For a year or so when I shared her take on the Clintons, I hung out with Lucianne Goldberg, and she had a great expression. “Clinton drank the Strontium-90 when he said, ‘I didn’t have sex with that woman,’” she said. It might take a couple years, but after that, Clinton was screwed. I was Read More
One evening last summer at the Players Club, Kimberlee Auerbach, an almond-eyed 32-year-old with a moony smile, a voluptuous figure and an ear-splitting laugh, was introduced to some men as an employee of Fox News Channel.
“One of the guys said, ‘God, and you look so nice,’” she recounted. “And I started to get defensive, Read More
How to Shoot a Mobster
If you’ve ever wondered where casting directors find the tough guys who play the wiseguys in gangster movies and on HBO’s series The Sopranos , well, on the night of Jan. 10 most of the fellas were at an art gallery, looking at photographs of themselves that were a vast Read More
Linda Tripp’s indictment on two charges of illegal wiretapping
may have been a necessary vindication of the rule of law, as the Maryland state
prosecutor insists. But actually sending her to prison-a conviction on either
felony count carries a maximum sentence of five years-would constitute terrible
and unwarranted punishment of a woman who already is Read More
West Confederate Avenue, Gettysburg, Pa. I’ve chosen this particular Gettysburg address, so to speak, as the dateline for what may be my final thoughts on the benighted impeachment process. In part because I’ve become increasingly obsessed with the last Presidential impeachment trial, the failed impeachment of Andrew Johnson, a failure that began the surrender of Read More
Cussi Fans, Tutti
When the Metropolitan Museum of Art throws its annual Costume Institute gala on Dec. 7, its only anchors in the past will be the theme, Cubism and fashion, and the event’s glamorous history–this will be the 50th anniversary of what was once dubbed the party of the year. Save for some of Read More
Now that President Bill Clinton has confessed to an affair with Monica Lewinsky, one might expect some camaraderie between two of the scandal’s prime movers: Clinton-hating literary agent Lucianne Goldberg and the journalist she affectionately nicknamed “Spikey,” Newsweek ‘s muckraking Washington correspondent, Michael Isikoff. But a recent outgoing message on Ms. Goldberg’s answering machine suggested Read More
After U.S. News & World Report published a startling report quoting one of the tapes made of former White House intern Monica Lewinsky by Linda R. Tripp, I called Mrs. Tripp’s friend Lucianne Goldberg, for the seventh time in seven days, to beg to hear the tapes that she has. “The high offer I have Read More
