European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 11, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Gere is. Stallone Maria is. Sex Flack is. Rice by Roger Anderson scrupps Howard celebrity animosity we apologize for nodding off when the Richard Gere Cindy Crawford marital rupture was announced but Here instead is a follow up on earlier reports of a verbal altercation Between sly Stallone and Richard at Elton John s place not Long ago in which Richard in the presence of Princess Diana allegedly accused sly of in fringing on his marital privileges. Sly to London s news of the world of course it makes him look Richard to the same rag How women Date this Guy i Don t know. Like he says of yeah we were at Dis party with lady i and you know Gere and i were both trying to cruise s such a More celebrity animosity. The most thrilling Media event recent times was Maria Maples Trump s appearance on the Gene Wilder sitcom. Maria s sex publicist the accused shoe fetishist Chuck Jones said this about the show i never would have let her take that kind of role. I guess that s the Only thing people Are offering reached for comment Maria s current publicist gives the following reason Why you would be Wise to pay no attention to Chuck pronouncement he s a convicted Felon who spends every minute of his Day trying to de nor is this All. Maria had the Grace to speak with the folks at entertainment tonight about her to aspirations which include the Landing of her very own sitcom with the proviso that it must be set in nyc. I d love a situation she explained where i could bring More work to the City and put a lot of talented people to work -. The no sex soap lady a Little Bird Anda Little Bee advise us that the Young and the restless sexpot Julianne Morris is a self de scribed Virgin who is prone to speak out on behalf of something known As the chastity movement. I have chosen in my personal life to wait Mohave sex until i got married she explains to soap opera digest. Then what about that or episode i which Julianne s character surrendered that which in real life she is so vocal about retain ing according to Julianne she and the producers worked out a Deal whereby somehow they will get the Point across that teens having sex at 16 in t All it s cracked up to hey it s a direct quote interview with the Vampire lady some churl named Karl Lagerfeld apparently had the unmitigated Gall to suggest that inter View with the Vampire author Anne Rice dither famous about face on the Merit of the movie version and specifically on Tom cruise s suitability for the Lead role for Mer Cenary reasons. Anne herself responds to this obvious canard in the following manner it s an outrageous bid for attention she told Usa today not Long ago. Nothing could be further from the truth and the idea that this Jerk would say that. I detest the Manana i suggest that he take off his dark Glass especially at night otherwise he might run into something. Rivera Ito has his Job and you and i have our Geraldo Rivera rises amid the Case by Howard Rosenberg los Angeles times to weeks ago the final gasp of the no vember ratings sweeps the fissure Sepa rating tabloid ers and so called Mains Tream Media narrowed to a barely discernible hairline. The catalyst was Denise Brown sister of Nicole Brown Simpson who was murdered last june with her Friend Ronald Lyle Goldman. The vehicle was Geraldo Rivera. It was t the first time she had accused . Simp son of slaying his former wife Nicole. But doing so for the first time in the course of a formal to inter View especially with the High profile Rivera guaranteed the fireworks that followed. Her comments about Simpson he did it. He murdered my sister were a deafening Cannonball that resonated on newscasts louder than the guns of Bosnia and Herzegovina in effect merging talk show Host and former Abc news reporter Rivera with the so called legitimate Media that he loves to disparage. It s True that Rivera since being fired by Abc in 1985, had gained entre to regular newscasts on those occasions when Kobs the Sta Tion that airs his syndicated program in los an Geles chose to graft him onto its own act Ion news in a Cross promotion strategy designed to assist both parties in the ratings. And in 1988, there were Tho a news clips of the infamous Geraldo race ruckus that earned the Host a broken Honker the bandages for which he proudly wore like a purple heart. But his interview with Denise Brown followed by obnoxious rebuttals from those Ever Tia Staful Simp son attorneys Robert Shapiro and Johnnie Cochran was the first time within memory that a Rivera interviewee and riot just himself had made news. Unfortunately it was hard separating the two. It was Simpson attorney Shapiro arrogantly saying that he and his associates would forgive the Vic Tims families for speaking out against their client who set off Denise Brown and sent her to Rivera. That she gave her first full blown to interview on Simpson s alleged guilt to Rivera was significant and unfortunate for it automatically gave her account a tabloid taint the curse of Geraldo it did t deserve and him respectability he did t deserve. Not that Primc time live or Good morning Amer Ica have been noticeably holier than any other som or faulting Media in covering the Simpson Goldman Case Only that when it comes to perceptions of sensationalism Rivera carries to every Story a ton of baggage that tends to overwhelm the message. It was not his rambunctious daytime program Geraldo on which Rivera spoke to Denise Brown about the Case. For whatever reason whether her Choice or his her comments surfaced on Rivera s lower key Cnoc Cable interview show the one where he wears glasses and comes on comparatively at least like a Span. Granting Denise Brown two for the Price of one however he opened his follow ing Gera do with an excerpt from her Cnoc inter View and a Promise of future chats with other Mem Bers of her family then turned to his show s main Agenda when we come Back from commercial Eddie Sexton and his dirty family secrets exposed what were Rivera s secrets vis a vis Denise Brown Katie Couric wanted to know when she interviewed him on today the morning show on no cd which also owns Cnoc. Rivera told Couric that head been pursuing an interview with Denise Brown for some time. / Couric wondered if he Felt that Media interviews of those closely associated with the Simpson Brown Case were in any Way injurious to the . Simpso trial being presided Over by judge Lance Ito. No said Rivera. Judge Ito has his Job and you Andl have our r to our Job. The Abc news Job and his Job. One Job one entity. They were All in this together raising clasped hands like candidates at a political rally. The line separating so called legitimate news and Ger Aldo news was now barely visible to the naked Eye fact symbolized by Rivera s Union with Couric and Abc Legal analyst Jack Ford in a discussion of the murder Case of the Century. The return of Geraldo Rivera was now Complete. The time was right for it the news environment of the 90s demanded it. To s elder statesman of sleaze had gone around and come around and now was being warmly welcomed and tightly embraced like an old pal by those who once had regarded him As a stain on their ranks. He was Back All right and even More dramatically he was Back on his own terms. December 11,1994 sunday Page 11
