August 17, 2004

KNOW HOW MANY FLOBIES YOU CAN BUY FOR $75? (via Mike Daley):

Kerry's head for politics (Lloyd Grove, 8/17/04, NY Daily News)

I hear that when Kerry was in Portland, Ore., last weekend preparing to windsurf on the Columbia River Gorge, he flew his Washington-based hairstylist, Isabelle Goetz, across the country to give him a camera-ready trim.

A knowledgeable source told me that the French-born Goetz - who tends the Massachusetts senator's mane while also caring for Sen. Hillary Clinton's coiffure - caught up with the candidate in Portland on Friday (after flying commercial, I'm told), trimmed his luxuriant salt-and-pepper locks and then returned to Washington the same night.

But because of light breezes on Saturday, Kerry's windsurfing photo op never came off.

It was unclear yesterday how much the haircut cost, or who paid: the husband of Heinz ketchup heiress Teresa Heinz Kerry or the Kerry campaign. Kerry communications director Stephanie Cutter didn't respond to my detailed E-mail and voice-mail messages.

Goetz - who's a popular and busy woman in the Washington salon of celebrity-stylist Cristophe - told The Washington Post three years ago that she typically charged Kerry $75 for a haircut. But that 2001 fee would not have included a last-minute round-trip plane ticket (today around $1,450 for a coach seat on American Airlines) or a whole day of Goetz's valuable time.


Is there any mistake this campaign isn't going to make?

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 17, 2004 12:00 AM
Comments

Vanity, thy name is Kerry.

Posted by: Fred Jacobsen (San Fran) at August 17, 2004 1:01 AM

You know, if he really wanted to help himself with male voters, instead of windsurfing for the press he probably would have done better to fly Bernard Goetz across the country to be with him...

Posted by: John at August 17, 2004 8:37 AM

I can't wait for GQ's interview "A Beer with John Kerry". If Drudge is any guide, it's going to be an embarrassment. ("Sexy and saucy"?)

Clinton can pull off a Playboy-type style of interview. Kerry can't do it.

Posted by: Gideon at August 17, 2004 9:48 AM

But she flew the red-eye, nez pas?

Posted by: jim hamlen at August 17, 2004 3:17 PM
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