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...polls to see which way he should vote...and even then gets it wrong. But to keep the record straight, his scorn is reserved for Bill Clinton; Hillary Rodham, "or Hillary Clinton, the male-user-friendly name," elicits the approving declaration, "I think she's one hot shit-kicking babe!" A picture of the First Lady in a cowboy hat and shades was propped up onstage during Moore's speech...
...youth, but the actress herself says she wasn't worried about showing her years onscreen. "What are you trying to protect?" she asks. "A career? A perception? I mean, we've been around the block a hundred times. What the hell?" Keaton agrees: "I can't play the younger babe. I was just happy to have the part, and I'm not kidding...
...given us the butch heroine--at once babe, district attorney and driving-men-crazy. She can be a victim, in, say, Thelma & Louise, an outlaw fantasy in which the women's suicide is seen as a magnificent screw-you gesture. Or she can be a victor, in Waiting to Exhale, where most of the guys are so lame and preening that there's little triumph in outsmarting them. The set piece in both films was blowing up an automobile: sexual revenge as car-nage. But that was not nearly so explosive as the smoulder of Sharon Stone's sexual menace...
Mark Helprin, novelist and occasional Dole speechwriter, maintains he's no babe magnet. That, however, hasn't stopped a love-hungry soul from posing as him in personal ads, according to the New York Observer. Helprin, who's married (and something of a practical joker), can't understand why he was chosen. "If he looks like me," he says, "I understand why he's having trouble...
...fact that Frank Capra is dead and that Hollywood is remaking The Day of the Jackal in case the original was insufficiently bloody, First Wives is one of the best movies of a very long year. It's funny: "There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney and Driving Miss Daisy," declares Goldie Hawn, who with her collagen-inflated lips is trying to stay in the first phase. It's touching: Diane Keaton is convincing as a woman devastated when her husband reveals he made love to her not because he wanted to reconcile but because...