[OG Exhortation: C'mon, folks, enter this contest! Send your ideas to andrew@andrewsullivan.com Website is here]

NAME THAT BOOK: Okay, a real contest. The best title and/or sub-title for Bill Clinton's forthcoming $10 million plus book will get a free subscription to andrewsullivan.com for ... oh, never mind the prize. Let's just have the contest. My opening bid: "I Cannot Recall - A Southern Boy's Struggle Against Amnesia." Send 'em in. I'll post the best all this week.

OG likes: "Tell it like it is: What 'is' is." "Dress Blues." "A woman is only a woman but a good cigar is--well, never mind."

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2001

Answers

FOX

Your Mail: The $10 Million Book Title

We asked, and boy did we get. Monday night on Special Report, correspondent Jim Angle asked Fox News' viewers to suggest titles for former President Clinton's upcoming book, for which he will reportedly receive a $10 million advance.

Many of your suggestions were not printable. Thankfully, many more were. Herewith, then are some of the more entertaining ones:

The Joy of Sax, (submitted by Bryan L., Wylie, Texas)

Talking the Talk..., (Matt C.)

Pulling Some Wool, (Chris S., Pace, Fla.)

Worship Me, And Be All That You Can Be, (J.E.Y., Columbus, Ohio)

I Did It My Way, (Misc.)

I Am Bad and I Am Glad!

I Love Me, I Think I Am Grand, (Jan M.)

Hope Springs Infernal, (Michael M.)

My Definition of "Non-Fiction," (Will W.)

What Are You Looking In Here For? The Truth?

Wagging My Finger At You One Last Time, (Michael B.)

How Scandal Can Work For You Too!

How to Divide and Conquer the American People!, (Cheryl T., Welcome, Md.)

Crime and No Punishment - How to Beat the System and Laugh All the Way to the Bank

I Remember Churches Burning and Other Tall Tales

Willard and Me - The White House Years, (Marilyn A., Woodstock, Ga.)

Bonfire of the Legal Memos

All the President's Women

Whitewatership Down

One Blew Over the Cuckoo Press

Eight is Enough

Crime and Still Waiting on the Punishment

The Name of the Rose... Law Firm

Twelve Angry Perjurers

The Liar, the Witch and the Intern

(The) Catch-Her in the Lie

Breeches of Faith, (Michael and Gus U., North Olmsted, Ohio)

Pardon Me

Sex, Lies and Grand Jury Videotapes

Impeach this!, (Greg Knapp and his listeners at The Sky 97.3 FM in Gainesville, Fla.)

This Depends on What the Meaning of "Truth" Is..., (Art W., Savannah, Ga.)

Lady Monica's Lover, (Ron B., Englewood, Colo.)

Cherry Tree, What Do You Mean By That? (A.J.G., Quincy, Ill.)

As The Nose Grows, (Russ C., Augusta Ga.)

Still Crazy After All These Years: How to Be President Without Being Presidential, (Mark H., Tyler, Texas)

You'd Better Put Some Ice On That, America, (John W., Independence, Mo.)

Me and Mrs. Jones Serving Under The President There's a Voter Born Every Minute, (Seth T., Denver, Colo.)

The Seven Habits of Highly Deceptive People, (John K., Encinitas, Calif.)

Life with Hillary: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, (Derrin B., Edmond, Okla.)

Altoids: They're Curiously Strong, (Kent R., Atlanta, Ga.)

The Meaning of Is, (Matt B., Chicago, Ill.)

Veni, Vidi... Vidi, Veni, (J.G.)

You Beg My Pardon? Bring Money to the Rose Garden, (Bob W., N.J.)

The Blue Dress Blues

My Life: A Collective Works of Poll-Tested Words, Thoughts and Phrases, (Dave M., LeRoy, Ill.)

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2001

The Wizard of Is...

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2001

cash contributions welcome

-- Anonymous, August 08, 2001

Andrewsullivan.com

I ASKED FOR IT: You've got to give me more time to sift through the Clinton book entries. We're talking hundreds and hundreds of emails. So far, they're hilarious. I promise I'll award the prize (with many runners-up) very soon. Front-runners so far: "It Takes A Spillage," "Glands Across America," and "Crouching Bubba, Hidden Intern." And then there are the tasteless ones.

-- Anonymous, August 08, 2001

And yet another contest: Washington Times

I, Bill Clinton

Republicans and Democrats, Independents and Greens -- every color and every persuasion -- wants a piece of Bill Clinton's book pie, reportedly worth $10 to $12 million.

Alfred A. Knopf is forking over a record pile of dough to publish the 42nd president's so-called "candid" memoirs, the most ever paid in book-publishing history. And if Americans can't enjoy a slice of Mr. Clinton's pastry, they at least want to help select a fitting title for the forthcoming book.

Here, then, are a few of the more fitting offerings submitted by our readers:

• First Hillary, then Gennifer, then You, now Knopf.
• I, Bill Clinton
• The Wizard of Is
• Harlem's Hope
• Sex Between the Bushes
• Campaign and Champagne
• Lady with the Blue Dress Off
• Starr Struck
• A Starr is Born
• Irresistible
• If It's Good, I Did It
• As Usual, It's All About Me
• How to Deal with a Domineering Wife
• Why I Belong on Mount Rushmore
• How to Make $10 Million Writing a Book
• Lord of the Lies
• For Whom the Lie Tolls
• A Farewell To Truth
• What Color Is Your Subpoena
• My Legacy: From Aonica to Zewinsky
• Charmin


-- Anonymous, August 09, 2001

"How To Win Friends, And Influence People, My Way"

Now that could be an eye opener. I sure do wonder how he did it all, and got away with it all, or so it seems right now.

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2001

You really do have to look at Edwin Edwards, former Governor of Louisiana. He was cut from similar cloth, except that his wife was the traditional sort and was traded in for a very recent model when Edwin was about 60 or so. He really did say that the only way he could lose was to be found in bed with a dead woman or a live boy and he meant it.

Edwin Edwards was never my type, having the look one associates with televangelists--except perhaps slicker, if you can imagine. And because I worked in politics I knew just how big of a charlatan he was. However, on the one occasion that I met him, about 20 years ago, he bowled me over with his charm and--yes--charisma. I had to practically kick myself--I do remember hearing myself say, "Hey--stop that, you can't possibly like Edwin Edwards!!!"

The only photo I could find was a recent one.

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2001

You should put a warning on this thread since you posted that picture.

Ack!

-- Anonymous, August 09, 2001