By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 9/20/12 4:29pm

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Monica Lewinsky

Monica Lewinsky Tells the Rest

So you thought that Kenneth Starr and Linda Tripp already discovered everything you never wanted to know about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky’s affair back in the 1990s? Think again.

Ms. Lewinsky, the woman who will forever be the intern with a stained blue dress, has decided to capitalize on her long-lived fame and sullied name. The Post reports that she got a $12 million book deal, although the publisher has not been disclosed. That’s a lot of money (especially in these days of austerity and low book advances) but apparently Ms. Lewinsky has the goods. Read More

By Mike Taylor 10/26/10 4:51pm

Ponzi Schemes

Bank of America Sues Ponzi Loser Kenneth Starr

One would think Bank of America had its hands full fending off potential lawsuits, budding lawsuits, subpoenas and other types of foreclosure-related judicial action. But it turns out that even with all the robo-signing fallout tumbling down onto BofA, the gigantic bank still has time to pick on an even more enfeebled entity. We speak, Read More

By Staff 6/08/06 9:03am

Blow by Blow: A Guide to Highbrow Oral Sex Writing and Reportage


Almay Ad (Reproduced in John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, 1977)

“The oral-sex craze—and in particular girls’ insistence that blowjobs ‘aren’t sex’—has often been blamed on Bill Clinton and his semantic calisthenics during the Kenneth Starr investigation. But even if teen girls were looking to the White House for personal guidance, was it really Bubba Read More

By Staff 9/22/05 4:50pm

A Song for Monica

The Clinton administration’s grave comedy of manners has been rehashed so many times now, and tossed off so many strange offspring, that any remaining, would-be Clintonian chroniclers are left staring at (ahem! Ed Klein) the bottom of the literary barrel.

There’s no way left to swing it, so a troupe of eager musical theater folk Read More

By Joe Conason 8/01/05 12:00am

Republicans Ready to Slime Fitzgerald

Under the harsh but savvy tutelage of Karl Rove, Republicans have repeatedly demonstrated their adherence to a venerable cliché: In politics, as in sports and warfare, the best defense is always a good offense—and the more offensive, the better. It’s an effective strategy, as John Kerry and many other hapless victims have learned, and at Read More

By Staff, Staff 11/17/04 4:14pm

Politics

“Eat You Later”

While the New York Observer is not a family newspaper, this is a family blog. So expect circumlocutions. This afternoon, Room 9 is all atitter over a pile of envelopes, left discreetly near the door. The contents were copies of a short, handwritten love letter apparently from a former City Hall bigwig, whom there’s no Read More

By Robert Sam Anson 6/28/04 12:00am

Bill Tells All … Stop Him!

Our 42nd President is famous.

Famous for putting duties off to the last possible moment (and sometimes beyond). Famous, too, for the fact that when he finally gets around to whatever he’s supposed to be doing, be it going after bin Laden or telling the truth, any shortcomings will be excused, rationalized, blamed on others. Read More