Fear Strikes Out

From Fully Clothed Paul Levine...

I found Hillary Clinton's "It's 3 a.m. and your children are sleeping" commercial pretty disgusting. Fear mongering that would make Karl Rove proud. Strikingly, hubby Bill spoke out against exactly this sort of trash four years ago, telling a rally to vote for the person who offered hope (John Kerry) and not fear (You Know Who).
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"THE DEVIL WORE DOCKSIDERS"

That's the headline of the story profiling our Cornelia in the new issue of "Mystery Scene" magazine. Here's the lead:

When Cornelia Ludlam Fabyan Read decided to turn to a life of crime fiction, she knew she didn't have to go far to tap into bad behavior. She simply shimmied up her family tree.

From the Colonial-era captain who directed the Pequot tribe massacre of 1637 to the CIA agent who reportedly used Air America to smuggle opium out of Laos during the Vietnam War, "it seemed like the worst incidents in American history were perpetrated by one of my relatives," notes Read, born into the tenth (and last) generation of her mother's family to inhabit tony Centre Island in Oyster Bay, New York.

The magazine posts its reviews on-line, but to read articles in the current issue, you have to buy or subscribe. Hey, why not? They can't give it away. "Mystery Scene" correctly bills itself as "Your Guide to the Best in Mystery, Crime & Suspense."
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WE'RE NAKED, BUT ARE WE PROTESTERS?

We here at Naked Scribblers sometimes get visitors who are looking for other websites. Yes, Cornelia...those kind of websites. But some surfers confuse us with an offbeat little Internet niche called Naked Protesters.

In a recent item, Katy, a New York actress, staged a protest outside a Broadway theater. Her story about the business (below the photo) rings true.

"I had a meeting with a casting director from LA. Without a glance at my head shot or resume, and not even a decent introduction, this stranger looks at me, all 5 feet and 2 inches, 125 pounds of me and says, 'You need to lose twenty or gain thirty because where you are right now, I can’t do anything with you.' A bit thrown, but not wanting to be rude, I ask, 'Can you elaborate on that?' To which she replied, 'Your face says ingenue but it wouldn’t quite work, and I can’t put you as fat best friend because you’re not exactly fat.'”

Ah, Hollywood.

Coming soon to Naked Protesters: Jim Born goes topless to protest F.D.L.E. body fat standards.

Revealingly yours,

Paul