Dear Lovely…Actually MM died alone in her modest Brentwood, CA home.  She was for sure over-medicated, but when you are a great star, nobody ever says NO.

As to conspiracies, some do exist—well, Watergate!  But Mr. Wow lacks imagination, perhaps.  He just can’t get on board with conspiracies.  That said, I will read this book, recommended by Miss Smith.  But only because it was recommended by Miss Smith.

Belinda….Ooooh are you naughty!  And to think Mr. Wow is headlined here as "the ultimate insider."  I think not.

Dear Ronald…Mr. Wow simply doesn’t believe any conspiracy theories, though they are mighty entertaining.  As to Miss Monroe, she was a deeply depressed person who had attempted suicide at least three  times.  She was 36 (old, in 1962 Hollywood) and had been fired humiliatingly from her last film.  She had one terrible night and took those pills. It was not planned.  Blah, blah, to the Kennedys, doctors and housekeepers.  It takes away her humanity to make her the cog in some Byzantine conspiracy plot.  But Mr. Wow knows that’s what people want to believe now.

 Oh, and Diana’s driver was drunk and speeding.  Period.  Nobody had that blonde bumped off either.

Indeed, Ms.Gore rocks.  her greatest song was "You Don’t Own Me."    You don’t own me, I’m not just one of your many toys/You don’t own me, don’t say I can’t go with other boys

I’m young and I love to be young

I’m free and I love to be free

To live my life the way I want/to say and do whatever I please

Mr. Wow was wowed by this as a teen.

Maggie!  You are the only person who has brought that up.  Bravo.  Mr. Wow believes the American flag should fly high.  It is not a bandana or a tee-shirt or a decorative pin or a patch on the ass of your jeans.  If one wants to wave little American flags at a rally, or something like that, okay.  But even that I feel diminishes the power. 

Some years ago, Mr. Wow attended the famous Tina Brown launch party of her quickly defunct Talk magazine.  It was a marvelous, decadent fete—many reclined on plushy pillows. Madonna attended.  You get the idea.  The event happened on Liberty Island, home of the lady with the lamp. Most everybody—including Mr. Wow—was too busy schmoozing and networking and drinking and nibbling to pay much attention to Miss Liberty.  Toward the end of the evening, a somewhat tipsy Mr. Wow glanced skyward, clearing his head.  And there she was. What a woman!  More than that, there was a giant American flag, billowing majestically.  Mr. Wow is not a super-patriotic type.  Too cynical.  But I was as moved as I’ll ever be, to fact of living in America.  And it was from that point onward, I took a real distaste to casual use of the flag. 

Dear Deber…Kennedy was a hansome guy, despite the ravages of his illnesses…Ronald Reagan was a handsome movie star.  Perhaps he was not so alluring by the time he became president, but still…one shouldn’t be ageist.

 And although Mr. Wow loathes everything George W. Bush stood for (if indeed he stood for anything without the firm hand of Cheney)  I have to admit, I thought he was kind of sexy.  In a dumb-jock way.

I think Obama is an attractive man.  He has a killer smile, which is really the only thing you need. Well, and good skin.

Dear Maggie…I admit it—I hate the time change!  I have English muffins with peanut butter and jam in the a.m.  Perhaps I shoud switch to porridge?  I am always disgruntled because life is what it is.

Michelle can wear red anytime she likes and I love that our First Family is young and attractive—coverworthy.  BUT.  Just right now, at this second, I’d rather not see either of them in the glossy mode. 

Dear C Hardy—-NO, No, No!  It’s not wrong that people disagree with Mr. Wow.  What a boring place this old world would be if we all agreed.  One only learns from being challenged.  That said, I believe the picture of President Obama is recent.  Don’t get the lips thing.   Newsweek was idiotic.  I bemoan that because it gives Palin and Co. more ammunition.