To print this page, select "Print" from the File menu of your browser salon.com > People Jan. 12, 2000 URL: http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/2000/01/12/np0112 Randy pols and sheepish veeps Did Lucianne have a fling with LBJ? Gore on young girls: "I have no firsthand knowledge." Plus: Jennifer Aniston's mom tells all ... again. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Amy Reiter Careful what you wish for ... Yesterday, in my item about Lucianne Goldberg's tantrum over Jeffrey Toobin's book "A Vast Conspiracy," I wondered if any friends of the wily book agent would step up and confirm Toobin's controversial allegations. Did Goldberg boast to friends that she had a youthful affair with President Johnson when she worked in the White House? Was she guilty of using a friend's New York pad for a little extramarital nookie with a "prominent Washington writer"? Today, I'm dishing dirt with preeminent dirt-disher Kitty Kelley, once a Goldberg client -- though not a particularly satisfied one. (Kelley tells me Goldberg "stole money" from her back in the early '80s, an allegation a federal jury apparently agreed with when it awarded her more than $40,000 in owed royalties and damages.) "Yes, I heard her brag about LBJ," Kelley confirms, "but I just thought she was flattering herself. She did it all the time." According to Kelley, Goldberg portrayed herself as quite the sexual gadabout. The author says she and her husband were "quite accustomed" to hearing Goldberg discuss the intimate details of another purported affair -- with a prominent Washington writer several years her junior. "She would go on about it at great length," says Kelley, recounting the details of one alleged weekend tryst. "It was really quite entertaining." Kelley says she doesn't know whether Goldberg was telling the truth about that affair, but when I ask her whether she thinks the LBJ affair really happened, she responds thusly: "Oh, puh-lease. LBJ had great women. Maybe she went to bed with LBJ's janitor ..." Mee-youch! - - - - - - - - - - - - Take that, steenking American peegs "Sometimes they get on my nerves, their way of controlling everything." -- French actor Gérard Depardieu on Americans. - - - - - - - - - - - - Where's Naomi Wolf when you need her? Here's a way to liven up those presidential debates and get the ratings out of the crapper: Talk about the sexual proclivities of young women. A sample of what such a line of questioning might turn up can be found in the upcoming issue of Glamour, in which the magazine's national affairs editor, David France, asks Al Gore whether he thinks young women today are too sexually active. "I don't know!" the veep blurts, between guffaws. Then, he sheepishly admits, "I just have no first-hand experience." France might get a decidedly different answer from Reform Party flirt Donald Trump. The king of firsthand experience has reportedly broken up with 25-year-old Slovenian model Melania Knauss (the "potential first lady," he recently boasted, doesn't know the meaning of the word "cellulite"), leaving her "heartbroken." At least now she knows the meaning of the word "jerk." - - - - - - - - - - - - Deep thoughts from a Limp Bizkit "I still have the same problems I had when I started. I thought not having money was the problem. But now I realize it's really about finding inner peace." -- Limp Bizkit lead singer Fred Durst on success, in USA Weekend. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Jennifer Aniston's estranged mother is singing "Why can't we be Friends?" pretty loudly these days. Nancy Aniston has seen her famous daughter only once since that fateful night more than three years ago when Jennifer cut her off for blabbing to the press. Now, Mama Aniston's written a book to share her pain over the troubled mother/daughter relationship. That'll definitely get her back in Jen's good graces. Persistent paparazzo Wendall Wall has been arrested for stalking Barbra Streisand and James Brolin after he allegedly followed the famous couple twice in one day. He's being held on $1 million bail. Sometimes people who stalk people are the unluckiest people in the world. Jellicle this: The U.S. Postal Service is issuing a stamp honoring the longest-running show in Broadway history, "Cats." The horror! The horror! To sir, with disdain? Speaking before the Television Critics Association this week, Sidney Poitier said if he had it all to do over again, he might not chose a career in acting. "I think the world is about so many more important things," he said. "I have invested a great number of years in this business. But knowing the world as I do now, I would probably reach for something else to do with my time ... something that could possibly be more useful." Like ... politics? salon.com | Jan. 12, 2000   - - - - - - - - - - - - About the writer Amy Reiter is a staff writer for Salon People. For more columns by Amy Reiter, visit her column archive.