It was approaching midnight inside a throbbing Studio 54, New York City’s nightclub extraordinaire and nocturnal epicenter of excess in the 1980s. As bartenders naked to the waist filled goblets of champagne, club cofounder Steve Rubell, famous for plucking favored guests from the surging crowd outside, was showing off his latest “pick.”
His name was Scott Brown. But Rubell, who recognized the 22-year-old Massachusetts man, who had recently won Cosmopolitan magazine’s 1982 “America’s Sexiest Man” contest and posed nude for its centerfold, promptly dubbed him “the Cosmo boy.” When Rubell spotted R. Couri Hay, The National Enquirer celebrity columnist and stringer for People magazine, he led Brown toward him, hoping his guest’s sudden renown might garner the club a mention.
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Perfect timing. Lets portray Brown as a headed pretty boy. The ironic twist is that the studio 54 gang who embraced him are the same class of people who reject him because of the R after his name. I am breathlessly awaiting the next pun biases Globe piece on Warren about how she rose from the depths of poverty to fight fr Everyman by trying to force the taxpayers to pay for benefits her clients should pay.
Go for it Numeral. You have it exactly right. There is no shame to posing in the nude or showing up in the in crowd. It's what life is all about. The Brown campaign recognizes your astute observations and is proud to have you on our team.
Lets review Granny's timeline...from those hard days when they only had 3 cars and she drove a USED mg to school... To the sweat and toil of a 3rd rate professor at a 2nd rate school... and then, the camera zooms in on a form....a hand holding a pen....a box is checked.... and then granny zooms to Penn...and then to Harvard (a quick cut to a pencil with an eraser undoing a checked box...) and then to a court room where she's protecting big companies from a lawsuits.... and finally, it pans over the empty class room....Granny teaches but one class a semester, but pulls down 340K... Now that's a tale...based on a true story...
The Brown campaign thanks you for protecting his honor. We especially like your smarts on how some women get ahead in this country. We know they can't if they're caught modeling in the nude. Please keep up the down and dirty fighting for the real manly men in this country. You are a true asset to our cause.
Liberals just hate anyone who works and earns their way up the ladder. Scott had a horrific childhood, worked to support himself, joined the military.... How America ought to be. Granny lied, cheated and stole. Why America is starting to circle the drain.
Too bad Warren won't use the "cheesecake" and "window dressing" aspect of Scott Brown because after all that's what he still portrays in his everyman brown leather barn jacket and pickup truck. Why not call his Senate run for what it is?
Wow! the pretty boy, who is bipartisan but refuses to say he is a Republican in MA has a worthwhile quality, he loves himself and will do everthing he can to get what he wants. Women should vote for this man because he offers so much intellectually!
The Boston Globe view of the world ... live and let live for gays, transexuals etc ( I agree ), forgive / overlook Barney Frank's prostitute boyfriend, Bill Clinton is the greatest President ever despite in-office adultery, but Scott Brown was a GASP! model who used the money to feed his law school education habit! Outrageous!
What I so love and appreciate about the Boston Globe is it's RELENTLESS focus on issues and substance, especially in its political coverage. Not. Ms. Jacobs writes "But in a contest in which personal biography has figured large ... ". I'll say. What she characterizes as "personal biography" strikes some of us as yet more meaningless vapid pap. Yet another front-page story, with picture, that is DEVOID of substance -- while no mention is made of, for example, the reality that most of Mr. Brown's "bipartisan" votes were on matters where his vote made NO DIFFERENCE, and that on his votes that DID matter (such as continuing the right-wing Tea Party obstruction of desperately-needed legislation) Scott Brown voted with the right wing an astounding 30 of 32 times until Ms. Warren's candidacy forced his hand. The utter inaninity of the Globe's "coverage" of this campaign is appalling.
He still sounds like an alter boy compared to the early to mid life style of his predecessor. Brown never paid someone to take a test for him, got caught and expelled, or was a drunken womanizer. Yet this upstanding citizen was re-elected for over forty years.
A dissolute life on Fire Island and Studio 54? Waking up, not knowing where he was, in the bed of an aging socialite? I'm sure Scott Brown supporters are reevaluating their moral compasses at this very moment.
Why is the Globe publishing such drivel when there are serious issues in this election? The opening paragraph reads like a breathless lead to a crappy romance novel. All suit no man seems to fit Brown and perhaps that is the point but Cosmo Brown is more like no suit no man.
Standing Ovation for Sally Jacobs, author of a world-class partisan hit piece, on the eve of an election. Take a good look in the mirror Sally!