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© St. Petersburg Times, published May 15, 2002
SPIN CITY: Drastic. Surreal. More definitive than expected.
Those are some of the ways Tobey Maguire decribes the stardom Spider-Man's succes has foisted upon him since the movie opened.
"I feel like a lot of things have changed in a three-day period," he tells Time.
He's right. They have changed. A month ago, paparazzi wouldn't have tailed him and Nicole Kidman during an outing in Los Angeles.
Well, they would have, but it would have been no different from them tailing Kidman walking a dog.
Maguire, 27 next month, and Kidman, 35 in June, were followed during the weekend Spider-Man opened, and one of the pictures showed Maguire pinching Kidman's posterior.
The two met at an Oscar party in March, and the usual gaggle of anonymous friends are telling whoever asks that it's true love.
Kidman's publicist tells London's Sun the two are just good friends.
HISTORY LESSON: Hard to believe as it may seem, Maguire has a reputation as a ladies' man. The actor often lampooned for appearing to barely have a pulse was once better-known for being a member of a Leonardo DiCaprio-led group that worked its way through women encountered in New York and Hollywood's hip, chic and trendy places.
DiCaprio was laughing when he told the syndicated show Extra this week that Maguire learned what to do and what not to do when you're hot by hanging out with him.
SPEAKING OF LAMPOONED: Carson Daly either has no sense of humor or needs to work on his radio delivery.
At the end his syndicated top 10 countdown radio show Monday night, Daly said he didn't find last weekend's Saturday Night Live that funny. True, it wasn't a particularly memorable show, but one of the better skits had Jimmy Fallon doing a dead-on impersonation of the sycophantic Daly hosting his late night NBC talk show, Last Call.
Just as good was guest host Kirsten Dunst as Alicia Keys, basically, making the whole thing a lampoon of Daly's first Last Call show.
Put your money on Daly having no sense of humor.
GUNS AND ROSES: It turns out the nightclub shootout that led to gun and bribery charges against Sean Combs put holes in his relationship with Jennifer Lopez after all.
P. Diddy now says that despite what the official line was, their relationship was in trouble before he went on trial in January 2001, more than a year after the shootings. Their breakup was announced on Valentine's Day, before the trial ended and Diddy was acquitted. And, much to his surprise, Diddy says, Lopez married one of her dancers seven months later.
"There were problems in the relationship before the trial," Diddy tells Newsweek. "Then, during the trial, we had to be apart a lot, which made it so easy to stray. I couldn't be at her door with flowers and cards. A relationship needs that or someone else will step in.
"I didn't know it was coming, but if getting married made her happy, then I'm happy she's married."