Just before the film starts, Simon asks her pal if she’ll ever see “JFK.” Years later, Simon scours the city to find the only movie theater not showing Oliver Stone’s “JFK.” After meeting Jackie in the ladies’ room - where the former first lady waited in a stall for Simon’s all-clear whistle - the two settle in to watch “Bugsy.” The reply is terse, and it’s all Walter Cronkite can do to steer the conversation back to general ground. It isn’t until it’s clear that he’s gay that she divorces him.Īt a dinner party with the Martha’s Vineyard elite, Simon interrupts the genial banter to ask Jackie where she got her beautiful sandals. “Unless you let men be the ones who bring home the food, they will resent you for not letting them play their part,” she warns. When Simon hooks up with a wildly attractive but unemployed writer, Jackie gives the relationship a thumbs down. Never mind that it was she who did the screwing.Īs Simon reminds us, the women - the daughters of a stockbroker (Onassis) and a founder of the publishing house Simon & Schuster (Simon) - had privileged childhoods. Simon seems oblivious to the fact that Onassis lowballed her on a book deal, then admitted it. She does, only to have Jackie tell her, years later, that the $25,000 she requested was chicken feed. Early in their relationship, Jackie, by then a book editor, contracts with Simon to do a children’s book, and asks the singer to name her price. When you worship the sun, you often get burnt. It never occurs to her how canny Jackie was to snag a Grammy- and Oscar-winning artist for free. She books the band and even sings with them. When Jackie asks Simon to find a band to play daughter Caroline Kennedy’s wedding, the musician is not only flattered, but grateful. She laughs it off, while Simon dissolves with relief. Jackie arrives at last, having been stuck in an elevator. What if she’d changed her mind about her, “decided I wasn’t worth knowing further?” Frantic, she runs to the bathroom, locks herself in a stall and pops a Valium. They’re to meet for lunch at Café des Artistes, but while Simon arrives late, Jackie’s even later.Īs she downs her wine and explores the bread basket, Simon’s heart races. She was meticulous, polite and punctual, except when she wasn’t - which is how the “You’re So Vain” songwriter begins the book: not with their first, inconsequential encounter, in 1983 at a restaurant on Martha’s Vineyard, but several years later, on a snowy day in New York. Kennedy’s widow was effortlessly elegant in her “understated clothes,” and became Aristotle Onassis’ trophy wife because his money could help protect her and her children. Much of what we do see we pretty much knew or guessed already: that John F. That, or she’s kept the juiciest stuff to herself. Despite her own celebrity, the 74-year-old singer-musician is so blinded by hero worship that she can’t see straight. Then again, Simon doesn’t give much away. It’s hard to believe she’d welcome this book, even though it comes 25 years after her death, of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, at 64. Plagued by paparazzi in later life, she zealously guarded her privacy. Jackie is Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, style icon and former first lady. The question seems moot, since the relationship she describes seems less like intimacy than one-sided, abject adoration of a woman who didn’t always treat her kindly. I love being yours… I’ve never felt this kind of love before, and I love you sooooooo much,” wrote Haley.“How do you write about a close friend?” Carly Simon muses in her new book, “Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), out Tuesday. “Thank you to my girls for making me a mama. All four posed together in a November 2021 Instagram post – “Thankful for this family we made” – and Haley had her daughters join her, Hana, and their mother for a sweet Mother’s Day post this May. Blessings Abound! “ĭaughter Haley Giraldo and her husband, model and fitness instructor Matt Williams, are the proud parents of the baby boy as well as two daughters: Lola Ford and Stevie James. “Mama and baby are splendid, Daddy is over the moon.His two little sisters can’t wait to meet him. “What a day! Our beautiful little grandson surprised us all and arrived early! ,” the couple announced on Facebook. The ceremony–which will also welcome Duran Duran, The Eurythmics, Lionel Richie, Eminem, Dolly Parton, Carly Simon and more into the Class of 2022-will be broadcast Nov. The Giraldo’s precious package–a boy–arrived one week before his grandparents celebrate a big rock and roll milestone, as Benatar is set to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Nov. The blessings continue for Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo, who are celebrating the latest arrival of their third grandchild.
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