To print this page, select "Print" from the File menu of your browser salon.com > People Nov. 2, 1999 URL: http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/1999/11/02/np1102 Hip, hip and away I go! There's no need to fear, Al is here! When the going gets tough, the Gores get literal. Plus: Out of the ring into the ring? More on the great WWF migration. And, Scully and Mulder smooch. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Amy Reiter I wasn't invited. But my well-connected friend Daniel Kurtzman filled me in on some of the clever costumes at Al Gore's annual Halloween party on Sunday. The veep, of course, dressed as Underdog, with Tipper as sweet Polly Purebred ever at his side. "The floppy-eared get-up, true to Gore's self-parodying form, got a large chuckle out of the journalists and various Friends of Al gathered under a tent outside the vice president's residence," says Dan. "He came strutting out as the band played the Underdog theme song, arms raised, ears flopping." Dan tells me, somewhat sadly, that "there were no Internet inventors or wayward canoeists on hand." But among the countless Teletubby-clad kiddies, he did spot the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz decked out as a New York Yankee; political powerbroker Ann Lewis dressed as a suffragette; and someone he's pretty sure was Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman "attached to some man I didn't recognize and wearing a sign that said 'joined at the Beltway.'" (D.C. humor, dontcha know.) Other favorites included a guy wearing running shorts and a T-shirt that read 'Running mate -- Gore 2000,' a woman in a slinky dress with a sash that read 'Miss Quoted,' and more than a few millennium bugs. Dan and his gal dressed up as NBC announcer Jim Gray and his recent interviewee Pete Rose, eliciting a few good chuckles. Dan's "World Series Press Pass" said, "Please afford this reporter the privilege of inelegantly badgering players on live television." She wore a Reds uniform, carried fluffy dice and sported a poker chip on her shoulder. More visible, sure, but definitely smaller than the one on her host's. - - - - - - - - - - - - And you only have to wear silly costumes once a year! "Compared to the ring, politics is like a piece of cake." -- Former World Wrestling Federation champ Tito Santana, who's making a run for New Jersey township council seat, putting the rigors of politics into perspective. - - - - - - - - - - - - X-Files X Finally, the moment randy (or romantic) "X-Files" fans have been waiting for. On the cusp of the millennium, Agents Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) will finally lock lips. TV Guide reports that the big smooch -- the characters' first without the aid of time travel or a dream -- will happen during the Nov. 28 episode, as the duo celebrates New Year's Eve. There's no word on whether tongues are involved. But who knows -- maybe the truth is in there. - - - - - - - - - - - - Not afraid to get their hands dirty ... "We're running [for president] in 2001. We figure there'll be less competition that way." -- Click and Clack (Tom and Ray Magliozzi), the "Car Talk" guys, on a recent show. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Most famous people like to talk about how stinky it is to be famous. But "Late Show" host Conan O'Brien rather likes it. "I get spotted when I walk around a lot -- but it's nice. It's an ego boost," he recently told Time Out New York. "But sometimes it leaves me with this feeling of, 'Where was all this in 1984 or 1985,' you know? I was a lonely 22-year-old guy, and it would have been sooo nice." Way to let those attention-starved roots show! Say what you like about the matted mess that sits atop Donald Trump's head. He couldn't care less. "Everyone tells me about my hair ... I do get a lot of complaints," he confessed on "Fox News Sunday." "But I sort of like my hair. It works." And if elected, it'll work for you. Here's a jagged little pill from Alanis Morissette: Feminism's for has-beens. Today's about humanism, baby. "I got older and understood more and I believe I went through a very large phase of feeling like I was a feminist, and now I feel I'm entering into a humanist phase," the rocker told reporters Friday. "I feel I support the human condition." Just so long as she doesn't say we oughta know what on earth that means. salon.com | Nov. 2, 1999