editor victoria’s comment ~ wow! the title alone feels like more disclosure to me. and of all days too ~ i had another JFK Jr/Carolyn dream last night…my mate was in this one as well…..we were in this office type space – kitchenette off to the side. carolyn was lying on an early-american type sofa – it had small flowers all over it and the fabric was velvet-like…..she got up and left then room….then john went to lay on it and when he did, he had towels and clothes and shorts all over it. that will make sense when you read the piece in full….
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In the ’90s, John F. Kennedy Jr. founded and edited a revolutionary magazine called George, which covered politics like it was pop culture. Was it folly—or a glimpse of the Trumpian future?
Unfortunately, the pop star—perhaps one of the few people more famous than Kennedy at that time—shot him down. “Dear Johnny Boy,” she began in her handwritten fax (which appears in Terenzio’s book, Fairy Tale Interrupted), “Thanks for asking me to be your mother but I’m afraid I could never do her justice. My eyebrows aren’t thick enough, for one.”
With Madonna out, the September cover took a decidedly different turn—instead of referencing his mom, Kennedy chose to nod at another well-known woman in his dad’s life: Marilyn Monroe.
Drew Barrymore was posed in a nude-colored cocktail dress and platinum wig, with a mole perfectly placed on her left cheek. The idea came from George’s executive editor, Elizabeth Mitchell, who suggested it as a fiftieth-birthday tribute to President Bill Clinton. The reference: In May 1962, in front of fifteen thousand people during a Democratic-party fundraiser at Madison Square Garden, Monroe had famously serenaded Kennedy’s father ten days before his forty-fifth birthday with a breathy, seductive “Happy Birthday, Mr. President.” The subtext to the song, of course, is that the president and the actress were rumored to have had an affair.
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