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Anyone see Turner on Law and Order this evening on NBC? Hard to believe she's the same woman who was in Body Heat.

Eeven the ditziest blondes in Hollywood feel the need to pipe up with their opinions about presidential elections. On her cheesy Web site, Melanie Griffith opines: "I am a full-blown Democrat. I always have been. I did visit President George Bush Sr. [sic] and his wife when they were in the White House. However, I feel their son is in there without truly having won the election. I think he is a C-minus president. Don't you have to have straight A's to be valedictorian of a college class? " "How is it possible that we, the great country of America,...

A small slice from the corpulent creature called the Arrogance of Power: Sen. Arlen Specter is a busy and important man. So beyond the pale of ordinary humans, according to a report by John Shumway of KDKA-TV, that his aides skirted security regulations at Pittsburgh International Airport in order to speed the senator's departure from the erstwhile Steel City. How? By getting his boarding pass with the help of authorities so Mr. Specter could breeze on his way to accomplish even more important things. Someone tipped off Mr. Shumway, who arrived at the airport and talked to an indignant Specter...