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ABOARD AIR FORCE TWO -- Al Gore's mischievous side was on display Wednesday on the small screens of his campaign plane in a spoof documentary on press secretary Chris Lehane -- nicknamed in the video "the mouth of the Al Gore presidential campaign."
With Gore, a longtime practical joker, consulting on the script, senior adviser Michael Feldman and admaker Bill Knapp assembled the spoof from footage collected by a Japanese television crew, which tagged after Lehane for a real documentary during the primaries.
The production "is shocking," Gore joked, for its bedroom scene (the crew was let into Lehane's hotel room while he slept) and a shower scene (Feldman, who bunks with Lehane on the road, shows up in a steamy bathroom mirror).
Hairstyling credits for the spokesman who, Gore has said, resembles TV's Eddie Munster, went to Pennzoil.
Gore's real gift for the ubiquitous and hypertalkative spokesman was a cake with icing spelling out "Happy 35th Birthday" and a cell phone generator powered by squeezing a grip. "Watch his triceps grow," Gore beamed. "He'll be like Popeye!"
