TELEVISION - Sept. 9, 1991

Rivera Rebuttal: Geraldo Rivera can’t figure out why everyone is making such a big deal of the sexual passages in his autobiography, “Exposing Myself,” in which he claims trysts with Bette Midler, Margaret Trudeau and others. “Thirty pages in a 500-page book get taken out of context and turned into a New York Post headline,” Rivera complained to the Washington Post. “I didn’t expect this sex thing. . . . There’s 47 years of living here!” Meanwhile, former Canadian First Lady Margaret Trudeau and singer Judy Collins have both denied having affairs with Rivera.