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Bill Clinton, whose $12 million presidential memoir is due out this summer.

Within the past week or so, I posted a snippet from one of the NY papers quoting Hillary as saying there's no way Blubba will complete the book in time. I guess we'll see. Maybe Dick Clarke will ghostwrite it for him, as x42's probably been too busy with Belinda and all.

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.... "We've gone through tough times," said ... Jerry Bruckheimer, who's tight with the Pentagon after producing "Black Hawk Down" and "Top Gun." "But eventually we'll realize that we did the right thing by removing a brutal dictator. I know I'm in the minority, but I like Bush."

Bruckheimer certainly would have had to wear a helmet at the Beverly Hills party for Arianna Huffington's new book, "Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America." Among the left-leaning crowd were Bill Maher, Norman Lear, Albert Brooks and Larry David (who loves Huffington's manifesto "so much that I almost finished it").

Rob Reiner had to admit he disagreed with Sen. Ted Kennedy's crack that Iraq was Bush's Vietnam. "I think this is worse than Vietnam," he told us. "Because in Vietnam you could pull out. In Iraq, we're stuck in a situation we've created." Rush&Molloy