Monday, Jul. 14, 2003
People
By Lev Grossman
SHE'S ALL GROWN UP
She's not a girl, but if this photo from the next issue of W is any indication, it's safe to say that BRITNEY SPEARS is yet a woman. Now 21, Spears is at work on her fourth album, due out in October, but she found time to update the world on her sex life. "I've only slept with one person my whole life," she told W. "It was two years into my relationship with Justin [Timberlake], and I thought he was the one. But I was wrong! I didn't think he was gonna go on Barbara Walters and sell me out." Are you hearing this, Cameron Diaz?
JUST LIVE AND LET DI
Imagine the pitch meeting. "It's a comic book about PRINCESS DIANA! Superpowers? Uh--let's make her a mutant! She's dead, you say? Great! We'll totally save on legal fees!" The foregoing is completely made up, but this isn't: on Sept. 10, Marvel Comics will publish a comic book featuring a resurrected mutant Diana, Princess of Wales. According to Marvel, the comic is a media-savvy satire on celebrity in which Diana must escape evil Eurotrash. The title? Di Another Day. No, that's not made up either.
WIE WILL ROCK YOU
What were you doing the summer you were 13? MICHELLE WIE just finished eighth grade in Honolulu, but instead of hanging out at the Gas 'n' Sip like all the other kids, she won the U.S. Women's Public Links Championship, which makes her the youngest player ever to win a USGA event, and last week she made the cut at the U.S. Women's Open. But don't feel bad. Sure, Wie can pound 300-yd. drives like Annika Sorenstam. But she has yet to turn pro and start pulling down Tiger Woods money. Next year she plans to take on the men's tour in the Masters. When she does that, then you can feel bad.
SPLITS VILLE
Sharon Stone and her husband, that-bearded-guy-who's-married-to- Sharon-Stone (a.k.a. Phil Bronstein, executive editor of the San Francisco Chronicle), are getting a divorce. They have been married for five years and have a 3-year-old adopted son together, but their union will probably be best remembered for a bizarre incident at the Los Angeles Zoo in which Bronstein was bitten on the foot by a 7-ft.-long komodo dragon and had to be rushed to the hospital. In his petition, Bronstein cited irreconcilable differences. The couple said in a statement that the split is "amicable and mutual" and that they are both "committed to being great parents and having a friendship, as parents, going forward." The rest of the men in America responded with a statement, as follows: "Dude, are you mental? You're divorcing Sharon Stone."