And Don’t Forget Dogbert’s Consulting Fee

Vice President Al Gore has enlisted the help of cartoon corporate subversive Dilbert to sell his “reinventing government” crusade.

“Dilbert” strip creator Scott Adams says the Veep’s staffers asked if they could use the nebbish Dilbert to illustrate Gore’s 1997 report on the status of the reform effort, due out in several weeks.

Adams says he isn’t interested in specifics of the report, but as long as his contributions get people to read it, “then I’d say I’ve done my patriotic duty for this year and should get a rebate on my taxes.”

Adams’ syndicate gave permission for 15 strips to be used free. Ironically, Adams cites the government and aerospace industries as where the most “Dilbert-like” workers can be found.

Loose talk

Scottish actor Ewan McGregor’s (“Trainspotting”) reaction to Salt Lake City, where he filmed “A Life Less Ordinary”: “There’s a paranoia and narrow-mindedness here that I find terrifying. They won’t even sell you cigarettes without an ID.”

Heeeeeeeere’s the birthday boy

Johnny Carson turns 72 today.

For a moment we thought g. stood for gullible

Rapper Warren G., whose hits include “I Shot the Sheriff” and “Regulate,” wants to regulate who uses the letter “g.”

He’s filed a federal trademark infringement lawsuit against country music star Garth Brooks over the use of a stylized, lower-case “g.” Seems Warren G., whose real name is Warren Griffin III, has used a similar “g” for years on his merchandise and album covers.

Fans of the rapper might mistakenly purchase merchandise bearing the Brooks “g” and vice versa, according to Griffin’s attorney.

Apparently she also skipped ‘The Art of the Deal’

Marla Maples says she didn’t read her prenuptial agreement with Donald Trump before signing it just two days before they married in 1993.

“I refused to read it because I felt it was sealing our fate,” Maples told the New York Daily News this week. Had she bothered, “I’m sure I would not have signed it. I probably would not have gotten married, either. I can’t believe that anyone would put that kind of financial limitation on what love is,” she says.

Maples claims the amount Trump is offering in child support for Tiffany, the couple’s 4-year-old daughter, is nowhere near the annual $100,000 a year he provides for each of his three kids with his first wife, Ivana.

Of course, that would be shaken, not stirred

Pierce Brosnan says he shares only one trait with James Bond: he appreciates a good martini.

As for the other stuff, “I put the suit on, put the gun on, do it, hang them up and go home,” Brosnan says in the November issue of Biography magazine. His second Bond movie, “Tomorrow Never Dies,” opens in December.

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