VENUS and SERENA WILLIAMS are having a new home built
"just down the street from their parents' place" in Palm
Beach Gardens, FL. Their attorney, KEVEN DAVIS, said the
two sisters were "not rebelling" against their parents:
"Venus will be 20 and Serena, 19 [by the construction date].
It's just time to move out" (TENNIS WEEK, 2/11)....Mavericks
C JOHN "HOT ROD" WILLIAMS is "collaborating" with PERCY
"MASTER P" MILLER on a land project (FT. WORTH STAR-
TELEGRAM, 2/16)....Faithful Red Sox fan STEPHEN KING will
release "A LOST GIRL AND TOM GORDON" on April 6, a novel
about a little girl that gets lost in the woods while
listening to a Red Sox game in which Red Sox P TOM GORDON is
pitching (K.C. STAR, 2/14)....The '68 Heisman Trophy of O.J.
SIMPSON "fetched only" $230,000, "well under" the expected
$400,000, at an auction at the BUTTERFIELD & BUTTERFIELD
gallery in L.A. An "estimated 10,000 viewers followed" the
auction on the Internet (USA TODAY, 2/17)....BARBARA BUSH
was a keynote speaker at the Golf Course Superintendents
Association of America annual convention. Bush, on her
experience playing golf with her husband: "After one
miserable round, I told George I wanted to throw myself in
the ocean. He said, 'Wouldn't be pruuudent. Not to
woooorry. You couldn't keep your head down long enough'"
(ORLANDO SENTINEL, 2/17)....TARA LIPINSKI appeared on the
"Late Show" last night. DAVID LETTERMAN, on "Discover Stars
on Ice," in which Lipinski participates: "People don't wager
on that do they?" ("Late Show," CBS, 2/16). MICHELLE KWAN
was a guest on the "Tonight Show" (NBC, 2/16).
