MORE LAUGHS: Sen. Alan Cranston’s move to...
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MORE LAUGHS: Sen. Alan Cranston’s move to placate victims of the Lincoln S&L; collapse (D1) is good news for comedian Jay Leno, above, who has been mining jokes from that mother lode for months. . . . Leno is hosting “The Tonight Show” all week, “and the stuff that works best there is sex and money,” he said. “This is the ultimate money scandal of the ‘80s, plus the fall of the high and mighty.” . . . A favorite: “Why was it called Lincoln Savings? Because Charles Keating walked 12 miles through a blizzard just to give $600,000 to a senator.”
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