Gossip roundup
· Actor Tim Robbins confronted Reliable Source columnist Lloyd Grove at the Vanity Fair Oscar party, because Grove recently quoted Robbins' mother-in-law (mother of wife actress/activist Susan Sarandon) as saying Sarandon had brainwashed her kids. Robbins to Grove: "If you ever write about my family again, I will hunt you down." [Page Six]
· The New York Times told British MP Boris Johnson that he couldn't use the expression "Gee, thanks" because, "Gee is an abbreviation for Jesus, [and] for a century this has been a Jewish-owned newspaper and we have to be very careful about anything that might offend Christian sensibilities." [Page Six]
· Lizzie Grubman boycotted the Oscars. "The Oscars should have been canceled," she said. "There are prisoners of war and American soldiers are dyingto go out and party is disrepectful and not appropriate." [Page Six]
· Tough-guy actor Michael Madsen's response when the police called to tell him his pet snake, King, had slithered out of his Hollywood office and would be taken to an animal shelter if it wasn't picked up: "It's 4 a.m...No way!...Finelet him sit in snake jail for a few days. That'll teach him to run away." [Page Six]
· Martin Scorsese on Roman Polanski: "How great that Roman Polanski won Best Director. I love his work. I study him. Even today I learn from him." Best Actor Adrien Brody: "But while all that's happened is wonderful, what's really wonderful is that my mother, who lives in Bushwick went to the YWCA and there they hung a newspaper photo of her with me on the wall. She was thrilled. I was, too." [Cindy Adams]
· Hollywood superagent Ed Limato "tossed his drink on [Page Six columnist] Johnson, 'olives and all,' calling him a 'lowdown motherfucker' and asking Johnson if he wanted to fight back." after Johnson wrote an item referring to him as "the second most unpopular man in Hollywood." Colin Farrell on Peter O'Toole's Oscar speech: "He's an inspiration. Did you hear the eloquence of his speech? Look at him, at his age, drinking red wine. He's beautiful. I'd fuck him myself." [NY Daily News]