Carly Simon finally has revealed who inspired her hit song “You’re So Vain” — sort of…
While former beaus Mick Jagger, Kris Kristofferson, Cat Stevens and Warren Beatty were left wondering whether “this song is about you,” they have been proved wrong.
According to London’s Daily Mail, the lyric “You’re so vain, you probably think this song is about you,” wasn’t a boyfriend at all – it was record producer David Geffen.
Simon, 64, stirred up the 38-year mystery by whispering the name backwards on a reworked version of the song for her new album “Never Been Gone,” out this week.
However, all Simon whispered, apparently, was “David.” And today, she’s keeping up the mystery in an email. She has denied she based the track on the producer, saying she hadn’t even met Geffen when she wrote the song in 1971.
In an email to showbiz411.com, she writes, “What a riot! Nothing to do with David Geffen! What a funny mistake! Someone got a clue mistaken for another mistake! How can this guessing game stop without a lie?”
Previously Simon had always claimed the song was a ‘composite’ of people she knew.
The Mail had claimed she was inspired to write the damning lyrics after Geffen put all his time and energy into promoting her rival, Joni Mitchell, over her, London’s Daily Mail reports.
In 1974, Mitchell also wrote a song inspired by Geffen – “Free Man in Paris.”
Beatty is said to have been convinced he was the inspiration behind Simon’s song.
Other suspects had included Jagger, who sang backing vocals for the original song, and James Taylor, to whom Simon was married between 1972 and 1983.
So the mystery remains.
Sean Penn and his daughter saved two lives Thursday during a rescue mission in Haiti — a woman and an orphan child badly injured in the rubble of a collapsed building, TMZ says.
Penn, who runs the Jenkins-Penn Haitian Relief Organization, reportedly drove an hour and a half with his daughter Dylan to rescue a woman and child who were trapped in rubble outside Port-au-Prince, possibly from an aftershock.
A witness told TMZ Penn helped free the woman, who suffered leg injuries, and the child, who suffered head injuries. Penn drove them in his truck to the University of Miami hospital camp in Port-au-Prince.
Penn reportedly waited while the woman and child were treated for their injuries and then took them back to his place.
Weeks after his controversial Playboy interview in which he called his ex Jessica Simpson sexual “crack cocaine”), John Mayer is continuing to insist he is a different person these days.
“I hate to come off like an a–hole ever, and thank you guys for believing that I am not an a–hole,” the singer, 32, told the crowd at his sold-out Madison Square Garden show in NYC, according to MTV News. “Never, ever in my entire life did I ever think that it would be a good idea to be an a–hole. But you know what? There’s plenty of a–holes who think the same thing, so I have to thank you.”
He added, “It’s a clean me now, people, clean me.”
After his show, he thanked fans again – via Twitter – for braving a snow storm to see him live. “MSG crowd, will you tweet me when you get home safe? It’s bad out,” he wrote. “Oh and HOLY SHNIKES. You were unreal tonight.”
Actress Uma Thurman says wherever she’s filming, she gets the swankiest room.
A contract snagged by for Thurman’s now-defunct next film, “Eloise in Paris,” set to start filming this week, reveals that the 39-year-old celeb, who commands up to $4.5 million a film, has a lengthy list of do’s and don’ts when it comes to her film jobs.
Among the clauses in the document is one that makes sure Thurman has the best accommodations. It reads “No other cast member (may) receive more favorable dressing rooms.”
The contract also gave Thurman a deep discount on designer duds. One clause is the option to purchase, at 50 percent off, wardrobe items and wigs created for her for “Eloise in Paris.”
Thurman’s deal included a wide-reaching clause that limited “Eloise in Paris” producers from using her name or likeness in merchandising deals involving product categories including tobacco, weapons, religious items, personal hygiene products, intimate apparel, porn, gambling, pet food, or ugh, rectal medications.
