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Contrary to widespread rumor, Washington's favorite bipartisan couple are insisting they are not married. In separate interviews this week, Mary Matalin and James Carville maintained that they did not secretly get hitched during the contentious presidential battle.</br></br>"Do you really think we could keep this from his mother?" asked Matalin, referring to the now infamous Ms. Nippy. "She'd have the biggest jambalaya feast." "I assure you, if I get married it will be very public," said Carville. "I'm a 48-year-old bachelor. I am not going to elope."</br></br>And no comment on any future nuptials. In the meantime, they are spending all this new quality time they have remodeling the A-frame he bought in the Shenandoah Valley, and they'll soon start talking to publishers about a co-authored book on the campaign - sprinkled with some of the personal drama of their relationship, of course. (For those of you who slept through the campaign, she was a senior strategist for George Bush, and he for Bill Clinton.) Indeed, they took their show on the road earlier this week at Carville's alma mater, Louisiana State University, where they regaled the crowd with anecdotes from the heat of battle.</br></br>"We won't write a kiss-and-tell," Matalin says. "We'd like to write a kiss-and-not-tell. It's got to pass the `sister test' - as in everybody's sister we know would enjoy it."</br></br>But though they've been called the Tracy and Hepburn of politics, she says she has "zero, zip interest in doing the movie stuff. At a certain point enough is enough."