"The media went on a rampage, blaming me for the whole O.J. book debacle. They came out, guns blazing, and tried to kill me. I felt like Faye Dunaway's character in the final scene of Bonnie and Clyde. Bullets flying in every direction," former publisher Judith Regan writes in her hotly-anticipated Harper's Bazaar profile of herself. You know, the one where she talks about having sung 'My Way!' It's on newsstands now, and it is all about how she "took the blows." In fact, this phrase comes up several times. In one instance she writes that something happened "after a month of taking the blows without protection." Shots! Blows! Attempts on Judith's very life! What is fact here and what's hyperbole? Does Judith Regan believe in distinguishing between the two?
Ha. DUH, NO! She's Judith Regan. Judith "Golden Vagina" Regan. Judith 'my cock is so enormous' Regan. The woman who has inspired almost a mini-genre of books and screenplays about what a mythically hilariously insanely evil boss she is! Judith! Regan!
Here's how she describes herself as a boss, by the way: "I was the perfectionist manager who wanted everything better. My author's book covers had to be perfect ... the title had to be changed 20 times ... the sales goals had to be revised .. the content had to be reconstructed. I was never happy unless it was done and done right."
So we've heard!
So she can dish it out, but can she take it? "People were afraid to come to my defense ... it disappointed me to the bone and broke my heart." Also: ""It was a vulnerable moment for me." Aww! So: no.
You know how, after a traumatic event like a breakup or a firing, sometimes you find yourself unable to think in any terms besides the lyrics of pop songs? That seems to be what's happening to Judy. Not only does she repeatedly quote her karaoke fave 'My Way,' she also writes,"They tried to hurt me, and maybe they did, but I know this much is true: You can take your punches, and you can take everything away from me, but no one will ever hijack my imagination, my drive, my creative spirit, or my dignity."
Yes: Lucky for Judy, she long ago discovered The Greatest Love Of All.







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this sounds more like an ad for contraception.
This is like the time the __________ made me feel like ___________ .
Ok, first you publish a headline that says David Bowie died, and I was like "nooooo!"
Then you publish headline that says Judith Regan died, and I'm like "yesss!"
But both times, you were just playing with my head. That's mean, Gawker, really mean.
This post could also sort of go under Femiladyism, maybe.
On that note, I need that dress.
I think she's already hijacked her own imagination.
It's like I want to root for her so that maybe she can bring down Murdoch (ha!) but she's such a hateful, trashy bitch. Ugh. No one to root for!
@CodePink: Seriously. I love it.
I was thinking more along the lines of Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest, crawling across the kitchen floor after a sirloin steak.
Feel sorry for any man getting near that Robocrotch.
My husband is willing to take all her blows. Seriously. He's always asking for more.
ok, i'll, of course, be the one to say it...but don't "shots" and "blows" just go together like peanut butter and jelly?
@SinisterRouge: Aaah! No!! Some of us need our jobs!
So. It's true we make a brighter day, just you and me?
@SinisterRouge:
For me, it is the idea that she slept with Howard Stern.
@SinisterRouge:
I'm trying to find out who made it. I'll let you know.
@TheGintheCity: It's a pipe dream anyway. This is but a blip. Remember when it was a big deal that Roger Ailes decided the 2000 election? I remember thinking "This will bring them down!" Ah, such naivete.
@karion: She totally did too!! Howard was as syrupy with her as Bulldog Kerik. And she has the worst taste in men. Ew.
Maybe she identifies with Truffaut in his *400 Blows* or Tony Montana's blows in *Scarface*... Or Deep Throat in *Deep Throat* or O in *The Story of O*? Hmmm? Or maybe she's trying to tell us she does coke blowjobs while being flogged between coffee enemas. VOTE OR DIE people. VOTE OR DIE.
Someone did, however, hijack her arms and photoshopped in Beyoncé's.
I feel totally guilty for finding her damn hot in that Christ photo. Will I ever get over the horror?
@mathnet:
I kinda know the sign language for the chorus of that song. Um. Eighth grade chorus.
The original quote from the Legenda Aurea about the martyrdom of St. Sebastian says he was "to be bounden to a stake for to be shot at. And the archers shot at him till he was as full of arrows as an urchin is full of pricks."
Just pointing out the irony/appropriateness...
She shares portraiture art direction with Mishima:
[www.otago.ac.nz]
Now, if she'd only share his interest in supukku...
To be a gigantic bitch or not to be a gigantic bitch, that is the question;
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous publicity...
@CodePink: Let's hold hands across America.
It is sort of sad, in that way that it took her until now to realize that if you act like an asshole long enough, people will start to catch on.
@Maxwell3.0: I'm going gay for her in that pic, too.
@Maxwell3.0: This is my art geek coming out, but the simulation in question is not Christ but St. Sebastian.
"... it disappointed me to the bone and broke my heart."
I would love to bone her AND break her heart.
I don't know...I'm not feeling the violent imagery so much as the bukkake. Maybe it's just the people involved. Or maybe the content.
Yep, it's the content.
@Colonel Mustard: one martyr or another (and thanks for correcting the reference)--it's clear she's got the bod to land primo guys like that winner Bernie Kerik.
I find it hard to believe that no one shot arrows at her head.
@Colonel Mustard: Yay art geeks! I was thinking, "Maybe I should say who St. Sebastian is..."
@BadUncle: That portrait of Mishima is a Eikoh Hosoe portrait...Hosoe and Mishima were colabo's before M offed himself. Judy is killing herself softly. Does that help?
A good friend and colleague of mine once worked for Regan and said she was a bitch whore she-devil from the bowels of hades. One day, after months of emotional torture, when my un-clairvoyent friend couldn't predict correctly what type of salad Judith wanted that day, she was met with insults and ball busting. So, my friend grabbed her bag, told her to fuck off, and never came back.
No wonder why no one comes to Judith's defense.
That photo makes her look like an elegant coat hanger than anyone we want to pity.
@SinisterRouge: That's nothing. I'm related to Jane Friedman so I have no idea where do land on this one!
@Colonel Mustard: You mean it's not a reference to REM??!
@LittleLolly: UGH! I hope that name dropping didn't make me too John Fitzgerald Page-ish. I apologize, please forgive me.
Skank ho.
Her hands behind her back? They're holding an Uzi.
George Lois. Esquire, April 1968 issue: [content.answers.com]
I'm amazed that no one mentioning her "hotness" in this picture has also mentioned that she looks NOTHING like that. That doesn't even look like some imagined, prettier, younger sister.
Wasn't that the same dress that Ultragrrl was wearing when she went up in flames for the Voice?
That's actually a photo insert from If I Did It explaining where OJ "might have" stabbed his wife.
Also, she looks like Barbara Streisand on the cover of Up the Sandbox:
[www.imdb.com]
That picture's missing the "actual size" label.
That picture's some of the finest art since OK Computer.
Incidentally: Faye Dunaway's character in Bonnie & Clyde? Was Bonnie Parker. Of Bonnie & Clyde. THE Bonnie & Clyde. You may have heard of them.
I love how she feels not like a master criminal, but more like a famously glamorous movie star playing a master criminal. A glimpse into the murky abyss of Judith Regan's psyche.
This is the woman who brought us Rush Limbaugh and still no one's ripped out her tongue or flayed her epidermis? She's skating real easy like and she knows it.
something happened "after a month of taking the blows without protection."
Please, please tell me she's on the sunny side of menopause. The thought of a Regan-Kerik love child is making me a little queasy.
And by the by, she would have been way sexier as St. Agatha.
I thought J-Lo was pregnant. She sure isn't showing much.
@Colonel Mustard: wow, service-y (on both the Bonnie and Clyde and St. Sebastian refs) and insightful. Someone give this person a commie.
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