Posted on 11/15/2005 11:40:27 AM PST by My Favorite Headache
Chelsea In Taradise
Is Tara Reid the latest thong-flasher to threaten the Clinton political machine? We hear Sen. Hillary Clinton has been in crisis mode ever since she learned her daughter, Chelsea, has been spending time with the nip-slipping party girl.
Clubland sources say the Clintons Stanford-and-Oxford-educated spawn first met Reid in Europe over the summer while the American Pie actress was filming her short-lived E! show, Taradise. After Chelsea broke up with her longtime boyfriend Ian Klaus, she and Reid became inseparable, were told.
Its almost like Chelsea dumped Ian for Tara, laughs one New York scenester. All of a sudden Tara was staying at Chelseas in New York, and they were going out to Bungalow 8 and Nobu every night.
Sources say the unlikely friendship remained out of the spotlight until the two flew to Las Vegas together in late September to attend the star-studded opening of Tao at the Venetian hotel.
I think someone e-mailed a picture of Chelsea and Tara together in Vegas to Hillary, a Capitol Hill staffer tells us. All I know is I hear Hillary went nuts. Shes getting ready to run for President and her daughter is hanging out with Hollywoods biggest mess.
Now insiders say Chelsea, who works by day as a consultant at white-shoe firm McKinsey & Company, has strict orders not be seen in public with Reid.
Tara still says theyre friends, but I havent seen them together lately, says a Reid pal. Hillary has enough political liabilities on her lap as it is, notes the Capitol Hill source, the last thing she needs is her daughter running around with another one. (Regardless of whether her mother has gotten through to her, Chelsea at least had a good reason to skip her buddys 30th birthday party last weekend at Hollywood nightspot Mood. The young diplo-in-training was in Israel with her parents for the memorial service of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.)
Reid doesnt currently have a publicisther boozy antics have worn through three reps this year aloneand her manager, Danny Sussman, was travelling and could not be reached for comment. A staffer in Sussmans office, however, said that she didnt know if the star-crossed pals see each other that much any more, since Taras in L.A. and Chelseas in New York. Senator Clintons spokeswoman, Nina Blackwell, did not respond to detailed calls and e-mails, and Chelseas rep, Julie Goldberg, said, We dont comment on Chelseas personal life.
White shoe firm is a phrase used to describe the leading firms in America, particularly firms that have been in existence for more than a century, are staffed by Ivy League graduates, and represent Fortune 500 companies. It frequently (but not always) refers to law firms, and frequently (but not always) refers to firms in New York City.
Or like the Kennedy administration.
I don't see how anyone can say her or her parents are dumb. Her parents may be despicable people, but they are both smart. And Chelsea, with the exception of hanging out with Tara Reid, has never done anything to deserve derision that I have seen. She has degrees from two very presitigious schools and although who her parents are helped her get into those schools. They still don't just give those degrees away.
I was wondering whether it referred to either OR... a "nip" from a bottle.
Me either...and I wonder what CONSULTING she does! She knows nothing: She was given her degrees: Remember her traveling-on-our-dime while "enrolled"?
Tara Reid was at some red carpet event wearing a low cut dress with a stole over her shoulders. When she walked up to the area with all the photographers she dramatically dropped the stole. Well, along with the stole she dropped one of the staps of her dress exposing her breast.
She's just standing there smiling, breast flapping in the breeze while the photogs are going crazy snapping her picture. Someone came up and whispered, "Hey, dummy, your boob is out," and she pulled up her strap.
I'm sure this is a pretty sturdy limb to go out on, but I always thought it was a PR stunt. How can you not realize your dress FELL OFF. Equally plausible is that she was just so hammered she didn't realize what was going on.
Ahhh... thank you for clearing that up.
Now that I know what they mean it's clear why I didn't know what they meant in the first place. (people and places I will never come across in my life) ;-)
When you look at these two women in one frame...it looks as though they are different species. lawdy!!! Pitiful Pearl and Barbie
Actually...Pitiful Pearl is kinda cute whereas, chelsea isn't.
Whatever happened to that facelift thing? Did it fall?
(meeeeeow!)
Thanks for the white shoe definition. But why white shoe?
I don't know. The pic with her in the hat looks good, this one looks bad. She doesn't look so pretty with out a good make-up job.
Rich country-club types famously used to wear seersucker suits and white bucks to the office between Memorial and Labor day - so the attorneys who worked for prestige firms dressed in this way during the summer, while the schlubs who worked for lesser firms couldn't afford seasonal wardrobes and wore normal suits year-round.
Well that makes sense...it should have occurred to me. Funny though that this "hip" writer, steeped in au courant gossip, would use an apparently antiquated term.
Bill has been eyeing his next young victim you meant to say?
A few internet definitions..FYI
-- The white-shoe firm's name is derived from the white buck shoes that were a fashion requirement within elite social organizations in the 1950s.
-- The phrase is in reference to the brief popularity of white shoes (and in some cases, a white belt) among fashionable New Yorkers.
-- Broker-dealer firms that disdain practices such as hostile takeovers.
In other words a nexus of insufferable prigs who think they run the world.
Anyone who's anybody just has to have the occasional wardrobe malfunction!
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