tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post3686842078221470261..comments2023-10-21T11:46:32.529+01:00Comments on Madame Arcati: Allison Pearson replies to The FergMadame Arcatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04823823014493798116noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-8730715719553607282008-05-31T21:11:00.000+01:002008-05-31T21:11:00.000+01:00So this Allison has a problem with Fergie and so s...So this Allison has a problem with Fergie and so she takes it out on her 19 year old daughter? How classless. That girl looks good, as for Allison, not so much. She's no spring chicken and her face could use a good lift. I have no doubt she owns a mirror and is aware of her short-comings, she's just missing the part of her brain that controls tact.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-21670125781097859902008-05-21T16:15:00.000+01:002008-05-21T16:15:00.000+01:00I think she has missed a great opportunity.Possibl...<I>I think she has missed a great opportunity</I>.<BR/><BR/>Possibly, but not without calculation?<BR/><BR/>I've always thought that personal contact with an easy target of stinky ink is absolutely deadly for columnists like Pearson.<BR/><BR/>Fergie, I've noticed, can actually radiate charm one-on-one, and she's been surprisingly effective here in the US, and with isolated UK hacks as well (A. A Gill, I recall). But who wants to read nuanced fluff?<BR/><BR/>Of course, Pearson's claim that she was <I>really</I> getting snippy about Fergie's witless exposure of her own daughter is self-serving bull. But I imagine Pearson rather coldly totted up which Fergie would prove most useful to her in the long run.<BR/><BR/>I think she has weighed one chance (and it would <I>only</I> be one) of an intimate portrait {"<I>Tears spilled from her enormous blue eyes as the Duchess fiddled with her fork and whispered: "Allison, finally you understand..!"</I>) against yards and yards of future gleeful bitching about a total stranger.<BR/><BR/>Cynically, I think Pearson has made the best call.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-82103376106104176352008-05-21T14:11:00.000+01:002008-05-21T14:11:00.000+01:00Too smart to be a Glenda? Au contraire. I'd say ...Too smart to be a Glenda? Au contraire. I'd say Pearson has found her natural home in the tabloid gutter, having blathered mindlessly for years in the 'serious' media, trying to convince us of an intellect and capcity for critique that simply aren't there. She flicked her hair a lot on Late Review, but that was pretty much the extent of her contribution...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com