sbp
02-08-03, 05:12 AM
The fallout (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37895-2003Feb6.html) continues from Richard Gere's verbal jab at Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) during a black-tie benefit Monday night in Manhattan.
According to New York Magazine's upcoming Intelligencer column, Clinton had already departed Cipriani 42nd Street restaurant when speechmaker Gere announced at the American Foundation for AIDS Research event: "Senator Clinton, I'm sorry, your husband did nothing for AIDS for eight years."
There were gasps from the crowd including Sharon Stone, Ralph Lauren, Natasha Richardson and Lorne Michaels -- and a sneer from Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.). Actually, more than a sneer.
"He's such a jerk," the magazine quotes Dodd as saying. "That was just rude. I would love to get him and Hillary in a room alone together. Let's see what would happen then."
Yesterday we wanted to ask Dodd if he was trying to become the Don King of the Senate. But Dodd's spokesman, Marvin Fast, dodged and weaved. "Clearly," Fast parried, "there were those in the room who would have liked to have seen more of the 'Officer and a Gentleman' side of Gere."
Gere publicist Alan Nierob told us his client was unavailable and in Europe promoting his movie, "Chicago" -- for which he just won a Golden Globe best actor award and is in contention for an Oscar nod. "If Senator Dodd wants to make an issue of it, that's okay," Nierob said. "I just hope he's not a member of the Academy."
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And she had just praised him earlier. :ass:
$10 that Hillary could take him.
According to New York Magazine's upcoming Intelligencer column, Clinton had already departed Cipriani 42nd Street restaurant when speechmaker Gere announced at the American Foundation for AIDS Research event: "Senator Clinton, I'm sorry, your husband did nothing for AIDS for eight years."
There were gasps from the crowd including Sharon Stone, Ralph Lauren, Natasha Richardson and Lorne Michaels -- and a sneer from Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.). Actually, more than a sneer.
"He's such a jerk," the magazine quotes Dodd as saying. "That was just rude. I would love to get him and Hillary in a room alone together. Let's see what would happen then."
Yesterday we wanted to ask Dodd if he was trying to become the Don King of the Senate. But Dodd's spokesman, Marvin Fast, dodged and weaved. "Clearly," Fast parried, "there were those in the room who would have liked to have seen more of the 'Officer and a Gentleman' side of Gere."
Gere publicist Alan Nierob told us his client was unavailable and in Europe promoting his movie, "Chicago" -- for which he just won a Golden Globe best actor award and is in contention for an Oscar nod. "If Senator Dodd wants to make an issue of it, that's okay," Nierob said. "I just hope he's not a member of the Academy."
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And she had just praised him earlier. :ass:
$10 that Hillary could take him.