• Reliable Source: Man in bathrobe “bludgeoned” the stereo of the Snap tea house in Georgetown. . . Barbara Bush spotted on date with someone with “preppy-poufy dark hair,” who paid. [WP]

• Inside the Beltway: Tony Snow will reportedly play in his band, in Bethesda, on June 3rd. [WT]
• Inside Politics: Al Gore harnesses MySpace for “An Inconvenient Truth.” [WT]
• Under the Dome: Six-part documentary about Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) will air this summer on Sundance. . . Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) draws 500 supporters to Grateful Dead fundraiser. [The Hill]
• Heard on the Hill: Hillary Clinton wants to introduce her husband’s gala address at the Sons of Italy awards. . . UPS and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce buy townhouses “within spitting distance” of the Democratic Party HQ. [Roll Call]
• Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: Graydon Carter proposes an unlike Gore-Clinton ticket. [NYDN]

* Reliable Source: J. Robert Oppenheimer biographers try to get his reputation restored, but reopening of case is nixed by judge’s son … Oscar Predictions: “Andrew Sullivan… pegs… Philip Seymour Hoffman….” (quote edited for hilarity). [WP]
* Under the Dome: Silvio Berlusconi gets an enthusiastic reception from Italian-American Congressmen, including Pat Leahy, who is a “Grand Official of the Republic of Italy” … Bottles of Pepto-Bismol sent to members of Congress by group protesting changes in state food-safety laws … Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) makes rhetorical leap from Thomas Edison to criticism of ports deal. … Congress about to let smoking ban pass. [The Hill]
* Lloyd Grove: Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) bashes Ports deal. Her husband Bill, meanwhile, praises Dubai as an “ally,” may have a financial stake in seeing them get the deal. [NYDN]

Our second to last Wonk’d of the slow season. Please keep collecting the lamest excuses for “famous” that you can — and remember, we’re including famous-for-DC outside of DC — and send them to . In this issue, an actually rather impressive-for-August number of sightings of famous-for-DC, including lots of generals (Clark, Meyers, McCaffrey), George Will hyping and diving, Tucker Carlson at McDonald’s, Leahy, Dukakis, Coulter, Baldridge, Koppel, Chertoff, Woodruff, Kerry, McClellan, Pennington, Clinton, Obama, King, Sharpton, Gannon, Hunt.

They’re all after the jump.

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