Hope your mom likes the new Enquirer. Here's a bit of political gossip news just for you!
• Will the political documentary craze never end? A dozen years after his star turn in "The War Room," James Carville is back in "Our Brand Is Crisis," which explores how American political operatives are reshaping campaigns around the globe -- specifically, how Carville and others worked to elect Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, known as Goni, in his country's 2002 elections.
The movie, directed by Rachel Boynton, is still searching for a distributor but had its New York premiere Saturday as part of a Lincoln Center film series. The Post's Juliet Eilperin reports that its primary focus is on Jeremy Rosner, a pollster at the firm that Carville ran at the time with Stan Greenburg and Bob Shrum, but that some of the funniest moments occur when Carville and other Washington luminaries (including ad consultant Tad Devine) parachute in to lecture Goni and his advisers on how to win the hearts and minds of poor Bolivians.
Carville, for example, tells his client that when campaigning he should stress that voters shouldn't trust other Bolivian politicians because "they're not going to know whether to wind their [rear ends] or scratch their watches." (And that's why he makes the big bucks.) ReliableSources
Some scoop on Barbara Bush's new beau...
Who's that boy? A tall, dark-haired young man has been repeatedly spotted by the side of First Twin Barbara Bush, in both Washington and New York. He was part of the close family circle that joined President Bush and Laura Bush for Easter services in Texas. A White House pool report said he's been "identified only as a friend of the family." Well, perhaps that's the term for beaus these days. Various media sources say the lucky guy is Jay Blount -- like Barbara, a Yalie.
The Yale Daily News says Blount is in the Class of '05 and is a founding member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. In Blount's sophomore year, Yale's Rumpus mag named him one of the "50 Most Beautiful People" on campus. So now you know. Link
