On This Date: Lewinsky!
In today’s heated, war-fueled political climate, it’s sometimes nice to look back on a time when our biggest problem was a married man’s bodily fluids on a blue dress.
Today in 1999, Monica Lewinsky was subpeonaed for private videotapes to be used in President Clinton’s impeachment trials.
*sigh*
What a time, eh? It was the dawn of celebrity obsession (remember Gwyneth Palthrow?) and a time before the axis of evil, the destruction of the World Trade Center, the invasion of Iraq and all of the controversy surrounding Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
With that in mind, it seems wise to hope our future problems can be as simple as some Arkansauce on a blue dress.
LOVE the use of Arkansauce!!!! This morning on Opie & Anthony they were looking for a FCC friendly word to describe something of that nature and used Cool Whip instead.
"It was the dawn of celebrity obsession" People killed themselves when Rudy Valentino died. We've been obsessed with celebrities for WAY longer than that.
Yes, I was wondering how old Shira was.
I can believe the celebrity obsession bit. Princess Di died in August of '97, and from there, things only seemed to escalate. At least, that's how my memory processes it. :D
I have to agree with Vinnie on this. Celebrity obsession to my mind predates the 20th century but it most certainly predated the 1990's.