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I sort of wondered how "Futurama" got Al Gore to play himself (well, his disembodied head in the far future) several times. Turns out his daughter Kristin Gore was a writer on the show. She's also just written a novel about a senator's aide, filling a "gap in the chick-lit market" (says Jonathan Burnham, editor in chief of Miramax Books).
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