Sarah Paulson IS Linda Tripp! American Crime Story doing Lewinsky now

1 word, OP. Monica. It's been the center of her life for 25 years.

And Jonah Hills sister as Monica

"Beanie Feldstein"?????

Fuck Ryan Murphy and anyone else involved in this. The last thing we need is to throw more fire on the deplorables by talking about THE FUCKING CLINTONS. And I like Beanie Feldstein as an actress, but that's a joke of a casting. Monica needs to get the fuck over the cigar in her pussy, but she was much prettier than that.

I'm only interested in the angle that the Republicans put a bunch of seductive young women in front of Clinton to see if he would take the bait. Then he did. And why would the 'winner' start telling a co-worker- whom she hardly knew- all about it, asking her advice? And who tapes their phone calls?

And who keeps a semen-stained blue dress lying around?

It was all a set-up for a horndog President. And he walked right into the trap.

Who will play Brett Kavanaugh, who was the main leaker to the media for Kenneth Starr?

I can't believe this is so miscast. Beanie Feldstein as Monica Lewinsky? In what world is that even remotely accurate? Beanie isn't even remotely attractive (never mind the weight), and Lewinsky was definitely pretty.

And thin Sarah Paulson as fat Linda Tripp?

In the role of Lucianne Goldberg ...

The real Linda Tripp and her definitive portrayer.

Monica and Linda

Monica Lewinsky is producing? What a joke. This fat bitch tried to play victim all these years later just because her only claim to fame is sucking a married man’s cock. She is no victim! She chased after Bill and bragged about it to Linda Tripp like it was her greatest achievement in life. Fuck this lying dumpy ho bag.

More porn for Republicans.

R10, it kind of is. What has she done in the past 25 years? She hasn't even gotten married and knocked up.

She's a whore!

She hasn’t gotten knocked up or found a good man because they all know what she is. A fat whore with cluster B Personality issues.

More BS for the deplorables to scream about. The Clintons are their favorite boogeymen. Thanks a lot Murphy and Monica.

Couldn't Glenn (Close) play Linda Tripp? She was certainly filling out that golden JiffyPop she wore to the Oscars.

Linda Tripp should have been hung upside down with hooks in her breasts.

I thought John Goodman owned the part of Linda Tripp until he died.

[quote]And thin Sarah Paulson as fat Linda Tripp?

She'll wear a fat suit which will probably piss off a lot of people. I remember some blog or site trashed Amy Adams because of her pre-fame Smallville guest star gig where she wore a fat suit.

I wouldn't be surprised if Sarah Paulson actually gains the weight. She's serious.

I hate Paulson far more than I hate Lewinsky,so its a hard pass all the way around.

Does Sarah Paulson plan on gaining about 150 lbs?

I can not wait for Lewinsky’s laughable take on what happened. Are they going to get Travolta to play Clinton like he did in “Primary Colors”? I hope this stupid show is as funny as I am imagining it to be. I hope Monica shares with us how magical it was to get on her knees under that desk and swallow Bill’s load like it was her patriotic duty. Or about how beautiful the moment was when she pulled up her dress barn frock and exposed her Lane Bryant thong. And don’t get me started in the cigar.

[quote]And don’t get me started in the cigar.

Truly, she was the Human Humidor.

I agree with R10. Since Lewinksky is a producer, this will be a whitewashed shitshow. I can guarantee you Andy Bleiler won't be mentioned.

And fuck Murphy for not doing Katrina. Probably because it's not "glamorous" enough for him. They optioned Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Finke, but I guess that's kaput. A hospital in a city in the United States of America in the 21st century cut off from the outside world for five days, while doctors in that hospital euthanize patients who they believed couldn't be evacuated. That's a true crime people need to be reminded of, not this Lewinsky bullshit that we've heard about non-stop for the past 20 fucking years.

To end this post on a positive note: Bitch has FINALLY got a real job for the first time in her pathetic life!

Huh. Beanie's legit playing Monica. I thought the user above was joking.

So this means that when this is aired, Lewinsky will once again be back in the press, appearing in every media outlet for weeks, re-hashing the same story she's been telling for 25 years.

Usually Hollywood casts someone MORE attractive in a biopic. What progress!

Watch this shit being re-famed into a #metoo context, which would be totally inaccurate. Don't think Monica isn't going to jump on that bandwagon.

Paula Jones is also part of the story, so they are going to have to cover what was done to her. Bill might want to take an extended vacation.

Monica's eventual obituary: She sucked the President's cock in 1995, and never stopped talking about it until she died.

Gasoline was 96¢ a gallon when Bill & Monica were getting it on in the Oval office. Nobody really gave a damn about what Clinton was doing. Those were the long dead good ole days; leave them to rest in peace.

Her tombstone can read: “Monica Lewinsky lies here dead, famous for giving Bill Clinton some head”.

It's election time, so Monica is doing her duty. They don't pay her for nothing!

Shorter tombstone:

MONICA LEWINSKY

BLOW & GO

Or ......“Monica Lewinsky didn’t go far, thanks to a cum stain and a cigar”.

Will they show Mon dancing with a cigar in her cunt?

R36 I fucking hope not.

Can't her parents die and leave her some money so that she can finally shut the fuck up about blowing the president 25 years ago?

Die in the ratings, Murphy, you cunt.

I just can’t belief eve fat, ugly Beanie Feldstein is going to play Monica. What are they thinking?

Wasn't Chrissy Metz available?

Annaleigh Ashford is playing Paula Jones.

Beanie is benefiting from nepotism like her brother has. I wouldn't be surprised if Jonah or any of the Judd Apatow crew end up having a scandal like their pal James Franco.

Chrissy Metz IS the Portly Pepperpot!

Aidy Bryant could have played Linda Tripp.

There is only ONE Linda Tripp, as has been previously pointed out to you in this very thread.

Linda Tripp used her scandal money to finance a plastic surgery makeover of major proportions.

Oh look everyone, she bought a chin!

Sorry, but Bill Clinton was and still is a pig and he would have been the reason Hillary lost, but I got to give the Russians credit for that.

Meanwhile, Bill Clinton has A LOT in common with Trump, so it being close to the election might not be such a gift to the Republicans when all is said and done.

He was her boss. He abused her power. And he fucked things up for Gore in the process don't forget. Why this asshole gets a free ride at Datalounge is anyone's guess, but my guess is it's because he has a penis.

And penises are allegedly magic.

R46!It’s still ugly. Paula did similar with her Republican funds.

R48 is a troll. Clinton has nothing in common with Trump. All the alleged harassment and rape was Republicunt sabotage bullshit. Give me a break.

The hysteria over blowjob gate was a fucking disgrace. Like something out of a barely developed nation. The vast majority of western countries couldn't give two fucks who their politicians are screwing. The right wing and the media colluded to create public hysteria over a private issue.

This is off topic, but I used to have a bumper sticker on my Honda Civic in the early 2000's that said "Bring Back Monica Lewinsky". It was after GW Bush and Cheney invaded Iraq and started committing war crimes and was meant to be an ironic take on how a Clinton's BJ was pretty insignificant in comparison to torture and waterboarding.

Nobody got the joke. Then again, if you have to explain the joke...

Fucking Ryan Murphy. This is going to air Sept 2020, right before the election. And can Murphy please stop with his hard on for Sarah Paulson??? He keeps shoving her down people's throats and insisting she's some brilliant thespian. She's going to play Linda Tripp? Christ on a Pogo stick Not to mention, maybe let a woman head up this project and not hand it off to your team of horrible male writers?

Is Sarah planning to pack on a hundred pounds before filming? Otherwise, she won't remotely resemble Linda, she needs to be at least twice as fat as the girl playing Monica. John Goodman lost too much weight to play her, they need someone both hideous and portly like Lens Dunham or Amy Schumer.

[quote]This is going to air Sept 2020, right before the election.

Corporate electioneering. Assholes. Maybe Comey can just pop up over and over in the background.

They need a man to play Linda. Or Wynona Judd. Dog the Bounty Hunter’s wife is too dead to play her, so.

Monica would be the ideal part for DL's favorite struggling actress, Melissa Miller.

Funny r57 I also thought of Melissa Miller. She's basically Beanie Feldstein without the connections.

Tharah Paulthon, Brilliant Thethpian.

You saw how accurate Murphy was with Feud... this pos won’t have a single fact presented and will turn into some gender studies bullshit.

Jackie Beat as Lucianne Goldberg.

Monica seriously needs to move on with her life.

Kathy Bates as Lucianne Goldberg.

I think it's fair to re-examine this, but Murphy is shit-stirring for the wrong side in the most attention-grabbing way he can and at the worst time he could possibly choose. It's no accident and that makes him a fucking dick.

Fair to re-examine this? You didn't get ENOUGH during any of the several re-examinations of the past 25 years, or even at the time? Are you slow-witted?

Fuck off and die. Jesus, you're just disgusting.

She willingly and aggressively went after a married man known to have weaknesses for the ladies, so in other words she chased a low hanging fruit and succeeded. She's a fat slob then and a fat slob now who's trying to make a comeback for being a whore but this time dressing it up with revisionist history by portraying herself as a #MeToo victim. You know when a movement has jumped the shark when it starts accepting scumbags like ML as one of its public faces.

Uh, is Ryan Murphy trying to kill his career? What the fuck is he thinking? This is a TERRIBLE idea.

Why would two rather prominent gays do this during this fucking election cycle? Do they want more Trump? Why doesn't he do Trump's life story instead? They can dig up his dead parents and prop the up. No one would notice the difference.

Its a brilliant idea. It will air at the same time Trump is being impeached. It will show what a real political hitjob looks like. The comparison of a President getting impeached for lying about a blow job versus a corrupt mobster who sold our country out for a buck and the political party that enabled it to happen.

Each and every one of you bitching will be watching week to week.

No we won't, I certainly won't. I haven't watched any of these "American Crime" shows.

OJ and Versace? Fuck that. I remember them well, I don't need to watch a re-enactment. Same goes for she who will never get over her blowjobs and getting dumped. I remember it all perfectly well, thanks. And no thanks.

Are they going to use as actual prop the original blue dress that the nasty whore kept as trophy?

Aidy Bryant is much too pretty to play Linda Tripp, who was the worst worst confidant ever.

Although she's much too pretty, I'd like to see Beverly D'Angelo as Tripp.

R74 She could probably use the work.

I mentioned this on the other thread but I think it bears repeating: I'm seeing a lot of young DemSoc types really excited about this series, hailing it as a feminist victory, and even saw Ira Madison III try to pretend this wasn't a political move at all because "nobody watches these shows."

It's not just Deplorables who are being marketed to but the Millennial demographic who loves to be told that Democrats aren't worth voting for because something something Clintons.

They were going to do Hurricane Katrina r68 but dropped the idea for this.

They'd rather make a show about a dude who lied because of a blowjob than about the Bush administration who killed hundreds through corruption and negligence.

Think on that for a moment.

Beanie Feldstein as MONICA LEWINSKY??! I’ve met Monica Lewinsky and she is GORGEOUS. Her skin is as creamy as milk, her hair is gorgeous, she’s like a courtesan.

Why would they cast Beanie Feldstein? They should’ve stuck with John Goodman for Linda Tripp then. Nobody is going to watch this, nobody cares. This is child’s play compared to these days.

Beanie Feldstein is the closest to what Jonah Hill would look like in drag which makes me certain he is PERFECT to play Divine. He would win the Oscar.

To be clear, I hate Donald Trump. With every fiber of my being, I hate him.

I'm not a huge fan of Hillary Clinton, once she won the primary, I was a vocal, outspoken supporter of hers. I URGED anyone with lingering feelings from the primary to get over them and vote for Clinton because she was MILES better than Trump.

That said, the day of reckoning for Bill Clinton is here. He behaved in a shitty way towards many women, and if some are to be believed, it's much worse than that.

I doubt it will have much of an impact on 2020- the Clintons are done for. But I'm glad it's happening while Bill is still alive. The man was a creep, and we've been giving him a pass for far too long. Sorry, lifelong, establishment Democrats, but facts are facts.

R80 I believe Clinton is a scumbag too but the last thing we need now is for this to be brought up again right before the most important election of our lives.

R78, Gorgeous? let’s not push it. She is just better looking than Jonah’s sister. I’d leave it at that.

R16 are you a cenobite?

R80 is hoping for the Clinton body count to be in the show. Fuck off, moron.

[quote] Sorry, lifelong, establishment Democrats, but facts are facts.

There's no way to parse it a sentence like that as anything but trolling.

I can't put my finger on why exactly this is pissing me off so much, but the whole concept, from the shitty casting to the way they tossed aside the Hurricane Katrina idea for this instead, has made me surprisingly angry. It just reeks of being a stunt. Beanie Feldstein as Monica Lewinsky?!

The whole thing seems like a lark a bunch of privileged assholes decided to do for attention and profit, because they don't care about actual, serious problems that the country is dealing with. The OJ season was already sketchy enough, considering they released it on almost the same day the excellent documentary was released in early 2016. They were cashing in on others' work with a dippy series full of stunt casting.

I've gone from pitying this useless, attention-hungry twat for falling in love with a married man to despising her obsessive, pathetic ass.

She wasn't raped and she couldn't have actually believed a sitting President would divorce the FLOTUS to be with her fat, intern ass. People in a vegative state, with an occasional brainwave, are smarter than that.

She gleefully destroyed her own freaking life and has kept herself from being able to build anew, by nurturing her obsession with Bill Clinton and the short time they had together.

It pisses me off too, I'm just so sick of hearing about Clinton. Back in the 90's Monica bragged about getting her presidential kneepads. Now everything has changed and we see Monica as a young little girl and Clinton as a power abuser, they want to focus on rewriting the past through today's lens. But what we need to be doing is dealing with the real shit in the White House, what is happening today.

It is sad to see Monica's desperation to dredge this up yet again, she can't go a year without whining. A couple years ago it was all about how the media and everyone bullied her, now it's #MeToo. Surprised she hasn't brought addiction or Trans into it to remain current. Move the fuck on and let's deal with the crap going on today.

Ryan Murphy is only doing this because women being cunts to each other is what he lives for.

I get Netflix doesn't have ratings, but they do track viewers. I hope no on watches this shit.

Monica was a pretty girl, Beanie Feldstein looks like her brother in drag.

This will be on FX not Netflix

[quote]Monica seriously needs to move on with her life.

I think she's tried and failed, several times.

Have they said who's playing Bill?

Do you think the power Dems in L.A. will pressure Murphy to call it off? I assume they still love B&C or do they not care anymore?

R76 Ira's dick is small. And he actually mentions in his tweet "hire good writers." When the hell has THAT been a Ryan Murphy move?

American Crime Story — lol! There *was* a crime here all right but it wasn’t Slick Willie getting his frenulum licked by a chubby little starfucker. If the angle is the hatchet job the rightwing did on Clinton, then I’m in.

That can be the case even if Blewclintsky is a producer, btw.

Lewisnky was 24 and, like most of us, an idiot who fell for the wrong guy. She didn't deserve to be publicly flogged, humiliated, and run off the grid. Especially when Bill managed to escape relatively unscathed with his reputation in tact. That's the "crime" folks: misogyny. Which, okay, I'm down with dissecting, but not by Murphy and certainly not right before the election. Yes, he hired a woman to write and exec produce (in addition to giving Lewinsky a vanity credit.) But he's still a man, and a man that not just hires a known domestic abuser (Emma Roberts) but creates projects specifically for her. How much longer is that going to get swept under the rug?

I have no ill-will for Lewinsky but - girl - move the fuck on. Her entire identity revolves around this scandal. She could do so much to further the discussion of online bullying if she would just leave this in the past.

It's for CLOSURE you fucking faggots!

R96, this is why I can’t feel empathy for Monica....she is a whore! She continues to sell her story about Bill Clinton to anybody who will listen and cough up the cash. That is a whore. Her only claim to fame. She plays victim, acts like it was a terrible time in her life, yet continues to talk about it. She loves all the attention she gets from sucking Bill’s cock. I only wish that slut would give us details about his meat. What did it look like? Fat? Thin? Long? Does he have a nice head on that thing? Did he let her know when he was cumming, or did he just surprise her?? This is the only shit I want to know at this point. Not hear her lie about how degraded she was and how society is full of misogynists, when she is the one constantly putting herself in the spotlight.

Plenty of people have moved on from massive scandals. All you have to do is want it

R98. At some point during a civil suit, Paula Jones maybe, it was described as having a severe curve. Peyronie's disease? I'm not sure if there was a rebuttal to that.

Look, this girl is crazy. She could have moved on from what happened but she continues, two DECADES later, bringing it up, like Billy held her down and had his entire Cabinet force themselves on her, too.

The Smart girl, who was actually physically and emotionally brutalized for almost a year, has been able to make a go of a relationship and attempt to piece together a life. She manages to take what was done to her and help others. Even after one of her kidnappers (the wife) was released to freedom.

This whiner only wants pity, attention and easy money. After Clinton dies, she'll make sure she's photographed putting flowers on his grave, and set up interviews so she can milk the cow in the infamous blue dress a few more times, and tell everyone what a victim she was while simultaneously telling her fucked up version of being a star-crossed lover.

I completely agree with your assessment, R101. Your comparison to Elizabeth Smart clearly shows what is possible if one has the inclination to move on with their lives. And Smart was abducted from her family, Monica chose to create scandal for selfish reasons. The fact that she continues to beat this worn out drum, shows she is still has no care for what damage it does to the others involved.

To be fair, she's not the one bringing it up. She's being approached, not nearly as often as some here suggest, though. She's trying to pivot those appearances and interviews into discuss online harassment. I can appreciate what she's trying to achieve, but she hasn't gotten past the scandal yet and it's 25 years later.

Vanessa Williams was a perfect example of how to pivot after a scandal. The Penthouse centerfold went public, she was de-throned, she went away for a little while and then came back years later and became a popular singer and actress. Few people even remember that she was once Miss America and was forced to give up the title. And fuck all the old queens and fifty-something spinsters that comment here calling her a whore. The only reason she wasn't able to leverage the scandal was because she wasn't conventionally thin and attractive. Same for that troll that was sexting with Anthony Weiner, Sydney Leathers. If they weren't overweight at the time, they would have had much different career paths after their respective scandals.

Lewinsky needs to distance herself completely from Clinton. Murphy is only making things more difficult for Lewinsky, even if she is getting paid.

R103...yeah she's SO not bringing it up

What crime? Ken Fucking Starr couldn't find any dirt on Whitewater, so he just concocted a crime out of consensual sex!

This season should be about Jeffrey Epstein!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I moved on with my life and now I get Scottish cock every night!

Sarah Paulson is far too thin and attractive to play Linda Tripp. Tripp was a monstrous beast.

Born to play Linda Tripp.

Beanie is too fug and too fat to play Monica.

Who the fuck is that, r106?!!

R110 Elizabeth Smart and her husband.

I'm kind of puzzled by some of these chicken little posts on here. You really think an FX series about the Clinton Lewinsky scandal is going to have an impact on the 2020 election? Frankly, that seems like a hysterical reaction. Bill Clinton is, essentially, irrelevant in today's Democratic party. Until a couple of years ago, it was Obama's party and now there's all this energy around Bernie, Warren, Harris, Buttigieg and (ugh) Biden. The idea that this election will be a referendum on the Clintons is just silly.

And, as if the tin foil hat crowd that loathes the Clintons and believes every idiotic conspiracy theory about them are somehow going to be considering a Dem candidate?

Anyway, I agree the casting seems a little off, but given how surprisingly excellent SOME of Murphy's shows have been (American Crime Story -- OJ and Versace, Feud: Bette & Joan), I'm interested in seeing this.

In the meantime, I highly recommend the fascinating podcast Slow Burn. Their second season focused on the inside story of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. It's really well done and speaks to -- among many other topics -- the ugly power dynamics of, literally, the most powerful man in the world having an affair with a 25 year old unpaid intern.

The last thing we need is anyone bringing attention to Hillary right before the election, R112. Right or wrong, she's a "trigger" for a lot of people

Monica is a whore, and Jewess.

I want to know who will play Linda's hot son, Ryan. He could have left his DNA all over me.

R112 has to be trolling. Goes on at length about Bill Clinton being a bad man and recommending shows that "expose" this, while at the same time saying a show about the "crime" of his consensual affair with Lewinsky won't matter because he's irrelevant.

“Beanie” Feldstein is fugly. Monica was a cute chubster.

Don’t sweat it; POS show will crash and burn because no one cares.

The "crime' is that president's use to have affairs with Marilyn Monroe now they have affairs with Beanie Feldstein

Power dynamics? Such a millennial concept. He was a horn dog, she was a willing participant. She will tell you that herself. Yes, they were both stupid.

I don't know why she's not been able to move on but her parents have money and with that cushioning her life, she hasn't had to.

Now what *would* make this worth watching is if it focussed on Ken Starr and the investigation. She was locked in a room for like twelve hours with FBI guys threatening her with prison. She wasn't allowed to contact her parents, a lawyer, nobody. Imagine believing you would go to prison for not talking about giving a blow job.

So best case scenario is that Clinton isn't even in it, that it mostly focusses on the outraged Republicans who were guilty of the same thing, a young, dumb intern confiding in a manipulative bitter woman, and a hypocritical prosecutor who would be fired from his next job for ignoring a real sex scandal.

Power dynamics only apply when we are talking about somebody who is pursuing their subordinates. Monica chased after Bill. She has nobody to blame but herself for any of this getting out. She was the one who blabbed to a woman she barely even knew.

I'm not surprised to find such regressive opinions on here. Two things can be true at the same time, guys. It can be true that Monica actively pursued Clinton. And it can be true that, yes, the power dynamics in play when the most powerful man in the world is sleeping with an unpaid, slightly dopey-romance obsessed unpaid intern are kind of gross. Just like it can be true that Bill Clinton was a good President while also being a deeply flawed man.... to say the least.

And Monica has never portrayed herself as a victim. She has in fact actively said she takes full responsibility for her reckless behavior and for the choices she made and she's never accused Clinton of assault or anything... she's always maintained it was a mutual attraction, but that doesn't mean that things are completely black and white and that we shouldn't hold the flippin President of the United States to a higher standard than a 25 yr old starstruck intern.

We have serious problems with a rogue fascist in the Oval Office right now. I didn't care about President Clinton's blowjobs 25 years ago, I don't care about them now.

Monica Lewinsky is a joke because she wants to be a joke. If she wanted to be something else she'd have done something with her life over the past 25 years.

Bill never raped anyone. He had manners. When Paula Jones declined, he put his penis away. He didn’t force himself on her. She did go to a hotel room, FGS.

Bill was a gentleman who could give women orgasms.

Linda Tripp's son is a hot piece of ass. Linda is butt ugly, is Sarah Paulson going to wear a fat suit?

Monica was cute. Beanie is plain, total downgrade.

[quote]and that we shouldn't hold the flippin President of the United States to a higher standard than a 25 yr old FAT starstruck intern.

Fixed.

[quote]Linda Tripp's son is a hot piece of ass.

That pic was taken 20 years ago. God knows what he looks like today.

R124- Hillary Clinton

Who's playing the cigar?

r131 Darren Criss

Perfect casting

Will not air until after the general election because of the backlash / because Murphy has a movie in the works. Pick your excuse.

LOL

Ugh she wasn't even a big player in this

I'm still not recovered from the original scandal and onslaught of innuendo and dirty jokes. Murphys timing is also wanting around the wanton Clintons.

I can already tell Murphy is going to fuck this up by inserting people who had little to nothing to do with the story, like Coulter. Though I am DYING to see who he casts as Hilary.

Coulter will probably be inserted like CZJ's awful Olivia DeHavilland was in the faux-documentary in Feud

R129, wtf happened to Clive? Is that just weight gain for the Clinton role? He was good looking on The Knick a few years ago.

God, what a sociopathic little shithead Ryan Murphy is. I hope this show tanks his career once and for all. Is he a secret Trumpanzee?

Who fucking CARES about Monica Blowinski? I want her to go the fuck away! For life!

R141 this story is about women being MEAN BACKSTABBING BITCHES to each other, and Ryan feeds off that energy

That is a valid point, r142.