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American Woman: The Presidential Mistress

Emily Farris — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:54:00 GMT

When you think of presidential mistresses do you imagine Monica Lewinsky and her blue dress making nightly appearances on Inside Edition? Or maybe you picture Marilyn Monroe baring all for photographer Bruce Stern in The Last Sitting. In fact, save for America’s bittersweet love for Ms. Monroe, presidential girlfriends are rarely presented in a positive light. Until now.

British painter Annie Kevans has captured every presidential mistress—and one mister—on record in her oil-on-paper series All the Presidents’ Girls.
JFK's conquests make up more than a third of the collection, but they share the spotlight with the likes of Jefferson’s slave girl Sally Hemings, Monica Lewinsky and William Rufus DeVane King—who was elected Vice President under Franklin Pierce and was rumored to have been James Buchanan’s undercover lover.

Kevans recently closed a three-day gallery show in New York but the entire series can be viewed online.

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Get Up, Get Out and Do Something

Emily Farris — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:05:00 GMT

Here's the dilly-o: It's election day. I'm in Missouri. Do you think I'm really going to sit in front of my computer and write about Britney Spears' vagina and Pete Wentz's penis? Fuck no. I'm going to hit the pavement in my homestate (and possibly soon to be home) of Missouri for Obama. Scanner Brian has a live thread going, at least until the Secret Service detains him, and I'll try to call in a few updates from the ground in Missouri. Needless to say, Scanner is going to be Scanner lite today. But you're probably not even sitting in front of your computer. You're calling your friends in swing states, making sure they'll vote, or maybe you're watching porn on VHS or DVD to remind yourself of a time when we had a Democratic president.

Whatever you do, get off your ass and vote. And then find someone to have victory sex with.

You Know, You Look Just Like...

Emily Farris — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:52:00 GMT

Apparently, I have "one of those faces." Or so everyone likes to tell me. People I meet always tell me I look like someone. Strangely, more than a few people have told me I look like their best friend from elementary school (does that mean I have a baby face?) but most often, there are the celebrity comparisons. They have changed over the years, with my hair color and weight fluctuations. While they started as not so bad, there were a few years in there when I wanted to scream, and lately I've been really happy when someone says, "You know, you look a lot like...."

From about age 8 to 14, I had long, straight dirty blonde hair. I parted it down the middle and wore baggy t-shirts. I was always told I looked like Veda, from "My Girl," played by Anna Chlumsky.

As I got older, and a little fatter, a certain intern was sleeping with a president. So, especially considering I wore too much make-up at the time, it took me a few years to live down "a blonde Monica Lewinsky."

When I moved to New York at 18, I lost the hair and kept the weight. "The Osbournes" was incredibly popular on MTV and a comparison to Kelly was inevitable... and painful.

Eventually, I let my hair grow out, lost some weight and stopped wearing so much make-up. At that point, I had (and believe me, I counted) four people (including my chiropractor) told me I looked like Scarlett Johansson. I still treasure this comparison, and though don't see it, I'll take it!

Now that "Mad Men" is so popular, and I've taken to wearing red lipstick again I hear "Joan from Mad Men" (played by Christina Hendricks) at least twice a week. I'm obviously very okay with this comparison. But it's amazing what a hair style, the right make-up and a few pounds will do. I don't think I actually look(ed) like any of these people... well, except maybe Veda. Even I saw that one.

Who do you look like? Or who have you looked like over the years? The good, the bad and the ugly. Bring it.

Top 10 Celebrities Who Are Probably Cool In Real Life

Brian Fairbanks — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:21:00 GMT

Feel free to weigh in and add your own... especially if you can correct (or add) based on personal experience...

10. Neil Young-- because of-- or in spite of-- the fact that he is obsessed with model trains

9. Heidi Klum-- showing us her ass bruise yesterday is what got us thinking about this list in the first place

8. Anthony Bourdain-- the only man who works in a kitchen that we probably couldn't take in a fight... but he wouldn't start one with us... because he's cool like that

7. Simon Cowell-- once he steps out of character, he might be a pretty good wingman... same with Ryan Seacrest (just kidding!)

6. Elvis Costello-- if you've seen him in concert recently, you know he still has the same energy and kickass attitude that seemed so fresh in 1976

5. Bill Clinton-- unless, of course, you have a busty blond with you, hanging out with Bill Clinton is rumored to be a great time, where dirty jokes are always welcome... as long as they don't involve "interns"

4. David Bowie-- then again, David Bowie could sneer at us and it would kind of awesome

3. Wanda Sykes-- now here's somebody who you actually wouldn't mind it if she were "on" all the damn time

2. The dudes from Flight of the Conchords

1. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert (tie)-- this we know from reliably sources... and, because, if they weren't cool in real life, it would break out poor widdle liberal hearts...

Also, a good way to tell if a celebrity might be an all right person in real life is to scan through this page of stories from waiters all over the country. They weight on whether a celebrity was a great tipper (Bill Murray, Joe Pesci, Stevie Nicks) or one who ordered "many bottles of wine" and still stiffed the help (Don Henley, big surprise.)

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Sloppy Seconds: What? You Didn't Know Barack Obama and Brad Pitt Were Cousins?

Emily Farris — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:41:00 GMT

Why pay thousands of dollars for a naked picture of French First Lady Carla Bruni when you can see it on The Internets for free?

Actress Kate Beckinsale would rather eat vagina than sushi. "At least a vagina would be warm."

Chelsea Clinton wants you to know that Monica Lewinsky is none of your business! So stop asking questions about it.

Also none of your business? The ending of the upcoming "Sex and the City" movie, at least until it hits theaters in the US, according to its star Sarah Jessica Parker.

Do you have a workplace bully? Or are you one? Workplace bullying might be worse than sexual harassment!

Someone with far too much time on his or her hands traced the Democratic candidates' ancestry and has decided that Barack Obama is related to Brad Pitt, The George Bushes, Gerald R. Ford, Lyndon B. Johnson, Harry S. Truman, and James Madison. And if Obama is related to Pitt, then Hillary Clinton has to be related to Angelina Jolie, Celine Dion, Alanis Morissette, Jack Kerouac and Camilla Parker-Bowles. Um, yeah.

Sloppy Seconds: Is Sarah Jessica Parker the Unsexiest Woman In Hollywood?

Emily Farris — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:17:00 GMT

Drew Lachey, little brother of Jessica Simpson's ex-husband Nick, did not have an affair with his Dancing With the Stars partner Cheryl Burke. You hear? OK. He just wanted to clear that up. You got it? No affair. None.

We're a little confused by this story, but if it's true, the economy must be in worse shape than we thought. A woman in Arizona apparently arranged a friendly barter with a pal: oral sex for gas. Then something went terribly awry and she stabbed him. With scissors. In the face.

Apparently Hillary Clinton was in The White House while Bill was sticking Cuban cigars in Monica Lewinsky's vajayjay. But to be fair, it's a big, big house. And why are we still talking about this?

If only they had YouTube when we were in high school, we'd be as famous as the kid who edited together safe-for-work scenes from a 1980's porn film for a school project. Of course, we would have had to be that clever in high school. And also been a little better on the A-B roller.

Back in October, Maxim voted "Sex and the City" star Sarah Jessica Parker the unsexiest woman in Hollywood. And now she's speaking out. And she's pissed. And we're confused. There are so many, many, many women who are far less sexy than SJP. Just who did she beat out? C'mon Maxim! We wish we could say we expected better of you. Sigh.

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Monicagate, Revisited

Emily Farris — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:33:00 GMT

Ten years later, and in the midst of his wife's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, The London Times revisits Bill Clinton's Monica Lewinsky scandal, and the key players, minus Bill. Here we cut the verbose BS and round-up the women in Bill's life at that time. Is it bad that after all of this, including Kathleen Willey's experience ("During their meeting, she says, he sexually assaulted her. He groped her and put her hand on his erect penis while aides were outside banging on the door because he was late for a meeting."), we'd still jump at the chance to be his "intern?"

Paula Jones: the woman who started it all

Paula Jones was not the first of the Clinton women. There had been many before her and there were more after. But she was the trigger for the investigation of the President that nearly brought him down. Jones brought a sexual harassment case claiming that when she was a lowly state employee and he was Arkansas Governor a state trooper took her to Clinton’s hotel room, where he exposed himself.

Kathleen Willey: the accuser from the Oval Office

One day in 1993, when her husband was in desperate financial difficulties of his own making, she went to see Clinton in the Oval Office to ask for a proper job. During their meeting, she says, he sexually assaulted her. He groped her and put her hand on his erect penis while aides were outside banging on the door because he was late for a meeting. She extricated herself and left.

Linda Tripp: the woman who was everyone’s friend

She moved to the Pentagon, where she befriended Lewinsky, who had been moved out of the White House by aides concerned about her relationship with the President. Tripp became the younger woman’s confidante as she agonised about what Clinton really thought of her.

Monica Lewinsky: the world’s most famous intern

Monica Lewinsky was 21 when, as a White House intern, she delivered pizza to the President, flirted with him, flashed her thong and began an 18-month relationship that involved oral sex, phone sex, an infamous incident with a cigar, a great deal of soul-searching about what he really felt for her and then increasing fear and panic as it became clear that the relationship could become public.

[Times Online: Oral history: The Monica Lewinsky scandal ten years on]