Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 25, 1994                   TAG: 9405250033
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PEOPLE

Flowers is releasing "Setting the Record Straight," two cassette tapes and a transcript of conversations with Clinton in 1990-91. She says she secretly recorded the calls to protect herself after reporters began asking about her alleged affair with Clinton, which she says lasted more than a decade.

Americans, she said, "want to know exactly what did happen and whether their president is a liar. . . . The people of this nation have a right to expect the truth."

Sure, but is she doing this for the money?

"No," she said, "but if it turns out to be a commercial success, then so be it." She said the money she got for her story two years ago is running out.

As Flowers left her news conference at a New York hotel, a fight broke out among the pursuing camera crewmen. As Flowers cowered in a corner, beefy camera and sound men bumped chests and traded epithets, their high-heeled quarry forgotten.

Joey Buttafuoco, whose wife was nearly killed in a love-triangle shooting, said Tuesday he doesn't "need another Fisher with a gun in my life."

So barely two months after Buttafuoco was released from the Nassau County (N.Y.) jail for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher, he filed a criminal harassment complaint against her father, Elliot, accusing him of threatening to kill Buttafuoco and his family.

A source close to the Buttafuocos said Fisher pulled up to Buttafuoco's body shop and yelled that he had a shotgun in his car and that he was going to kill Buttafuoco and his family. As he spoke, Fisher used his hand to pretend to shoot Buttafuoco, the source said.

Nassau County police are investigating.

Kevin Smith of Highlands, N.J., won the International Critics' Week Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his $28,000 black-and-white film, "Clerks." It's about his own experiences working in a Quik-Stop store in New Jersey. He shot the film after-hours in the store.

Smith, 23, who won $10,500, held his winner's news conference in the grocery section of a chain store. He said his biggest Cannes thrill was hanging out with Duran Duran lead singer Simon Le Bon.

Zach Wamp, a Tennessee Republican who's running for a seat in the House of Representatives, has proposed cutting all federal legislators' salaries to $50,448 and housing them in military-style barracks.

"Men and women who go to Congress should go to serve this country," he said, "not be served by this country. They should be treated no better or worse than men and women serving in the armed forces."

Wamp proposed that members be required to reside in quarters built for the purpose - 2,000 square feet for each - at a military base. Building expenses could be paid for by the salary cuts.