Notebook
By Tam Gray, Belinda Luscombe, Jodie Morse, Michele Orecklin, Edgar Ortega Barrales, Alain Sanders, Joel Stein and Jessica Yadegaran
WINNERS & LOSERS
[WINNERS]
BABS AND BROLIN To the happy couple! But a question: In their house, when the mirror has two faces, will one be his?
JIANG ZEMIN The happy host waves bye: he made Bill look good, and Bill never made him look bad
JANA NOVOTNA Third time's the charm as she aces Wimbledon for her first Grand Slam singles title
[& LOSERS]
KEN STARR Judge finds his take on the Fifth Amendment flawed. Not helpful to cutting a deal with Monica
RYUTARO HASHIMOTO Beleaguered Japanese chief would have loved Clinton to drop in, but Bill rides the China clipper home
POSH SPICE Fiance's dumb foul costs England World Cup game vs. Argies. Will she dump him?
WHY NOT JUST NAME THE KID "NOVELTY ITEM"?
Sylvester Stallone and Jennifer Flavin, not previously widely known as champions of Italian High Renaissance art, have named their second daughter Sistine. Christie Brinkley called her new daughter Sailor. See if you can match these stars with their unusually named offspring.
PARENTS
1. Bruce Willis & Demi Moore 2. Woody Harrelson & Laura Louie 3. Kevin Bacon & Kyra Sedgwick 4. Don Johnson & Melanie Griffith 5. Sean Penn & Robin Wright 6. Alec Baldwin & Kim Basinger 7. John Mellencamp & Elaine Irwin 8. Bob Geldof & Paula Yates 9. Chevy Chase & Jayne Chase 10. Larry King & Alene Akins 11. Robert Downey Jr. & Deborah Falconer 12. John Travolta & Kelly Preston
CHILD
a) Speck b) Sosie Ruth c) Dakota Mayi d) Ireland Eliesse e) Indio f) Scout LaRue g) Peaches h) Cydney i) Hopper Jack j) Chaia k) Jett l) Deni Montana
Answers: 1f; 2l; 3b; 4c; 5i; 6d; 7a; 8g; 9h; 10j; 11e; 12k.
FREE ADVICE
DEEP THOUGHTS With the President in China, Al Gore announced that a U.S. missile was fired at an Iraqi antiaircraft site. We asked Fox analyst Dick Morris how this might affect Campaign 2000.
How'd he do?
"I think his performance was good...but his problem, like any Vice President's, is that he is too much in the shadow of the President, and in that shadow he feels inadequate."
Was he presidential?
"He was very presidential, but Gore's salvation does not lie in being presidential... He has to work on staking out his own issue turf."
Wooden?
"He was fairly wooden, but the occasion called for being wooden... My impression was that the occasion had finally come to the man."
"XX" GAMES
FEMININE MYSTIQUE As part of the 26th Annual Moose Dropping Festival July 11-12 in Talkeetna, Alaska, 15 women will compete in the Mountain Mother Contest, in which they must cross the Susitna River on stepping-stones while carrying two bags of groceries and a baby doll, then chop wood, change diapers and make a whipped-cream pie. Unofficial record time: under 5 min. Losers can always try their luck at the Moose Nugget Toss.
BLAME GAME
SEE YA! Magic Johnson, whose talk show has been ripped by critics and avoided by viewers, fired his sidekick, Craig Shoemaker. Does firing the No. 2 guy ever work?
YEAR: RATING 1972 [thumbs down]
FIRING: EPILOGUE Democratic nominee George McGovern drops Thomas Eagleton, picks up Sargent Shriver; crushed by Nixon
[YEAR: RATING] 1985 [thumbs down]
[FIRING: EPILOGUE] Daryl Hall dismisses John Oates; records a lame solo album, Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine
[YEAR: RATING] 1988 [thumbs down]
[FIRING: EPILOGUE] Mike Tyson dismisses trainer Kevin Rooney; later goes to jail, bites ear
[YEAR: RATING] 1996 [thumbs down]
[FIRING: EPILOGUE] Viacom's Sumner Redstone fires Frank Biondi; stock falls $1.75
MY WAY
THOSE #&%* EDITORS! They made 86 cuts and changes ("mutilations," said the author), but the work still became an American best seller. Last week Thomas Jefferson got to say the last word, every single one, when the full draft of his Declaration of Independence went on display at the Newseum in Arlington, Va., on loan from the New York Public Library. An angry Jefferson underlined Congress's changes. One of its telling deletions: a denunciation of King George for maintaining slavery.
NUMBERS
119 Total number of Asian billionaires in 1996
44 Total number of Asian billionaires today
$100 million Estimated wealth of Cuban President Fidel Castro
$1.3 million to $5 million Estimated wealth of President Bill Clinton and family (not allowing for legal bills)
$16 billion Estimated worth of Queen Elizabeth II
$31 Amount saved by the Queen's sister Princess Margaret by using a senior citizen's discount pass on a public train
23.7 million Number of British viewers, out of a population of 59 million, who watched the World Cup soccer match between England and Argentina
95 Percentage of British men ages 20 to 34 who said they'd rather watch World Cup soccer on TV than have sex with the woman of their dreams
52 Percentage of Americans who knew the World Cup involved soccer
Sources: the Associated Press, Media Business Group, New York Post, Forbes, Washington Post, Forbes, Associated Press, Forbes
60 SECOND SYMPOSIUM
LIFE STORY We decided to turn the tables on three biographers and find out whether they would like to be the subject of a biography by another author. Their answers:
Robert A. Caro, biographer of Lyndon Johnson: "Yes, with all my heart. There's so much about myself that I don't understand, and I'd love to have it explained to me. The only problem is, Who's going to write it?... I would pick Lady Bird Johnson. I've never heard her say an unkind word about anyone."
Lady Antonia Fraser, biographer of Oliver Cromwell: "If I were alive, I would detest it because I don't like living biographies which are either muckraking or hagiographical. If I were dead, I still wouldn't want it... I wouldn't want the whole truth about me told. I don't feel I'm so perfect that I would like it recorded."
A. Scott Berg, author of an upcoming biography of Charles Lindbergh: "[The index of a good biography] provides a glimpse of the surrounding characters you will meet. Because I've been fortunate enough to befriend some fascinating people, I'd be happy to be a biographee--but not while my index is still growing."