The Bride of Wildenstein,
A/K/A/ Jocelyn Wildenstein
Posted on 11/12/2003 7:18:21 AM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs
J "see no evil" LoFree at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.
The seething hordes of pointless pre-packaged pop pickers who descended on Edinburgh for the MTV Europe music awards have gone.
It is especially good to be see the back of Jennifer Lopez, who apparently sent instructions to the staff at the North British hotel that they were not to make eye contact with her during her stay. (This may or may not be true, given the vast fog or PR hype that surrounds her - anyone remember her tediously on-and-off-and-on-and-off engagement to Ben Affleck before their move, Gigli, came out?)
At this point I should point out that Lopez is not some ancient emperor revered as a living god who has fallen through a rift in the space time continuum and is having a hard time adjusting. She is in fact a light entertainer. To be precise she is an unoriginal, manufactured, future-has-been, whose music is too dull to be played in lifts and who recently made one of the worst films of all time ever, Orca the Killer Whale included.
If it's true she demanded staff did not look at her, what's depressing is not that J-Lo is so deluded about her own importance as to make such a request but that others took her seriously. Someone in her 100-strong entourage of lackeys should have had the guts to give her a reality check. And the management of the North British (OK, OK, Balmoral) should have looked her in the eye - yes, eye - and chucked her out into Princes Street.
Even Philip of Macedon was told regularly: "Remember thou art mortal ".
J-Lo needs something similar. "Remember thou made Gigli."
The Bride of Wildenstein,
A/K/A/ Jocelyn Wildenstein
In other news, thank you Silvio Berlusconi:
Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, said today that his mind was unchanged and his determination unshaken: Italian forces belonged and would stay in Iraq, despite the deaths of 18 Italians in a suicide bombing there.
But as Italians absorbed the horror of that bloodshed, it was clear that Mr. Berlusconi's commitment to helping the United States in Iraq would come under newly intense scrutiny and perhaps newly intense opposition here at home. Italian public opinion ran strongly against the war in Iraq, a sentiment that has long been at odds with Mr. Berlusconi's deeply entrenched desire to please the United States.
The bombing today, which Italian officials called the deadliest single strike against Italian armed forces since World War II, threatened to sharpen that tension, causing Mr. Berlusconi significant political trouble. full story, NY Times
You almost have to feel sorry for Kerry. He really, really wants to be able to compete with Dubya. And he simply can't.
That translates to "I'm lookin' for a bitchin bod but would settle for anyone who would even look at me."
Either that or Kucinich's got the hots for the Hillster. Wonder if Bill knows.
It's true...I'm surprised he didn't fly onto the set in a jet while he was at it!
The interviewer was asking him how, after supporting campaign finance reform all those years, he justifies giving tens of millions to a political cause.
He didn't skip a beat....what he opposed was the "special interests" in politics. HE isn't a "special interest", he only cares about the public interest!
That's just breathtaking in its hypocracy and Clintonality.
Thankfully, we have people like this to focus on the really important stuff:
BRITNEY Spears has a response to Kendel Ehrlich, the Maryland governor's wife, who said, "If I had an opportunity to shoot Britney Spears, I think I would." "She probably needs to get laid," Spears tells Entertainment Weekly. (pagesix)
More Kerry news, also from Page Six:
EVEN though three of presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry's key campaign staffers have run for the hills in the last few days, wife Teresa Heinz Kerry is standing by her man. The gazillionaire ketchup heiress, in town to protest the proposed closing of a Manhattan VA hospital, took time to defend her husband's commercial that criticizes President Bush's aircraft carrier landing. Though many say it's wrong to mock the commander-in-chief while troops are on the battlefield, Heinz told The Post's Stefan C. Friedman it's "inappropriate" that Bush "spends a million dollars to land a plane while he's taking benefits from people." (A comment so stupid it barely merits comment)
Don't forget the surfer dude persona.
Avert your eyes.
Britney Spears sure isn't coy about the meaning of "Touch of My Hand," a tune on her much-hyped album "In the Zone." In case anyone remains in the dark, she reveals in the upcoming issue of People that the song is an ode to, er, masturbation. "I think if you say you don't do it, you're lying," she says. "I think it's a positive thing to indulge in yourself in a sexual way sometimes. I don't do it all the time. It's life. Guys can talk about it. Why can't girls? It's a positive thing." rest of story
Clinton and Carter seem to be competing for "most embarrassing ex-president":
Jimmy Carter uses some salty talk in "The Hornet's Nest," the first novel ever written by a former President. In the book, about the South during the Revolutionary War, a character says, "If the nearby tribes see these bandits succeed and go to war, we wouldn't have a chance, even if all of us quit farmin' and spent all our time huntin' the bastards. Our lives depend on most of the damned Indians stayin' peaceful, and only sure punishment will prevent a general uprisin'."
Carter spent seven years on the book and painted the book cover himself. link
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