Gossip Roundup: The ‘08 Thong Collection

• Inside the Beltway: Record number of lawmakers and reporters will descend on the Conservative Members Retreat today; bloggers are invited for the first time… Entrepreneur hawks “George Allen for President Classic Thong.” [WT]
• Page Six: Bernard-Henri Levy jokes that Barack Obama could win in ‘08 “if he’s smart enough not to hire Bob Shrum to handle his campaign.” [NYP]
• Rush & Molloy: Memoir of former prostitute Dimitra Ekmektsis includes drugged times with Aaron Sorkin. [NYDN]

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Gossip Roundup: Howard Kurtz Writes Fiction

• Reliable Source: Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) had John Roberts review his screenplay in the early eighties. Said Rohrabacher, “There were a lot of people in the White House who felt threatened by the input of the writers, but John was someone who appreciated the creative element.”… Bob Shrum and wife Marylouise Oates sold their Massachusetts Avenue home to John Negroponte for $2.2m. [WP]
• Inside the Beltway: 45% of voters would not vote for Bush again, according to poll conducted by James Carville and Stan Greenberg. [WT]
• Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: Howard Kurtz is looking to publish a satirical novel about the news industry: “This is something I’m fooling around with in my spare time… The fun part is that people may recognize - or think they recognize - some major media figures.” [NYDN]

READ MORE: Personalities, bob shrum, dana rohrabacher, george w. bush, howard kurtz, john g. roberts, john negroponte, polls, real estate