People

By Belinda Luscombe

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BOOKEXPO AMERICA

TIME's Andrea Sachs sat down with DONNA RICE HUGHES (known to history as just plain old Donna Rice) at the booksellers' annual schmoozefest, BookExpo America, where Rice was promoting her forthcoming book, Kids Online: Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace. For the first time, Rice, an old hand on the political sex-scandal front, was persuaded to talk about the Lewinsky matter. Her advice to Monica? "What I would say to anyone is that there is hope, and there is a way to go through a scandal with dignity," said Rice, now married with two stepchildren. "Try to take the high road, turn the other cheek and work through the anger and the frustrations that come along with a tremendous amount of injustices that often come your way." She was just warming up to the subject, when into her booth came Maxwell Taylor Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy's youngest son and editor of Make Gentle the Life of This World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy. In a breathtaking display of obtuseness, he said to Rice, "Max Kennedy. I was on that boat, the Monkey Business, for about 10 days. Wasn't it the most fun boat you've ever been on?" Small pause. "No," replied a dignified Rice, taking the high road, turning the other cheek, working through the anger. Just.

GERMANY LOSES (AGAIN)

In the never-ending battle between creativity and bureaucracy, the suits just won a round. The big ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG retrospective that was wildly popular in New York and Texas was to travel next to the Ludwig Museum in Cologne. But one of the artist's most famous and important works, Canyon, below left, a collage that features a stuffed bald eagle with a box in its talons, may not make it. Under the U.S. Eagle Protection Act, regulation No. 50CFR22.2, no bald eagle, no matter how long dead (this one flapped off its mortal coil more than 40 years ago), may leave the U.S. at any time. "It would be really bad for us if we had to make do without the picture," says Evelin Weiss, the Ludwig's vice director. "The whole hullabaloo is totally ridiculous." The eagle would probably agree.

ET TU, GILLIGAN?

Rock stars and child stars getting busted for drugs: this is not unusual. But, gee whiz, little buddy, you too? BOB DENVER, enshrined in the psyches of a generation of TV watchers as the emblem of clownish naivete, a fawn facing down the elements on an uncharted desert isle with nothing but innocence...well, you get the picture. Gilligan got busted for weed possession. The narcs caught Denver after he signed for a package containing about 25 grams of marijuana sent to him mail order, and officers searched his home, finding more marijuana and "marijuana paraphernalia." Sounds more like the kind of thing Maynard G. Krebs would do.

IS ROBERT GOULET NEXT?

It's good to marry a guy with the same initials as your first husband. For one, you don't have to throw out the monogrammed towels. CINDY CRAWFORD, the model who has done more for facial moles than anyone since Marie Antoinette, has wed her longish-time beau RANDE GERBER, publican to the young and gorgeous. The venue, the Ocean Club resort on Paradise Island, is slightly fancier than the site of her wedding to Richard Gere, which was in Las Vegas. Gere was at this wedding too, along with 50 or so other friends and family. Perhaps because she often gets to dress up in fancy frocks and be photographed, Crawford wore a white cotton dress and a simple flower in her hair. She still looked better than most of us ever will.