It's a sad state of affairs when we can say a presidential candidate's wife would put Prozac in her brownies - and only "kind of" be kidding! Speaking of the dysfunctional, from PageSix:
BILL CLINTON let the jokes fly last night as he presided over the Big Apple's hottest party, celebrating the publication of his memoirs, "My Life."
Clinton, along with his senator wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and their daughter, Chelsea, were the stars of the Metropolitan Museum of Art gala, with Chelsea's boyfriend, Ian Klaus, also getting plenty of looks.
"By the time I finished working on the book, I was about down to the minimum wage with all the time I put into it," Clinton quipped to the crowd of movers and shakers who came to toast him.
He added, "I hope my publisher gets his money back."
Among the 1,000 guests who showed were: Barbara Walters, Star Jones, Andy Rooney, Don Hewitt, Charlie Rose, Ken Burns, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Judy Collins, Phoebe Snow, Maurice Tempelsman, Toni Morrison, Lauren Bacall, Natalie Portman (slumming it in shorts and high heels!) Sirio Maccione and Jonathan Tisch.
Also there were Clinton's former press secretary George Stepanopoulous, Al Franken, Winona Ryder, Larry King, Paula Zahn, the Rev. Al Sharpton, scribes Walter Mosley, Anna Deavere Smith, Fran Lebowitz, Pete Hamill and Calvin Trillin. Among the others attending were Anna Wintour, John Kerry's sister, Peggy, Mark Green and Bob Torricelli.
Introducing her husband, Hillary called Bill "the former president and future best-selling author, Chelsea's father and my constituent."
"I want to thank the senator," Bill told her, adding, "as one of your constituents, I'd like to see sewer and natural-gas systems expanded in Westchester [where they live]." The ex-prez also revealed that the "worst thing" about being a civilian again was "walking into a room and not having a song played."
Security at the invitation-only bash was tight, but one protester outside was able to wave a sign criticizing the former president for both his infidelity and his failure to capture Osama bin Laden.
The 957-page, $35 book from Alfred A. Knopf — which Clinton bragged he completed without the help of a ghostwriter — hit stores at midnight. It's an instant bestseller, with a first printing of 1.5 million copies and an advance-copy order already past 2 million.
This despite a rash of cold-to-lukewarm reviews, including a blast from The New York Times, which ripped parts of it as "sloppy, self-indulgent and often eye-crossingly dull."
The tome includes Clinton's dramatic admission that he had Oval Office sex sessions with intern Monica Lewinsky "because I could," and how Hillary made him sleep on the couch.
MONICA Lewinsky — in Little Rock, Ark., for a wedding this past weekend — was invited to tour the Clinton Presidential Library. But she declined.
The former White House intern — a bridesmaid of Ashley Linus Raines, her best friend from their days in the West Wing during the Bill Clinton administration — was overheard at the reception laughing with other guests about a phone call a member of the wedding party received.
Sources say the caller was one of the directors of the Clinton Presidential Library offering out-of-town guests an exclusive peek at the unfinished shrine to the ex-president. And the Clintonite specifically asked "if Monica would be joining them."
Lewinsky, who has consistently turned down requests for interviews and tried to maintain a low profile, was overheard expressing her surprise that anyone would think she'd accept such an invitation. And she had a good laugh imagining the scene if she had accepted and taken a tour of the Clinton cathedral, being led like a lamb into the lions' den.
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But he told the programme that he saw sleeping on the sofa as a positive sign.
"I thought that in a funny way the fact that I was sleeping on the couch and they were still in the same house with me meant that Hilary and Chelsea hadn't given up on me," he said.
"I figured out that I was getting a whipping at home where I should have gotten it. I felt that everything they [Hillary and daughter Chelsea] wanted to say or do to me, they had an absolute right to do so.
"The fact that I was still able to stay under the same roof... I thought that was progress.
"I was just glad to be among the living there at home and frankly, perhaps I shouldn't acknowledge this, but it was a relief to have to go to work and concentrate on something else because otherwise I would have nothing to think about all day long but what a bad fella I'd been."
From the BBC interview