Gossip Roundup: Moneybags & Melhman’s Dating Life

• Under the Dome: Justice Antonin Scalia drunk Corona and mingled with actress Doris Roberts at the Bloomberg party before looking “uncomfortable” with Ludacris… Meanwhile, Ludacris doesn’t care about Steve Scully… Anna Kournikova and Drew Lachey were among the no-shows. [The Hill]
• Heard on the Hill: “A longtime aide to a senior Democratic Senator” stole George Clooney’s place card… Cartoonist/author Anthony Haden-Guest fell asleep during Stephen Colbert’s routine… Court TV is opening a D.C. bureau. [Roll Call]
• Reliable Source: Bush’s low approval rating equal good business for impersonator Steve Bridges: “If they’re too high, people get nervous: ‘Is it okay to make fun of the president?’”… Bloomberg reporter Janine Zacharia scores a private lunch with Condoleezza Rice and Tiki Barber at the State Department. [WP]
• Page Six: Blind item asks, “Which Democratic party moneybags is getting divorced because he diddled with a candidate’s daughter? To cap it off, his wife, the mother of his children then had a go with her personal trainer (a woman).” [NYP]
• Rush & Molloy: Ken Mehlman: “I’m not gay. But those stories did a number on my dating life for six months.” [NYDN]

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Thursday’s Remainders: Nothing New Under the Sun

What can we say? We started drinking early yesterday.

• More unoriginal Washington phraseology: “If you’re too ugly for L.A. and too dumb for N.Y., you can still get rich and famous in D.C.” Waylon Jennings spins in his grave. [Fishboy, Waylon.com]

• Must have been looking at Myles O’Brien stroke his rocket. [OddBits]

• Who hasn’t wanted so sing along with Steve Scully? Introducing C-SPAN Karaoke. [Wilderness Puppets via B&C via CNET]

• Another take on the Hill’s Hottest: “The old ladies get tossed a totally undeserved bone. Even Nancy Pelosi’s puckered ass looks better than this bitch.” Meeeeow! [Razzy.org]

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