• Heard on the Hill:Dole avoids anti-Kerry film screening. . . Limbaugh: "I�m wondering if McCain�s been taken prisoner and being held as a POW by the Kerry camp, in the Kerry Hilton, somewhere in the basement of the DNC. The McAwful Hilton.". . . Scarborough writes chapter on "fat white pink boys" of Capitol Hill to explain "why there are so many desperate single young women." [Roll Call]

• Inside the Beltway:Carville would jump on Hillary's bandwagon. [WT]

• Out & About:Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Wolfowitz, Leahy attend opening of Washington National Opera at Kennedy Center. [WP]

• Lloyd Grove's Lowdown:Carville, Begala complain right-wing political bander interferes with "Monday Night Football." [NYDN]

• Rush & Molloy:Kerry's first wife declared "cancer-free.". . . Columbia picks up film rights to Kristin Gore's "Sammy's Hill" after Miramax passes. [NYDN]

• Cindy Adams:Kerry blames himself for failures in August. [NYP]