Correction: Justice Scalia Is Not an ‘SATC’ Groupie
We aim for maximum accuracy around here, even as to trivial matters. So we bring you this correction to yesterday’s post, about Justice Antonin Scalia’s recent chance encounter with the Sex and the City star, Sarah Jessica Parker.
From Tony Mauro, writing at the BLT:
According to [an item in New York magazine], Scalia rushed over to the “Sex and the City” star and gushed about how he loves her show and could not wait to see the movie version, which debuted recently. And then, the magazine reported, Scalia bummed a cigarette from the star. The item also said a Court spokeswoman confirmed the meeting.The version from inside the Court, corroborated by a source in New York who witnessed the encounter and wants to remain nameless, is quite different. Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg says she did confirm the meeting, but not the details that the magazine offered. In reality, Arberg said, Justice Scalia did not need a cigarette. But when Parker asked for a light for hers, he provided it (as any Old World-style gentleman like Scalia would, we might add).
No offense to Parker, but Arberg also confirms that when the two first met on the sidewalk, Scalia did not know who Parker was. After introductions, Scalia realized her identity, but Arberg said, “Her work did not come up in the conversation.” In other words, the justice did not gush.
Does this version make Justice Scalia look better, or worse? On the one hand, removal of the judicial “gushing” makes Nino appear more dignified (and he’s all about upholding the dignity of the courts, which is why he abhors contractions in legal writing).
On the other hand, it’s a trifle embarrassing that Justice Scalia didn’t immediately recognize SJP. Maybe he needs to get out more? And speaking to the Federalist Society doesn’t count.
The Truth About Justice Scalia and Sarah Jessica Parker [The BLT: Blog of the Legal Times]
Earlier: The Eyes of the Law: Scalia, J., Hearting Sex and the City
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FIRST to say I'd be a bit worried if he did recognize SJP immediately.
perhaps he did not recognize her because he confused her face with a horse's at first.
oh yeah, I went there....
SJP to plastic surgery!
Nino = Out of SJP's league.
Family guy said it best: She has a face like a foot.
I'd say recognizing SJP on the streets is embarrassing; not the other way around.
'Grats to first poster.
I am surprised that Nino didn't try to explain to SJP that God originally intended her to be a horse.
4:56:
I don't like the Nino-bashing, but I must admit that your comment is very clever and funny. Well done.
Does this really merit being posted twice? If so, so does this comment:
The show was pretty much trash for trash, though the writing could be, at times, smart. Sarah Jessica Parker is the ugliest woman married to a gay man this side of Broadway - actually, she's the ugliest woman PERIOD. Nothing I like more than fatties and witches trying to convince me she's attractive - because nothing shy of news that her gaze reverses aging and cures gout would make me want to look at her.
SJP is the woman that OTHER WOMEN think is super hot, but that actual guys are less impressed by.
rather like angelina jolie in that sense, ipgeeknyc.
I would be worried if he recognized her right away.
But damn, nobody is giving him enough style for lighting her cig. Attababy Scalia...a ladies man no doubt.
In the movie she looked borderline anorexic, especially in the bedroom scenes with Big.
Support for the theory:
http://www.sarahjessicaparkerlookslikeahorse.com/
Rebuttal:
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee248/msanto/One-Offs/SarahJessicaParkerBikini.jpg
http://movies.ee/pildid/uudised/sarah_jessica_parker.jpg
http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/10/19/SarahJessica_060411113430552_wideweb__300x460,1.jpg
Discuss.
(courtesy of SI Campus Clicks, always a great time waster)
there's a great web comic on Spamusment that explains this well:
"Why won't Big marry me?"
"Maybe its because you resemble the Wicked Witch of the West?"
It doesn't matter. He remains the ultimate douchebag either way.
Yes he is a douchebag but certainly he looked way less of a douchebag in the original story -- when it looks like he might actually have a soul.
My vote: neigh.
yes, having a superior intellect and using it in the service of your country and teaching whiny lefties that you actually have to engage democracy to force governmental change on people=being a douche.
And now, little socialists, Stalin's tomb needs a-redecorating. go to it.
this blog is turning into US Weekly
no, having a superiority complex + being fat = being a douche
Well, I'm not a Scalia supporter, but my faith in humanity has been restored. Nino is above such trashy programming. Though I would blush like a schoolgirl if I had to say "Sex and the City" to him. Because that's the parochial school upbringing in me.
I'm going to buy a race horse and name it SJP and watch as people ask me, "are you insulting Sarah Jessica?" and I say, "No, it stands for Superior Judicial Precedent, why did you think a horse is like SJP?" and watch them stammer their way out of the conversation.
After that I'm taking my rocket to the moon.
5:19:
I'm sure you've done a complete psychoanalysis on the man. Oh wait, you just don't like his rulings and think he's too assertive for a man who disagrees with you.
And attacking fat people. Nice one.
I'm surprised to see all the negative comments about SJP's looks. Not that I think she's attractive in the slightest, but this is the same crowd that fawns over Kash and other average-looking women as "hot."
Comparing Kash to SJP is like comparing Fawlty Towers to Two and Half Men.
SJP is not just unattractive; there's a rumor she cracks mirrors when she looks at them.
5:23, stick with your Ken dolls and leave Kash alone.
5:20 - Horse names aren't allowed to consist exclusively of initials (see 6.F):
http://abovethelaw.com/2008/05/legally_themed_horse_contest.php#comment-593539
Well, 5:26, you've ruined my fun. You're not allowed on my rocket ship!
Shocking that one of Kash's groupies would reference Fawlty Towers. I can almost picture the guy.
No, I find his rulings to be fine, for the most part. I agree with many of them, and I respect his legal thinking. I really just don't like him as a person.
Need help picturing Basil Fawlty, 5:28? Just do a google search. Duh. ;)
so now 5:29 knows Nino personally? Wow, oh great one. why are you tooling around on this blog, then?
Kash is not very good looking, but she's a paralegal/blogger. She's not holding herself out there as a model or an actress, like SJP.
The only people saying she's hot are what I take to be sarcastic commenters trying to make her looks an issue and hurt her self-image.
Eh, 5:34? Kash is good looking, no one is being sarcastic--if they are, they are falling short. Her pic just became a meme here. Like TTT.
I like this blog better when there are pictures of kitties with the posts, not pictures of horses.
Kash is busted. Grow some eyes.
and apparently 5:31 lacks the ability to detect outwardly observable character traits like smugness and arrogance
5:19 = former Catholic schoolgirl? You single?
That aside, does SJP make a habit of asking for lights from random men on the street? Was she trying to get with Nino?
surprisingly enough, personal interaction with Scalia is not a lifelong cure for boredom and blog-watching
I am just surprised that with all the "great legal minds" commenting here, no one (but me!) has picked up on how this whole "new version" smells fishy. He just "happened" to run into her - and then stopped to talk long enough to find out who she was (since he "didn't know") - I'm going with the original story - the new one is backed up only by an "anonymous source" who was there, which is kind of like saying something has to be true because I read it on the internet. Like this.
Have we not heard from SJP's people (sorry if that's already been mentioned, but this post hasn't caught my full attention)? I mean, has ATL tried to contact her spokesperson and not gotten a response? This is a legal tabloid...don't they understand how important we...er...this is!
Spokesperson: "She quit smoking in Season Three"
"This whole "new version" smells fishy."
As the late great Melvin Beli once quipped (when asked to comment on a suit by a client when Beli was in his 70's for "coercing her" to sleep with the King of Torts) "I am not saying the allegation is true, but if it is, an Italian gentleman needs something more substantial to sustain him in the morning than a cold slice of toast and a cup of coffee".
Translation: Once a stud, always a stud.
thanks to this wonderfully "brilliant" jurist, we are all neo-fascist pwn3d!
thanks for giving us Bush!
I second 6:10...I mean why would she have asked a random guy for a light or cigarette? I ask because I find it hard to believe she recognized Scalia on the street, or that she would ask him for a light/ cigarette if she did.
Even "after introductions."
-7:14
7:08-- Get over it.
~Nino
The strangest thing about this whole episode is that, apparently, Scalia is a smoker. How unprestigious.
Agree with 7:39. This dude smokes? At his age, that's a sign that death is imminent.
Why isn't anyone noticing that she didn't recognize him ? Talk about someone who needs to get out more ...
<<--- Has never seen more of the show than it takes to find the remote control ----<<
It wasn't cigarettes. He gave her her daily helping of oats when her feed bag ran low. And she whinnied for him. Scalia has a soft spot for horses.
But seriously, folks--couldn't Scalia keep a lighter/matches just to have conversation with smoking ladies? I know some guys who carry a lighter just for this purpose when out on the town.
So during half of the Sex and the City episodes, the women complain about insensitive men; for the other half, they coach themselves to imitate such men. The result is that by the time the sensitive men appear on the scene, the women have become insensitive, too, and incapable of appreciating them.
SJP is not half bad- even sexy in some photos. No doubt every heterosexual male here would hit it.