July 15 |
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Arianna Stasinopoúlous's Birthday |
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What do Arianna Huffington and Fran
Dresher have in common? They both had gay husbands. After her marriage of 21
years ended, Dresher's husband, Peter Marc Jacobson, came out of the closet.
Arianna's lasted 11 years before her marriage to former Republican
Congressman and failed California senate candidate Michael Huffington ended
(Quelle
surprise! Another gay Republican in Congress).
Republican strategist Ed
Rollins who managed Michael Huffington's 1994 campaign for the California
Senate) once called Arianna Huffington "a domineering Greek Rasputin" who
was "the most ruthless, unscrupulous, and ambitious person I'd met in thirty
years in national politics."
While Fran's divorce
was so amicable, she turned it into a TV series produced by Jacobson titled
"Happily Divorced," in
which she plays a Los Angeles florist who enters the singles scene
after discovering that her husband of 18 years is gay. Arianna's was less
amicable and in the 2003 California recall election, Michael Huffington
endorsed Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger when Arianna was an opposing
candidate. Fran got a TV series out of her experience, Arianna reportedly
got a settlement in the seven-figure range. Arianna eventually became a disciple of the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, whose cult practiced open sexual intercourse among its members, She began to pursue a career in journalism and subsequently and wrote several articles for National Review. In 1981, a biography of Maria Callas, Maria Callas – The Woman Behind the Legend, and a biography of Pablo Picasso, Picasso: Creator and Destroyer . She was accused of plagiarism for her Callas bio and settled out of court in the low five figures. She was also accused of plagiarism for her Picasso bio but no lawsuit was filed. In 1995 Newt Gingrich helped make Arianna a senior fellow at his conservative think tank the Progress and Freedom Foundation, creating its “Center for Effective Compassion” as an advocate volunteerism as an alternative to the welfare state. Her relationship with Gingrich soured and in her 2000 book How To Overthrow the Government, she claims that Gingrich did not care about the poor. On May 9, 2005, with a large segment of her divorce settlement, she cofounded the news website The Huffington Post. a news and blog site that quickly become one of the most widely-read and linked tosites on on the internet. On February 7, 2011, AOL announced it would acquire The Huffington Post for $315 million and make Huffington president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group. So to celebrate the birthday of someone who
successfully applied the principles of Keynesian economics to her own life,
we suggest renting a copy of the film EdTV (1999) in which she
plays a panel member and make some
Soupa Patsas,
a popular Greek tripe
soup which
also has another connotation. according to her
critics,. |
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Soupa Patsas |
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© 2011 Gordon Nary and Tyler Stokes