Family Affairs: Jill Eikenberry confesses to being...

Family Affairs: Jill Eikenberry confesses to being a home wrecker. She said Michael Tucker, now her husband and “L.A. Law” co-star, was married and had a 6-month-old daughter when they started an affair in 1970. “I broke up their marriage,” she said in McCall’s magazine. “I knew how much that messes up someone’s life, having seen it happen to my mom.”

Honors: Allen Ginsberg, Erica Jong, CBS’s Morley Safer and Jules Feiffer joined in honoring two other writers--Francisco Valencia Soriano of El Salvador and Abraham Serfaty of Morocco--at ceremonies this week in New York. Valencia Soriano was honored for keeping El Salvador’s only independent newspaper alive despite political repression. Serfaty, former editor of a critical Moroccan literary magazine and imprisoned for life, had his wife stand in for him.

Little Problem: George Bush’s kid trouble at the White House did not end Tuesday after visiting youngsters compelled him to read a long children’s story he hadn’t planned on. He told the children: “I said a bad word yesterday and I was very embarrassed . . . . I told the lady in front of whom I said it: ‘I’m very sorry.’ ” Bush ignored reporters who asked later what he had said and to whom.

Not Lonely at the Top: Prime Minister John Major misses window shopping without a crowd. “I am a great window shopper. I love browsing in old bookshops or even large stores with modern books,” he said Tuesday in London. “I like going in record stores . . . but I cannot do those sorts of things now because it is a distraction for everybody else.”