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Oct. 7, 1999 | In the upcoming issue of Us magazine, Mark Wahlberg expresses his deep regard for the Oval Office's current occupant. "Clinton got his d--- sucked by an intern," he says admiringly. "Bill is thugged out, you know. Bill's O.G. -- original gangster." Allowing that "the big part" of Clinton's dalliance "is wrong," Wahlberg says he nevertheless looks up to the president's slickness. "You've got to give him his props," he says. "He got away with everything but murder, you know. And it gives me hope. Maybe I have a future in politics." Qualifications? Well, he's communicative ("I've been bulls---ting my way through life"), hard-working ("When I was selling drugs, I always kept a job"), and pious ("If I'm with my girlfriend and we made love and I have to pray, I feel guilty. The first thing I do is say, 'I'm sorry. I know we're not married and we shouldn't be having sex.'") Sounds like a shoo-in. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gagging on the gag rule Here's one for the shoot-the-messenger file. An anti-rape commercial featuring Charlize Theron has been banned in South Africa for being offensive to men. In the ad, Theron responds to a question about what South African men are like with a series of statistics -- a woman is raped in South Africa every 26 seconds; South African women are nearly three times more likely to be raped than American women. Is Theron, a rape victim herself, the devil's advocate? Nope. Don't think so. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - You been talking to Pamela Anderson, Winona? "I did a scene where I'm in bed with [a guy] and I'm naked, and I was the most comfortable ... I did a couple of scenes in a bathtub, naked." -- Winona Ryder on the pleasures of baring all in the upcoming flick "Girl, Interrupted." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Revenge of the day traders? While you swill the Dom Perignon to celebrate the Fed's decision not to raise interest rates this week, spare a thought, won't you, for poor Alan Greenspan. Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! One economist reports that the chairman waltzed into a recent Fed retreat on the collective arm of no less than six Secret Service agents. (In the past, one civilian had been enough.) What gives? It seems that after that day trader shot up a storm in Atlanta, the government's been a tad worried about Greenspan's safety. My market-watching source wonders if fear of vengeful gun-toting investors might have had a hand in Greenspan's decision not to scootch up interest rates just yet. A chink in the chairman's armor? Naaaah. Couldn't be ... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Taking a gap-toothed bite out of Mr. Potato Head "I want to tell you. You've got to be nuts to come here." -- David Letterman to favorite target Dan Quayle at the outset of the former candidate's "Late Show" appearance on Tuesday night. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits The kind of newspaper headline that makes a dirt-dishing columnist's heart leap for joy? "Gingrich divorce takes nasty turn." Unfortunately (though not at all surprisingly) it's Newt, not his hapless estranged wife, Marianne, who's getting mean. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the former House speaker has "unleashed his divorce lawyers," asking them to prove Marianne's culpability for their marriage's demise, to probe into her finances and to insist that she sit for a videotaped deposition, just as she requested of his mistress, Callista Bisek. Callista, honey, get out ... now! Talk about an appetite for destruction. A former member of the band Wall of Voodoo is staging a musical based on the life of Axl Rose. Written and directed by Andy Prieboy, the show, "White Trash Wins Lotto," will focus on the Guns N' Roses front man's journey from po' boy to superstar to recluse; it opens later this month in Los Angeles. Welcome to the jungle ... Who wears short-shorts? Daisy Duke and her buff bros are hopping into General Lee and heading back to the small screen. According to the Hollywood Reporter, a new "Dukes of Hazzard" reunion movie -- featuring original cast members John Schneider, Tom Wopat and Catherine Bach -- will air later this season on CBS. Don't tell Boss Hogg. Scary thought for the day: 200 hours of video footage of Jim Carrey channeling Andy Kaufman. The late comedian's girlfriend shot it during the making of the upcoming Carrey- Look who's playing professor of material-girl sciences. Madonna has signed on to lecture undergrads at Cambridge University on the subject of "Image and Reality." Image: Perpetual glam girl. Reality: Washed-up pop star.
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