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Jack the vote
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Oct. 28, 1999 |
At a cocktail party to raise cash for DC Vote (a nonpartisan group that aims to bring voting representation in Congress to D.C. residents) Tuesday night, the former GOP veep candidate and Bush cabinet member arrived only about 15 minutes before his scheduled speech, but somehow managed to meet just about everyone there. "Amy Reiter, Jack Kemp," he said, hand extended and shake ready. So warm and familiar was his tone ("Great to see you after all these years," he seemed to be saying, although we'd never met before) that it took me several long beats to realize he'd expertly read the name tag I thought I'd carefully obscured. To my exotically named companion, he cooed, "Dominique, Dominique. I think I'll ask Joanne [his wife] to change her name to Dominique." Politics, shmolitics. Dominique and I were impressed by his interfacing! Not to mention his spiel ... The coalition's organizers had asked him if he believed in free speech. They nabbed him on the affirmative. "Good. Will you give one?" Kemp also got in a few zingers at Pat Buchanan's expense, which softened up what he clearly regarded as a liberal-leanin' crowd. Proclaiming himself a Lincoln Republican, rather than the sort inclined to yodel "Go, Pat, Go!" he rejoiced that the conservative pol had left the party for more Reform pastures. "Hallelujah!" he said, arms raised in glee. "Free at last!" Free to quip that Buchanan wouldn't approve of him exporting his youngest son to Canada to play football and then, after a pause, "Actually, Canada might not bother him. It's Mexico that reeeeeaally ticks him off." Touchdown! Here's to free barb trade. - - - - - - - - - - - - Couric: Worse than the killer rabbit? "You're kind of the Susan Lucci of the Nobel Peace Prize." -- Katie Couric to Jimmy Carter on being nominated and passed over for the Nobel "countless times," on "Today." - - - - - - - - - - - - Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! Stop the madness! The breast question: an important part of any (female) celebrity interview? In the November Allure, Patricia Arquette bemoans Hollywood's obsession with actresses' bodies -- "You can get fired for not being willing to take off your clothes," she gripes. "In what other business in the world can people say [that] to you." But she apparently has no problem answering the question "How do you feel about your boobs?" At length. "I'm really attached to them," Arquette chirps, adding, "They've changed a lot over time. They droop more than they did. Me and my friends who breast-fed make fun of our breasts. We say now they're more like ... [laughs] figs. Or like a scarf!" She mimes wrapping them around her neck. But wait, that's not all. "When I was younger, they really stuck straight out," the actress continues. "They were bigger, and men would look immediately at them. It upset me a lot. It made me feel like a nonperson -- like I didn't have a face. But that doesn't happen so much anymore." Next question ... - - - - - - - - - - - - Spoken like a true gentleman "Please act like ladies." -- Sen. Jesse Helms to several congresswomen, before having them removed from a Senate hearing by Capitol police as they tried to present him a letter in favor of an international treaty against sexual discrimination. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits A wolf in sheep's clothing on Fox? Variety reports that Newt Gingrich has committed to being a regular contributor to Fox News Channel's election 2000 coverage. "When Weasels Attack"? Walt Disney Studios has put out a casting call for a "pudgy and geeky" kid, age 9 to 12, who looks like Bruce Willis to appear in an upcoming, as-yet-untitled Willis film. The studio specifies that the nerdy Willis lookalike -- to be plucked at an open casting call held Saturday in Burbank -- must come across as "hopelessly uncoordinated" and cry "often and easily." No word on whether he should also be balding and perpetually smirking. Attention, Pat Buchanan. A certain former first lady is veeeery disappointed in you. "I'm sorry he left," Barbara Bush said recently in the Huntsville Times. "He's like a whiny child who picks up his marbles and leaves." And you thought he'd simply lost his marbles.
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