Next up for American Crime Story: “Impeachment” produces by Monica Lewinsky

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Starts tonight!

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Oh, yay! Thanks for the heads up, PP.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s terrific that the narrative has changed so that we see the Monica Lewinsky occurrence for what it was. Shame she’s had to spend twenty years of her life as an outcast while Bill (and Hill!) were able to put it behind them and reign as the ideological figures of the Democratic Party. Bill Clinton, for all his charm and brilliance, is a womanizer and possibly a rapist. I will definitely be watching.

Outcast? She’s exploited this and milked it for all it’s worth for over 20 years.

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Monica Lewinsky's Ted talk: the Price of Shame is very good.

https://www.ted.com/talks/monica_lewinsky_the_price_of_shame?language=en

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Can you even imagine being in her shoes?

She could have changed her name and moved on with her life

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Anonymous wrote:

Can you even imagine being in her shoes?

She could have changed her name and moved on with her life

Bingo. Plus verified social media and constantly posting thirsty crap begging for attention, making "light" of her scandal. She's always been and remained a low IQ messy schemer, from her wiki,

"Following her high school graduation, Lewinsky attended Santa Monica College, a two-year community college, and worked for the drama department at Beverly Hills High School and at a tie shop. In 1992, she allegedly began a five-year affair with Andy Bleiler, her married former high school drama instructor."

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Anonymous wrote:This show's a first: first time the real person is better looking than the actress picked to play them -- Monica's much more attractive than the actress.

+1.
That Feldstein girl is very dowdy-looking. Bill Clinton, surely, was a womanizer, but I don't think even he'd fall for her.
Monica, on the other hand, at her heyday, was attractive, no questions asked.

+1. It’s distracting, unfortunately

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Feldstein is Jonah Hill's sister. Her ascendance in Hollywood is pure industry nepotism - she's not that talented, she's not a writer, and doesn't really have the looks. If this were the 1980s, she'd "have a face for radio."

Agree with others that Monica was strikingly pretty at the time of the scandal.

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I think her shame came not just for her actions but exposure of her personality and its deficits. Her naivete, but moreso her great need and hunger for approval and validation, her tendency toward romantic fantasies, her impulsively (evidenced in her binging) and her self esteem deficits and poor judgment. Yes, she was young, but also emotionally reactive even for her age and I think a histrionic/hysterical personality or features. Lots of emotional reactivity and intensity. That I think was shaming. I am sure she has matured. But not sure why she did not change her name as well...it's followed her and I'm not if it had to.

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*not sure about the degree that it had to. To what degree is it that the public does not let her live it down and move on and to what degree does she struggle internally...hard to know. I'm sure she has had a lot of therapy and tried. Very difficult situation.

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Anonymous wrote:Feldstein is Jonah Hill's sister. Her ascendance in Hollywood is pure industry nepotism - she's not that talented, she's not a writer, and doesn't really have the looks. If this were the 1980s, she'd "have a face for radio."

Agree with others that Monica was strikingly pretty at the time of the scandal.

I don't think all of that is necessarily true.

She didn't just graduate from high school and jump right into lots of roles or even big roles. She went to college, but she didn't study film or theatre there.

IMO, Dave Franco is more of a star due to industry nepotism than she is.

I've never met other people who even know Jonah Hill is her brother. Is she the greatest actress? No, but she's not terrible. I would probably say she's currently D or C List. I do expect that to rise after this show and I'm sure she'll get an emmy nom.

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Anonymous wrote:

Can you even imagine being in her shoes?

She could have changed her name and moved on with her life

I don't think that would have worked. Her face was as famous as her name.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s terrific that the narrative has changed so that we see the Monica Lewinsky occurrence for what it was. Shame she’s had to spend twenty years of her life as an outcast while Bill (and Hill!) were able to put it behind them and reign as the ideological figures of the Democratic Party. Bill Clinton, for all his charm and brilliance, is a womanizer and possibly a rapist. I will definitely be watching.

I am TOTALLY with you.

I was working in politics back then and was in close contact with both Bill and Hillary. Bill is a complete sleaze and Hillary is a snake. It is easy to see how someone like ML would get taken in by the POTUS role and the smarm of Bill. The American public fell for his act and his smear campaign against her.

It is wonderful that people are finally waking up to the fact that Bill was the one who was wrong and ML was the victim. Even if Bill didn't use force ML he used his position to compel her. Disgusting.

Unfortunately now ML has lost 20 years of her life AND every time someone hears her name they are reminded of how she was victimized. I am so glad that things are turning around for her.

Not to put to fine a point on her suffering, but Monica has made multi-millions off being the intern who gave a single blow job to the president.

$500,000 for the first book
$1,000,000 for her first public interview (Barbara Walters)
$200,000 for the Monica Lewinsky line of handbags
$300,000 for her Jenny Craig endorsement
$250,000 for her television gig
$12,000,000 for her second memoir (O.O)
$1,000,000 for the Netflix biography deal
$750,000 for the assorted guest appearances she'd done over 10 years on places like Jimmy Kimmel Live

https://www.latimes.com/books/la-xpm-2012-sep-20-la-jc-monica-lewinsky-memoir-20120920-story.html
https://slate.com/human-interest/2012/09/monica-lewinsky-s-book-deal-12-million-is-a-lot-of-money-and-yet-we-still-feel-bad-for-her.html

Not saying she's wrong. I applaud her for getting her money, but let's not pretend she hasn't done well for herself off the scandal.

Except for the $12M deal, that's not a lot of money for decades of working. Her career abruptly ended and she was enmeshed in scandal, labeled a slut. I wouldn't want her path even if it came with the money.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Can you even imagine being in her shoes?

She could have changed her name and moved on with her life

I don't think that would have worked. Her face was as famous as her name.

+1

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How dumb are the people thinking she could change her name and avoid the spotlight? Impossible. She could either live her life or move to the North Pole to escape it.