To print this page, select "Print" from the File menu of your browser salon.com > People April 8, 2000 URL: http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/2000/04/08/npw0408 This is David on TV Letterman pulls a Farrah; Prince William's disco debacle. Plus: Angelina Jolie's bro, James Haven, tut-tuts the tsk-tsking about their relationship. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Amy Reiter Gabriel Byrne's not a doctor, he just plays one after he's been on TV. The week kicked off with a report of Byrne giving medical advice to David Letterman who put the Irish actor in a regular snit with remarks about Byrne's love life or lack thereof. Maybe the two should've joined Prince William in Tuesday's column -- hey, it's fun to be a royal again! But come Friday, the love that we're already sick of hearing about -- between Angelina Jolie and her brother -- was once again taking tedium to new heights. Maybe it's time for the cozy siblings to make a visit to Letterman. Dr. Byrne, your opinion? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Monday: "Take two of these and call me weird" Did David Letterman pull a Farrah on his own show? Gabriel Byrne seems to think so. "David is on some strange medication, that's all I can say," Byrne told USA Today last week. The actor's apparently still smarting over Letterman's shabby treatment of him on a recent show. He didn't take too kindly to the talk-show host needling him about his ex-wife Ellen Barkin's relationship with Revlon honcho Ron Perelman. "He was having a bit of a laugh, and he went a bit far," Byrne said. "He should definitely change the medication." Read the entire Nothing Personal column for Monday, April 3. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Tuesday: "His highness gets down" Young prince, there's no need to feel down. I said, young prince, pick yourself off the ground ... I dunno, maybe it's just me, but if I were the future king of England, I might think twice about getting up onstage at a hotel pub and belting out "YMCA." Not so, Prince William. According to U.K. papers, the young royal made like a Village Person on a recent geography field trip, belting out a karaoke version of the gay anthem/ballpark favorite with three school chums. (Quick, fetch the queen's smelling salts!) "The prince really got into it and was singing his heart out," hotel owner John Hudson told reporters. "He did the hand movements along to the song, although he didn't do the dance routine." No word on whether he was the Indian, the cowboy, the cop or the construction worker. Read the entire Nothing Personal column for Tuesday, April 4. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Wednesday: "Moneyman's gonna getcha" Will Hollywood's favorite mantra, "Let's do lunch," conjure images of brown bags? Tinseltown is reeling from the news that Dana C. Giacchetto -- high-flying money manager to Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz and Michael Ovitz, among others -- allegedly diverted $20 million from his high-profile clients and pocketed more than $6 million. He was charged with three criminal counts on Monday and may face as many as 20 years in the slammer and millions of dollars in fines. People are "freaking," one industry insider who says he declined to invest with Giacchetto because he "smelled a rat early on" tells me. "But when your financial advisor is out partying more than you, you should start worrying." Read the entire Nothing Personal column for Wednesday, April 5. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Thursday: "Chevy Chase's pretzel logic" Live, from New York ... it's Chevy Chase bragging up a storm. At Tuesday night's premiere party for the Paul Newman/Linda Fiorentino flick "Where the Money Is," the "Saturday Night Live" alum told gossip guy Baird Jones that he's a way better musician than the members of Steely Dan, with whom he used to play in his Bard College days. When the band re-formed in the early '70s, Chase recalls, "Steely Dan begged me to rejoin the group. They especially wanted me on stage when they toured because they were so shy with stage fright. They knew I could deal with the audience." What's more, he boasts, "I played better music than those guys in the '60s and I still do." He's especially good at tooting his own horn. Read the entire Nothing Personal column for Thursday, April 6. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Friday: "Bedfellas" It's true: Angelina Jolie and her brother, James Haven, have slept together! But not since he was 7 and she was 5. "I think we fell asleep in our mom's bed while we were watching television," Haven tells Us Weekly, dismissing rampant rumors of more recent bed-sharing between them as "sick." "I've heard what people are saying, and it's a very weird thing. They're going into a realm where it's something that's almost ugly rather than something that can be beautiful," he says. "We love each other, and if that's unusual these days, that's sad." Oh, brother. Read the entire Nothing Personal column for Friday, April 7. salon.com | April 8, 2000   - - - - - - - - - - - - About the writer Amy Reiter is a staff writer for Salon People. For more columns by Amy Reiter, visit her column archive.