People in the News for May 15

Friday, May 15, 1998 | 10:47 a.m.

Who does this guy think he is? Shows up at Berlin's Intercontinental Hotel this week, has tennis teen queen Martina Hingis bumped from the swank presidential suite. Oh, he's the president? President Clinton, in Berlin to mark the 50th anniversary of the Berlin airlift, took over the top four floors of the hotel. Hingis, in town to compete in the German Open, was moved downstairs. On Thursday, the phone in her new room jingled; a certain Southern gentleman was on the line. Hingis says it was Clinton -- his voice had certain distinguishing characteristics. You mean it sounded like he was eating a doughnut as he talked? Well, no. "He had an accent like his and everything. I thought it was pretty funny," the Swiss phenom says. "He told me he apologized for taking the suite away."

Miscellany

Who does this gal think she is? That's what Mira Sorvino wanted to know as she approached film critic Jami Bernard at a beach party during this week's Cannes Film Festival. It seems Sorvino was angry over an item Bernard wrote for Premiere magazine about her ex-boyfriend Quentin Tarantino. Although Sorvino and Tarantino broke up months ago, she's still steamed at how steamed he was over the piece, and she yelled at Bernard at the party. Sorvino at last wound up her rant by saying, "I love this man. I still love this man." We could use a little humor to help us through turbulent events here -- where's Bob Hope when we need him?

Compiled by Scott Dickensheets