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...Really" opens with a shot of a TV in a kitchen. (Mais oui! Where else would a woman be watching television?) We see Al Gore at the notorious Buddhist temple fund-raiser, dissembling at a podium, claiming to have created the Internet. The female narrator sneers, "There's Al Gore reinventing himself on television again. Like I'm not going to notice. Who's he gonna be today? The Al Gore who raises campaign money at a Buddhist temple? Or the one who now promises campaign finance reform? Really...
...later, it happens to just about every candidate, especially after long hours out on the campaign trail. And Monday night, during a campaign stop in Des Moines, it happened to George W. Bush. Just about every other sentence he uttered in a 15-minute speech at a fund-raiser seemed to have a blooper in it. His first slip of the lip came when he told his audience, "When we carry Iowa in November, it'll mean the end of four years of Clinton-Gore." (He meant eight years, of course.) Next, outlining his trade policy, he promised, "I will...
...party of the week went once again to the Creative Coalition, which packed 'em in at the Beverly Hills mansion of onetime penniless actor and now producer (think "Pulp Fiction" and "Good Will Hunting") Lawrence Bender at a fund-raiser for Christopher Reeve's Paralysis Foundation. VIP guests paid a hefty $10,000 to take home party favors packed with Kenneth Cole watches and wallets and to rock with Melissa Etheridge. Her three-song set had actor Harry Hamlin and lip-luscious wife Lisa Rinna dancing in the grass while wine and rum flowed and trays of shrimp and goat...
...part of the New York delegation. There were newsies/talk show hosts too, like Bill Maher of "Politically Incorrect," Jon Stewart of Comedy Central and former Washington Post and TIME mag man Carl Bernstein (now running Evote)as well as editor Frank Lalli of George magazine, which cohosted the fund-raiser along with the Creative Coalition and some no-name types like George Clooney, Melanie Griffith, Goldie Hawn, Samuel L. Jackson, Quentin Tarantino, John Travolta and Harvey Weinstein. Whew...
...Life to pry his fingernails from the podium. But my hopes for truly fine TV were dashed once Loretta Sanchez took herself out of the speaker lineup, thus eliminating any chance that she'd tear into Al Gore's bad-Spanish-speaking ass for hypocritically scotching her Hispanic fund-raiser at the Playboy mansion. (Let's not forget that Hugh Hefner helped give Jimmy Carter the presidency by publishing his "lust in my heart" interview in 1976, which of course went unmentioned in Carter's Irving Thalberg Award film that night...