Fred Thompson, Lonely Guy
Jeri Thompson makes it all sound like something out of Steve Martin’s 1980s movie, “The Lonely Guy.â€
There is Fred, on the Fourth of July, when everybody else is at the beach or backyard barbecues getting sloshed with friends, standing on a supermarket checkout line with a pathetic pre-made half a tunafish sandwich and a can of high-cholesterol beanie-weenies.
“I looked at him and just said, ‘I’m so sorry,’” she tells People, lets him carry her groceries to the car and invites the lonely guy to a friend’s party that night.
In the Steve Martin movie, a friend takes him to a gathering where most of the guests are life-sized cardboard cutouts of celebrities. But life does not imitate art. Fred Thompson is luckier and, before you can say fireworks, loses his lonely guy status and is living in Washington with a beautiful young wife and kids.
As Jeri tells it, far from being a “trophy wife,†she is a kind-hearted young woman who saved Fred Thompson from the fate of the Steve Martin character who has to get lessons in how to talk to the ferns in his bachelor apartment.
Now the party celebrities are real, but watching Thompson’s listless interactions with them on the campaign circuit, the inner Lonely Guy may be longing to be home with the cutouts and the ferns.
Cross-posted from my blog.
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5 Responses to “Fred Thompson, Lonely Guy”
Apparently Robert has a memory that holds facts like a sieve;
“When she was dating Thompson, Kehn complained that she had to chase other women away. “They just won’t leave him alone,†she told a gossip columnist. “I can’t get up to get a cocktail at a party without coming back and finding some girl sitting in my chair.â€
Old girlfriends cast their vote for Thompson 6/24/07
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1977478.ece
I’ve got to agree with Winghunter- as I read a piece a while ago detailing some of Fred’s exes fond remembrances of their time together. He was apparently a perfect Southern gentleman, and was always in high demand at dinner parties.
Is this possibly a narrative woven together by his campaign committee? Maybe to make him look like a great family man with no checkered past? It seems like it would be better to stick to the truth- as there’s nothing wrong with a single man going out on the dating scene unless you believe like Peter Pace that sex has no place outside of marriage.
OK! I gotta’ ask;
How in the world did we get from “lonely” to a comment from Pace tap dancing around his view of homosexuals?? Come on now. ;- )
LOL! geeeez.
The Fred campaign took all summer to come up with the “lonely guy”. Freddie has described himself as a playboy of the beltway. His wife’s divorce papers spell out his womanizing. The worst part is his first wife gave him everything. It was her father’s political connections that gave Fred his career of parasite of government.
That’s what I was trying to say, LOL. That this myth of Lonely Ol’ Bachelor Fred is a concoction of his campaign (his wife has a huge role in it which may be why he’s not doing too well) to make him more palatable to the values voters. After all, it wouldn’t do to have him sound too much like Bill Clinton would it?
Winghunter- Nowhere in my comment did I mention homosexuals, lol- I was talking about Pace’s stated belief that sex should take place only in marriage- uh the hetero kind!