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To: sea_urchin who wrote (20657)4/14/2004 2:26:44 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) of 80990
 
Re: and was I turned right off her.

Apparently so are 98% of Californios.

Can you describe in more detail exactly what it is about her "first impression" that is so off-putting? I'm curious because I think my first impression of her when she was campaigning for her ex-husband's Senate campaign in California made her seem quite grotesque.

However, before that fiasco, she was already a noted celebrity and wit, having done a sort of "stand up" at Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco in 1995 in a bravura performance that wowwed the crowd and got her written up in the political gossip column in the EssEff Chronicle:

sfgate.com

Quote:

" Ed Moose, who was there, reports that Arianna Stassinopoulos stole the show from the Dems at last Fri. night's annual gathering of political animals at Bimbo's. ``Willie left early, Richie Ross finked out, Nancy Pelosi didn't speak, so there was Arianna wearing a quarter of a mill's worth of earrings, dressed like a star and firing more one-liners than Leno and Letterman combined'' . . . OK, one chorus of ``DO Put Your Wifie on the Stage, Mr. Huffington.''"

[[Here is a man I definitely miss: sfgate.com ]]

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The more you get to know Arianna, the more you realize what an astonishing jewel of a human she is.

Here's where I hope to listen to her every Friday:
kcrw.com

Do I sound like a fan? I sure hope so. Arianna is like a bubbling mountain spring gushing great new life into the turgid cesspool of American politics.
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