In The End, Frank Finally Agreed To Do It Ed’s Way
Republican consultant Ed Rollins relates the following war story in George magazine:
During Ronald Reagan’s 1984 campaign, Frank Sinatra refused to get off Air Force One for a rally in Hoboken, N.J.
Sinatra, a Hoboken native, told Rollins it was “no accident I haven’t come back in 40 years. So you can take this act and shove it … He doesn’t need me, for (bleep’s) sake. He’s the (bleeping) President.”
Rollins’ reply: “‘That’s right, Mr. Sinatra, he is the (bleeping) President, and … if you don’t get your (bleep) up to the front of the plane and walk off with him and the First Lady, I’m going to walk out there and tell the 200 national reporters who are following this circus what a (bleep) you are … When I’m finished you won’t get back to New Jersey with a pass from the Pope.”
Loose talk
David Letterman, on Bob Dole’s MTV appearance: “The network got dozens and dozens of calls from people who just didn’t have a clue. People were saying, ‘Uh, when did Keith Richards get a facelift?”’
And she’s not about to take a back seat to anyone
Rosa Parks turns 83 today.
Odds are a Senate term would last longer
George publisher John F. Kennedy Jr. is denying reports that he may seek a U.S. Senate seat. Said a magazine spokeswoman: “John Kennedy is not thinking of running for the Senate. John Kennedy is thinking about running George.”
But he can talk out of both sides of it
Al Gore took Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin to lunch at the 108-year-old Katz’s deli in Lower Manhattan. Chernomyrdin ordered only a hot dog, but a server shoved a pastrami sandwich at him as well, prompting the Russian to reply: “I only have one mouth.”
And like Mom, she’ll (see headline above)
Suzanne Kennedy, former beauty editor of Seventeen magazine, on Chelsea Clinton: “She appeared to be a nerd and now, pow! She’s a lovely woman (who) has star quality.” Adds Clif de Raita, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s makeup man: “She’s going to have great cheekbones like her mom and she has a beautifully shaped mouth.”
In Washington, they call them Newties
Actress Mary Steenburgen, one of those Friends of Bill (Clinton) from way back in her Arkansas days, in TV Guide: “For me, the challenge has been to look at him and remember that I am looking at the president of the United States. Because I’m also looking at somebody who I’m able to give noogies to on top of his head.”
Between you and me … she wouldn’t fit
Kit Gingrich on son Newt’s first wife, Jackie, in a segment edited out of a PBS profile of the House speaker: “I am sorry that they divorced. I really am. Because she did without a lot of things to help Newty … But we often wonder if she would have lost some weight if it would have helped. She was quite heavy.”
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