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A laundry list of
unwashed laundry on the campaign trail — or even remotely sexy because the senator’s daughter’s swore off hook-ups during her father’s 2008 presidential bid. But the 194-page memoir, released
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Tuesday, is about politics through the eyes of a young, moderate Republican and “political prop,” as she calls herself. Her job? “Keep a smile on my face, look admiringly at my father, and clap at the appropriate times,” she writes. You wouldn’t think there would be all that much left to say after two years of blogging, tweeting and multimedia oversharing, but she offers a few new tidbits: After her father won the Ohio and Texas primaries, Meghan and her mom were invited to the White House for a “get to know you” lunch. Laura Bush? Not so warm, Meghan says: “For Mrs. Bush, this was one more meeting she had to take during the day.” Jenna dropped by and showed off her bedroom (“The size of a dorm room . . . there was a creepy painting of two celestial babies — twins — that scared me”).Worst of all, Meghan discovered she wasn’t seated at the lunch (awk-ward) and left with a doggie bag of enchiladas from the White House mess. Campaign advisers told Meghan that she might get to introduce her mother at the GOP convention — if she got an extreme makeover. Image consultants got rid of her “stripper” (her word, not ours) blond hair and flashy clothes,
eghan McCain’s new book, “Dirty Sexy Politics,” isn’t dirty at all — unless you count all her
Nas, above, and Marley: dining.
HEY, ISN’T THAT . . . Nas and friends breezing into Carmine’son Monday night before his 9:30 Club show — party of nine, no reservations. No trouble, though, getting seated in one of the Penn Quarter eatery’s private rooms, where they
ordered enough family-style platters of
pasta, seafood, etc., to sate 60 people. The rapper resurfaced post-show (after 1 a.m.) with opening act Damian Marley and their entourage at Eden Lounge (six bottles of Moet Rose, five bottles of Grey Goose and Ciroc). When cohort DJ
McCain still has lots to say about the 2008 campaign.
then billed her, not the campaign, for thousands of dollars. “Embarrassed” now that she agreed, she calls it “one of the worst financial decisions I’ve made.” After all that, she didn’t get the introducing gig. She’s conflicted about Sarah Palin, calling her “the most beautiful politician I had ever seen” but “rather than joining us, and our campaign, she seemed only to begin her own.” During the convention, Meghan was turned away by a makeup artist who was busy prepping the Palin kids: “They’ll be getting more airtime,” explained the stylist.
Five weeks before the election, McCain’s team kicked Meghan off her dad’s campaign, relegating her to a series of pep talks at campaign offices. Good times in Nashville, where she bar-hopped with country singer John Rich and danced all night “with great joy and abandon and happiness, I’m told, but which I am sad to say I was too drunk to remember.” After McCain lost to Barack Obama, the family retreated to their Arizona cabin where they ate, slept and decided that Cindy McCain should try out for “Dancing With the Stars.” Sure enough, Bristol Palin beat her to it.
Green Lantern started spinning reggae, Marley jumped on a couch and waved a lighter. Michelle Obama dining at the W Hotel’s J&G Steakhouseon Monday night with two friends (the White House wouldn’t say who — private dinner), hair pulled sleekly back.
UPDATE Those taking advantage of
D.C.’s early primary voting may have noticed the sad news: White House “third crasher” Carlos Allen did not make it on to the Democratic ballot. The uninvited state dinner guest not named Salahi actually got far enough in his quixotic mayoral
Allen wants to get into the D.C. mayor’s office.
campaign to submit petitions bearing 2,000-plus signatures —
which, alas, did not hold up under the scrutiny of a challenge. But wait! Allen is now angling
to get onto November’s ballot as an independent (“I’m not beholden to the Democrats or the Republicans”) and has just submitted another petition toward that goal. His strategy: “I’m laying back and waiting to see who [of the other candidates] beats up each other the most.” So, uh, you watching “Real
Housewives of D.C.”? No, he told us. “It’s not relevant to what I want to do for the District.”
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2010
THIS JUST IN The richest guys in Congress are doing just fine in this economy: According to the Hill’s annual rankings, John Kerry ($188 million) remains the wealthiest, thanks to his marriage to heiress Teresa Heinz. Rep. Darrell Issa, who made his fortune in car alarms, stays in second, followed by Rep. Jane Harman and Sen. Jay Rockefeller.New on the list: Rep. Michael McCaul at No. 5, the only rookie to crack the Top 10; he married into the Clear Channel radio fortune. Caroline Giuliani, the 20-year-old daughter of former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, was ordered Tuesday to perform one day of community service for shoplifting $100 of makeup from Sephora in Manhattan.
Sen. John Kerry and wife Teresa Heinz are in the money.
GOT A TIP ? E-MAIL U S A T RELIABLESOURCE@WASHP OST . COM. FOR THE LA TEST SCOOPS, VISIT WASHINGTONP OST . COM/RELIABLESOUR CE Joy Zinoman exits Studio with a sense of the direction she’s taken by Jane Horwitz Tuesday was Joy Zinoman’s last
day as Studio Theatre’s founding artistic director. The company’s incoming leader,David Muse, has been rehearsing “Circle Mirror Transformation” in the after- noons and holding transitional meetings with Zinoman and her staff each morning. After 35 years at Studio’s helm, Zinoman says, in her characteris- tically emphatic conversational style (while also paraphrasing T.S. Eliot), that the prospect of leaving is “freeing in a way that I can’t even describe. . . . Thirty-five years is a very long time, and to feel the responsibility of it being shared and also personally not having to measure out my life in coffee spoons — the thought of freedom is really delicious to me.” She added, “On the other hand,
my relationships with people there are also very deep, so that’s extremely difficult to figure out how we separate.”
Zinoman has been feted at multiple parties, held by staff, board members, actors and oth- ers. On Friday it was a do at the British ambassador’s residence to honor her for, among other things, the many British plays
McLean, a junior at McLean High School, says his parents have long been involved in communty thea- ter and they got him into it, too. “I was in ‘The Sound of Music.’ It was like my first community thea- ter show. I was, I think, in third grade and I did it at St. Mark’s Players in D.C. I was an altar boy. . . . It turned me on to the whole theater [thing],” says Nick. Ariana Kruszewski of Oak Hill,
YOUNG PRO:McKensey Struzik of Ashburn decided to try out at the last minute.
PHOTOS BY JAHI CHIKWENDIU/THE WASHINGTON POST TEEN SCENE:Bill Newberry coaches D.C.-area high-schoolers for “The Sound of Music” at Wolf Trap.
she’s done at Studio. And there have been gifts. The staff gave her a gold watch with a twist: The timepiece rests on a gold facsimi- le of the theater’s logo and is per- manently set at 8:08 — Studio’s traditional curtain time. Asked what her — and Studio’s
— contributions have been to Washington theater, Zinoman notes that Studio was “very in- strumental in the unionization of Washington” — meaning more
IMOGEN QUEST by Olivia Walch Winner of The Post’s “America’s Next Great Cartoonist” contest.
Equity actors working and living here instead of heading to New York. Second, she says, “I think performance has been a hallmark — the level, the quality of per- formance.” She also cites the quality of de- sign at Studio by her longtime collaborators, scenic de- signer (and the designer of Studio itself) Russell Metheny, costume designer Helen Q. Huang, sound designer Gil Thompson and light-
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ing designer Michael Giannitti. Another key ingredient, says Zinoman, is the intimacy of Stu- dio’s four performance spaces of 250 seats and fewer. “We have 50,000 square feet. We could have built a theater any size we
want . . . but we chose to do that work in intimate spaces.” Finally, she maintains, “I had the great good fortune of an audi- ence that was receptive and want-
ed to see the kind of work that we wanted to do.” To ease her transition into civil- ian life, Zinoman and her hus- band, Murray, have planned a four-month sojourn in Italy and other parts of Europe. They’ll re- turn in January. Zinoman will continue to teach at Studio’s con- servatory and adds that she’s al- ready had directing offers else- where around town.
Local ‘Sound’ makers
Ten area high-schoolers into musical theater are breathing the rarefied air of a professional show through Sept. 5, as part of the en- semble in “The Sound of Music” at Wolf Trap. The production comes from Atlanta’s Theater of the Stars. That same company partnered
with Wolf Trap two years ago to use local teens for ensemble roles in “Les Misérables,” and it worked out so well that when the same thing was suggested for “The Sound of Music,” Wolf Trap’s vice president of programming, Ann McKee, jumped at the chance. Au- ditions were held July 24. McKee says more than 100 kids tried out. “Backstage” spoke to four who made the cut.
Sixteen-year-old Nick Stone of DOONESBURY by Garry Trudeau CUL DE SAC by Richard Thompson
16, attends South Lakes High School in Reston. She and her brother “come from pretty heavy dance backgrounds,” and she’s been in dance competitions. Right now, she’s also in rehearsals for “Wonderful Town” with Res- ton Community Players and has attended Arena Stage’s musical theater training program. Paul Alan Hogan of Vienna is 15
and a sophomore at James Madi- son High School. He likes to take pop songs, such as Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi,” and arrange them in folk style on various instruments. He studies drama at school and takes more classes at the Fairfax school district’s Institute for the Arts. “I would love to be an actor or a musician,” says Paul, but “re- alistically, maybe not gonna hap- pen, but I would love to.” McKensey Struzik from Ash- burn is 15 and will be at Briar Woods High School this fall. She has worked in community and youth theater. Her mom found out about the Wolf Trap auditions at the very last minute. “It was a big rush,” recalls McKensey. Such a rush that she didn’t have time to get nervous — “I didn’t even think about it.” The other six area teens in Wolf
Trap’s “Sound of Music” ensemble are Meg Boyle and Kendall Dunn, both from Ashburn, Maureen Fitzpatrick from Potomac, Mi- chelle Huey from Bethesda, Ra- chel Meloan from Gaithersburg and Lilian Roth from Vienna.
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