Celebrity Gossip
 The Liza Minnell-David Gerst wedding has “everybody who’s anybody” in Hollywood buzzing. Some, no doubt from the wild celebrations prior to and after the gala occasion. They say it may be the weirdest affair that anyone in tinseltown can remember.
Now, that’s something to get on a buzz about. But, hey, what can you say about a ceremony where the bride tap-danced at the alter and bowed to her celebrity pals before taking the marriage vows? And, if that wasn’t enough, how about matron of honor Liz Taylor forgetting her shoes and delaying the alter vows until someone fetched them for her. Or best man Michael Jackson demanding a video of the church’s interior so he would know where to walk and sit. Or Martha Stewart fleeing the reception with her hands over her ears when the Doobie Brothers began rocking. Or Pee Wee Herman dancing solo in pink leggins and a brocade jacket. And the happy couple announcing they planned to adopt four kids.
All that wedding stuff was preceded by the groom’s bizarre bachelor party, where several drag queens dressed as 56-year-old Liza and entertained the revelers. Then the groom had a verbal shouting match with Whitney Houston over the song he wanted her to sing, and Natalie Cole had to fill in, which she did ever-so-nicely.
And, check out Liza’s bridesmaids: Mia Farrow, Claudia Cardinale, Gina Lollobrigida, Chaka Khan and Petula Clark. Liza’s sister, Lorna Luft and brother Joey Luft, did not attend the gala ceremony. Most of the 1,100 guests were stalwarts of the old Hollywood and friends of Liza’s late mother, Judy Garland. Spotted in the crowd were Diana Ross, Mickey Rooney (who knows a thing or eight about weddings himself), Rosie O’Donnell, Lauren Bacall, Joan Collins, Kirk Douglas, Donnie Osmond, Andy Williams, Carol Channing, Donald Trump and Altovese Davis (the widow of Sammy Davis, Jr).
After the wedding, in typical Hollyweird style, everybody had a merry ol’ time. Wacko Jacko even drank a toast to his friends, before returning home to his llamas.
 Most pretty young things in Hollywood hunker down with some naked hunk at a moment’s notice, and think nothing about it, but TV star Amy Brenneman confesses that one of her favorite things to do is to lie on the floor naked and cuddle like “spoons” with her basset hound.
The word I hear is that model Christy Turlington and actor Ed Burns have called off their engagement. According to sources, they were “going in opposite directions.” Spies reported they spotted Burns with model Esther Canadas at a post-Oscar party.
They say John Wayne Bobbitt, who made national headlines when then-wife Lorena Bobbitt cut off his penis in 1983, has remarried. During a 30-minute ceremony recently in Las Vegas, Bobbitt wed Joanna Ferrell.
 She may be the first black actress to win an Academy Award for a leading role, buy Halle Berry sez she won’t make peace with her dying dad, who lies helplessly connected to a feeder and respirator suffering from Parkinson’s disease in a rehabilitation health center in Cleveland Ohio.
Halle hasn’t spoken to her dad in 12 years, and from all indications, it doesn’t look like she plans to change her mind. Born the daughter of a black janitor and a white nurse, her childhood was wracked by violence, alcoholism, poverty and racism. The superstar’s earliest memories are of her alcoholic dad beating her mom, her older sister, Heidi, and erupting in fits of anger. (Her father deserted the family when Halle was four. The actress sez she believes the problems she’s had getting along with men are because of not having a father all her life).
 Not only was Halle’s father abusive to her, lovers often beat her and broke her heart. When she first arrived in Hollywood, Halle fell for a famous actor who beat her severly, rupturing her left ear, causing her to lose 80 percent of her hearing in that ear. (Berry was linked to Wesley Snipes, soap stud Shemar Moore and basketball star Scaquille O’Neal. In 1992, she married sports star David Justice in a secret ceremony at his home in Atlanta. When Halle later admitted her marriage to Justice was a mistake, she turned to bouts with the bottle and even attempted suicide).
In 1998, Berry became attached to rocker Eric Benet, whom she now calls “the love of my life.” The pair kept their marriage a secret for three months after they tied the knot. But, the dreadlocked hunk had an eye for the ladies long before he married Halle and now Halle has read him the riot act. It’s anybody’s guess what’s on tomorrow’s post-Oscar agenda.
People have been calling me wanting to know what happened to Oscar best actor nominee Will Smith when his category was announced during the really big show on TV. I checked it out and here’s the scoop: Will and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, were told by security officials that their daughter, Willow, 16 months, was running a high fever. They left the auditorium and immediately rushed Willow to the hospital, where she was diagnosed with a deep-ear infection. Her parents stayed with her, then took her home where she is recuperating, nicely.
Madonna will make her London stage debut playing an art dealer in a comedy, “Up For Grabs,” at the Wyndam’s Theatre in the West End, but sez she won’t be doing any matinee performances. That’s because she has recording commitments. Evening performances, starting May 23, will go on, however, as scheduled.
 It depends on who you wanna believe if you’re intrigued with the Britney Spears-Justin Timberlake off-again, on-again, off-again romance. Brit’s PR folks claim the pair has not split up, but Spears said otherwise at a press conference the other day in England. I’m told Britney was “more than slightly pissed” over the fact that she could not come backstage at a recent ‘n’ Sync concert. That anger later turned to depression as the star sulked alone in her room and, reportedly, cried for hours. Friends of the star feared she might have a nervous breakdown.
Speaking of Britney, before she left the USA for England, the singer caused some fireworks in New York. Seems she went out with her older brother, Bryan, and some friends, and left a candle burning in front of an air vent in an apartment where she was staying. The wall went up in flames and the fire department had to be called in. According to Britney’s mom on the website BritneySpears.com, her daughter came home and found a real fine mess.
Leave it to Hugh Hefner to follow a paper money trail. It seems that the Bunnymaster thinks the Enron scandal is a nifty subject for the pages of Playboy. The magazine is planning a “Women of Enron” photo spread and is inviting current and former employees of the Houston energy company to send him a recent photo of themselves in a bikini.
Julio Iglesias, who once bragged that he’d made love to over 3,000 women, should have stopped messing around before his fiancée found out he was sleeping with the maid. For a coupla of years, Julio has avoided tying the knot with the woman he describes as “the love of my life.” After the latest romantic episode, however, it looks like Julio’s once intimate relationship is in ruins. Meanwhile, the romantic ballad singer, who has also boasted that he often makes love four times a day, is living it up in Spain, promoting his first album in four years.
Supermodel Rachel Hunter, ex-wife of rocker Rod Stewart, called in the Ghostbusters to cleanse her home in L.A. after she heard spooky noises. But, not to worry. The guys discovered unwanted rodents were the root of her problem.
Tim Daly of “The Fugitive” TV series sure knows how to score points with his bosses. He’s got a picture of the CBS eye logo tattooed on his butt.
 Drew Carey, a self-confessed Budweiser fan, once got so drunk at Disney’s Pleasure Island, he had to be helped away.
That pretty racy woman Julia Roberts didn’t think twice when the Big Apple bar Hogs and Heifers asked her to take off her bra and dance on the bar. Well, after all, they are two of the tavern’s hallowed traditions.
 Ex-“Baywatch” beauty Pam Anderson is reeling from the news that she has a potentially fatal disease and one day may need a liver transplant. The busty actress has been diagnosed with the deadly hepatitis C, but has not stopped her partying and drinking – which doctors claim could kill her.
Medical authorities explained to Pam that the most common way to get hepatitis C is through using infected needles or other drug paraphernalia. It can also be caught by having sex with an infected person, from blood transfusions or from a tattoo artist’s needle.
 When she was first confronted with the news, Pam said she probably caught the hepatitis C during one of her breast enhancements, although medical authorities said that was highly unlikely. Then Pam blamed her tattooed former husband, rocker Tommy Lee. (The two are currently involved in a nasty custody dispute). Though experts say Interferon injections can get the virus down to low levels, they believe that there is no absolute cure. In Pam’s case, she has been told that she can never have any more plastic surgery because of her condition.
Meanwhile, Pam hasn’t helped matters any by not showing up for her doctor’s appointments. Or by boozing it up while burning the candle at both ends.
 That was rocker Courtney Love caught in the act and photographed putting the squeeze on Phil Donahue’s mate, Marlo Thomas, a few days ago at a Beverly Hills benefit gala.
Elton John sez the last woman he slept with was his ex-wife Renate Blauel in 1988. He intimated to friends, however, that since Nicole Kidman has left Tom Cruise, he really “fancies her” (whatever that means).
Leave it to Hugh Grant, the guy who was found in his car awhile back with that hooker named Divine, to blast Tom Cruise for appearing shirtless on the cover of a recent Vanity Fair magazine. “You wouldn’t get me posing like Tom Cruise on a magazine cover,” the actor observed, “there’s something not quite manly about that.”
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