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Slow doesn't even begin to describe the beginning of the game, which ground to a halt faster than Robert Downey Jr.'s career. The two teams shouldn't have even bothered with the first five minutes of the game; the score was tied 3-3 with 14:51 minutes to play in the first half...
...Presidential Bash 2000. Both played to their stereotypes not only on camera but off camera as well. After just one insipid sentence--"Hi, I'm Al Gore, Democratic candidate for President"--Gore began micromanaging. "I thought that line was out," he said. Meanwhile, Bush asked SNL writer Jim Downey to include even more malapropisms. After stumbling over the nonword "ambilavent," Bush turned to the crowd and said, "I don't know why I'm having trouble. That's usually how I say it anyway." And Downey had to talk Bush out of adding a previously deleted joke--turning "solemn bond...
...Scary Robert Downey Jr. stories c) A Chinese finger trap d) Gum, a hair clip and an old MacGyver video...
...placed it back in his debate book, which sat on a shelf in his office. Inconspicuous, the hundred or so pages were not marked in a way that hinted at the contents. Maverick kept the debate-prep video, a copy of which was included in the package to Downey, in the "tape room." "Sometimes that room's locked, sometimes it's not," says a Bush source...
...feds think McKinnon's is the smoking binder when at least half a dozen senior Bush campaign officials had debate briefing books? A short document that only McKinnon may have had access to was also found in the material sent to Downey. According to sources familiar with the FBI's investigation, New Hampshire Senator JUDD GREGG, who played Gore in the Bush campaign's mock debates, had typed out about 20 suggestions for the Governor to consider in his debate preparations. During a practice session, he handed the list to McKinnon, who gave the Gregg document with its handwritten notations...