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By SHARON FINK
Published February 9, 2005
STILL WAITING FOR INSIDE INFO ON THE NOSE: In case you've forgotten that more than one aspect of Michael Jackson' s life is under public scrutiny, a medical doctor now says that the King of Glop can be believed when he says his skin is involuntarily turning white.
Len Horovitz, a New York doctor who has many celebrity patients, tells FoxNews.com that he treated Jackson a few times in the 1990s and that the singer really does have vitiligo, a skin disorder that causes smooth white spots to appear on the body.
"He has not had chemical peels or used any drugs to do it. . . . The vitiligo is real," Horovitz said.
READER ALERT: POSSIBLY TOO MUCH INFORMATION AHEAD.
In giving a few details, Horovitz said that Jackson is "blotchy in places that you can't see, and he does wear makeup in public."
TOTALLY POINTLESS MOMENT OF THE WEEK: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has decided to become boring. The group known for dramatic, over-the-top displays to bring attention to its mission agreed this year to abandon its catwalk-crashing at New York Fashion Week and operate under conventional means. So Monday it held a traditional news conference to traditionally introduce its new media campaign starring the long-past-his-freshness-expiration-date Dennis Rodman. The focal point is a poster with the tattoo-covered Rodman naked and a slogan sure to send fur and leather sales to record levels: "Think Ink, Not Mink."
COME BACK, WILLIAM HUNG: Simon Cowell predicts that someone like Ruben Studdard or Fantasia Barrino will win this edition of American Idol. And he thinks that would be a disaster. Because neither of them deserved to win to begin with.
The no-holds-barred Idol judge was heard saying these things in what the New York Post described as a heated phone conversation with one of the show's producers in a Los Angeles hotel. He said there was almost no talent among the hopefuls who made it to the Hollywood round and that apart from a country singer from Missouri, the group was a bunch of "untalented Usher wanna-bes."
He then made his Ruben-Fantasia prediction and said Kelly Clarkson is the only winner among the show's three that has talent.
Sharon Fink can be reached at 727 893-8525 or fink@sptimes.com
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