By Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts
Sunday, February 11, 2007

One of the running gags on "The L Word" -- Showtime's hip drama about a group of lesbians and bisexuals in L.A. -- is the Chart, a diagram of the characters and their convoluted love lives. Now series creator Ilene Chaiken and Hilary Rosen have taken the idea and launched a real-life version, "OurChart," which they're touting as the first online meeting site for lesbians, their friends and families.

"We decided it was cool to have life imitate art," said the Washington-based Rosen, president of the new venture. "Social networking is hugely popular, and there was nothing targeted to this audience."

Sounds juicy. On the show, the chart is all about hookups (Dating Games meets Six Degrees of Separation). Does this mean that we'll find out who's . . . ? N ah. It's another niche social network (think "MySpace" and "Facebook") to find friendship, romance and business contacts.

The politically connected Rosen, a former top lobbyist for the recording industry and one of the preeminent power-lesbians, is banking that the new venture will draw diehard fans of the show, and in turn bring in plenty of advertisers. " 'The L Word' kind of changed the game for lesbians," she explained. "It presented the community as hip, fashionable, sexy and attractive."

The site debuted last month, just in time for the show's fourth season premiere on Jan. 7. In its first four weeks, said Rosen, it has received more than 3 million page views. In a blatant bit of cross-marketing, the character of Alice (who created the chart) took it off her living room wall and posted it online -- "coincidentally," said Rosen, calling it "Our Chart."

A most-eligible bachelor falls: Just think -- if Ohio had gone a little differently two years ago, we might have had a White House wedding this weekend! Instead, it was just steps away, at St. John's Episcopal Church Lafayette Square, that Chris Heinz married Alexandra DeRuyter Lewis yesterday. The dashing 33-year-old groom, heir to the Heinz ketchup fortune, squired beauties like Gwyneth Paltrow and Diane Kruger and relentlessly campaigned for stepdad John Kerry in '04. Though he lives in NYC and works in private equity, the son of Teresa Heinz Kerry and the late senator John Heinz (R-Pa.) has kept a hand in Pennsylvania politics (campaigning for Sen. Bob Casey last year) and his family's Pittsburgh-based charitable work, prompting whispers that he, too, might run for office.

His 28-year-old bride, who goes by Sasha, is a grad student who lived in D.C. as a child before her parents (dad is in finance) moved to Greenwich, Conn. How'd they meet? A family rep would only cite a 2001 "chance encounter" in New York, which of course just makes us more curious than we were. About 400 guests were expected to turn out for the ceremony and reception at the Mellon Auditorium.

It's been more than 90 years since Woodrow Wilson and Edith Bolling Galt graced the D.C. gossip columns* -- and, well, we didn't really expect they'd give us cause again anytime soon.

But that was before we intercepted this supposedly never-before-published love letter from the then-president of the United States to the lively Washington widow who in 1915 was drawing him out of his grief over the death of his first wife Ellen. The note, leaked to us by the folks at his presidential library in Staunton, Va., is primly unromantic ("Best wishes for a delightful trip. Hope every experience of it will be delightful and refreshing and that you will all keep well.) -- until we see how he signed it:

"Tiger"

Well, well, Woodrow! Where'd that nickname come from? Grrr-ROWR! Sure, he was an alumnus and former president of Princeton, but the Ivy school didn't adopt the tiger as a mascot until well after he graduated. We think we know exactly what kind of message you're sending to Mrs. Galt (who became his second first lady later that year). You animal!!!

Send your tips, comments, Valentines and letters from the grave to reliablesource@washpost.com.

* A delightful legend has it that a Washington Post society column reported on the president escorting his fiancee to the theater where he paid little attention to the stage because he was so busy "entertaining Mrs. Galt" -- except that the typesetters accidentally printed it as "entering." Alas, we can find no evidence of it in our archives. Got a copy? Let us know at reliablesource@washpost.com.