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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/63679p-59386c.htmlIn speaking of President Bush, Kerry notes, "They have managed [him] the same way they managed Ronald Reagan. ... They send him out to the press for one event a day, they put him in a brown jacket and jeans and get him to move some hay or drive a truck, and all of a sudden he's the Marlboro Man.
"I know this guy. He was two years behind me at Yale," Kerry says. "Bush didn't begin his adult life until he was 40 and admitted his problems."
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Prez hopeful Kerry making some waves
Some Democratic advisers to John Kerry are nervous about how a new article on the Massachusetts senator will play out.
In a bid to position himself to capture the women's vote in the next presidential race, the pol posed in a wetsuit and a with a surfboard in the new issue of Vogue.
Kerry assures readers that "he has made his staff promise that they'll occasionally find time for him to hit the waves."
The strapping 59-year-old is "an avid athlete who also skis, snowboards, and plays hockey," strongly Republican writer Julia Reed notes.
Not only that, but Kerry reveals the secret of his own chocolate-chip cookie recipe. (He uses Lindt chocolate.) He also confesses about his yen for the poetry of Pablo Neruda and tells of playing his acoustic guitar while traveling through the Chunnel with his wife, Teresa Heinz.
But lest Vogue readers begin to think of him as dreamy songwriter John Mayer and not a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee being interviewed, the Vietnam War hero also talks tough: "If somebody killed somebody in my family, I'd want to strangle the son of a bitch with my own hands."
In speaking of President Bush, Kerry notes, "They have managed [him] the same way they managed Ronald Reagan. ... They send him out to the press for one event a day, they put him in a brown jacket and jeans and get him to move some hay or drive a truck, and all of a sudden he's the Marlboro Man.
"I know this guy. He was two years behind me at Yale," Kerry says. "Bush didn't begin his adult life until he was 40 and admitted his problems."
Great White grief
Great White guitarist Ty Longley's pregnant girlfriend is sharing her grief with his fans.
Longley was one of 97 who perished in The Station nightclub fire in Rhode Island on Feb. 20.
In an open letter published last week on hard-rock fan Web site metalsludge.com, Heidi Peralta wrote, "Always know how much you all meant to Ty and how happy he was with his life and sharing his gift."
Peralta, 29, revealed she is three months pregnant with the couple's first child.
"What hurts so very much is he will never hold our baby in his arms," she wrote. "We talked about getting married, buying a townhouse in L.A., and having grandchildren. How could the love of my life be taken away from me in such a stupid mistake?"
Mac whacked over Jax
Macaulay Culkin left himself wide open to Michael Jackson queries when he mounted the stage at an Autism Coalition benefit Thursday night at Roseland.
"Sopranos" star Michael Imperioli and "Saturday Night Live" veteran Dana Carvey were merciless about Wacko Jacko's recent admission that he shared his bed with Culkin when he was a boy.
Carvey, as his Church Lady character, asked: "You and Michael are very chummy?"
"Yeah," responded Culkin. "We're friends."
"Did he ever dangle anything in front of you?" Carvey asked.
Then, "When he moonwalked, did he moon you?" Carvey went on.
"Absolutely not!" said Culkin, now 22.
"What about your friends he had on sleepovers?" Carvey pressed.
"I don't know what you're talking about!" exclaimed Culkin.
But it was Imperioli who brought the house down when, in his best mobster voice, he yelled out some slangy suggestions of what might have transpired between Jackson and the "Home Alone" star, using language more suitable for late-night cable TV than a family newspaper.
Imperioli's comments left an "SNL"-heavy crowd, including Adam Sandler, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Kattan, Tina Fey, Conan O'Brien, Lou Reed, John McEnroe and Jack Black, doubled up with laughter.
Later, Culkin (who stars in the upcoming "Party Monster") told us, "I had no idea what I was getting into."
He didn't want to say another word about Jackson, but was later overheard saying he'd been in contact with him recently.
Model 'Millionaires'
They may have bared their souls on "Joe Millionaire," but Evan Marriott and Zora Andrich are refusing to strip.
Andrich has turned down an offer from Playboy and Marriott has snubbed Playgirl. But both are available for conventions, rodeos and bar mitzvahs.
The "couple," who split up almost immediately after collecting $500,000 each from Fox, has signed with an agent. Marriott is asking $15,000 for a few hours posing for pictures and signing autographs. You can rent Andrich for $10,000.
Their booker, Mike Esterman, explains to The Smoking Gun Web site that Marriott makes more because nightclub owners know that if they can draw women in to gawk at the former underwear model, men will follow. But luscious Andrich will be on her own tomorrow night at the Copacabana, where she'll be touting Isle of Capri Casinos.
O.J. on E!? Not yet
He does have a certain expertise when it comes to celebrity murder trials, but could you see O.J. Simpson doing commentary on the Robert Blake case?
A rep for E! Entertainment denies the rumor that the network is in secret talks with the disgraced gridiron star.
Dominick Dunne, who covered Simpson's murder trial for Vanity Fair, finds Blake's court appearances "surreal" enough without O.J.
"I have a feeling that some weird drama is going to happen within the courtroom," Dunne told us the other night. "This is Blake's great moment now. This is all he's got left."
Dunne's life has its own drama, which is the subject of "Guilty Pleasures," a documentary airing in May on Court TV.
One screening was postponed a few weeks ago, supposedly because Dunne didn't want to talk about the $11 million slander suit that former Congressman Gary Condit had filed against him. But at a screening last Thursday, Dunne admitted, "I did go underground for a while. I've been up in the country working on my book."
And the Condit case?
"I can't talk about it," he said. "Sorry."
The FBI Follies
J. Edgar Hoover must be rolling in his grave - or at least squirming in his teddy.
The actors behind "The Simpsons" have teamed up with Kelsey Grammer, John Goodman and Christopher Guest to perform "J. Edgar! The Musical." The stage show spoofs the former FBI chief's real-life secret gay affair with agent Clyde Tolson.
Among the "Simpsons" talent onstage are Nancy Cartwright (Bart), Harry Shearer (Mr. Burns, Smithers, et al.) and Tress MacNeille (Agnes Skinner).
The show ran in Los Angeles and at last week's U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colo. A rep says the musical is looking for a home Off-Broadway. The Aspen audience included Kim Cattrall (without husband Mark Levinson), former Bill Clinton mouthpiece Joe Lockhart and comedian Janeane Garofalo.
The festival concluded Friday with Mike Myers accepting an AFI Star Award from "Inside the Actors Studio" host James Lipton. Billy Crystal, Kristin Davis and Steve Martin were expected to toast Myers at the AOL after-party.
Side dishes
BACKSTREET BOY Kevin Richardson says he's hoping to make another album with his bandmates later this year. But the star of Broadway's
"Chicago" thinks that B-Boy Nick Carter bungled his solo debut, "Now or Never," which failed to catch fire when it was released in October. "I thought he did a good job," Richardson tells us. "[But] I wish he would have waited another year or two. He's still my little baby brother, you know? He needed to find himself before he ventured out"...
MARTIN SCORSESE got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday. But U2's Bono wants more for him. "If Marty doesn't win the Oscar, it will be a crime," the Irish rocker says of the "Gangs of New York" director. "And I know where the Academy lives!"
With Suzanne Rozdeba and Ben Widdicombe
Originally published on March 2, 2003
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