The White House released a few photos of Jenna Bush's Saturday wedding to Henry Hager, son of the chairman of Republican Party in Virginia. Guests were treated to commemorative mugs, which they could take home and put next to their George H.W. Bush commemorative plates.
With the pope safely out of sight, Bush administration liaisons Laura and Jenna are free to hit the 92nd Street Y to promote Read All About It!, a picturebook for kids that comes on the heels of Ana's Story, a non-fiction manuscript that was met with a collective thud by everyone except daytime TV. It's all a part of Laura's push for literacy, a cause that's also been met with a collective thud. [92Y]
• 50 Cent pulls an Amy Winehouse. Intern Whitney explains, "A tv crew had the go-ahead to go into his dressing room and when the camera walked in he and his entourage were all over a table snorting something." Action starts around the 1:35 mark.
• Incredibly well connected daughters of politicians: they're just like us!
• Britney Spears' exonerated baby-daddy JR Rotem has apparently hit the internets in search of a "hot Jewish girl."
• Jenna Bush reminds us how much more we'd like her easygoing dad, if only he weren't sitting in the oval office.
• Oprah and Gayle fail to make People's 2007 list of the "Cutest Celebrity Couples." Better luck next year, girls!
• Everyone check out our boss' glamorous big-screen debut!
Maybe with all the connections in the free world, publishing is a lucrative venture. At least that’s what Jack Ford, Gerald’s son, is hoping.
The former first kid and part of the founding staff of Outside magazine is launching a new media project, Mountain Time Publishing. The company will run a bi-weekly lifestyle magazine insert for 20 small daily newspapers in ski resort towns. The inserts will start before Christmas.
After a childhood of press conferences, apparently publishing is the ultimate follow-up career. Too bad we'll have to wait at least eight years for Chelsea's tell-all.
The New Yorker's Ben McGrath on first daughter Jenna Bush's new book:
She has a weakness for dubious ethnic analogies: "His eyes were wild, like those of the pumas that lived in the jungles," and "A nurse wrapped Beatriz in a blanket—like a burrito."
Fair enough, but then again, it's hard to really blame a girl whose father once said, "I heard somebody say, 'Where's (Nelson) Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead. Because Saddam killed all the Mandelas."*
*Spoiler: Nelson Mandela's still alive.
Just a few minutes into her Larry King Live interview last night and book-touring Jenna Bush's gaffe made us unable to concentrate on the rest of it, even when she coyly avoided a declaration that she disagrees with her father's foreign policy.
Discussing the pros and cons of having a White House wedding, Jenna's slip-up and off-camera gaze has us imagining her book publicist and Secret Service agent cringing in unison.
One would think Jenna Bush's real life foibles would not need inflating. One would be wrong.
From the Times:
Correction: October 1, 2007
An article on Saturday about the publication of a new book by Jenna Bush, a daughter of President and Mrs. Bush, referred incorrectly to her involvement with under-age drinking. Ms. Bush was cited twice for under-age drinking, but was never arrested. The article also referred incorrectly to a widely publicized photograph of Ms. Bush taken in 2004. She stuck her tongue out at members of the news media, not at Secret Service agents.
Phew, glad that was cleared up.
From today's NYDN:
Wild Jenna Bush is getting married - to a former Karl Rove intern!
The 25-year-old First Daughter was engaged Wednesday to Henry Hager, 29, a former White House and Commerce Department aide and son of Virginia's Republican Party chairman.
Hager, who also worked for the Bush-Cheney reelection campaign, popped the question in Maine, where Jenna is staying at the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport. Twin sister Barbara, who is still single, also was seen at the compound recently.
Poor Barbara. It looks as though the only thing worse than having 70% of the country hate your father is having 100% of the country realize you're a desperate boy-repellent spinster who will probably die alone.
Just as we predicted a mere three months (and three days) ago, Jenna Bush is officially engaged to her longtime flame, Henry Hager.
In order to commemorate this happy occasion, CNN does a long, sort-of boring story on the couple's announcement, relying heavily on this recycled photograph of First Lady Laura Bush picking her nose.
In breaking unsubstantiated gossip, we're hearing that first daughter Jenna Bush is about to be secretly engaged to her longterm boyfriend (and onetime Karl Rove intern, Henry Hager). And, according to our tipster, you heard it here first, "even before the paparazzi breaks it!" Here's more about Jenna's (unconfirmed) weekend plans:
Jenna Bush is getting engaged this weekend…Henry Hager is on spring break and in South America visiting Jenna. His parents are coming this weekend and the Bushes' will be finishing up their South America tour and joining on their way back for the weekend….They want to get married on the ranch in Texas….can you imagine the security at that event?
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