Here Was A Times Story Trump Couldn’t Stomach
Seems the venerable New York Times has gotten itself involved in a good ol’ sexist controversy.
The issue: a recent story on French actress Catherine Deneuve, which stated that she “is, perhaps, not as slender as she once was.”
An irate reader promptly complained that men should be held to the same kind of standard. Case in point: a recent piece on Donald Trump in which the dealmaker’s expanding waistline wasn’t mentioned.
Then Trump got into the act. In his own letter, he referred to a photo that, he said, made him look heavier than he is.
“If the picture was correct - which, fortunately, it was not,” he wrote, “then my weight gain should have been mentioned… as a medical rather than a financial story.”
Loose talk
Quincy Jones on the night he first arrived in Paris circa 1953 (as reported by the Associated Press): “I couldn’t sleep that night. The smell, the sunrise. I wanted to live it with all five senses, and I’ve been in love with it ever since.”
Where there’s a Will, there’s a need to weigh your words
George Will turns 55 today.
They even had little wildebeest dolls to chew on
When the Las Vegas illusionists Siegfried and Roy transported a pair of 18-day-old white lion cubs home from South Africa recently, they did so in style. The cubs “rode in first-class seats with pillows, bottles, a nurse and a curator,” Siegfried said.
Sure, but what should we have it do?
You know that George C. Scott is facing a $3.1 million sexual-harassment lawsuit. Do you know why? After a week as the actor’s personal assistant, Julie Wright, 26, asked Scott what he needed. He said: “I need a pack of Lucky’s, call up room service for eight bottles of Bud and a bottle of Smirnoff, and now for the real question: Will you have my baby?”’ Scott calls the charges “absurd and completely untrue.”
We hear that Poland is a real bargain now
Bob Garfield of Advertising Age says new parent Bill Gates might be an interesting father. “The kid is going to wake up Bill in the middle of the night and Bill will gently sing… ‘Hush little baby, don’t say a word, Papa’s gonna buy you a mocking bird. And if that mockingbird don’t sing, Papa’s gonna buy you… oh, I don’t know… Europe?”’
And we can still rattle off those seven banned words
George Carlin, talking on the internet, has his own take on the meaning of comedy. “The obligation of the comedian is to find where the line is drawn, deliberately cross it, and make the audience glad you took them with you,” he typed.
She’s the one, remember, who won’t take off her clothes
Gennifer Flowers, pushing the envelope on her 15 minutes of fame, left the traveling production of “Oh! Calcutta” after the first act on Tuesday. Flowers reportedly left the Dayton, Ohio, stop because of a “disagreement over contractual obligations.”
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