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Miss Blankenship is Interviewed

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Here’s an interview with Mad Men‘s Miss Blankenship. Okay, it’s really with Randee Heller, who plays her. I didn’t find out until a couple of weeks ago that it’s the same actress who played Daniel-san’s mom in the original Karate Kid.

Her she is about her makeup:

It takes three hours. They do incredible things with adhesives and scrunching up your face, and then blowing it dry with powder. All of a sudden you have huge wrinkles, liver spots, veins — and it takes a while to take it off. After the first time, I got in the shower and started scrubbing my arms. I was going, “Oh my God, this is not coming off!” Then I realized they were my own liver spots.

The Quotable Gail Collins

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I continue to love Gail Collins:

Unfortunately, [Mississippi governor Haley Barbour] followed up his bow to tolerance by suggesting that the public’s confusion over Barack Obama’s religion is because of the fact that “this is a president that we know less about than any other president in history.” The governor claimed that Americans had been particularly deprived of information on Obama’s youth, while they knew a great deal about the formative years of the other chief executives all the way back to the way the youthful George Washington “chopped down a cherry tree.”

Let us reconsider the above paragraph in light of the fact that while Obama wrote an entire book about his childhood, Washington never chopped down the cherry tree.