Gossip Roundup: Look Who's Talking
•Reliable Source: Laura Bushon Sen.Hillary Clinton's plantation remarks: "I think it's ridiculous, it's a ridiculous comment. That's what I think." [ WP ]
•Rush & Molloy: TheNational Enquirerstands by its story that Sen.Ted Kennedyhas a 21-year-old "secret love child". . .George Tenet, dropped from Crown, gets picked up by Harper-Collins. [ NYDN ]
•Lloyd Grove's Lowdown: David Wade, Sen.John Kerry's spokesman, issues feisty defense to upcomingGQarticle that saysKerry"blew his best chance and that he's 'delusional.'"Wade: "I won't lose sleep over the inside-the-beltway musings of a reporter too young to shave and the Chardonnay-drinking pals he met on the cocktail party circuit." The reporter, though, is older thanWade. [ NYDN ]