One Of Her Pix Is Worth A Thousand Of Al’s Words

Al isn’t the only author in the Gore family.

Even as the veep’s book “Common Sense Government: Works Better and Costs Less” debuted last week, Broadway Books announced plans to print a collection of photographs by wife Tipper.

“This book will be a personal, behind-the-scenes look at the life of the administration and some pictures I took on foreign trips, as well as some personal family pictures,” said the second lady, a former photographer for The Nashville Tennessean newspaper.

“I will definitely include photos I made of Al after he ruptured his Achilles’ tendon playing basketball in a pickup game. I was the only person to document his rehabilitation.”

She said she’ll also write some text “to put the pictures in context, and will tell some stories.”

Loose talk

U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, on domestic policy (in the New York Times): “When I have tense relations with my wife, we speak in Arabic. When we talk business, then we speak English. When our relationship is better, then we talk French.” Which certainly calls for a birthday toast

Melba Moore turns 50 today.

Bill’s box said, ‘Some dissembling required’

First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton is busy working on a book about parenting, despite some suggestions that it really isn’t necessary. “I didn’t get an instruction manual when my daughter was born,” she said. “Much of it was trial by error and, luckily, I had family and friends and other people who were there for me telling me what I needed to do to keep my baby safe and healthy.”

A healthy libido is one of his hallmarks

One thing you won’t be hearing about from Hillary, at least anytime soon: the contents of an apparently racy birthday card from hubby Bill Clinton on Thursday that made her blush. Spokesman Neel Lattimore said she “literally turned beet red” when she opened it, then “giggled slightly and said, ‘I guess I’ll have to save it for my memoirs.”’

To which she replied: ‘I beg your pardon?’

Donald Trump, who previously insisted he was in no danger of going bankrupt during the real estate market crash of 1991, changed his tune last week. The Donald told an audience he was once walking down Fifth Avenue with Marla Maples (now his wife), seeing a panhandler, and telling her: “That man’s worth $900 million more than I am.”

Then he went home to his own road to ruin

Cuban leader Fidel Castro, snubbed and denounced by New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani during his visit for the United Nations’ 50th anniversary celebration, fired a few parting shots. “I would not vote for the mayor,” Castro told The New York Times. “It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.”

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