Gossip Roundup: Unnecessary Roughness Edition

•Heard on the Hill: Doleavoids anti-Kerryfilm screening. . .Limbaugh: "I’m wondering ifMcCain’s been taken prisoner and being held as a POW by theKerrycamp, in theKerryHilton, somewhere in the basement of the DNC. The McAwful Hilton.". . .Scarboroughwrites 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: Carvillewould jump onHillary's bandwagon. [ WT ]

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

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

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

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