As For Auto Insurance, Liz Sure Isn’t On The Dole

Elizabeth Dole believes in face-to-face canvassing. Or is that fender-to-fender? A limousine from the motorcade shepherding the wife of Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole collided with one rented by comedian Bill Murray outside ABC’s New York studios on Monday morning. Both Dole and Murray had been appearing on “Good Morning America.”

Dole, who was not in the crash vehicle, stopped to check. Murray was still inside the television studios, so Dole handed his driver a Dole-Jack Kemp campaign card and drove off.

Later, while on “Live With Regis & Kathie Lee,” Murray displayed the dented fender to a national audience.

“I was an undecided voter until now,” he said.

Loose talk

Shirley MacLaine on whether she has any childhood pictures (as reported by the Associated Press): “Not just this life. I have pictures from 13,000 lives.”

It’ll be a great party since he spared no expense

Michael Crichton turns 54 today.

If she were in a Western, would she be the gay caballera?

When directly asked whether her television character was ever going to reveal her sexual preference, Ellen DeGeneres didn’t hesitate to answer. “How long will we have to wait?” asked an audience member during a television festival in Los Angeles. “The answer will be this season,” DeGeneres said.

And it would be a prime time to make the announcement

Whether her “Ellen” character ever comes out as a lesbian, the associated publicity hasn’t exactly ruined Ellen DeGeneres’ career. She’s all set to act as host of the Grammy Awards, which will be broadcast Feb. 26 from New York’s Madison Square Garden.

Dream? Sounds more like a lurid fantasy to us

If you picked up Monday’s USA Today, you probably saw an ad for Geraldo Rivera’s 9 p.m. program on CNBC. It featured Rivera with guests Alan Dershowitz and Christopher Darden, two of the main figures in the criminal prosecution of O.J. Simpson for murder. The tagline below their photos: “Rivera’s Dream Team.”

And God Bless Charles and… oh, scratch what’s-her-name

Britain’s Parliament no longer utters the name of Princess Diana, ex-wife of Prince Charles, in its prayers for the royal family. Charges conservative MP Jerry Hayes, “They are trying to airbrush the princess from the Establishment in a Stalinist manner.”

He’s going to open his own used-shoe outlet

And, finally, shoe fetishist Chuck Jones is back on the streets. Jones, 53, was a month into his 4-year sentence for stealing shoes and underwear from Marla Maples Trump, wife of gazillionaire Donald Trump. A judge voided Jones’ conviction because of a trial error.

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