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Five minutes before the debate ended, the spinners descended. Ed Rendell, Condi Rice, Karen Hughes, Andrew Cuomo worked the room full of reporters, cruising for interviews, soliciting interest, begging, essentially, for a chance to sell their guy. It was kind of pathetic...
Human-rights crusaders like Tibet's Dalai Lama and South Africa's Desmond Tutu are so celebrated in the U.S. that it can be easy to forget how dangerous and lonely their work can be. Kennedy Cuomo's interviews with 50 activists, including seven Nobel laureates, tell the stories of these courageous souls in their own sometimes straightforward words. East Timor's Jose Ramos-Horta remembers when the U.S. was a foe: "My own sister Maria was killed by a plane delivered to Indonesia two weeks before by the Carter Administration." Black-and-white portraits by the Pulitzer-prizewinning photographer...
...Silver, Peter Boyle, Paul Sorvino, Bianca Jagger, Joe Piscopo, Camryn Manheim, Mila Jovovich, Ray Liotta and half the cast of "The West Wing," who rushed over from the Warner Bros. set after taping their show. Real politicos on hand included Donna Shalala (how she loved the celebs!), Chris Cuomo, Bob Kerrey, Tom Harkin, Barbara Boxer, Lynda Bird Johnson and Chuck Robb, the Kennedys and a Lawford or two, as well as model Christie Brinkley, fresh from casting her vote to nominate Al Gore as part of the New York delegation. There were newsies/talk show hosts too, like Bill Maher...
...Andrew Cuomo, Mario's telegenic offspring and the HUD secretary in the Clinton administration, opened the evening by surveying Bender's multi-megabucks white manse and saying straight-faced that "this was actually a HUD home. This is the new affordable housing proposed by Clinton and Gore. We think, after this, that more neighborhoods will be open to public housing!" Actor William Baldwin, president of the Creative Coalition, was clearly gloating at the mass of celebrity-hood in attendance. "Smoke and mirrors, Tinseltown and Hollywood. We fooled 'em again," he said surveying the crowd. "Here were are using the resources...
...after two years in New York Governor Mario Cuomo's office, Russert's plans changed as he made the leap from politics to media...