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Babes in the Woods
This just in: James Woods likes sex! Also: Oliver Stone, Viagra fiend; Christina Applegate, merry wench; and Ozzy's wife bails on Pumpkins, blames Corgan-itis.

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Jan. 13, 2000 | It's official: James Woods has no shame.

"I love fucking women, let me tell ya," the actor says in an upcoming Movieline interview. "I repeat: I love fucking women. Love it." Particularly, he confesses, women who are "a little crazy."

"What's so provocative about insane women is that they're connected to their sexuality in such an unfettered way," waxes Woods. "For those moments when they're with you, you're in heaven because they're literally borderline personalities in every sense of the word. They merge with you. Why be in bed with a librarian when you can be in bed with an animal?"



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But not too crazy. Even though he says his bad-boy rep is like "catnip" to the chicks, sometimes he's gotta stomp on the brakes: "I have to tell women, 'Listen, I'll still tie you up and give you a little spanking if you want, but if you're looking for nothing but drama, I'm the wrong guy.'"

He's also apparently the wrong guy for Heather Graham, who, Woods says, "stormed out" of their year-long relationship when she gleaned he only liked her for her blond hair, blue eyes and "big tits."

Other women resistant to Woods' ... uh ... charm include Sharon Stone (a buddy of his who, he says, has "a bigger dick than I do") and Melanie Griffith (to whom he's been attracted since she told him, at age 15, that she'd been "fucking" since age 14). And he's just not interested in Jennifer Lopez (her onscreen roles are too strong -- "If I want to fuck an FBI agent, I'll turn gay") or Gwyneth Paltrow ("I see her like a niece").

But if any of these ladies are up for a little bad-boy action, they might look up Oliver Stone, who, Woods says, "eats Viagra like candy corn."

Gives a whole new meaning to the concept of trick or treat.

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More kinky celebrity confessions ...

"I've always felt that I'd be comfortable in the Renaissance era. There's something about a wench costume that excites me."

-- Actress Christina Applegate in the upcoming issue of Us.

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Me and Bobbi McGee?

Did Janis Joplin give her lesbian lover a piece of her heart? Depends who you ask.

Peggy Caserta, who will appear on "20/20" Thursday night, says yes. Caserta claims that she and Joplin were lovers and that their drug-infused relationship was "free-flowing, young [and] wild."

But Joplin's sister, Laura, contends that while Janis was bisexual and friendly with Caserta, the two never had a "relationship" per se, but merely dabbled in a little mutual experimentation. In other words, it was just a few cheap thrills.

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"That's the thing I dread, that kids are going to have to study this and look for deeper meanings and take multiple-choice tests. And they'll hate me the way they hate all books they have Cliff's Notes for and study guides."

-- "Angela's Ashes" author and former teacher Frank McCourt plumbing his deepest fears, in the Boston Globe.

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The focus groups have spoken, and they like it short. Oprah Winfrey's new monthly magazine, set to launch April 17, will be called O. "What I like about O is that it is simple and direct, and it is what a lot of my friends call me," the talk queen said. I don't know about Oprah, but her name keeps getting slimmer and slimmer ...

Gotta hand it to Sharon Osbourne, Ozzy's wife. She knows how to go out with a bang. Ditching her three-month post as manager of the Smashing Pumpkins, Osbourne issued the following statement: "It was with great pride and enthusiasm that I took on management of the Pumpkins back in October, but unfortunately I must resign today due to medical reasons -- Billy Corgan was making me sick!!!" But she has no problem stomaching a husband who bites the heads off chickens?
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