Demi Moore (better known in Hollywood, for reasons which will become obvious, as Gimme More, right) was scheduled to fly from her Idaho home to attend the New York premiere of A Few Good Men. Sony's corporate jet was sent to pick her up. Having kept the flight crew waiting for several hours, she was finally settled on board; but just before take-off, she decided she needed something out of a bag which had been stored in the cargo hold. Upon inspecting the luggage, Moore was furious to discover that her bags had been placed on top of one another and demanded that they be repacked side by side to prevent her clothes from wrinkling during the flight.
It was pointed out to her that the cargo hold was too small to store her large collection of luggage any other way and that if she wanted her luggage packed flat, she'd have to get a bigger plane. She got a bigger plane.
Sylvester Stallone arrived in New York to do press interviews to publicise Demolition Man. When he saw the suite in which the interviews were to be conducted, he balked - at the colour of the walls. He simply could not, he declared, be photographed against a pale yellow background. The interviews had to be delayed long enough for the walls to be painted peach.
You're no longer a jet setter unless you have your own jet: but which jet should a jet setter have? The Gulfstream was the jet of choice throughout the 1980s, though naturally a Gulfstream III was rated far higher than the outmoded Gulfstream II. When the $26 million Gulfstream V model was introduced last year, the company began taking names - and non-refundable $2 million deposits - for its waiting list. David Geffen, Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Roy Disney - who would now be able to fly from Los Angeles to his country home in Ireland non-stop and on one tank of gas - signed up at once. Makes Nicolas Cage's $285,000 Ferrari look modest, doesn't it?
Charlie Sheen (left) was brought to testify during the trial of Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss - with whom Don Simpson had a lengthy liaison - on tax evasion charges. When asked if it was true that he had spent more than $50,000 on Heidi's services, Sheen grinned and said, "It does add up, doesn't it?"