FAMOUS, RICH PEOPLE REVEAL THEIR SECRETS

Quentin Tarantino: "Remember that a kick in the ass is a step forward."

The famed writer/director/producer was a former Manhattan Beach video store clerk who lived in his car after he was fired.


Cher: "Failure is not the worst thing in the world. The worst thing is not to try."

Her career took a nosedive after she split from Sonny. Despite paralyzing fear she auditioned her way into an Off Broadway play, got great reviews and began a movie career.
Audiences howled with laughter as the credits for "Silkwood" came on, with Cher's name following Meryl Streep's. Five years later she won the Oscar for Best Actress in "Moonstruck". She was no longer a joke.


THOMAS EDISON: "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to try just one more time."

This great inventor discovered the light bulb on the 2,001st try. What if he'd stopped at 2,000 failures? We'd all still be in the dark!


Winston Churchill: "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."

This renowned British Prime Minister suffered many defeats, none greater than being voted out of office after leading the Allies to victory in World War II.


Abigail "Dear Abby" Van Buren: "If you want a place in the sun, be prepared to put up with a few blisters."


Whoopie Goldberg: "Failure is success if we learn from it. People can change their lives by changing their attitudes."

This Oscar winner actress and comedian went from former welfare recipient and drug addict to making her daydreams a reality.


Clint Eastwood: "Being defeated is a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."

A studio exec told him years ago, Get outta town, you'll never make it. Your Adam's apple is ugly, you're gawky and you can't act." Eastwood ledr the country, made some low budget spaghetti westerns for Sergio Leone and became an international phenomenon. He eventually went back to the same Hollywood studio and became its biggest superstar, making them billions of dollars. The studio exec hasn't been heard from in years.

Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor for lack of ideas. He also went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland.

Albert Einstein did not speak until he was 4 and didn't read until he was 7. (He was thinking!) His teacher described him as "mentally slow, unsociable, and adrift forever in his foolish dreams."

Henry Ford failed and went broke five times before he finally succeeded.

Rev. Robert Schuller, founder of the Crystal Cathedral, adivises us to "turn rejection into direction and to always remember: yard by yard, it's hard...but inch by inch, it's a cinch."


So if you've NEVER failed, you're going nowhere because you're playing it safe. "No guts, no glory." There are five reasons you can never be a failure:

1) Failure is a positive thing.

2) Failure provides you with a pause in which to reassess your motices, your abilities and your opportunities.

3) Failure is often the best way of drawing attention to your abilities.

4) Failure teaches you more than success ever can.

5) Failure is the best school for success.

WHATEVER YOUR DREAM, TAKE YOURSELF AND THE DREAM SERIOUSLY ENOUGH TO RISK FAILURE.

FAILURE IS A GOOD AND NECESSARY THING ON THE PATH TO SUCCESS.

Excerpted from "Cheat Sheets for Life: Secret Shortcuts Used By The Rich & Famous"
(c) 2005, Sistarrs International

NAOMI CAMPBELL KO's DRUG COUNSELOR

Superthug supermodel Naomi Campbell has been arrested yet again for another alleged assault. The British network Sky News and The Sun of Lonndon reported the ugly tempered, venomous vixen attacked her drug counselor in London while taking the drug tests required to renew her visa to work in the U.S.

The woman claims she was attacked and scratched all over the face in a Westminster house by the adrenaline laced mannequin. Police arrested Campbell at 1:20 pm for an alleged assault and took her to the central London police station.

The pugilistic diva has a history of being accused of assault by at least six other people who have worked for her as assistants or maids. A few required stitches and/or hospitalization.

It's high time this sick superbitch got booked for an even grudge match. We suggest a pay-per-view slugfest with her ex-boyfriend Mike Tyson, gloves off, of course. If this karmic booomerang doesn't come off, perhaps a 1 to 5 year stretch in a women's prison might be in order. We'll see whose bitch this bitch will be...Until then would someone please put this domestic batterer in a cage strewn with Ritalin?!!

TOMKAT WEDDING RUSE?

While the paparazzi assemble outside George Clooney's Italian villa on Lake Como for the November 18 nuptials of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, The New York Post's Cindy Adams claims to have the inside scoop: the duo is actually tying the knot at Rome's Hassler Hotel atop the Spanish Steps.

Take your choice: camp out at beautiful Lake Como or at the historic, scenic hilltop location in Rome. We'd rather stay in Malibu and join the celebrity protesters Halle Berry, Darryl Hannah, Cindy Crawford, Ted Danson, Jane Seymour and Pierce Brosnan in their demonstration against a proposed 13-story floating natural gas terminal scheduled to be built off our shoreline. Besides the bevy of celebrities, fans, paparazzi and television networks from around the globe that mobbed Surfrider Beach in Malibu last Sunday, other famous Malibu residents Barbra Streisand, Cher, Jamie Lee Curtis, Danny DeVito, Tom Hanks, Olivia Newton-John and Martin Sheen have signed a letter opposing the terminal. The document says "it poses a significant and potentially irreversible negative impact to our coast, our environment and to the health and safety of our families..." Talk about a cause celebre!

SURPRISE: PARIS HILTON FOR SALE TO HIGHEST BIDDER

Wanna bag Paris Hilton for New Year's Eve? Well, for a mere $100,000, plus an expense account and a private jet, the celebutante will host a soiree in your honor in either Los Angeles, New York or Miami.

We're told Paris will not stay for more than 10 minutes, proving that amazingly there are certain occasions when the heirhead can count to 10!!

IS SIR PAUL NOT SIR GALAHAD AFTER ALL?

In the bitter divorce between Paul McCartney and his second wife Heather Mills, many were stunned last week by allegations that the 64 year old mild mannered rock god abused his amputee wife by not letting her use a bedpan so she wouldn't have to crawl in the middle of the night to the bathroom. She asserts he didn't want t feel like he lived in an old age home. Nobody believed such behavior possible from Sir Paul. Some upper crust British dame even sniffed: "If it's true, I must say I'd make this one exception to advocate domestic abuse." (Not funny, lady!!)

Well, get ready for your smug, righteous world to be rocked! There are allegations that the former Beatle beat up his first wife Linda. The UK tabloid Daily Mail claims that "Sir Paul McCartney is attempting to block 20 hours of alleged taped revelations from his first wife, said to contain intimate disclosures of the marriage that cast an alternative light on his 29 year marriage to the former Linda Eastman, from being used in his current divorce battle."

Say it ain't so, Paul!! Though his current wife is no saint and has been besmirched in various publications as a sociopathic liar who has prostitution in her earlier, colorful history, it doesn't mean anyone can rush to judgement based on the public face of a beloved celebrity. Mills alleges that McCartney was violent to her on four separate occasions. Batterers can be the most charming people in the world. After all they convince adult women to stick around because it will never happen again. Who knows the truth? But let IT will out.

GUESS WHO?

A helpful quick, easy and cheap idea for a Halloween costume is being proferred by the CityRag blog: "Celebrity Baby Smuggler". Guess the phony British accent on Oprah didn't convince everyone.

ELVIS DETHRONED

Kurt Cobain and not Elvis Presley is now the KING of the top-earning dead celebrity club. The grunge rocker earned $50 million in the last year while the original rock god earned a mere $42. Rounding out the Top Five dead celeb earners are "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz at $35 million, Beatle John Lennon at $24 million and long deceased physicist Albert Einstein at $20 million, mostly from the lucrative "Baby Einstein" educational videos.

Wanna leave an estate for your family that keeps giving? Get famous before you croak. Now that's estate planning at it's best!!

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
Mark Twain


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