Celebrity Trivia
 Ten things you probably didn’t know about Austin Powers and the new “Goldmember” movie: (1)The most hilarious scene filmed in the new hit Austin Powers movie, “Goldmember,” ended up on the cutting-room floor. It was a scene involving Myers, Robert Wagner and Seth Green categorized as “projectile vomiting.” (2) The sulfur-based suit Myers wore to play the gargantuan character named Fat Bastard, smelled like manure, so a vanilla scent was added. (3) A dummy doubled for 32-inch-tall actor Verne Troyer, who played the pint-sized villain Mimi Me, in many of his rough scenes. (4) Elizabeth Hurley, who played Vanessa Kensington in the two first Myers movies, isn’t in this one. (Her cameo was cut because she, reportedly, wasn’t funny). (5) The wacky movie starring Myers has a serious message: Don’t try to live for your parent’s approval or you’ll never be happy. (6) Michael Caine, almost double-faulted his chance to play Austin Powers’ dad. Only two weeks before filming began, he underwent shoulder surgery for acute pain caused by his lifelong love of tennis. (7) It cost $70-million to film “Goldmember, but the studio claims it isn’t worried about getting its money’s worth, based on the track record of the previous Mike Myers films. (8) Myers wrote the original secret agent parody to celebrate the life of his encyclopedia salesman dad, Eric, who died in 1991. (9) Pop Princess Britney Spears couldn’t stop laughing while filming her cameo because Myers’ “pelvic dancing” during the scene “cracked her up.” (10) If somebody said he had to do one Austin Powers film a year, Myers observed “I would be very happy.”
“West Wing” star Martin Sheen earns $6.9-million a year for playing President Bartlet – a mind-boggling 17 times more than the $400,000 George W. Bush gets for being the real president of the United States. Sheen recently inked a new deal to hike his pay package to $300,000 per episode – tripling his already hefty 2001 salary sources say. (The toughest job, critics contend, that Sheen has ever faced was giving Janet Reno a kiss).
 Mel Gibson is not only addicted to acting, he’s also addicted to Scrabble.
Curvy Colombian actress Sofia Vergara, the galpal of Mark Wahlberg, has been dubbed Sofia Viagra, because she is said to be such an instant turnon.
 Jennifer Aniston had an $80,000 “Mystic Tan” mist machine installed in her Beverly Hills home.
 “Reign of Fire” star Christian Bale and wife Sibi renew their wedding vows every year in a different cultural environment. Last year, it was on a beach in Tahiti. This year, they had a Buddhist ceremony at an orangutan center in Borneo.
 Dick Clark shelled out $15-million for a 12-acre oceanfront Malibu retreat known as Gull’s Way, which includes a 6,600-square-foot main house, guest cottage and Pet Cemetery on the premises.
Most gals check out a guy’s eyes or his abs when they’re looking for a potential new beau. Gwyneth Paltrow, however, checks out their footwear.
Celine Dion met her hubby, Rene Angelil, when she was only 12.
 The Carmen Electra-Dennis Rodman marriage is one of the shortest in Hollywood history. The former “Baywatch” beauty filed for annulment after only nine days.
Charlie Sheen is a sucker for weird gadgets on late-night TV ads, but doesn’t want the world to know it. He hired a business manager to get him a credit card with a pseudonym so that he can shop happily anonymously.
Salma Hayek has an addiction to TV shopping. She sits in front of the tube for hours, going on major buying sprees.
 David Arquette has a doll collection of TV action figures.
John Wayne once won Lassie in a poker game.
Madonna got her first kiss in a convent.
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