And When He Moves To The Right, They Do, Too
Going to the movies can be such a drag - the pricey popcorn, the sticky floors, the idiots carrying on a conversation in the next row.
But one of the perks of being president of the United States is having your own private theater, right there in the White House. And watching flicks with more cultured companions - say, the star and director of the film.
While Hillary and Chelsea were busy checking out colleges in New England earlier this week, President Clinton settled in for a showing of “Emma” along with leading lady Gwyneth Paltrow, boyfriend Brad Pitt and director Douglas McGrath.
Afterward, McGrath said movie-watching with the chief executive is like being in “a half-second delay. He laughs, and the people behind him laugh. He doesn’t, they don’t. It’s like they are wired to his seat.”
Loose talk
Bob Dole, giving a George Bush-style review of the big-screen blockbuster “Independence Day” (in Newsweek): “I like it. We won, the end. Leadership. America. Good over evil.”
Oh, that guy who’s really religious, right?
Jerry Falwell turns 63 today.
He came out of the water naturally born again
Donna Hanover Giuliani, the wife of New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, not only will appear in two episodes of “Guiding Light,” but plays evangelist Ruth Carter Stapleton (Jimmy’s sister) in the upcoming movie “The People vs. Larry Flynt.” Says she: “It was a lovely experience. I got to baptize Woody Harrelson in a lake.”
Actually, he’d probably be as stiff as ever
Vice President Al Gore’s Cape Cod vacation has caused the closing of an unofficial nude beach that’s within eyeshot of his cottage. Replied one nature-lover: “We urge Al to go down to the dune, strip off, and enjoy the experience that ought to be available to all bathers. Bet that would loosen him up.”
But nobody bid on the ride with Uncle Teddy
An 8-mile Martha’s Vineyard bicycle tour with John F. Kennedy Jr. fetched $12,500 at a charity auction. Said guest auctioneer Carly Simon: “I don’t know if you get to ride on the same bike, in tandem, or behind John - which is what I would want to do, especially on curves.”
Does that make her part of the Papa-razzi?
Esquire magazine is publishing a picture by fledgling photographer Chelsea Clinton in its September issue, showing her jeans-clad father swinging a golf club in the secluded White House Treaty Room. “Only someone with Chelsea’s connections could have obtained such a rare photograph of the president,” Esquire said.
His literary career could really be on a roll
Newt Gingrich’s sexy science-fiction novel, “1945,” has sold so poorly that almost 100,000 copies are sitting in a Pennsylvania warehouse, the Washington Post reports. The publisher says the books may be converted to pulp and used for other purposes, like toilet paper.
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