SEX SCANDALS WILT LIKE FLOWERS

Gennifer Flowers is sucking so hard on the straw in her bottle of spring water that it's turned orange with thick, sticky lipstick. She's sitting behind a table stacked high with her book, Passion & Betrayal, along with a shiny new pen, perfect nails, heavy-duty makeup -- and almost no takers among the lunchtime crowd jamming the Market Place East mall in downtown Philadelphia last Monday. For the half a dozen or so people who buy the book, she signs "Best Wishes," with her initial in the shape of a treble clef on a sheet of music. Frustrated, a little ticked...

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