Posted on 11/22/2024 9:25:26 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Brooke Shields considered former President George H.W. Bush such a close "confidant" that she would ask him just about anything.
Shields, 59, admitted that she considered the late politician her substitute grandfather during an event to support the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy's New York Celebration of Reading event at the Lotos Club.
The actress and author, who will soon publish her new book, "Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old," even had a nickname for the 41st president of the United States.
"I call him Papa Bush. I was dating somebody [whose father] was an ambassador in Bermuda … He was my confidant about this boyfriend," she said, per Page Six.
Lauren Bush Lauren, Bush's granddaughter and host of the event, laughed as she recalled, "He loved some good gossip."
Shields dated Kelly Gaines in the early '90s. His father, Eb Gaines, was the head of the U.S. consulate in Bermuda under Bush. Shields once told Redbook in 1991 that Kelly was a better kisser than John F. Kennedy Jr.
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I ran into Brooke Shields at a club in D.C. in the late ‘80s. She was with two Eurotrash men, she was taller than I am, and she was wearing a pair of back leggings, which made her long legs look like two tree trunks.
“Date a girl who DUI murdered her high school friend. It worked for me!”
RiNO wing trying to enter the culture.
'How so, my dear? Is Mr. Huntingdon a good man?''He is a much better man than you think him.'
'That is nothing to the purpose. Is he a good man?'
'Yes - in some respects. He has a good disposition.'
'Is he a man of principle?'
'Perhaps not, exactly; but it is only for want of thought: if he had some one to advise him, and remind him of what is right - '
'He would soon learn, you think - and you yourself would willingly undertake to be his teacher? But, my dear, he is, I believe, full ten years older than you - how is it that you are so beforehand in moral acquirements?'
'Thanks to you, aunt, I have been well brought up, and had good examples always before me, which he, most likely, has not; - and besides, he is of a sanguine temperament, and a gay, thoughtless temper, and I am naturally inclined to reflection.'
'Well, now you have made him out to be deficient in both sense and principle, by your own confession - '
'Then, my sense and my principle are at his service.'
'That sounds presumptuous, Helen! Do you think you have enough for both; and do you imagine your merry, thoughtless profligate would allow himself to be guided by a young girl like you?'
'No; I should not wish to guide him; but I think I might have influence sufficient to save him from some errors, and I should think my life well spent in the effort to preserve so noble a nature from destruction. He always listens attentively now when I speak seriously to him (and I often venture to reprove his random way of talking), and sometimes he says that if he had me always by his side he should never do or say a wicked thing, and that a little daily talk with me would make him quite a saint. It may he partly jest and partly flattery, but still - '
'But still you think it may be truth?'
'If I do think there is any mixture of truth in it, it is not from confidence in my own powers, but in his natural goodness. And you have no right to call him a profligate, aunt; he is nothing of the kind.'
'Who told you so, my dear? What was that story about his intrigue with a married lady - Lady who was it - Miss Wilmot herself was telling you the other day?'
'It was false - false!' I cried. 'I don't believe a word of it.'
'You think, then, that he is a virtuous, well-conducted young man?'
'I know nothing positive respecting his character. I only know that I have heard nothing definite against it - nothing that could be proved, at least; and till people can prove their slanderous accusations, I will not believe them. And I know this, that if he has committed errors, they are only such as are common to youth, and such as nobody thinks anything about; for I see that everybody likes him, and all the mammas smile upon him, and their daughters - and Miss Wilmot herself, are only too glad to attract his attention.'
'Helen, the world may look upon such offences as venial; a few unprincipled mothers may be anxious to catch a young man of fortune without reference to his character; and thoughtless girls may be glad to win the smiles of so handsome a gentleman, without seeking to penetrate beyond the surface; but you, I trusted, were better informed than to see with their eyes, and judge with their perverted judgment. I did not think you would call these venial errors!'
'Nor do I, aunt; but if I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation, even supposing your suspicions to be mainly true - which I do not and will not believe.'
'Well, my dear, ask your uncle what sort of company he keeps, and if he is not banded with a set of loose, profligate young men, whom he calls his friends - his jolly companions, and whose chief delight is to wallow in vice, and vie with each other who can run fastest and furthest down the headlong road to the place prepared for the devil and his angels.'
'Then I will save him from them.'
'Oh, Helen, Helen! you little know the misery of uniting your fortunes to such a man!'
I think that’s Katie Couric. I could be mistaken.
Even if she is Katie Couric?
Man, that just ruined my Friday afternoon. She was right in the heart of my pubescent wheel-house. Well, her and Linda Carter, Debbie Harry and Farrah and....
That’s Katy Couric..............
Wholesome, it is nice when people connect and it seems they connected.
Why are you so obsessed about them?
Who is that?
Katy Couric.....................
in my defense, the picture was posted without a name
I wonder if he pinched her butt ...
Beooke looks so much like her grandfather.
She was conservative and pro-life.
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