The Massachusetts SpyVolume CCXLI, Number 334 December 25, 2011
& January 2, 2012

Least Fascinating Persons of the Year
Illustration by some exploited Spy intern; photo credit: Tokyomoments

Editors' Note: It's the end of the year and like Rick Perry we're reduced to mailing it in, by passing off one lame annual list as a supposedly special year-end double issue. Let's face it: 2011 was a year of almost unrelieved tedium and futility. So many contributed to the general malaise, it was hard to pick out six especially pallid faces from the gray crowd. Instead, we just pulled these jokers out of our hats and went back to playing Call of Massacre XVII.

BARBARA WALTERS
The immortal Barbara Walters



So she banged Napoleon – how long is she supposed to milk that for? Never one to underestimate the public's taste, she's parlayed a hypocritical ability to feign a sincere, almost high-minded interest, in the hi-jinx of every celebrity scumbag since Fatty Arbuckle into a multi-century TV career.

One of our interns told us that she also has an unwatchable TV show with four younger bores, but frankly that sounds so unfascinating to us that we zzzzzzzzzz –   [Wake up – Ed.]


PIPPA MIDDLETON
Not her best side
 

There's this balding wanker with bad teeth who says he's going to be King of England. He got married to some rich girl. That girl – wait for it – had a sister. And the sister has a tuchus.

That's pretty much Pippa Middleton's life story, viewed in real time by several hundred million people with apparently very empty inner lives.

We'll admit it's a perfectly nice tush, although maybe not quite as bootylicious as it could be. But sooner or later she's gong to turn around and then you'll realize just how dull a shikse can be. 

DREW FAUST
The essence of leadership

Quick: name the President of Harvard University. Take your time. Give up? So has everyone else.

She's doing exactly the job she's paid about a million bucks a year to do: keep her damn mouth shut unlike her leprous predecessor, and let the Harvard Corporation repopulate itself.

With the Corporation's newly expanded board, Drew Faust presides over the academic equivalent of Playboy After Dark: a "classy" assortment of rich men, women with plumped-up credentials, and good-looking Negroes hosted by a cipher who seems surprised to learn that Bob Rubin is crooning over by the piano. 

WHITEY BULGER
Where's Whitey?



When he was giving the FBI the slip, that was interesting, a little.  Now that he's a life tenant at the Locked Inn, not so much.

On the lam he took his millions and spent it on living like a retired Jewish high school principal. Scarface it wasn't.

If he spilled his guts about all the pols and cops he paid off, that might be interesting. But Whitey, like almost anyone he ever did business with, is a stiff. Unlike them, he's still breathing, so what's his excuse?

CONAN O'BRIEN
Hereeeeee's Conan! 

He trousered $35 million for being less funny than Jay Leno and then spent the next six months whining about it.

Now he's got his own show on Channel 687 with ratings that explain why even a network as clueless as NBC recognized they had to s**tcan him.

Our prediction: he gets canceled again for a huge payoff, does a series of "hilarious" cameos on various sitcoms, and grabs some visiting lectureship at his Alma Mater so the Glob can print endless items about his supposed upcoming movie projects. 

LINDSAY LOHAN
It's getting old



If every time the train leaves the station it derails and crashes into the valley below, it's no longer a train wreck, it's just the way things are supposed to be.

Drugs to rehab to jail to high-class hooking on the Riviera, and then back to the rails again.

And just when she's down to her last kilos, she drops trou for Playboy, this year's least fascinating magazine.

The big excitement is that she's going to flash her vag, again. This difference this time is you'll get to see the gift shop, the raw bar, and the VIP lounge.




[Why? – Ed.] 

The Massachusetts Spy is made possible by a generous flip-flop from BnPrtnersSlshFnd VII (Caymans) LP, a long-standing fully-operational enterprise not set up just last week to disguise millions of dollars of contributions from Romney's rich friends desperate to remain anonymous 


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