Mega-bucks �Spider-Man� hero Tobey Maguire may be rolling in dough now, but the word I hear is he was once so poor, he needed food stamps and handouts from friends in order to survive.
Maguire spent his early years shuffling between his poor and travel-happy divorced parents, an aunt, a grandmother and other family members. The star of Hollywood�s newest mega-hit, now reported to be romantically involved with Nicole Kidman, had admitted he lived in about 50 homes before he became a star. The actor earned $4-million for the blockbuster film based on the marvel comic and stands to pocket probably another $26-million from two sequels.
In a weird twist of fate, it took a bribe to get Maguire to pursue an acting career rather than follow in his chef father�s footsteps. He was taking home economics courses in high school, which included cooking, when his mother offered him $100 to take drama as an elective instead.

In typical Hollywood fashion, there�s supposed to be a movie in the works based on the murder of Robert Blake�s wife, Bobby Lee Bakley, while the actor is begging officials to release him from his prison confinement while awaiting trial. (Both Blake and his bodyguard Earl Caldwell, have pleaded not guilty to charges that they plotted to kill Bakley. Prosecutors have decided to seek life in prison for Blake, rather than the aforementioned death penalty).
Meanwhile, back to the �reel story.� Tentatively titled �Best Friends Never Die,� the film has been written by Christina Scheier, Bonnie Lee�s best friend for 35 years. Hollywood starmaker Jay Bernstein hints that James Caan may be offered the Blake role, with �Sex and the City� star Kim Cattrall as Bakley, �ER� doc Anthony Edwards as Earle Caldwell and �Friends� hunk Matt Le Blanc as Christian Brando.

Word on the street is that Oprah Winfrey has plunked down $20-million for her share of seven beachfront lots on the island of Maui, (with partner-personal trainer Bob Greene), where the TV personality plans to disappear and find happiness in Hawaii. Oprah, reportedly, found her Maui paradise when she and fianc�e Stedman Graham jetted to Hawaii on a getaway in January. The property is said to boast several important archaeological sites, including a sacred spot known to locals as �the bones of Pele,� an ancient volcano goddess.

It was bound to happen � now they�re saying that Lisa �Left Eye� Lopes, who died in a car crash recently, was not the victim of an accident, but was murdered by enemies within the rock music industry. Others claim she was killed as a payback for her involvement in a traffic accident that left a young Hondurian boy dead only weeks before her own fatal crash. One source close to the hip-hop industry, claims the controversial singer was yet another victim of the rap wars that resulted in the deaths of Tupac Shakur and Christopher �Biggie� Smalls (The Notorious B.I.G.). There are some speculations that the local people � known as the Garufina � might have had something to do with her death. When they came from Africa in 1635, they brought with them the ancient and sometimes deadly practice of voodoo.

Somehow, it didn�t phase me much when bad boy Tommy Lee told ex-wife Pamela Anderson that he wanted his �manhood� back. (In happier times, Pam had a bronze replica made of her lover�s sex organ. She, reportedly, kept it by her bedside and showed it off proudly to visitors. Well, now that they�ve split, Lee wants the replica back and Pam, baby, sez she�s lost the mother and doesn�t know where it�s at).

There�s a startling new audio tape, supposedly, of Priscilla Presley, being sold on the internet, in which she sez Elvis tied her up with his socks on their wedding night. The tape also alleges he made lewd movies of her naked and had an affair with a woman nicknamed �Lizard Tongue.� The marketing firm promoting the tape swears the voice on the tape is Priscilla, dishing out the dirt on Elvis, but the sexy Priscilla denies it. She also claims that she owns the rights to the audio recording. Huh?

Porn star Linda Lovelace (�Deep Throat�) was, reportedly, penniless when she died recently, three weeks after an automobile accident. While her film grossed a staggering $600-million � the most profitable porn flick of all time � Linda claimed she never saw a dime of it. She also insisted her first husband, Chuck Traynor, forced her at gunpoint to do porn movies, and that he pocketed big bucks from �Deep Throat.�
Lovelace, who claimed she prostituted herself so she could make enough money to raise her kids, was, reportedly, so broke in her last days, she sold autographed T-shirts to make ends meet. They read: I Made Linda Lovelace Gag.

After those photos of Jennifer Aniston sunbathing topless in her back yard appeared in Celebrity Skin and High Society magazines, the �Friends� star slapped the publications with lawsuits. Now, she may be sorry, because, as it turns out, those sexy photos won�t be the only things talked about in court. Britian�s Daily Mail newspaper reports that a judge has ordered Jennifer to hand over evidence for hearings in L.A. of every time she appeared partially nude in print or on film.

A former hooker named Dimitra Ekmektisis has, reportedly, written a smut story about her $2,000-a-night affair with �West Wing� TV show�s creator Aaron Sorbin. The ex-prostitute claims she was the �inspiration� for the �West Wing� episodes with the call girl and sez that the troubled Sorbin paid her handsomely, had sex and smoked crack with her.
Dimitra claims their raunchy romance began in 1990. She was a photographer who worked on the side as a $300-an-hour call girl. One night, she sez, Sorkin called an agency demanding a shapely escort with beautiful legs. She went to his Manhattan apartment, reportedly, and began a kinky drug-and-champagne-soaked affair.
According to her, the whole thing blew up when she committed the �call girl�s cardinal sin� � she fell in love with him.

The woman who broke Celine Dion�s heart by accusing her husband of sexual assault, has been arrested on charges of check fraud totaling half a million dollars. The woman was picked up in Pasadena, California recently and charged with writing nine bad checks between 1999 and 2001 in two Las Vegas casinos, Harrah�s and The Flamingo.
The arrest came after the woman, a minister in the Full Gospel World Church in L.A., claimed Dion�s husband raped her in her Vegas� Imperial Palace room.