Now She Knows What It’s Like To Be Framed

Sun., Jan. 25, 1998

Compiled By Staff Writer Rick Bo

You might think Attorney General Janet Reno would be upset to have her head morphed onto the body of a busty pin-up for a picture in the Weekly World News.

But actually, Reno rather enjoyed it - so much so that she had an aide send the tabloid $36 for a framed copy of the phony photo.

“On behalf of the attorney general, thank you for your humorous gift,” wrote Sidney Espinosa, Reno’s personal assistant.

“She has a great sense of humor and she did find it funny,” Reno spokeswoman Christine DiBartolo told The Palm Beach Post.

DiBartolo said she hadn’t a clue what Reno planned to do with the thing.

“I don’t know where it’s hanging. Or if it’s hanging at all,” she said. “But it is in her office.”

Loose talk

Former president George Bush, on his old “Saturday Night Live” imitator, Dana Carvey: “They may not miss me in Washington, but I know that little guy misses me.”

We’re still developing a policy about her

China Kantner turns 27 today.

She’ll have all the news that’s fit to primp

So how is Ivana Trump spending that $25 million divorce settlement from The Donald? The Czech-born beauty just bought a big piece of the majority share in the second-biggest daily newspaper in Croatia, called Slobodna Dalmacija, for which she will write a weekly column. “Now I can fulfill my wishes by having a daily newspaper,” she said.

He usually gives people a different finger

The lobby of a new building on Rupert Murdoch’s Twentieth Century Fox lot in L.A. features a 36-foot-high mural of the media mogul’s fingerprint - specifically the index finger of his right hand. “You might say he’s pointing the way,” artist Tony Berlant told The New Yorker.

What would he have done with Marie Antoinette?

In her new official portrait, Queen Elizabeth II’s head is floating just above her shoulders, with her hands blurred and the throne a minimalist black slab. “With the queen, you are taking a risk and some critics will not let you win,” said artist Justin Mortimer. “I only hope she likes it.”

But he’ll take a jolly good ribbing about it

Prince Charles, meanwhile, suffered a cracked rib when he fell off a horse while fox hunting on the north Wales border, but a spokeswoman said it won’t stop him from trekking through the Himalayan foothills next month during his trip to Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka.

Her husband is still green over Saddam I Am

Former first lady Barbara Bush has been named an honorary chairwoman of a $4 million fund drive to create a national memorial to Theodor Geisel - better known as Dr. Seuss. The memorial, scheduled to be completed in 1999, will feature bronze statues of the Cat in the Hat, the Grinch and a slew of other Seuss characters.

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