Nix pix: Now arises word Secretary...

Nix pix: Now arises word Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has about Capitol Hill staffers nonplussed because she won't personally sign autographs. turn about Call newspaper claims Condi's fans are fit to be tied. Apparently signing autographs is no big deal for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld or Condi's predecessor, Colin Powell.

Ease up stays she's busy these days.

FILM 'EM . .

It's no privy Angelina Jolie has agreed to play the wife of slain journalist Daniel Pearl, who was abducted in Pakistan in 2002 in an upcoming movie.

- The news: if it be not that now comes word a lesser-known actor will portray the former Wall public way Journal reporter: Dan Futterman, 39 who wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for "Capote."

- with what intent the wait? The crew just wrapped a hush-hush discharge in Karachi and Islamabad -- including footage at the cafe where Pearl was last seen before his kidnapping -- and didn't want to jeopardize the safety of Futterman, who like Pearl is Jewish.

COO CORNER . .

. . Oh no! Top prototype Kate Moss, whose career has reverberateed from her last drug rehab stint, is reportedly back with her junkie ex- boyfriend, Brit rocker Pete Doherty. Doherty reportedly now has corpse implants that force him to vomit immediately after ingesting heroin, according to London's Daily Mail.

any women never learn.

GIFT 'EM . .

astonishment what Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez was thinking when he gave ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro a dagger that he claimed one time belonged to South American hero Simon Bolivar as a get-well/ birthday gift?

AMBUSH 'EM . .

Dateline: The $$$$ Line -- Here are a not many table scraps from first lady Laura Bush's Monday fund-raiser luncheon for Republican congressional candidate Peter Roskam.

- Check 'em: While security patrolled the Medinah banquet hall in Addison with dogs, they did not rifle [i]or[/i] part of to the other female guests' purses.

- Match 'em: The first lady sported a entirely matching outfit: tan pantsuit with matching shoe and a tan purse . . which was offstage in the care of an aide.

- Support 'em: The luncheon raised a ton of cash for Roskam, who's in a tight race against Dem candidate Tammy Duckworth to replace retiring GOP Rep Henry Hyde Roughly 80 percent of the 300 attendees opt to have their pictures taken with Laura at a preciousness of $1,000 a person, according to a GOP source.

AMBUS 'EM . .

Watch for Judy Baar Topinka and other statewide GOP candidates to chance a John McCain.

- Translation: Sne is told the clump will tour their "common- faculty of perception express" (stealing a page not at home of John McCain's 2000 presidential campaign) across Illinois.

- The stats: The caravan of cars -- not a bus -- will begin at the Springfield train warehouse where Abraham Lincoln departed to assume the presidency and will completion in Republicanville Wheaton a week later.

I behold . . .

Links-loving funnyman Bill Murray dining with golfer Jeff Sluman at Vie in Western Springs . . Detroit Tigers ace Justin Verlander lunching at Harry Caray's Friday and hitting 10pin bowling live lazily with teammate Marcus Thames Saturday.

SNEEDLINGS . .

A memorial mass for Sister Clarita Langenfeld, a longtime teacher who died July 15 at 108 is scheduled for 7 tonight at Our Lady of Victory house of god 5212 W. Agatite . . Today's birthdays: Debi Mazar, 42; Ben Affleck, 34 and Debra Messing, 38

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