| Monica continues her endless story about her love for Bill Monica Lewinsky, a former White House intern and the heroine of the sex scandal that almost cost Bill Clinton the presidency in 1998, reappeared on television yesterday. The American cable channel HBO premiered the documentary film “Monica in Black and White.” The idea of creating this tape belonged to Monica herself - she was concerned that when discussing her affair with Clinton, the media made “too many mistakes and incorrect judgments.” Monica decided to put an end to the rumors, especially the misconception that the intern dreamed of “seducing the president and thereby achieving fame” (wording from Ms. Lewinsky’s interview with CNN).
Accusing the press of constantly showing cruelty and heartlessness towards her, the heroine of the most notorious love scam of the past decade does not miss the opportunity to meet with journalists and complain to them about themselves or about the villainous fate. According to the president’s ex-lover, she hates the role of the favorite target of American comedians, and “evil jokes make you suffer.” Monica is especially offended by the use of the consonance of her last name with English words denoting sexual intercourse. “But in fact,” says the victim of broken love, “there was a mutual carnal connection, and also a very emotional one.”
This very idea, with the help of journalists she dislikes, Monica Lewinsky has been bringing to the attention of the people since 1999. And in 2000, she decided to invite HBO to make a film about her, filming of which began in April last year. The television masterpiece is an interview lasting more than an hour and a half, during which Monica answers questions from college students in the capital and TV channel employees. Questions and answers are interspersed with black and white footage, resurrecting the atmosphere of a sex scandal four years ago.
What new did the audience learn from the film from the words of its main character? They learned that Monica was a “fool” who had been “making love” with the president for more than two years (from 1995 to 1997) in the hope of getting him as her husband after the expiration of his term of office. The main motive of her revelations: “It’s not my fault - he came himself,” and even heartlessly did not care about her feelings, but she still feels sorry for Hillary and Chelsea Clinton. And Bill was sorry when he was tormented by prosecutor Kenneth Starr, who brought the case to the inclusion of impeachment proceedings. Even today Monica is ready to kill Linda Tripp, her traitorous friend who secretly recorded the lovers’ conversations. The ex-intern said that for the sake of soulless Bill, who suddenly remembered his moral duty, she sacrificed a great feeling for another, “very worthy man” with whom she had “many years of sincere friendship.”
Monica's revelations were flavored with a small patriotic twist - it turns out that along with her feelings for the president, she also developed “love for the power that he identified.” As might be expected, Ms. Lewinsky showered the audience with assurances of her longing for a normal life - with a husband, children, etc. etc. In general, the HBO producers did not please the audience with anything particularly interesting. “Oh God,” The Washington Post literally groans in its story “Monica: The Nightmare Continues.” The newspaper calls the HBO film a profanation, “slander of television documentaries and journalism in general” and asks a rhetorical question: “When will this Monica go away and leave us alone?” But never. Ms. Lewinsky has received six-figure royalties for a tearful memoir, a 1999 interview with Barbara Walters and, most recently, a CNN interview with celebrity interviewer Larry King. They say that HBO did not skimp on $150,000 for “Black and White.” But these are rumors, and Monica herself prefers not to talk about money matters: why talk about the main thing? Alexey SLOBODIN |
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