Justin_stacy
04/26/06, 06:16 PM
Dead ringer for Bill - not
WASHINGTON - It looks like the relaxed, roguish painting of Bill Clinton unveiled for the National Portrait Gallery is a little too relaxed - the President who was impeached in a sex scandal has no visible wedding ring.
Apparently no one noticed the ring was missing before the unveiling of the likeness by renowned realistic painter Nelson Shanks. Camp Clinton spent much of yesterday figuring out how to explain its absence.
Sen. Hillary Clinton, asked about it after a press conference, stammered, referring inquiries to her husband. "You know, I think that I ... you'll have to ask him or his office," she said.
His office blamed Shanks.
"I guess it's called artistic license for a reason because President Clinton, as usual, was wearing his wedding ring when he posed for the portrait," said spokesman Jay Carson.
Shanks didn't answer requests for comment. But he appeared to fall on his paintbrush in a statement released for him by Carson.
"I should have made President Clinton's ring really clear because I never saw him without his wedding ring - in the painting, his fingers are folded under so it doesn't show," the statement said.
There was no word on whether the ring would be added later
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060425/480/wx10404251844
Talk about being a pimp, even on canvas Clinton didn't want womyn knowing he's married
Bill and Hillary’s marriage couldn’t have been any more about convenience than if they’d installed a Slim Jim rack and Slurpee machine at the base of their bed. D. Miller
WASHINGTON - It looks like the relaxed, roguish painting of Bill Clinton unveiled for the National Portrait Gallery is a little too relaxed - the President who was impeached in a sex scandal has no visible wedding ring.
Apparently no one noticed the ring was missing before the unveiling of the likeness by renowned realistic painter Nelson Shanks. Camp Clinton spent much of yesterday figuring out how to explain its absence.
Sen. Hillary Clinton, asked about it after a press conference, stammered, referring inquiries to her husband. "You know, I think that I ... you'll have to ask him or his office," she said.
His office blamed Shanks.
"I guess it's called artistic license for a reason because President Clinton, as usual, was wearing his wedding ring when he posed for the portrait," said spokesman Jay Carson.
Shanks didn't answer requests for comment. But he appeared to fall on his paintbrush in a statement released for him by Carson.
"I should have made President Clinton's ring really clear because I never saw him without his wedding ring - in the painting, his fingers are folded under so it doesn't show," the statement said.
There was no word on whether the ring would be added later
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060425/480/wx10404251844
Talk about being a pimp, even on canvas Clinton didn't want womyn knowing he's married
Bill and Hillary’s marriage couldn’t have been any more about convenience than if they’d installed a Slim Jim rack and Slurpee machine at the base of their bed. D. Miller