The End of the Affair [The break-up between: Hollywood and the White House]

The NY Times Sunday Magazine ^ | May 26, 2002 | Walter Kirn

[WIMom]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AmishDude]

Instead of lounge-lizard statesmen with personal keys to David Geffen's bachelor pad, what the public wants now are supercompetent technocrats with no discernible private lives who sublimate their libidos by plotting strategy instead of parading them on cable.

As much as the author laments the boinking of interns, this statement above makes me wonder: Are they hiring, what do they pay and to whom do I send my résumé?

[lawdude]

Is Markie Post a Lesbian?

[friendly]

"The End of the Affair [The break-up between: Hollywood and the White House]"

Affair?

The proper analogy is the hookers being chased out of the house by the new owners!

[RayChuang88]

It was early last August when someone here wrote a masterpiece of a parody news story wondering why Crawford, TX lacked a lot of the things you normally see in the Hamptons or in West Palm Beach. That parody was wickedly effective because it showed how the press it out of touch when you have a real President living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. :-)

[paul51]

The liberal confuses promiscuity with maturity

And sophistication

[Nick Danger]

I don't think we can call the era "over" until they cancel West Wing. Good riddance to bad rubbish when that one's gone.

[CyberAnt]

Gee whiz, you don't have to shout so loud! ;^)

[CyberAnt]

Quite frankly, I don't care what he wears, as long as he keeps them on in the Oval Office!!

[dougherty]

Uh, not quite. There will be another edition of Survivor, and this past season of Survivor did well in the ratings. I like Survivor and other reality tv shows. I don't watch any other network shows, I primarily watch the History channel, Biography Channel, etc., but I do enjoy these for entertainment. Nothing wrong with that.

[HHFi]

You may have finally hit on the appropriate name for the decade of the '90s (like "the Roaring 20's," "the Me Decade of the 70's," etc.) It was "The Nothing Decade!"

Terrorists attack and what does the president do? Nothing!

Social Security insolvency heads toward us like a tidal wave and what does Washington do? Nothing!

The president (a big nothing himself) is quite plausibly accused of every crime from perjury to violent rape, and what is his punishment? Nothing!

What are all the hit songs, movies, and TV shows, including the #1 show of the decade, all about? Nothing!

The Nothing Decade! Start making it a chapter title in history books.

[ladyinred]

LOL, I will never forget my shock upon hearing about Clinton actually answering that question about his undewear on television.
Not only did it say alot about his lack of respect for his office, but it also reflected the fact that his character was such that the girl had the nerve to even ask such a question of the President of the United States
Clinton just gave off that lowlife scum aura no matter what his title was.

[summer]

LOL... Thanks. :)

[Jimmy Valentine]

Don't know about that. I seem to remember that she was an aficionado of pharmaceuticals.

[sneakypete]

Maher is out because he was inferior as a host or maybe just because people got tired of him.

Maher is out because he has the type of personality that gives weasels a bad name. A know-nothing totally ignorant fool that made Babs Streisand seem profound and Jerry Lewis seem to be funny in comparison. He has all the charm ,intelligence,and charisma of a bucket of cold vomit. I REALLY hate to see this show gone,but good riddance to Maher. I think a show like this could be a big hit if the host were at least as likeable as Joseph Stalin,as bright as the average Kennedy,and not quite as pompous as Streisand.

As for Maher,his days as a guest at the Playbody Mansion are numbered. He's going to be reduced to $10 crack whores in the near future. He's going to have to get a job as a snotty headwaiter as some trendy Hollywood restaurant to make ends meet,as he is one of the least funny "comedians" I have ever heard.

[Liz]

Hollywarped and Clinton have a lot in common: a proclivity
for deniability. None of 'em know what the meaning of "is" is.

[Tijeras_Slim]

But, Fred, I think the examples he uses are shallow because in many ways, that era was ___ (fill in the blank).

a low dishonest decade.

[vikingchick]

bttt

[Clemenza]

You should have bumped me on this one! I read it on Sunday (my dad get the NY Times) and thought the author was dead on. Clinton attracted the type of people who vacationed in the Hamptons. Bush's crowd seem more likely to enjoy fishing in Idaho or riding horses in Texas.

BTW: Check out "The Hamptons" documentary next weekend on ABC.