Al Always Seemed Like The Boy Next To Dornan
Get ready for television’s new “Odd Couple” - liberal comedian/author Al Franken (“Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot”) and conservative California Congressman Bob Dornan.
Franken is pitching a sitcom in which he would play a Washington-based TV news correspondent who has Dornan for a next-door neighbor - a “Kramer” to Franken’s “Seinfeld,” as Dornan puts it.
Explained Franken: “It is just him coming in and saying he got some of my mail. And then he goes and says why Vince Foster was killed. It is Bob Dornan being Bob Dornan.”
Dornan said he’d do the show “as long as we could both make our point equally … Al is observant enough to know this would be a very boring world if everyone was liberal - and it would be bankrupt, morally and financially.”
Loose talk
Vice President Al Gore, dishing dirt on the campaign trail (in the New York Times): “Speaker Gingrich talking about truth is a little bit like Dennis Rodman talking about hair care. It’s a little bit anomalous.”
When it comes to birthdays, he says: ‘No mas!’
Roberto Duran turns 45 today.
Will Pat sing the anthem: ‘Jose, can you see …’?
John F. Kennedy Jr. simply can’t stand the suspense surrounding the upcoming Republican convention: “There are so many unknowns. Is Bob Dole going to wear a blue suit or a gray suit? Is Jesse Helms going to speak out against blacks, women and gays, or mellow and just speak out against gays? And if Pat Buchanan goes to a Mexican restaurant, who gets to poison his guacamole first?”
What rate did he lock, and when did he lock it?
Howard Baker, the ex-senator so prominent in the Watergate probe that brought down former President Richard Nixon, has bought an apartment in - where else? - the Watergate hotel complex.
Maybe he really does have a stuffed shirt
Prime Minister John Major, known as the “gray man” of British politics, turned down an offer from Cosmopolitan magazine - which is reviving its male pinup tradition - to appear nude in the July issue.
Smoking, perhaps, but he still didn’t inhale
Bill Clinton, who last year vowed to break 80 on the golf links before he turns 50 this August, shot a 79 last week on a San Diego course. Said the prez: “I was hot. I was smoking it. I was having a good time. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.”
As usual, though, he’s destined to be Number Two
Vice President Al Gore began his commencement speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a reference to school founder William Barton Rogers, who died while addressing graduates in 1882. “As a result,” Gore said, “I have the rare comfort of knowing that whatever your reaction today, I will not be remembered as the stiffest speaker in your school’s history.”
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