NAMES IN THE NEWS : Mr. Right and Mr. Right for Now

The February issue of Mademoiselle magazine offers women a few tips on how to tell the difference between Mr. Right and Mr. Right for Now. The keys are manners, communication skills, helping with housework, attitude toward kids and personal appearance, and the magazine offers Michael J. Fox, David Byrne, Tom Cruise (who, nonetheless, is splitting with wife Mimi Rogers), Prince Andrew, Jeff Bridges, John F. Kennedy Jr., Tom Hanks and Jeff Goldblum as examples of “men who’ll wear well.”

On the other hand, the “men who’ll wear out” include Sean Penn, Eddie Murphy, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Jay McInerney, Bruce Willis, Ken Olin and Johnny Depp.

The magazine also has a “good men who went bad” category for Elvis Presley, Marlon Brando, Bryant Gumbel, Jim Bakker, Jackie Mason, Dan Rather, Bill Cosby and David Letterman and a “good men who stayed good” class for Paul Newman, Woody Allen, Robert Redford, Gregory Peck, Walter Cronkite, George Burns, Sean Connery, Mikhail Baryshnikov.