were all booze-related. In the last one, he cut himself Oct. 24 when he accidentally broke a bottle of Jägermeister. The first one, in June, involved a fall in which his ring finger was almost ripped off. The other accident was just a chipped tooth, supposedly incurred while trying to open a package of scar cream for the finger.
There have also been many stories lately about Fallon’s late nights and enthusiastic partying. He’s 41.
“Merciless feminine fray”
department: Ivana Trump, who was married to You Know Who from 1977-92, says he’ll be a great president. But she’s not so laudatory about Melania Trump, the current firstlady-in-waiting.
Former model Melania has been married to Don since 2005, but has avoided campaign publicity. Now the N.Y. Daily News quotes Ivana saying “the problem is, what is he going to do with his third wife? She can’t talk, she can’t give a speech, she doesn’t go to events, she doesn’t want to be involved.”
It was Ivana, born in what is now the Czech Republic, who first called him “The Donald.” After her came starlet Marla Maples, who was married to Trump 1993-99.
Donald is 69. Ivana’s 66; Marla’s 51; Melania’s 45.
Deadline.com reports that Steven
Spielberg, appearing in a filmed speech at some British awards show the other night, said this to Harrison Ford:
“I can’t wait to work with you again on Indiana Jones 5. This is NO announcement, just my fervent hope.”
Naturally, everyone immediately assumed this was an announcement. But if anything is in the works it’s top secret so far.
The four previous Indiana Jones pictures ran from the immortal Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981 to Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in 2008.
If they’re really going to make another one, they’d better get on with it: Ford is 73; Spielberg is 68.
In faraway lands, George
Clooney has been the pitchman for Nespresso coffee since 2006. Now, Bloomberg News reports, he’ll be doing the same job on this continent. Hey, you think it’s cheap living that lifestyle?
Watch for George in TV ads, starting any day now, in which he “trains Danny (DeVito) in the art of good taste” the company says. The slogan is “Nespresso, what else?”
Nespresso’s parent company, Nestlé, shelled out the (unspecified) big bucks because they’re having trouble convincing Americans to drink tiny little coffees, Bloomberg explains.
In addition to being paid, Clooney got the company to do something to help struggling coffee farmers in South Sudan.
George is 54.