QUIDNUNC'S CONFIDENTIAL!

QUIDNUNC'S CONFIDENTIAL!

Michael Logan

Yiogos Panayiotou may be Greek to you and Greek to me but it also happens to be the real name of George Michael! Heretofore, little has been acknowledged about the ex-Whamer’s early life in Cyprus but now that the secret is out, his Greek restaurant-owning father has also reportedly admitted that Sir George was secretly married at the tender age of 16 to a young Greek maiden!

Stay tuned for updates!

In the Better-LateThan-Never Dept., the Beatles are suddenly big news in Russia. 300,000 copies of their early 1960’s albums, A Taste Of Honey and A Hard Day’s Night were finally released and sold out instantly.

And while we’re waxing nostalgic, golden oldie fans had a ball at the recent Universal Amphitheatre concert starring Fabian, Bobby Rydell and Frankie Avalon. For the grand finale, the boys were joined onstage by audience members Connie Stevens,

Deborah “Gidget” Walley, Jan and Dean, Joannie Summers and Annette Funicello. No, you young whippersnappers! This isn’t an episode of The Twilight Zone. There was a time when these people were stars!

Michael Jackson’s

penchant for wearing masks in public is highly contagious. At a recent A1 Green concert in Hollywood, Jackson wore a green one and his pintsized guest, Emmanuel Lewis, wore a red one.

At least we think it was them,! One of the spectators insisted it was Willie Tyler and his dummy, Lester.

Apparently there is life after the Go-Go’s, extraterrestrially speaking, that is. Jane Wiedlin climbs aboard the Enterprise when it returns to movie screens this Christmas in Star Trek IV.

Frightened by increasing terrorism in Europe, soul king James Brown canceled more than $25,000 worth of American carrier bookings and switched to an all-British carrier plan for his upcoming concert tour abroad. The Manhattan Transfer decided to not-and-saywe-did by cancelling their

European tour plans altogether.

Prince shot his latest video with the aid of two pistol-and-billy-clubtoting, walkie-talkiewearing security guards. Noted one studio employee, “We all felt absolutely safe...kind of like working at Fort Knox!”

The We’ve-GotNothing-Better-To-Dol Award has got to go ® songwriters Otis Blackwell and Jimmi Jones. These feisty have filed suit agaim Boy George and Cull Club, claiming that chorus of “Karma Chameleon” was ripj off from the “Come-i come-a, come-a, comi come, come, a comesection of their hit composition “Handy Man,” made famous| Jimmy himself, Del Shannon, and James

Taylor. Oh, come-a boys!

Footsie’s, the hot night spot out Pasai way, now devotes ev Thursday night to ¶| Boss. The club exclusively features Springsteen music, videos, concert fool and interviews. Fans| a discount on the coi charge if they bring can of food, which is| donated to the Steelworker’s Oldtii Food Bank.

Meanwhile, on noi deserted Monday nij Sunset Strip’s Torn® Records Store hastily into a better spot toH celebrity gawk thanU^, Hollywood unemploj office! Browsing down the aisles at very same moment in other eve were for Springsteen, Molly Ringwald, Van Zandt and Da' Lee Roth. Quidnu won’t reveal which

GOSSIP! GOSSIP! GOSSIP! GOSSIP!

faced celeb got all the way up to the cash register with a mega-arm full of cassettes and albums and, suddenly, ealized all cash, checks and plastic money had left at home!

Look for Ringwald, by the by, to stick in her thumb and pull out the plum movie role of the [lt late, Warhol-era, cult figure Edie Sedgwick in a big screen big pic to be !! pbduced by Warren Beatty. Miss Molly has become the actress all es|pther young actresses love to hate—there wasn’t an under-30 movie [ queen who wasn’t

I ilrooling buckets for the part!

Tina Turner, meanwhile, has collected

uarter of a million smackeroos for doing a ipsi TV blurb—but only airing overseas. Tantalizing Tina didn’t 'fjwant her stateside fans feee how “commercial”

e’s gotten. They will, iyever, be getting a big limpse of her on-screen |he movie Widows, seci on a hit British tube series about a [d of women who take after their late, banking husbands to 7 off the heist of the |htury. With Tina in the |§> the pic’s producers equally lofty ideas aer gun-toting coRs. They’re now after -her, Faye Dunaway and Elizabeth Taylor!

Big rumour about town it that Mick Jagger

is quietly rehearsing his own back-up band so that he can hit the road for a solo concert tour minus the Stones.

Ted Nugent’s hit album Little Miss Dangerous has prompted him to make his own list of the world’s 10 Most Dangerous Gals.

Quidnunc has no quarrel with his first nine choices—Heart’s Nancy Wilson, Imelda Marcos, Kim Basinger, Grace Jones, Nastassja Kinski, Michele Duvalier, Whitney Houston,

Gloria Steinem and Joan Collins, but...Marie Osmond??? Looks like Ted is goin’ coconuts!

Elton John was having dinner in a local restaurant with a male friend when the conversation turned rather ugly. Quickly scouting the closest blunt instrument to conk his buddy on the noggin, Elton settled for the next best thing...a gooey, pastry-filled dessert tray that was being wheeled in by an unsuspecting waiter. While his pal sadly sported a hat of chocolate eclairs and raspberry tarts, John summoned the maitre d’ for the check. He didn’t blink an eye over the inflated tab, which included the upside-down desserts—$650! Replied a satisfied Elton, “It was worth it!”

You can forget about Sean Penn and Madonna co-starring in Blind Date. The script’s now being remodeled to suit Moonlighting star Bruce Willis and that Splash-y sweetheart Daryl Hannah. But don’t cry for the Poisoned Penns, as they’ve become known around Tinseltown— they’re both wanted for the lead roles in the film version of Evita.

Although producer Robert Stigwood is wild about Madonna playing the infamous, nastierthan-nasty Eva Peron, the show’s lyricist, Tim Rice, has other thoughts, admitting, “I’d prefer Whitney Houston.”

More than a dozen photographers flocked to L.A. International Airport when tipped off that Julian Lennon and a couple of his band members were catching a flight. Julian and company quickly ducked into a souvenir shop, but the paparazzis followed— and to their delight discovered that Bob Dylan was also doing a little shopping. Pointing to Lennon’s group, one photographer asked Dylan if he’d mind posing with Julian. Replied a delighted Dylan. “Sure,

I’d be happy to pose with him. Which one is he?”