* Photo Op: A picture must have...

* Photo Op: A picture must have been worth more than a thousand words to Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder. Nude Playboy shots of former beauty queen Tai Collins accompanied her story of an alleged affair with Sen. Charles S. Robb, who has feuded with Wilder recently. “Did you read the article?” a reporter asked the governor Tuesday in Richmond. “No.” “Did you see the pictures?” “Yes,” said Wilder, breaking into a grin.

* Pressing Engagement: George and Barbara Bush are the nation’s “best pressed” politicians, according to a survey of people who should know. A professional dry cleaners’ trade association took the survey and also gave Richard Gere and Julia Roberts the nod as best pressed movie stars. Worst pressed included Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Whoopi Goldberg.

* Planning Sessions?: Factory worker Dominic Gugliatto, charged with helping his famous lover, Lawrencia (Bambi) Bembenek, escape from a prison where she was serving a life sentence for murder, visited her three times in the week before she escaped, a prison official testified Tuesday. Bambi, 32, a former policewoman and Playboy club waitress, was serving a life sentence in the 1981 killing of her then-husband’s ex-wife.

* Back Again: A man who resigned as a dean at Boston University over what he claimed were “phony” charges of plagiarism is back teaching at the school this fall. H. Joachim Maitre, former dean of BU’s College of Communication, left the post in July after he was accused of copying large chunks of a film critic’s journal article for a commencement speech. “I had much to lose and nothing at all to gain if plagiarism was my intent,” Maitre said.