Oh, It Probably Will Be A Rather Cute Little Newt
Former presidential press secretary Dee Dee Myers was quite the comedian at an $850-a-plate fund-raising breakfast for New Jersey Democrats.
Of House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who are often at each others’ throats, she said: “I think watching them shake hands is as convincing as watching Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley kiss. It’s a little frightening.”
But she saved her best barbs for Republican strategist Mary Matalin and her husband, former Clinton campaign guru James Carville. The strange political bedfellows are expecting their first child next month.
Said Myers: “I keep telling Mary that my greatest worry is that the baby will look like James and have Mary’s politics.”
Loose talk
Deadpan comic Steven Wright, on his latest visit to New York City: “I went into a place to eat. It said, ‘Breakfast Anytime,’ so I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.”
Like, was she for the dogs, or out of this world?
June Lockhart turns 70 today.
No wonder Wayne always seems so animated
Speaking of newts, legendary lounge lizard Wayne Newton, who claims to be a direct descendant of Pocahontas, is seeking to have the Powhatan Indian princess’ grave in England dug up and her bones brought back to Virginia.
Phil Gramm’s waiting for the uncut video version
While born-again movie critic Bob Dole didn’t make it, the real Newt attended the gala premiere of “Batman Forever” along with Sen. Pat Leahy, D-Vt., Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., Labor Secretary Robert Reich and Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala.
In case you’re wondering who’s Kissinger now
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who will be portrayed by Paul Sorvino in Oliver Stone’s upcoming “Nixon,” had these words of advice for the actor: “You’re fatter than I am.” As for the script, Kissinger told The Washington Post, “I’m a slimeball in it, but at least it’s not a big part.”
With any luck, that’s all she’ll end up rolling
So will Chelsea Clinton get to tool around in Dad’s ‘68 Mustang when she turns 16 next February? Try Mom’s ‘86 Oldsmobile Cutlass. “I told her one day that when she had a driver’s license, she was free to drive it,” Hillary Rodham Clinton said on a Washington, D.C., radio station. “She just rolled her eyes.”
We’ll find out how many fans she really has
And what’s next for alleged presidential paramour Gennifer Flowers after she finishes fan dancing in that “Little Rhody’s Big Burlesque” show? Perhaps a radio talk gig, she says: ‘I’d like to do something on women’s issues. I think I’ve learned a lot and have a lot to say.”
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