Quote of the Day

 A lesbian president who looks like Julie Andrews and dresses to meet heads of state in “ankle-length skirts, grazing the Manolo Blahnik kitten heels.” She would save her “butch trouser suit for weekends at Camp David and vacation hikes in Yellowstone. No plaid lumberjack shirts at any time.”

--Maureen Dowd, quoting Andre' Leon Talley's vision for America's first openly gay president.

Quote of the Day

"I can’t remember the last time I saw two people really falling in love in a movie. Now all we get is the meet cute, a montage, a kiss, then acoustic song into fade out. Nothing experiential, only movies manufactured from movies. Apparently, there was once a time when Jill Clayburgh danced around in her underwear. She laughed, she cried, she hurt, but it seems like a legend that never happened. Now we have ‘The Bounty’ and I don’t know what to do on Friday nights."

--Sam Wasson, author of 5th Ave., 5 AM about the making of Breakfast at Tiffany's.  His discussion with Maureen Dowd about the pathetic state of Hollywood romantic comedies is here.