Fred Thompson and Jeri Kehn met six years ago on the Fourth of July in Nashville. Since then, the Republican senator and the GOP media operative have been romantic, rocky, stormy, passionate, hot and cold, but never lukewarm. "Hollywood Fred" -- as the divorced Thompson was nicknamed because of his successful movie career -- has been linked to a variety of women, including country singer Lorrie Morgan, pundit-pollster Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, Time magazine writer Margaret Carlson, Nathans restaurant owner Carol Joynt and Washington PR executive Sydney Ferguson.

Now we're pleased to report that Kehn -- whom we've occasionally imagined strapped to a fighting chair on a metaphoric fishing boat, gripping her metaphoric rod and reel -- landed the big one Saturday. The 35-year-old Kehn and the 59-year-old Thompson were married at the First Congregational Church of Christ in the bride's home town of Naperville, Ill. Yesterday the newlyweds were bound for a week- long honeymoon on the French Riviera.

"In the past when Christians were being arrested, it was by the religious police. But in my case, it was the security police from the interior ministry," [Dennis Moreno] told us last week. "When I was interrogated, they asked me, 'Are you a spy for the U.S. government?' and 'Are you a spy for Israel?' I said absolutely not." Moreno said he was holding private prayer meetings in his apartment (nominally permitted by Saudi law), not worshiping in public or trying to convert Muslims, both illegal activities.