Secret tapes Jackie Kennedy Onassis made just months after JFK's death, reveal that she thought LBJ was responsible for the assassination and that she had an affair with William Holden, "in retaliation for her husband's many flings." The Daily Mail has the full story.
"Let me dry your back" indeed.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Gender Sells
Newsweek is getting a lot of attention today for the cover shot of Michele Bachmann that accompanies their profile piece, saying it makes her look crazy. While Newsweek may be creating controversy in order to hawk magazines, the characterization of Bachmann as crazy is not without evidence.
And as Matt Taibbi pointed out in his Rolling Stone Bachmann piece:
"In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance."
While the blogosphere is in a tail-spin about the Bachmann cover, the real story seems to be that Tina Brown, since taking over as Editor-in-Chief at Newsweek, has decided that females buy magazines, and thus like to see famous females on the cover, the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Between Two Colors
Ff you don't know who Jane White was, you should. The New York Times has a great obit for this bi-racial classical actress and cabaret singer. Her own words are the best part of the piece.
“I’ve just always been too ‘white’ to be ‘black’ and too ‘black’ to be ‘white,’ which, you know, gets to you after a while, particularly when the roles keep passing you by,” she told an interviewer in 1968
"And if nothing else, bringing humanity to the stage makes a difference in the world, she added, “in black face or white face."
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