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Good morning. Prayers for our candidates as they enter the home stretch, especially those as brilliant as HLL! Re your request on the other thread, IG, prayers for you, too!

I'm off to see Dubya today (a 3+ hour drive each way; thank goodness no rain or snow is forecast), so I won't be around to visit. Hope everyone has a good day, free from aches, pains and aggravation.

Becareful on the long trip. Say hey to W for us! :-)

No, wait - there's time for a few items from Page Six:

GEORGE W. Bush consoled former NBC news producer Alexandra Pelosi after a PAGE SIX item made her a pariah on Bush's presidential campaign plane.

The presidential pick-me-up is captured on tape in Pelosi's fascinating HBO documentary, "Journeys with George," which chronicles a year on the campaign trail with then-candidate Bush.

In October 2000, we reported former Inside.com scribe David Carr's scoop that Pelosi had conducted an informal poll of journalists on the Bush plane about who would win the election. Fueled by a blender-ful of margaritas (the journos were celebrating Pelosi's 30th birthday), 26 of the 31 newsies on board were sure Al Gore would win.

The day the item ran, Pelosi was shunned by her embarrassed peers. In a pivotal scene from "Journeys with George," Bush puts his arm around Pelosi and whispers, "When they see me talking to you, they are going to act like your friends again. But these people aren't your friends."

Pelosi then explains in a voice-over that being coldly cast out by her colleagues made her reach an epiphany of sorts: "I have the appetite for journalism, but I don't have the stomach for the cannibalism."

"I was cursing PAGE SIX the day that item ran," Pelosi told us yesterday, "but now I realize that item was how I really got to know George Bush. People think that scene is the most revealing moment in the movie.

"The day that item ran, I was voted off the island. I had spent a year bleeding and crying and sweating with these people, and now, no one would come near me. The Bush campaign read the item and was very upset. It made him look bad. It made the press corps look bad. The reporters covering his campaign didn't think he could win."

Pelosi says she has her suspicions about who leaked the story to Carr (she's convinced it was a vindictive CNN producer), but she's glad it got picked up by PAGE SIX.

"It ended up bringing me closer to Bush. He's the conservative Republican son of a president and I'm this loud-mouthed liberal San Franciscan girl who wears purple. We weren't supposed to get along. We were the most unlikely pair. I'm sure many of the reporters resented our relationship."

Media muckety-mucks at a screening of "Journeys with George" Tuesday at the Paris Theater included Mike Wallace, Tina Brown and Harry Evans, CNN chief Walter Isaacson, CNN commentator Jeff Greenfield, former New York Times executive editor Abe Rosenthal, Msnbc president Eric Sorenson and "20/20" reporter John Stossel. The rest of us have to wait until election night, when the movie premieres on HBO

MONICA Lewinsky had a good time at Sunday's unusual wrap party for James Ronald Whitney's newest film, "Games People Play." Mimicking the crazy antics in the movie, the Tribeca Grand waitresses served drinks wearing nothing but towels. Toilet paper substituted for napkins, hunky young men served yellow punch in urine-sample cups, and masseuses performed shiatsu on several of the uninhibited cast members - many of whom opted to go topless for their rubdown. Lewinsky kept her shirt on.

RUSSELL Crowe has ripped off the Red Cross after promising to aid victims of the Bali bombing. The surly star of "A Beautiful Mind" and "Gladiator" had agreed to tape an appeal for an Oct. 20 Australian Red Cross telethon that raised relief funds for the mostly Aussie victims. He insisted that the camera crew travel to Mexico, where he is making the Napoleonic naval epic "Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World." But when the five-man crew got there, Crowe flat-out refused to participate, leaving the Red Cross with a big bill for expenses and nothing to show for it.