But will the pop poop out???
Not if you follow Hillary's Recipes (gg)
How to Serve Man, and Get Rich Doing It
By MAUREEN DOWD
She wanted as much as the pope. She wanted more than the king of business, Jack Welch. And she wanted much more than the president, her husband.
Hillary wanted $8 million — or as much of it as she could get — up front without having to write a book proposal, or even a book e-mail.
Simon & Schuster executives, who flew here Friday to meet with the first-lady-senator-elect, aced out a flock of other star-struck publishers who went to the White House, including Tina Brown
Her value springs from the byzantine relationship with her husband that has dominated the last nine years of American life — triggering mass trauma, providing lurid soap opera and shaping federal policy.
The first lady insisted, when her husband's wandering came up, that they deserved a zone of privacy………..".
Looking to the future, she knows she must be careful how vengeful and confessional she gets in her book.
Of course, Mrs. Clinton's never been known for candor. And publishers were delicately pressing her to see if what she'd spill justified the price.
It is delicious to imagine the roundelay of New York's two most relentless blondes — Tina and Hillary.
TINA: We can pay you a disproportionately large amount of money, Hillary. This book could rock the world. But, as you know, the pope got $8.5 million and flopped. I would be crushed if your book was not hot, hot, hot, if it were just dutiful and B-list. Do you have a title in mind?
HILLARY: Yes. Invitation to a Roasting.
TINA: Superb! So, could you bring yourself to reveal your twisted revenge fantasies?
HILLARY: You bet I'll throw in some red meat.
TINA: And could you discuss your feelings of fury and melancholy when your husband, um, strayed?
HILLARY: I'll fry the fat turkey.
TINA: Women readers will need, as well as merely want, in today's befuddled female environment, to hear how your little helpers in the White House cast Monica as a delusional stalker.
HILLARY: Share how I iced the cupcake? Sure.
TINA: And will you be able to boldly face the issue of Paula Jones and the other women who charged Bill with sexual misdeeds?
HILLARY: I can assure you, there will be a whole chapter on tarts.
TINA: Brilliant! But can you bring yourself to vivisect that peeping Tom, Ken Starr?
HILLARY: Just wait until you see how I carve the fruitcake.
TINA: Everyone will be talking about this book! Buzzzz!
HILLARY: I'll describe the steaming and stewing I did all those nights when I was alone.
TINA: Sizzzzle!
HILLARY: Okey-dokey artichokey.
In two years, Hillary will turn over her manuscript to eager editors. But it won't be a tell-all, or a tell-anything.
It will, as Hillary promised, be a cookbook.
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