... and Go Richard Gere:

From Liz Smith:

MONDAY NIGHT'S American Foundation for AIDS Research fund-raiser, honoring Anna Wintour, Lorne Michaels and Richard Gere, while not by any means a somber affair, seemed definitely more serious and committed to the cause than has been evident recently.

...

Gere was typically passionate and fired up, perhaps too fired up. Winding up remarks, he looked at Hillary Rodham Clinton and said, "I'm sorry, Mrs. Clinton, but your husband didn't help us much."

You have to love a gossip columnist who started and ended a column a few days ago with quotes by Doris Lessing and Gore Vidal.