Is John McCain Is John McCain the true face of the GOP?

There's a war going on in Washington for the soul of the Republican party, and a new TV dramatization of McCain's time in captivity will remind viewers of the difference between real and fake heroes. Will the Arizona Senator be the one representing his party in 2008? Joining Tina to discuss are Mort Zuckerman (editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report and publisher of the New York Daily News), Paul Alexander (the McCain biographer who profiles the Senator in the current Men's Journal), and Jonathan Alter (Newsweek senior editor and columnist).

Plus...
• The conspiracy theories are swelling again... Why can't we close the case on the mysteries around the death of Princess Diana? Patrick Jephson, Diana's former private secretary, joins Tina to discuss the Princess's state of mind in her last days, and why the ongoing British inquest into her death still hasn't ruled out the possibility of murder.



• Jerry Hall, the Texas glamour queen and Mick Jagger's ex, is out with -- what else?-- her own reality show. She chats with Tina about the secrets of a good divorce.



• "Cruise control"...not! No matter how much Tom Cruise jumps up and down on Oprah's sofa and insists he's crazy in love, nobody's buying it. Our Editor's Desk Roundtable takes on the sorry strategies in the Tom & Katie's "PR Romance." Joining Tina on the final Topic [A] roundtable are CNN cultural correspondent Toure, comedian and VH1 commentator Jessi Klein, Harper's Bazaar contributing editor Nancy Collins, and lawyer Ed Hayes.



• Has dieting become an extreme sport? This week, the shockingly skinny teen actress Lindsay Lohan tells the Star, "compared to other actresses my age, I'm actually overweight"...who will tell these toxic teen role models how scary & sick they look?



• And of course, Tina says her goodbyes to Topic [A] and all who have enjoyed the guerrilla war for smart conversation. What will her final Hot Pick be?

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