Take that, Ugly Betty.
Barack Obama has a cooler, prettier celebrity fan: Scarlett Johansson.
“I am engaged … to Barack Obama,” Johansson joked in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday. “My heart belongs to Barack, and that is who I am currently, finally, engaged to. Yes.”
Of course unlike America Ferrera (aka Ugly Betty) who is out campaigning in younger Latino communities for Hillary Clinton, I’m not so sure Johansson can deliver any key constituencies, except perhaps nords or people with pouty lips. But still it’s a feather in his cap that Scarlett wants to have some audacity of grope with the gentleman from Illinois. A strange sidenote: Johansson sings. She has an album due out in May, disturbingly titled Anywhere I Lay My Head and featuring almost a dozen Tom Waits covers. The person who could have predicted two years ago that Scarlett Johansson would ever have a Tom Waits cover album is the same person who could have predicted that Heath Ledger would die in Mary Kate Olsen’s apartment, which is nobody because its totally crazy.
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Except you know it wasn’t Mary-Kate’s apartment, right? (http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/actor-heath-ledger-is-found-dead/) Unrelated: one time, Carl and I saw her stagger into his apartment building in the East Village, and I gasped, “That was Mary-Kate Olsen!” And he was like, “Are you sure? That looked like a hooker.”
I don’t know, America Ferrera is still pretty hot…
Was she really joking?