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Tuesday, April 15, 2003
Things I know, didn't know, and wish I didn't know
Lloyd Groves is just a wealth of info this morning:
I already knew that Bill O'Reilly was a racist:
Emceeing Saturday night's Best Friends rock-and-roll gala at the Marriott Wardman Park -- which raised $800,000 for the 15-year-old charity benefiting inner-city schoolchildren -- the Fox News Channel star was trying to fill dead air during a lull in the entertainment.
Members of the "Best Men," as the sixth-to-eighth-grade boys in the program are called, were delayed getting onstage to perform a lip-synced rendition of the Four Tops standard "Reach Out (I'll Be There)." O'Reilly ad-libbed: "Does anyone know where the Best Men are? I hope they're not in the parking lot stealing our hubcaps."
Many in the audience -- which included Cabinet secretaries Tommy Thompson, Gale Norton and Mel Martinez, Mayor Tony Williams and business types Fred Malek and Jim Kimsey -- apparently didn't hear about the hubcaps amid the hubbub. A witness spotted attendee Bo Derek's jaw dropping, and yesterday she confirmed that she did hear it, but declined to comment further. Channel 9 anchor Andrea Roane was overheard murmuring: "Unbelievable."
I didn't know that Sidney Blumenthal had a book coming out. Of course it was okay for Michael Kelly to trash Blumenthal, but apparently Blumenthal can't return the favor since Kelly went and got himself killed:
But the buzz around town is that "The Clinton Wars" will contain an unflattering portrait of Blumenthal's nemesis Michael Kelly, whose life was celebrated last Friday in an emotional Washington memorial service.
The 46-year-old Kelly, a Washington Post columnist and Atlantic Monthly editor-at-large, was killed in Iraq on April 3 -- too late for Blumenthal to revise or soften his book in light of Kelly's death.
Blumenthal -- a former Washington Post reporter who clashed with Kelly when both worked for the New Yorker during Clinton's first term -- declined to comment yesterday. The book is still under wraps. But the two were widely known to have disdained each other.
"I worked with Blumenthal at the New Yorker and didn't like him," Kelly wrote in a 1998 Washington Post column in which he derided Blumenthal as "formerly a journalist cum amateur Clinton knife artist." A January 2000 Boston Magazine profile of Kelly by Blumenthal pal David Brock -- timed to Kelly's becoming editor of the Atlantic -- recounts that he accused Blumenthal of "reporting back to the Clintons on the New Yorker's internal deliberations. Blumenthal hotly denied this." Brock quoted Blumenthal: "I have no idea why Michael Kelly behaves the way he does."
Lastly, I could have gone one hundred years without knowing that Larry King was in a Victoria's Secret helping his wife pick out things:
The CNN talkmeister and his wife, Shawn King, made the scene yesterday at Victoria's Secret at Georgetown Park, chatting up the sales staff as they shopped for sexy underwear. "They seem really happy and they're really nice," saleswoman Adrienne Williams told us. "He was helping her pick out underwear. I asked if they needed help. They said, 'No, we have it all covered.' " They spent $56 on "six mesh thongs -- pink, blue, yellow -- all the new spring colors," Williams said
On behalf on the whole civilized world, I'd like to say, "Ew".
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