Here's the problem: it's bait and switch. Just a couple of pages in, the author, perhaps frustrated with Goddess Callista's inner boringness, turns what first promised to be a Callista Festival into... a boring retelling of Newt's career and previous marriages. And she never gets back to Callista! She just drops her!
There are some new, tiny tidbits, sure, but what a letdown! Favorite part: a fan brings up the specter of hair dye, and Callista, not pleased, quickly changes the subject to Ellis the Elephant.
At least Jorge Arévalo's mean, Risko-esque caricature is a winner.
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Best line: "One woman in her seventies told me that she was voting for Romney but had driven forty minutes to see Callista Gingrich: “I want to know how she gets her hair to stay like that.”"
O, would that the New Yorker had plopped into my mailbox today! Perhaps anon... perhaps the morrow? I burn with anticipation! Would that I were Callista's can of Industrial Strength Aqua Net, that I could rain upon that hair.
Oooh, that issue just landed in my mailbox this afternoon!
-hmm, food for thought at:
http://jonathanturley.org/2012/01/18/martians-attack-morocco/
Jay S. observes-
I hope you also have seen the movie “Mars Attacks.” Ginrich’s wife Callista seems to have a role in this flick. (OK, I know, she isn’t really, but that “Martian” woman sure looks like her!)
I thought the same thing: the profile was really about Newton. Bait and switc -- or, really, "Have you met Ellis the Elephant?"
Even more egregious journalism: no reference to PSP!
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