That One Blew Up In Madeleine’S Face
While trying to persuade New Zealand’s leaders to change their anti-nuclear laws during a recent visit, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said: “I’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from here.”
Asked if she’d change her mind if Xena was anti-nuke, Abright replied: “She’s probably not - if you think about the way she acts.”
Guess again. “Xena” star Lucy Lawless told The New Zealand Herald she would be “a traitor to my conscience if I did not, when asked, declare myself to be anti-nuclear.”
As for laws prohibiting nuclear ships from entering New Zealand waters, she added: “It should be understood that New Zealand’s shunning of vessels … is not hostile atavism but an act of courage, hope for the future and love for our children’s children.”
Loose talk
French actress Catherine Deneuve, on the Lewinsky saga: “America is a strange country. Most pornographic films are made here, and yet you have the president of the United States on trial for having an affair. Incredible!”
Guess her youth is no longer out there
Gillian Anderson turns 30 today.
Sort of like James Carville and English
If Kofi Annan ever wants to quit as United Nations Secretary-General, he knows just the man to take over: Sir Peter Ustinov. “He speaks French, German, English, Italian, Russian, Spanish and even some Turkish and Greek,” Annan said at a UNICEF luncheon honoring the British character actor. “Even the languages he does not actually speak, he can imitate so well that it sounds uncannily as if he is speaking them.”
Actually, what he said was: ‘Stop, I’m frisky’
During a recent fund-raising swing through Long Island, President Clinton halted his motorcade to hop out and say hi to supermodel Christie Brinkley and her family. Said Brinkley’s husband, architect Peter Cook: “You could see him mouth to his driver, ‘Stop, it’s Christie.”’
He’s certainly good at professing his innocence
Director Steven Spielberg scoffs at rumors that he has a job ready for Clinton when the president’s term ends. While they’re friends, Spielberg told the San Francisco Chronicle, “There is absolutely no job at DreamWorks. I do not see our president as a filmmaker. I see our president as a great educator.”
Mountain? Come on, that’s just a moll, Hillary
Onetime Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos has received a $2.85 million advance for a book about his White House days, “All Too Human.” As for his former boss, Stephanopoulos told The New Yorker: “Huge consequences flowed from small personal decisions.”
But isn’t his boss the one who’s getting framed?
Finally, reports the National Journal, presidential aide Sidney Blumenthal has framed his subpoena from special prosecutor Kenneth Starr and put it on display in his office.