Thursday, March 27, 1997 | 11:59 a.m.
Easter approaches, and rather than offer our usual sentiment -- Show me the bunny! -- we here at People in the News went looking for an item with a little more theological heft. The best we could do is Kurt Cobain, who was, we suppose , a sort of grunge deity. And the religious overtones don't stop there! Seattle psychic Thaddeus Gunn reports that after Courtney Love had him perform some sort of ceremony with the dead guitarist's ashes two years ago, there was a film of Cobain's remains left on his windowsill. "I didn't want to just brush it up and throw it away," he reasons, "because it is, after all, well, you know." Well put! Finally, after two years, Gunn recently decided to make a clean sweep of it. But when he went to wipe his ash, he apparently discovered that the remains had formed ... an image of Jesus. Gunn himself refuses to comment directly on that, but Nirvana faithful have reportedly enshrined the spot. Frankly, this boggles the theological mind.
Animal lover
His years of backstage banter at "Saturday Night Live" ought to stand Eddie Murphy in good stead in his next role: talking to animals as Dr. Dolittle. Still banking checks from his remake of "The Nutty Professor," Murphy next month begins shooting an update of the lovable Rex Harrison classic. Murphy, however, is no Rex Harrison, and he knows it: Show him the bunny, but don't ask him to sing to it. "You won't hear me sing ('Talk to the Animals') in a top hat to a two-headed llama." He says the movie "is about a guy who has this special ability and how it complicates his life." Can a remake of "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes" be far behind?
Fidel Castro, love machine!
You might think it wiser to seek romantic insight from a two-headed llama than Fidel Castro -- what could a guy who in that beard and those rumpled-green fatigues know about landing chicks? Plenty! "One always likes it when somebody is in love with him," he recently told an interviewer. "But I prefer to do the loving because when somebody was in love with me, I felt pursued and didn't know what to do, as if they were harassing or besieging me." That's probably a common romantic complication among iron-fisted dictators. But it certainly hasn't stilled his fiery Cuban heart, even if it's 70 years old. He says he's "eternally infatuated with the feminine sex. ... I fall in love easily." And what gal could resist? He is, after all, well, you know ...
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