Thursday, December 16, 2004
Black Widow
This Headline, The "Uncommonly alarming woman" (behind Blunkett affair), caught my eye from The New Zealand Herald.
Some tidbits regarding the "..alarming woman", to chew on:
1) She was described as "an uncommonly alarming woman" by Max Hastings, former editor of the London Evening Standard. The background of Kimberly Quinn, whose affair with Home Secretary David Blunkett led to his downfall, could not contrast more with the deprived upbringing of her former lover.
2)Her first husband, American investment banker Michael Fortier, said: "Even when she is lying in her grave she'll be thinking if there is anybody more interesting she could have lying next to her."
3)She was, in her own words "a New York debutante who didn't even know how to use a washing machine" and who sometimes went to work in the morning in her ballgown after a night out partying.
4)Quinn, 43, who is said to have been attracted to men with status, moved to Britain with her first husband in 1987 when he was transferred to London. He later said she had "a string of affairs" during their marriage, one of whom was with Stephen Quinn, the publisher who later became her husband.
5) "Her idea of a good week would involve two or three cocktail parties a night," Fortier said. "She would want to introduce me to the next politician or movie star and I would just find it all incredibly false and boring."
6)It was (at the Spectator) that she met Blunkett, who is said to have fallen head over heals in love with her. On their first meeting Quinn is said to have told Blunkett that she had always wondered what it would be like to sleep with a blind man.
Whew! I thought this type of woman was just a caricature you saw in movies. I know, I know, someone's going to comment that if she were a man, we'd admire her. Sorry folks, but in this age I truly believe cold, heartless, and ruthless is the same, no matter which side of the sex you're preying from.
I feel a movie of this whole debacle to be in the works within the year. Jonathan Glazer of "Sexy Beast" fame should direct.
This Headline, The "Uncommonly alarming woman" (behind Blunkett affair), caught my eye from The New Zealand Herald.
Some tidbits regarding the "..alarming woman", to chew on:
1) She was described as "an uncommonly alarming woman" by Max Hastings, former editor of the London Evening Standard. The background of Kimberly Quinn, whose affair with Home Secretary David Blunkett led to his downfall, could not contrast more with the deprived upbringing of her former lover.
2)Her first husband, American investment banker Michael Fortier, said: "Even when she is lying in her grave she'll be thinking if there is anybody more interesting she could have lying next to her."
3)She was, in her own words "a New York debutante who didn't even know how to use a washing machine" and who sometimes went to work in the morning in her ballgown after a night out partying.
4)Quinn, 43, who is said to have been attracted to men with status, moved to Britain with her first husband in 1987 when he was transferred to London. He later said she had "a string of affairs" during their marriage, one of whom was with Stephen Quinn, the publisher who later became her husband.
5) "Her idea of a good week would involve two or three cocktail parties a night," Fortier said. "She would want to introduce me to the next politician or movie star and I would just find it all incredibly false and boring."
6)It was (at the Spectator) that she met Blunkett, who is said to have fallen head over heals in love with her. On their first meeting Quinn is said to have told Blunkett that she had always wondered what it would be like to sleep with a blind man.
Whew! I thought this type of woman was just a caricature you saw in movies. I know, I know, someone's going to comment that if she were a man, we'd admire her. Sorry folks, but in this age I truly believe cold, heartless, and ruthless is the same, no matter which side of the sex you're preying from.
I feel a movie of this whole debacle to be in the works within the year. Jonathan Glazer of "Sexy Beast" fame should direct.
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