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© St. Petersburg Times, published October 22, 2001
THE NEW CHEESEHEAD CAPITAL OF THE WORLD: Artist Cosimo Cavallaro obtained 24 500-pound barrels of Monterey Jack cheese with pepper destined for sale as fish bait, melted the contents and started splattering the inside and outside of his house with the result last week.
Starting in the bedroom of his Powell, Wyo., home, Cavallaro sprayed melted cheese onto the walls, windows, curtains, bed, bureau, ceiling and shag carpet.
"I'm liking whatever it's doing," he said as a reporter from the Rocky Mountain News observed. "The cross light is nice. The first thing I thought of was Matisse. It makes me smile."
Some residents were worried about the image the town would get when news of the cheese house got out. Not Cavallaro neighbor Laura Scarbro.
"In Powell we have much more to make fun of than a cheese house," she said.
YOU THINK TOO MUCH: Then there's the danger of getting too philosophical about recent events:
"A month ago, I might have said I don't believe every actor is obliged to be involved socially in the world. I don't know if I would give you the same answer today. But then, is it enough to be only a baker? Is it enough to be only a carpenter? In prosperity and in peace, maybe there's one answer; maybe there's another answer now." -- introspective, socially involved actor Tim Robbins, to the Los Angeles Daily News.
Postscript: It is enough to be "only a baker" if you make great bread and chocolate chip cookies.
MORE ON THE NEW WORLD ORDER: If you're patiently waiting for that recently requested autographed picture of Enrique Iglesias or form letter from Jill Scott, you may be waiting a long time. Like forever.
Mega-agency William Morris, which often handles such requests for its clients, has new rules for handling incoming mail because of the anthrax panic, the New York Post says: Mail room workers have been told to throw away everything unopened.
WE KIND OF FIGURED THAT: The Post also has a copy of a new book on the Kennedy men, and the newspaper says it portrays John F. Kennedy mistress Judith Campbell Exner "as a glorified prostitute who constantly reinvented her tawdry tales for checkbook journalists."
Among other things, Laurence Leamer's The Kennedy Men: 1901-1963 casts doubt on an Exner claim that Kennedy once had her deliver $250,000 to gangster Sam Giancana, the Post says, and it debunks her stories of a childhood lived in luxury.
And though Exner often said she was an interior designer, the book says she was employed only once in her life in a job that could be called legitimate -- as a publicist for Jerry Lewis. The job lasted two months.