Susan Whitson....said that Mrs. Bush had never actually seen the racy ABC hit show. Ms. Whitson said the first lady had heard about the characters and plot from the Bush twins, Jenna and Barbara, who are fans, and was planning to watch the entire first season on a DVD she has at home.
Parvin's trademark is self-deprecating humor. He says it makes politicians more likable. It's all very calculated.
Mr. Parvin wrote the lyrics to "Secondhand Clothes," the song-and-dance routine that Nancy Reagan performed to the tune of "Secondhand Rose" at the 1982 Gridiron dinner in Washington.
That performance, which lampooned the first lady's taste in designers, was a hit after a string of public relations disasters, from Mrs. Reagan's supervision of the purchase of a $200,000 set of White House china to the trunkloads of dresses she took for a week of partying at the wedding of Prince Charles and Diana. Press coverage of Mrs. Reagan was subsequently more positive, and "Secondhand Clothes" is still cited as a reason.
Even Parvin bombs sometimes, like when he wrote the disasterous joke for Bush a few years ago that had him looking under the desk for WMD's.
On a related note of disasterous Bush comments, remember the Bush twins' awful speech at the Republican convention? Turns out it was Karen Hughes who scripted that one.
The [Laura Bush]performance earned a standing ovation, which probably made presidential communications guru Karen Hughes blush with envy. Hughes was behind the Bush twins' off-color GOP convention speech last summer, which bombed.
The jokes don't give any insights into the Bush's. I'm amazed to read that people actually think the Bush's were sharing a bit of their intimate lives or letting their hair down. It was an act, folks, that's all. Rehearsed and scripted entertainment, right down to the number of seconds to pause between jokes. Nothing more.
