• Reliable Source: Tipper Gore at the premiere of “An Inconvenient Truth”: “It ends with a message of ‘we can do it.’ [Al] doesn’t want people to go from denial to despair.” Moby, Lynda Carter, and Queen Noor were in the audience… Euan Blair is reportedly deciding between Yale and Harvard graduate programs… Ted Kennedy, Mary Cheney, Barack Obama, Tim Russert, Gary Hart, Pat Buchanan, Ariana Huffington, Karenna Gore Schiff, Cindy Sheehan, and Jim McGreevey are all making appearances at BookExpo 2006… Sean Penn to play Richard Clarke in upcoming film. [WP]
• Rush & Molloy: Halle Berry on Barack Obama: “I so love what he stands for and respect him so much that when I met him, I was a bit shaky.” [NYDN]
• Cindy Adams: Chelsea Clinton was seen paying for her dinner with a “tall, lean dude.” [NYP]

• Lloyd Grove's Lowdown: Karl Rove has been suffering with kidney stones for weeks. . . Terry McAuliffe is writing a memoir. [NYDN]
• Names & Faces: Paul Wolfowitz, Queen Noor, Karl Rove join the Bush family on Washington's "most invited" list. [WP]
• Page Six: Scenes from the Christopher Hitchens-George Galloway debate. Galloway: "What you have witnessed is a phenomenon, the first metamorphosis in natural history of a butterfly back into a slug... and the one thing a slug leaves behind it is a trail of slime.". . . Joke circulating on the internet: "Q: What is George W. Bush's position on Roe vs. Wade? A: He really doesn't care how people get out of New Orleans.". . . Bill Maher: "Michael Brown, the head of FEMA has been relieved of his command. He has been asked to return to Washington immediately. He is expected to arrive in about a week." [NYP, NYP]
• Rush & Molloy: Tony Blair and posse dined at SoHo House in New York. [NYDN]