Marilyn demonstrates her technique for future husband Arthur Miller
-Today's WTF?!?-
A 15-minute reel of 16mm film archived by the FBI has been sold to a unnamed New York businessman for $1.5 million. That's exactly $100,000 a minute.
That won't seem so high when you find out what's on the film. According to the report, it features Marilyn Monroe performing "oral sex on an unidentified man." Unidentified? He should be easy enough to find -- just look for the guy who won't shut the hell up about the time he got a blowjob from Marilyn Monroe.
But that's not the reason for the WTF. The report calls the film a "steamy, still-FBI-classified reel." How the hell can a collector buy something that's classified?
This is exactly how the Paris Hilton sex tape fell into the hands of America's enemies. (New York Post)
-Headline of the day-
"Pennsylvania crowd jeers Clinton attacks on Obama."
Yeah, it didn't work out so well. Hillary's remarks to the Alliance for American Manufacturing weren't extremely popular. "I understand my opponent came this morning and spent a lot of his time attacking me," she began.
The report tells us this was met with "audible groans, and a few shouted, 'No!'" Undeterred by this lack of enthusiasm for her train of thought, Clinton continued.
"I know that many of you, like me, were disappointed by the recent remarks he made." And here's the part I thought was funny. The audience shouted, "No!" as in, "You're wrong about that one."
"I am well aware that at a fundraiser in San Francisco he said some things that many people in Pennsylvania and beyond Pennsylvania have found offensive," she said and got "a smaller smattering of jeers."
According to the report, Clinton blamed "the disgruntled reaction to her remarks came from Obama supporters in attendance." If that's true, she's really in trouble, because there were sure a lot of them. (CNN, which has video)
-On Skid Row-
Alberto Gonzales, who resigned in disgrace as Attorney General, is holding up cardboard signs near highway off-ramps that read, "Will waterboard for food."
According to the report, "Mr. Gonzales, the former attorney general, who was forced to resign last year, has been unable to interest law firms in adding his name to their roster, Washington lawyers and his associates said in recent interviews." So Gonzo's out on the street, washing the windshields of passing cars and sleeping in a discarded refrigerator carton.
Well, that'd be my wish anyway. Actually, the lecture circuit earns him big bucks. "[F]riends said he was probably receiving as much income from speaking engagements as he did as attorney general with its annual salary of more than $191,000," we're told.
Remember, when you hire Alberto "Torquemada" Gonzales as a speaker, you'd damned well better pay. (NYT)
