Thelma And Louise? Just Janet And Donna
So what does Janet Reno see herself doing when she’s all through with being the nation’s head lawyer?
Hitting the highway to see America, the attorney general tells The New Yorker magazine.
“I’d like to get in a truck. That’s what I’d like to do - get in a truck, and put in a cooler and a stove, and a little dresser drawer and a place for a cot,” Reno says.
“Then take a canvas, and have it hooked to the back so that it rolls out - I could use it as a tarpaulin - and take off across the country.”
And while life on the road can be lonely, Reno already has a traveling companion lined up.
“I told her I’d drive,” said Donna Shalala, health and human services secretary and Reno’s closest friend in the Cabinet.
Loose talk
The Dalai Lama, on his Capitol Hill pals (in George magazine): “On a personal level, Jesse Helms seems like a very good human being, at least to me. I don’t know how he is with other politicians.”
Gee, man, you’re really getting up there
Efrem Zimbalist Jr. turns 79 today.
Well, beauty is in the island of the beholder
And speaking of Janet Reno, according to the Weekly World News, a survey in Japan showed 78 percent of men would rather be shipwrecked on a desert island with her than “any other lady on the face of the earth.” Said Japanese “glamour consultant” Kazutaka Ibosu: “To the Japanese male, Janet Reno is a vision of beauty - and by far the sexiest woman in the world.”
Won’t those cookies be pretty stale by now?
Former Senate majority leader and GOP presidential hopeful Bob Dole is planning a sentimental journey around Kansas to thank folks for sending him to Washington for 35 years. Says Dole: “We’re just going to go around the state, and if anyone shows up, we’ll sit there and drink coffee, have a homemade cookie, just like the good old days.”
Guess peacocks of a feather stick together
Geraldo Rivera, tempted to switch networks by a lucrative offer from Fox, has decided to stick with NBC and give up his syndicated talk show to do more news reporting. “My professional life has now come full circle,” said Rivera, who will headline four prime-time programs for NBC News on legal issues. “News is and has been my first love.”
This one will stay around dentists’ offices forever
Newsweek has caught some flak for touching up Bobbi McCaughey’s teeth in a cover photo of the septuplet mom. The magazine wasn’t trying to “mislead the public or do any inappropriate dental work,” said spokeswoman Karen Wheeler. “Our technicians made an effort to lighten a very dark area on the cover photo,” she explained, adding it was “perhaps reconstructed too much.”
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