http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-08-16/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-122058.asp

Bound & Determined To Help Bill

By CORKY SIEMASZKO Daily News Staff Writer

Bill Clinton has more titles than a prizefighter. He got hundreds more yesterday from Daily News readers, who deluged the paper with suggested titles for his soon-to-be-published memoir.

There are some real contenders among them for the naming of the former President's $10 million tome.

Ernestine Love-Evans of the Bronx suggested the stirring "From Hope to Harlem." Dennis Frank of New Canaan, Conn., also mined the hopeful vein with "Just a Man From Hope." And Raymond Elam of Queens came up with "The Wonder Years."

"They were good years, as far as I was concerned," Elam said of the Clinton presidency. "I suppose I could have come up with something mean. But I didn't want anything sarcastic. I wanted something nice."

"Nice" would not be the word to describe more than a third of the entries, which zeroed in on Clinton's skirt-chasing and the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Many included the words "cigar," "lip service" or "oral history," and it doesn't take a village to figure out what those titles are about.

There also were entries such as "Coffee, Tea or Bill" from Fred Stolfi in Manhattan, and "From Hope to Grope: My Life and Hard Times," from Peter O'Connell of New Haven.

Adam Fried of Queens came up with the witty "Please Don't Send Me Flowers," a reference to Clinton's pre-presidential paramour Gennifer Flowers.

Because so many titles keep coming in over the transom, The News has extended the deadline for sending or e-mailing suggestions.

Instead of tomorrow, we will run the best of the list Sunday — including some of the really racy titles.

Name Bill Clinton's Book Bill Clinton needs your help. With a publishing deal that will net him more than $10 million, the ex-President's book should have a title worthy of the price.

E-mail your suggested titles to National@edit.nydailynews.com or fax them to (212) 643-7831.

We'll publish the best titles Sunday — and forward them to Clinton's office.

All submissions will become the property of the Daily News.

Original Publication Date: 8/16/01

-- Anonymous, August 16, 2001

Answers

Price: $10 mil

Value: $0

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001