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Democrat Harold Ford Jr. talks to the reporters outside the Little Rebel Bar and Grill during his campaign for U.S. Senate in Jackson, Tenn. Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2006. Ford is running against Republican candidate Bob Corker. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

He is blessed with dazzling good looks and starred in one of the most successful sitcoms on television. But when you've spent almost a decade playing the most famous gay man in America, it's not easy to branch out to pastures new, as Eric McCormack is finding out. McCormack, who played Manhattan lawyer Will Truman in the hugely popular Will and Grace, would like to move in to films and as an Emmy-award winning actor, with perfect comic timing, undoubtedly has the ability to do so. But no one will hire him. 'I have this big pink cross to bear,'...

TOM SUOZZI Photo: Mary McLoughlin ALBANY — Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi will today deliver a major speech on abortion — attempting to position himself in the political middle should he decide to challenge Eliot Spitzer for governor or seek another statewide office. Suozzi, a pro-choice Democrat, will outline a three-year, $3 million plan to curtail abortions, including programs to assist women who have out-of-wedlock births. Suozzi, a Roman Catholic, is expected to seek "common ground" with anti-abortion activists in the speech at Adelphi University in Garden City by emphasizing prevention, adoption services and help for unwed mothers........ "He's...

DECEMBER 2--Alleged pedophile R. Kelly is one inventive guy. The 36-year-old R&B singer is under indictment on child porn charges in Florida (where he allegedly possessed illicit still images) and Illinois (where he supposedly filmed himself with a young girl). When he was nabbed earlier this year in Miami, Kelly told cops, according to the below police report, that "former managers" might have been trying to set him up, "taking pictures of people that look like me" cavorting with the underaged. Kelly has now extended that defense, as it were, to his Cook County case, according to a motion filed...