August 1999


1 Madonna freaked when Rodman spilled the nitty-gritty details of their sex life in his autobiography, Bad as I Wanna Be. Madonna was apoplectic and said that she wouldn't forgive him even if he crawled to her on his hands and knees across broken glass. Ouch.
2 We knew Agassi and Shields wouldn't last. Having Brooke no longer gazing
lovingly at him from the crowd hasn't hurt Agassi's tennis game. Since their split,
he has been raking in big bucks with a win at the U.S. Open and a second-place finish at Wimbledon. Meanwhile, Shields' TV series, Suddenly Susan, is on very shaky ground.
3 Griffiths and Banderas make such an adorable couple. He's directing her in the upcoming Crazy in Alabama. Be very afraid. Their last pairing gave us the stinker, Two Much. And it was.
4 The couple doth protest too much. In May 1994, to put the brakes on a slew of rumors, Gere and Crawford took out a full-page ad in the London Times declaring that they weren't gay and their marriage was solid. They split just a year later. Some say the Great Moled One just liked to party while Gere sought more spiritual enlightment with the Dalai Lama.
5 This match just does not compute. We can't, and won't, picture Tom Cruise and Cher together other than in a remake of The Graduate.
6 The artist formerly known as Prince was apparently with Basinger when he was creating the soundtrack for Batman in which the Georgian beauty played Vicky Vale. Shortly afterwards, she married Alec Baldwin. Prince then Baldwin. Do you see a pattern here? We don't either.
7 Uma Thurman has been called the thinking man's sex symbol. We're not sure what she was thinking when she married the volatile Gary Oldman. She eventually came to her senses, dumped him and married Ethan Hawke, her costar in Gattaca. She and Gere share a karmic connection - Uma's dad was a professor of Buddhism.
8 Val Kilmer allegedly trysted a few nights away with Crawford while his marriage to Joanne Whalley was on pause. Post supermodel fling, Kilmer tried to rekindle things with his wife, but their relationship had already crashed and burned.
9 Poor Chandler. He got dissed
on and off screen by Roberts, who guest-starred on Friends. Perry licked his wounds, headed off to rehab and got himself a new nose.
10 Woody Harrelson's taste in women has been more wild than mild, dating Moon Unit Zappa, Glenn Close and Brooke Shields. He was once
married to writer Neil Simon's daughter, Nancy, but is now wedded to longtime
girlfriend, Laura Louie.

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