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by Gene
And in other news from the NURSING HOME AND PORK FACTORY on the HILL:[W]hile tutoring Roberts on the finer points of Senate relations, the 62-year-old Thompson will have to squirrel away some time to memorize lines. NBC says the attorney-turned-actor is expected to continue his usual duties on "Law & Order," where he plays craggy, baritone-voiced Dist. Atty. Arthur Branch. The legal drama begins production on its 16th season Friday in New York....
As "Law & Order" creator and executive producer Dick Wolf wrote in an e-mail: "With his new presidential assignment, Fred has become the personification of life imitating art imitating life."TRANSLATION: This man looks into a mirror and sees nothing.