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Feb. 24, 2000 | U.K. tabloids report that British bookies are taking bets on Prince William's potential brides. They're apparently favoring 19-year-old Edinburgh University student and society girl Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, 5-1. No matter that this highly hyphenated miss already has a boyfriend and has never met the prince. Meanwhile, Britney Spears, of whom 17-year-old William is apparently a major fan, has been given only a 500-1 chance. Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! Funny, that's roughly the same chance she has of still being on top of the pop charts by the time the prince does tie the knot. - - - - - - - - - - - - The ring of truth "Well, it certainly doesn't have any sentimental value for me." -- Darva Conger on why she probably won't hang onto the engagement ring she reluctantly scored on "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?" during her "Good Morning America" interview. - - - - - - - - - - - - Speech! Speech! Is a good set of pipes the key to winning the U.S. presidency? Dr. Mort Cooper thinks so. The Los Angeles-based vocal therapist (and a self-help book author, TV talk-show mainstay and, according to his Web site, vocal godsend for everyone from Dr. Laura Schlessinger to O.J. Simpson to Jackie Joyner Kersee) believes none of the presidential candidates is using his voice properly. Without a change, Cooper says, all of them risk not only Clintonian vocal burnout, but voter turnoff as well. "None of these candidates has charisma, vocally," Cooper tells me. "Not like the politicians of yesteryear. They're all clueless." But, of course, he'd be happy to clue them in. Al Gore, Cooper says, needs to "come alive more." His voice is pitched fine, but it's "like a metronome." He needs "voice variety." Cooper clucks that Bill Bradley is "bouncing the ball in the wrong court" by "speaking from his lower throat rather than his face." George W. Bush, meanwhile, ought to loose the same "wimpiness and nasal quality" that plagued his pops. The only candidate who's not completely "vocally suicidal" is Sen. John McCain, who, Cooper concedes, "has a good voice." And you thought only the media love him ... - - - - - - - - - - - - The upside: Fire the maid! "In my teens, I started having mood swings and suicidal thoughts. I also had periods of mania, though I didn't realize then that mania could escalate and lead to delusional behavior. I just thought it was great fun -- I could clean the house in about five seconds." -- Margot Kidder on the early signs of the mental illness that led her to her very public 1996 breakdown, in the upcoming issue of Natural Health. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Ask not what you can do for your country; ask why your country has turned you into an action figure: The Associated Press reports that the Kennedy Library Foundation and Hasbro have forged an agreement to peddle a whole line of Kennedy toys and products. The first item will be a JFK action figure, featuring the late president in naval officer's dress whites or fatigues, as part of the GI Joe military-heroes collector's series. Can you say "Marilyn Monroe Barbie"? Sent by owl: Steven Spielberg has taken a pass on bringing Harry Potter to the big screen. After months of speculation, the director has told the press that, while he was certain the films based on J.K. Rowling's popular kids' books would be "phenomenally successful," his interests lay "in another direction." Word is, though, that Jonathan Demme, Mike Newell or Tim Robbins might hop on the Hogwarts Express. All aboard on Track 9 and three-quarters. Porsches, they ain't. Rumor has it that Bette Midler, Danny DeVito, Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis and the rest of the cast of the upcoming flick "Drowning Mona" have been offered the 12 Yugos used in the film. Guess we know what their assistants are getting for Christmas this year ... Talk about experimental sex ... French author and astronomer Pierre Kohler says that U.S. space shuttle astronauts have gotten it on in space -- in the interest of science, of course. In a new book, "The Final Mission," Kohler maintains that the lucky astronaut couple tried out 10 different sexual positions -- six of which required the help of elastic belts or an inflatable tube -- to find out which was the most effective. Maybe he should have called his book "The Final Missionary Position." As one NP reader asked, "Where does the 'wet spot' go in zero gravity? Does it become totally spherical?"
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