Word: congressman
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...memoir Don't Tell Dad, neatly rescuing it from another-bygone-celebrity-spills-his-guts status. And HELEN HUNT'S agent. Two Emmys and an Oscar really help in renegotiating your client's sitcom contract. Then there's CHER. Just when folks were thinking of her as the late Congressman's ex, Bob Mackie and that hat reminded us why she's famous. Mothers were also big winners this year. MATT DAMON and BEN AFFLECK brought theirs, as did Vanessa Redgrave, Robin Williams and Naomi Judd. And finally, Stanley Donen. His sweet, self-effacing song made a pointed contrast...
...protection--rather the reverse. But as young John Lewis, son of poor Alabama farmers, said, "If not us, then who? If not now, then when?" Lewis, who led the marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on March 7, 1965, and went on to become a U.S. Congressman years later, emerges as a kind of saint, the best of the best...
RETIRING. JOSEPH P. KENNEDY II, 45, six-term Massachusetts Congressman and eldest son of Robert F. Kennedy; from politics. He plans to run the nonprofit Citizens Energy Corp. that his brother Michael oversaw until his death...
Gates visited one Senate office after another Monday trying to lather on a little of his personal charm. But even his escort, Vin Weber, a former Congressman who's now a full-time Washington fixer, couldn't smooth Gates' prickly edges. "It was like fingernails on a blackboard," said a participant in one of the meetings. "You'd think with all that money he's paying to his advisers they'd tell him how to behave in front of a U.S. Senator...
...Last year cousin John Kennedy Jr. described Rep. Kennedy and his late brother -- who was investigated for allegedly having an affair with an underage baby-sitter -- as "poster boys for bad behavior." The congressman's departure from politics now leaves the field a little more open for the Kennedy on a white horse...