JFK's last car auctioned
John F. Kennedy Jr.'s 1995 Jeep, which he drove to a New Jersey airport the night of his fatal flight, sold for $57,100 online through eBay Motors.
There were 81 bids for the green Wrangler Sahara, which normally goes for $13,000 retail.
The buyer, from Shreveport, La., wants to remain anonymous, but eBay Motors general manager Simon Rothman said the person was a longtime Kennedy admirer who wanted to drive the car.
Kennedy died in 1999 at age 38 when his single-engine Piper Saratoga went down off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. His wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, also died in the crash. The Jeep was parked at a Fairfield, N.J., airport. The eBay purchase includes a copy of the title bearing Kennedy's name and Manhattan address as well as a photograph of him in the driver's seat.
Walken wows 'em on MTV
Christopher Walken doesn't utter a word in his latest project.
Instead, the actor struts his stuff in Fatboy Slim's new video, "Weapon of Choice," which premiered on MTV2 on Thursday. Walken is the sole focus of the video, as he dances and leaps across an empty hotel lobby.
Although the sight of Walken dancing might surprise some, it's not that much of a stretch. The actor got his start in musical theater and played a ballroom dancer in the 1977 movie "Roseland" before winning a best supporting actor Oscar for "The Deer Hunter."
Capt. Picard back on the bridge
Go ahead and tell actor Patrick Stewart to "make it so." You'll make his day.
Stewart, 60, became closely identified with the character of Starship Enterprise commander Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his order to crew members to "make it so" during the run of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" on television and in the movie series.
"It's charming. I'm happy and altogether pleased about that," he said. Stewart, who is performing with Mercedes Ruehl in Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, will begin work this fall on the next installment of the "Star Trek" movie series. Early next year, he'll start work on the sequel to "X-men."
PETA drops Rosie lawsuit
An animal rights group dropped its defamation lawsuit against talk-show host Rosie O'Donnell after she clarified comments she made on her show about the group's opposition to leather.
Norfolk, Va.-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued for defamation after O'Donnell said on a show last year that certain types of leather pants sold at The Gap were PETA-approved.
What O'Donnell was apparently referring to was a decision by The Gap to stop using Indian and Chinese leather after a PETA campaign highlighting alleged industry abuses in those countries.
PETA opposes all use of leather.
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