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    Ignoring the 'joke', I believe he already HAS been charged with
    committing a 'lewd' act.
    
    To be honest it sounds like something of nothing. I can't imagine it'll
    do his relationship with Liz Hurley much good (so much for the
    'perfect couple' image), but a man having sex with a prostitute (in LA)
    is hardly headline news stuff is it?
    
    Hollywood managed to forgive Gerard Depardieu his alleged rape, perhaps
    this'll just give Grant a 'wild man' image. 
    
    Any bets on him taking over from Bruce Willis in Die Hard X?
    
    Mark

    Apparently Miss Hurley hasn't commented since the tearful explanation
    from Hugh laast night.
    
    He is coming back to England today.

    Well, there goes the squeeky-clean image, the Cary Grant comparisons,
    the upholstery of the BMW...oh, sorry :-}
    
    Sue

    
    	Hugh Grant in "Die Hard"?  Eesh.
    
    	RE: Sue
    
    	That's what towels are for.  8^)
    

    Ah the world of double standards....
    
    Had this 'lewd' scene been in a movie most folks would have been quite 
    happy to pay �4.50 to watch it all at the cinema.... And of course, 
    'cos it's in a movie (or theatre), the 'lewd' bit becomes art.
    
    One of Shugie Grant's Pre-"4 Weddings..." movies ("The Lair of the
    Snake Worm" I think it was called) which also starred Amanda Donohoe,
    included plenty of bonking scenes, lesbian cat fights, that kind of
    thing...  (At one point Miss Donohoe... who is really a snake, right (!)...
    seduces a boy scout and ends up poisoning the poor geezer by biting him 
    right on the p3n15 !)... 
    
    WHat I'm trying to say here is that, a lot more so-called 'lewd' acts
    went down in this movie, than could be performed in the back of a BMW. 
    
    Still... If Hugh's movie career is now up in smoke, he can always
    become a Tory MP.  ;-)
    
    Reargards,
    
    Stephen
    
    Ps: You don't have to be in the dirty-mac brigade to have seen the
    afore-mentioned movie.... This was recently shown on network tv here in
    Blighty, and Barry Norman (respected film critic in the UK) gave the
    film, 4 out of 5 stars ! 
    
    
    
    
    

    Re a few back,
    
    From what I've heard of Cary Grant's sexual habits, Hugh is just
    following in his footsteps, and pretty tamely, at that! ;^)
    
    
    Marilyn 
                                                               

    :-) Ah, so young Hugh's trying to live up to the comparison?
    
    I figure, what's the big deal, it's between him and Liz.  
    
    Sue

    Re: .5
    
    >("The Lair of the Snake Worm" I think it was called) which also
    >starred Amanda Donohoe,
    
    "The Lair of the White Worm," I believe; an arty vampire flick.

    
    Hugh Who?????
    
    who really cares, I don't....
    
    
    Let him have 1000 hookers....

> Hugh Who?????
> who really cares, I don't....

	well you cared enough to waste my time with your content-less note :-)

	In any case, from what I heard the problem is not that the act
	was lewd, but that the act was performed out in public (where it
	could offend children and others faint of heart).

	Even in Nashua [NH] we've had people arrested for lewd (ie. sex)
	acts out in the public park ......

    ...ahhhh, the good ol' days when one could perform lewd sex acts
    openly in public....kind gets you right THERE, eh??
    
    ...but I digress, as a previous noter said: let 'em have 1000
    hookers...
    
    a statement in the Boston Globe from ol' Hughey : 
    
    something to the effect that, yeah, having lots of pretty women
    trying to get into his room at night turned him on, but it just wasn't
    enough.....
    
    ...man, oh man...talk about Lifestyles of the Rich and Spoiled!!!!
    
    I wish I had that kinda problem to deal with....
    
    daydreamin'_mac

> ...but I digress, as a previous noter said: let 'em have 1000 hookers...

	Once again, Hugh was never charged with soliciting!  (from what
	I heard) Even the LA police didn't care he picked up a hooker.
	It was their subsequent actions that caught the polices (and
	the publics) attention.

>     a statement in the Boston Globe from ol' Hughey : 
>     something to the effect that, yeah, having lots of pretty women
>     trying to get into his room at night turned him on, but it just wasn't
>     enough.....

	That sounds like an out of context quote that actually came from
	this weeks Entertainment Weekly (page 22) asking several stars
	about what's cool and what's uncool (ie. this was published before
	Hugh's sex-capade).  For Hugh Grant he's quoted:

		HUGH GRANT
		Star of Nine Months
		* COOL: It's cool that women like to sneak into my hotel
		  room now, but not nearly enough for my liking.
		* UNCOOL: My friends. They treat me like I have cancer.
		  Fame is like this terrible thing I bring into the room.
		  They lilked me much better when I was an ordinary un-
		  employed actor.

    Heard on the radio yesterday that Hugh will be a guest on the Tonight
    Show July 10th.  Believe it or not, the second guest will be Dee Dee
    Meyers (Sp?) recently caught driving under the influence. Should be an
    interesting show, if they don't cancel.

    
    
    
    That's right! Hugh who? 
    Too much attention to this weasle, mediocre actor.
    when Pacino or DiNiro get caught in public, thats news!
    not some washed up blah, actor!
    
    Who cares if was caught with an elephant!
    If he's stupid enough to do it out in the open tuff!
    
    The End.....

	I don't care what he does in his private life, but he's
	absolutely adorable.

    
    
    that's a better attitude!
    
    
    
    
    
    
    .....

    Hugh Grant was caught with an elephant?

    Turns out the whole thing was an unfortunate misunderstanding:  Hugh
    was just doing field research for his uncoming role as televangelist
    Jimmy Swaggart....  ;-)
    
    Re:  .10 = Can you name the park in Nashua?  Any specific location in
               the park?  Particular time of day?   ;-)
    
    Bill

    How 'bout this;
    
    	Name Britian's 3 most famous John's;
    		John Major
    		John Lennon
    		   and
    		Hugh Grant
    
    Steve
    
    

    
    Liz Hurley does not believe the incident actually happened.
    
    She was quoted as saying she found it all 'hard to swallow'
    
    
    
    
    Tom

    
    She must've missed his media event apologizing for it.  :-)
    
    DFW

    
    Re .21
    
    Isn't it nice to know that we're not all corrupted :^)
    
    Mark

    Liz prays for 'divine' intervention, but rest assured that she's
    thankful that it was a human this time?? Itz a way of life doon ere my
    luvvers, see. Can't sees wot all fuss is aboot, the mans a bit o a hero
    doon ere. Mind you, i prefers our Liz, luvverly lass, sheem be.
    I thinks hees been cawt 'hooker' line an sinkers this times. I supposes
    heel be 'gowin doon' in history, or at least in hees back seats!!
    
    Lorng lives our Hughy, an gods saves our queens. Hers family is a bit
    corrupt too me luvvers......... 

>     Re:  .10 = Can you name the park in Nashua?  Any specific location in
>                the park?  Particular time of day?   ;-)

	The incident I remember reported in the paper at the time was
	in Greeley park.  Time & location I don't recall (I faintly recall
	the incident supposedly occured in broad daylight).

    RE: -.1
    
    Thank you for the input.  Don't want to miss anything....   ;-)
    
    Bill

    Hugh Grant did show up on Leno last night and gave an excellent
    performance.  He appeared extremely nervous at first, and only slightly
    more comfortable by the end of the interview.
    
    Leno began the interview exactly as he should, asking "What the hell
    were you thinking about?"  Grant was very forthright, saying how it was
    obviously a mistake, how it's difficult to lead a perfect life, that he
    was not going to fall back on any excuses, that hhe was totally at
    fault and was totally wrong.  The entire first half of the interview
    was about the incident, second half about "Nine Months".  Showed a very
    funny clip; talked about how hairy Robin Williams is.
    
    Overall, he came off as contrite, sincere, and intelligent.  He
    certainly did the right thing by honoring the commitment to the show.
    
    NAZZ

    >>honoring the commitment to the show
    
    Which is more than Dee-Dee Myers did....
    
    Sue

  What a stunt. This one is an all time classic.

  Hugh Grant comes out of this a big winner. He secured his spot as a top name
leading man for years to come. One pundit estimated that it will rake in a good
$10 to $15 million extra for his next film. 

  Liz Hurly goes from being yet another flash in the pan cover girl that would
probably have been faded away soon to being a house hold word and will probably
become a supermodel. This did more for her career than a Sports Illustrated
cover. 

  Not only do the principals win, the Studio that did his last movie wins, and
everyone's agent wins. Jay Leno pulled a 10 rating beating Letterman by several
points, even Bam Bam Divine or who ever she is will now be able to write a book
and retire to the talk show circuit. 

  If there's a loser here I can't see who it is. I doubt they actually planned
the whole thing but the parties combined couldn't have come up with a better
publicity stunt if they had tried.

  Sort of like the Boggs/Margo thing, everyone will end up crying all the way
to the bank.

  George

    RE:  -1
    
    The losers are the no-life public who have nothing better to do than
    be suckered by this nothingness.
    
    Bill

    I figure that by Liz continuing to sulk, and Hugh keeping the
    sheepish, hang-dog expression, that they are now milking this
    for everything they can get.  I think in describing their
    relationship as "business" is perfectly true and they're not
    going let this chance at free publicity get away too soon.
    
    Sue

> The losers are the no-life public who have nothing better to do than
> be suckered by this nothingness.

	Ironic how many are complaining like you (ie. if it really
	meant nothing to you then why bother taking the time to
	post a note here?).

	You know the old saying about the 1st person who smells a fart ....

    Actually, I prefer the old saying:  Takes one to know one, since I
    did make sure I caught Hugh on Larry King last night....  ;-)
    
    Bill

    
    "He who smelt it... dealt it!" :-)
    
    

    Barbara walters interviews Liz Hurly this friday.... what a waste of
    airtime!