Quinn's barber makes clean-cut recommendation
What? No dandruff?
The abundance of hair is becoming a political campaign issue . . . and Gov. Quinn's campaign folks are going to new lengths to distance him from former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
Quoth Quinn's barber, Herb Brown, in a new campaign commercial: "If you're gonna be corrupt and you have a lotta hair, then Pat's got it made because he doesn't have a lot of hair."
Grab the brush.
Watch for Veep Joe Biden to join President Obama at a formal memorial service at Fort Hood, Texas, today honoring the victims of the Fort Hood massacre last week.
Backshot: When formerPresident George W. Bush and wife Laura visited 10 wounded victims of the massacre Friday night, they were greeted by Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, the Fort Hood commander. "General Cone told them about one local restaurant owner, who showed up at Fort Hood Friday unannounced with 40 meals," David Sherzer, a Bush spokesman, told Sneed. "He just wanted to feed the folks who were working around the clock to care for the wounded."
A personal memory of the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago: My son, Patrick, and I were in Berlin weeks after the wall fell in November 1989.
It was snowing, and everything Russian seemed to be for for sale.
Gas masks, military caps, fur hats pinioned with a hammer and sickle, and chunks of "Berlin Wall" concrete were strewn on tables near the famous Brandenburg Gate. This cornucopia of Communist-era effluvia was topped with snow brushed off by men in fur ear flaps.
The stuff now resides in a box in my basement.
In 2001, I returned to Berlin --and met a German tour guide who was born in East Berlin during Communist occupation, who looked like someone out of central communist casting; a worn leather jacket, nicotine-stained fingers; badly cut hair. He told us many in East Berlin were afraid of what would happen to them once the wall came down, specifically the introduction of drugs.
Although Berlin is celebrating its historic reunion, it's now known it hasn't been an easy transition for many East Berliners.
Actor Bill Murray, in Ireland to promote his new animated flick "Fantastic Mr. Fox," showed up last week to an interview with no publicists, no assistants and no agents.
Quoth Murray to the Irish press: "I like to travel by myself. Having to travel with others makes me nervous. I like to think I'm self-sufficient, and who really needs to have all those kinds of people around anyway? They just irritate everyone."
Quoth Murray on celebrity: "In real life, no one gives a s--- about celebrity; it's like a crow on a wall -- kind of interesting to look at for a minute, then you rightly drive right by."
Sen. Dick Durbin dining at Sunda Friday night. . . . Actor Chris O'Donnell at the bar at Charlie Beinlich's Food and Tap in Northbrook Saturday afternoon. ... Actor Jeremy Piven dining at RL Saturday. ... Weatherman Willard Scott at Harry Caray's on Friday.
It was announced over the weekend Joe Jackson, father of late singer Michael Jackson, wanted a monthly stipend from his son's estate to cover living expenses.
Update: That would be $15,000 a month, compared with his wife's $26,000 monthly stipend.
Today's birthdays: Ellen Pompeo, 40; Mackenzie Phillips, 50, and Ann Reinking, 60.