Tuesday, April 7, 1998 | 11:02 a.m.
We all have our quirks. Jerry Seinfeld's: The number nine. It's his favorite number. Hence the reason the comic's sitcom is ending after its ninth season. "People said, '10, why not 10?' " Seinfeld recently told Vanity Fair. "But 10 is lame. Nine is my number. And then I found out that nine in numerology means completion." Indeed! Along with "Seinfeld's" demise, so goes the real Jerry's standup act, which will end following an HBO special he'll film this summer. A talk show may be in his future or he may pen ads like his "Superman" commercials for American Express. "In a 12-month period, I'll have ended a four-year relationship (with girlfriend Shoshanna Lonstein), ended the show and retired my act," he says. "I've basically stripped myself of everything that ever meant anything to me." Good thing it's all been about nothing.
Fess up
The Rev. Jerry Falwell says it's time for Bill Clinton to confess his sins and seek help if he is addicted to sex. "If the president has a sex addiction -- and I don't know that he does -- he needs to ask for help," Falwell told 450 Baptist churchgoers Sunday in West Virginia. "Don't deny it." Of Clinton's highly-publicized alleged affairs, the Moral Majority founder said it's "real hard for parents and grandparents to explain to children what's going on here. He's our president."
Ain't life a ...
Don't count on Argentina crying for Meredith Brooks anytime soon. The "Bitch" singer told USA Today Monday that she was pelted with everything from rocks to tampons by a crowd of 70,000 people when she opened for the Rolling Stones in Buenos Aires last month. "At one point, a big dirt clot hit my guitar and exploded and went into my left eye. It got black and blue and swollen," Brooks said. "I think I went into shock, but I come from the school of 'the show must go on.' I finished my set and totally broke down." Brook's bashing was apparently a reaction to the crowd's anticipation of the Stones. She gave it another shot the following night, this time donning an Argentine soccer jersey, and was again assaulted. After singing her hit song, she threw the shirt on the ground and hoofed off stage, telling Mick Jagger through sobs that she was leaving the tour. "Mick put his arms around me and said, 'I'm so sorry.' "
Take a hike, Kev
Who wants Kevin Costner in their backyard? Not the residents of Tangier Island, Va. and Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Both locales rejected the filming of the "Dances With Wolves" star's upcoming flick, a romance titled "Message in a Bottle," which also stars Paul Newman. Tangier Islanders objected to the script's content, while the Martha's Vineyard towns of Gay Head and Chilmark gave the thumb's down due to potential damage to sand dunes there. So it looks like the lucky winner is some town (to be announced) on Maine's central coast, where the production will move to from Los Angeles sometime in May, according to its location director, Tom Wilson. "We still have to meet with some people and get some approvals, but that's coming together," he told the Associated Press.
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