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...they came into the crowds, Chelsea was, perhaps for the first time since her public life began six years ago, on center stage. She smiled with grace. She worked the rope line. She knelt and talked to the children, a bright-eyed American echo of other countries' princesses. No matter what designs lay behind those pictures, what sympathy they were designed to generate, there were some undeniable realities. The night before, she had had to watch her father admit to something hideously painful. It may not have been a surprise to her, but that makes it no less...
Tomorrow is the opening night of '54', the narco nostalgia flick starring Mike Myers as Steve Rubbell, and you might want to stay on this side of the velvet rope: Word is the film's a stinker...
...spotted Monica Lewinsky last week as she made her way quietly from Los Angeles to midtown Manhattan wearing a blond wig and dark glasses, it wasn't just her disguise at work. The girl we know so well, the one in the flirty beret on the Rose Garden rope line, is gone now, ground up by the machinery of investigation and fame. This new Monica is still warm, puts people at ease, pays attention to them when they speak, but she watches out for herself in a way she never had to before. The prosecutor whom she had viewed...
Being a territorial species, people began marking their turf only a few hours after the dawn's early light. With strategically placed bags and baskets, sneakers and sheets, a single person would defend a territory that would later fit a whole troop. Others would rope off areas and glare fiercely above their sunglasses if you strayed too close to their range. Some fellow interns and I grabbed some coffee and staked out a spot near the Washington Monument...
...that the main strategy here is to let Clinton be Clinton. He's really acting in campaign mode, doing town meetings and stuff that he'd do in America. He's giving them a little exposure to U.S.-style pizzazz. But we're still waiting for that first rope line...