Sounds Like The Usual Symptoms Of P.M.’S
Guess they didn’t call Margaret Thatcher the “Iron Lady” for nothing.
In a new book, “Below the Parapet,” Carol Thatcher says the former British prime minister was a cold and distant mother who discouraged displays of affection.
“As a child I was frightened of her and later I was often conscious of talking to her knowing her mind was elsewhere,” Carol Thatcher told the Daily Mail. “I used to console myself by thinking, ‘Carol, maybe it’s because you talk such drivel.”’
Twin brother Mark - infamous for $15 million in Saudi arms sales during his mother’s term - was the favorite, she added: “I’m an ancient spinster of no fixed abode, living in a rented holiday resort. I still don’t measure up awfully well on the Richter Scale, though I have embarrassed my parents less.”
Loose talk
“Politically Incorrect” host Bill Maher, on his philosophy: “I vote for (Republicans) sometimes because I want someone who’s a real square and will watch my money - but when it comes to dating, I’d rather stick with Democrats.”
But he still has designs on younger women
Pierre Cardin turns 74 today.
Seems to us like she has some Major problems
Forget that “gray man” image - current British Prime Minister John Major was a “most wonderful lover,” says a divorcee he dated in the 1960s. Jean Kierans told the Sunday Express she still sends Christmas and birthday cards to Major, now married with two children, and waves when he appears on TV and whispers: “Hello, my darling. It’s me.”
Jack wasn’t the only one seeing other people
Shades of that Hillary Rodham Clinton/Eleanor Roosevelt flap. The new book “Jack and Jackie: Portrait of an American Marriage” quotes Jacqueline Kennedy on her relationship with Abraham Lincoln: “I used to sit in the Lincoln Room (where else?), and I could really feel his strength. I’d sort of be talking with him. Jefferson is the president with whom I had the most affinity. But Lincoln is the one I love.”
You really sure you want to play Bubba, Gump?
Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson are reportedy the top picks to play the Clintons in a film of the Anonymous best-seller, “Primary Colors.”
These days, even his job has been downsized
In response to congressional demands for less government, Washingtonian magazine says, 4-foot, 10-1/2-inch Robert Reich challenges critics to “come up with a smaller Secretary of Labor.” And when Republicans cite statistics on economic averages, he adds: “I tell them that Shaquille O’Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet.”
What do you want from us, Edward R. Marrow?
Political satirist Mort Sahl is taking his show back on the road after a seven-year hiatus. Said the 66-year-old Sahl: “The society doesn’t work and the question is, who’s gonna say it? The news media gives you a bone - one of those non-issues - to chew on during the day to give you an illusion that it’s a democracy and that you’ve got a hand in it.”
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