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Vanna White Has the Greatest Job in the World—And She Knows It


For White, Sajak and the rest of the Wheel team are her family; just one of the perks that makes White “love everything about [her] job.” And the perks are plentiful. Take the show’s taping schedule. An entire season is filmed in just 35 shoots per year, dolled out in increments of four days a month. (Which in earlier years allowed her the freedom to almost always take her now-adult children to school, and be there when they got home.) Call-time begins at 8 a.m., with six shows shooting back-to-back until production wraps around 6 p.m. White has the schedule down to a science. She manages outfit changes in under 3 minutes—thanks to her pre-paired dresses, accessories, and shoes—and gets in reps with 10-pound weights between takes.

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In her role she’s worn over 7,000 gowns (never having repeated a look, and constantly varying their style), has made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for being the most frequent clapper in history (averaging 600 claps per episode), and has even earned herself a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She’s traveled far and wide to film Wheel’s special episodes, like a recent visit to the Downton Abbey castle. “We’ve been to Ireland, Switzerland, England, Scotland, and everywhere in the United States,” says White. “In Alaska they put me on a glacier and shot me from above in a helicopter. And here I am, standing as far as I can see, just white, white, white, on this glacier. It was awesome.”

White’s enthusiasm for her job is matched only by her audience’s zeal for her. In the ‘80s, the fanfare around America’s favorite letter-turner hit such a fever pitch that it was dubbed “Vannamania.” White remembers, “Standing in line at the grocery store [in the ‘80s] and seeing myself on the cover of Newsweek. I thought, ‘Oh my goodness, gosh, I guess I’ve made it.’” White was the girl-next-door, done good. And in pop culture her name became ubiquitous with over-the-top success. Weird Al Yankovic went on to release, “Stuck In A Closet With Vanna White.” Later, Nelly rapped about “paying cash, first class, sittin’ next to Vanna White” in his early aughts hit, “Ride Wit Me.” And over the years White has been invited to play herself in episodes of popular TV shows from The King of Queens to Fresh Off the Boat.

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Of course, there have been critics—both of White, and women in her line of work. Feminists have challenged the mere existence of game show roles like “briefcase girl” (which helped catapult both Chrissy Teigen and Meghan Markle to fame on Deal or No Deal) or the ever-pervasive silent and smiling female co-host who exist purely to look good in a sequined dress next to their male counterparts. Though White has made a name for herself on the show in her own right and says she feels, “equal” to Sajak, her detractors are voluble, calling her names like “bimbo,” “dumb blonde,” and “real-life barbie doll” and often weaponizing the same sexist tropes they claim to want to overturn. One article even posed the question, “How much Vanna can we Stanna?”





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Blow Job Techniques Are Overrated, Says the Woman Who Wrote a Show About Them


And to me, the ways in which a blow job veers away from that imagined semen milking machine are not limitations. The closer you can make your mouth into a jerk-off device, a lubed-up flesh light, etc, what have you won? In fact, I argue that only once you’ve learned to retain and revel in whatever you perceive your specific limitations to be, there, then, you will have found your blow job voice.

Jacqueline Novak during her one-woman show Get On Your Knees.

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Cast out the swirl of concerns on technique in favor of a simple notion: that putting your face near someone’s dick is already radically sexy. It’s generous. Not in terms of providing an orgasm, but in terms of being willing to have someone stare at your face so close to their dick. Your face is the center of your dignity, your most specifically you place. It’s the big front facing fingerprint, that which will remain, past death, in a gorgeous portrait on your grandchildren’s stairwell, in a newspaper clipping about your greatest achievement, in your loved one’s locket. The willingness to put that, your site of dignity, posterity, identity, the most recognizable part of yourself, right up near someone’s silly dick! That’s so cool.

And it’s not just cool because it’s your face, but also because it’s your mind. They say “giving head,” and I never liked the term, but there’s a metaphor there I can get into the spirit of. To bring a dick right up into your skull, into the realm of your beautiful brain, your seat of memories, curiosities, notions, and dreams…there’s a kindness there. To elevate the simple, pulsating penis by bringing it so close to your sparkly, neon, neural network, nothing but a roof a mouth between the two? It’s like inviting a dog into your special study, a library of your rarest books. You’re letting someone’s wet dog roll around in the site of your most glittering wonder.

Any intersection of your face, mind, mouth with someone’s dick? It’s outrageous, and it’s enough. So if someone says, “What in the hell kinda blow job was that?” You can say, “That? That was my head on a stick.”



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Norah O'Donnell on Her New Job as Anchor of 'CBS News'


A few hours before our interview, Norah O’Donnell decides to sleep in…until 6 a.m. This is new for her—the notion that she might be able to wake up around the same time as the rest, and she hasn’t quite adjusted. For the better part of a decade, O’Donnell co-hosted CBS This Morning and rose at what is for most people the middle of the night.

Next week, she shifts gears—and schedules. O’Donnell is about to take her seat in the anchor chair at CBS Evening News, making her the second woman ever to solo anchor the broadcast. Katie Couric held the position from 2006 to 2011. (Connie Chung co-anchored the program, with Dan Rather from 1993 to 1995.)

Her move comes at a time when trust in the news is at an all-time low and thanks to mobile alerts, social media, and a host of other distractions, there have never been more opportunities to avoid what was once appointment television for most American families. (Even so, the three major news broadcasts still command upwards of 20 million viewers a night.) That is, in both respects, O’Donnell has her work cut out for her, and she knows it. “The evening broadcast has to change,” she insists. “We are now living in a time when we already get the headlines on our phone. So how do we provide context and depth?”

“By 6:30 PM at night, we know what happened,” she says. “How can we explain why it happened? I think people are hungry for and craving a trusted source of unbiased, fact-based news. And that is our standard. And that’s, quite frankly, the brand of CBS already.”

Still, O’Donnell’s ascent is at once evidence of a new era at the network—which has started to recover from the exits of Charlie Rose, Leslie Moonves, and 60 Minutes Executive Producer Jeff Fager, who all stepped down amidst sexual misconduct and gender discrimination claims—and an obvious next step. She has covered congress, six presidential campaigns, and the White House. She’s interviewed half-a-dozen presidents and has stared down hurricanes, a red-faced Bill O’Reilly, and other natural disasters on live television.

So of course, it’s nice that a woman got the job this go-round. But as usual, it’s also about time.

Ahead of her first night in the same seat that famed anchor Walter Cronkite once occupied, O’Donnell spoke to Glamour about her ambitions for the show, how she found her voice in journalism, and what a person does when she misses a call from Oprah.

Glamour: I’ve heard your first anchor gig came at age 10. Is that true? And if so, I want to hear all about it.

O’Donnell (R), as a child in Seoul, South Korea.

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Norah O’Donnell: That’s true. My first anchor job was when I was 10 years old, in Seoul, South Korea. My father was a colonel in the US Army, and we were deployed to Seoul. We lived on the Yong Song army base for two years. It’s a tight knit community, and a friend of my mother’s said, “Hey I know about this opportunity,” because children in South Korea were required to learn English at a young age, and they were looking for people to make audiotapes and to do an English program on a station that was sort of the equivalent to a PBS.

That became my first job, essentially anchoring an English-learning program once a week on Korean television. I got a small paycheck every week and I’d go get Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie tapes. That was the beginning. I’ll never forget it. “Penny Lover“ by Lionel Ritchie was my favorite song.



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I Was at the Top of My Career. Then I Quit My Job to Travel the World for 13 Months


The logical part of me knew this feeling could just be part of “adulting,” the realization that the bloom can’t stay on the rose forever. But the voice inside me that I’d learned to listen to to get me the career I had said I needed a breather. I told my husband that night that I had to quit. My exact words were, “I need a break. I can’t keep this up. I just want to stop.”

“What happens after that?” he asked. I didn’t know. I’d never quit anything before.

His next question was, “Should we go travel?”

He had worked in the restaurant business his entire life. When he moved to New York from the midwest to be with me two years earlier, he’d taken a job that he didn’t love but that paid the bills. He put in long hours that were at the opposite end of my day. Weekends together were non-existent. As I finished at the office in the early afternoon, he would head into the restaurant. He’d get home around 2 a.m, an hour before I got up for work. Twice we had dates in that late-night-early-morning window: an after-work drink and dinner for him, an early morning coffee and breakfast for me. On one of those occasions we were sitting in a diner near our apartment around 3 a.m. He was eating pancakes and an ice cream sundae; I had a BLT. The TV on the wall suddenly played the all-too-familiar Special Report music and the graphics reserved for breaking news. William and Kate’s first baby had just been born. My phone started to buzz with emails, and the alerts rolled in. Date over. I kissed him goodbye and headed into the studio.

So that night, when he asked, “Should we go travel?” I didn’t hesitate. I pictured a year of uninterrupted dates and going to sleep at the same time.

Yes.

To be clear, I didn’t want to eat, pray, or love. I wasn’t in the dark days of a breakup, and my job hadn’t ended. I didn’t need to find myself. There was no crisis (yet), but I knew that a pre-emptive strike was needed. A pause for pause’s sake. It wasn’t so much an epiphany as that internal voice, telling me this was the right thing to do. It was the same voice that had guided my previous life-changing decisions—studying abroad, moving to New York, marrying my husband. It was always louder and clearer than the strains of fear and anxiety and confusion that often haunt big choices. When this voice spoke, it was never a matter of should we do this, but rather how soon can we?

Over the next few weeks we hatched a plan to leave New York and began to tell family and friends. Some people thought it was completely crazy, that we were being irresponsible. Just as many said they wished they were doing the same. I gave my bosses 10-weeks notice. It was by far the scariest moment of the entire process, not because I had doubts, but because once I uttered the words, I knew there was no going back. (I spent the moments before the meeting panicking in a bathroom stall.) The first executive reacted in disbelief, then said he understood that I might need a break and asked if I wanted to take off a month or two or even six, as a sabbatical. He suggested that he could find a different spot for me at the show, with different hours. I was honest and direct with him: I wanted a year off to travel, and my last day would be mid-January. I think he mistook this announcement as a whim. He ended the meeting encouraging me to think it over. But I’d made up my mind.



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What to Wear to Any Job Interview: Tips from Women Execs


For those applying to jobs in fashion and retail, there’s more room to play with your personal style, said Lee Ann Sauter, the CEO and founder of Maris Collective, a worldwide chain of luxury boutiques.

“Competence always overshadows [your clothes], so it’s important to feel good in what you’re wearing,” Sauter said. “We actually appreciate opinions and people who have their own style.”

Sauter said her suggestion for a failproof interview outfit is a “pair of jeans, a great-fitting jacket, and an awesome bag. Dressing with confidence is really what’s most important.”

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Now’s not the time to break out that power suit, at the risk of appearing out of touch—fashion and retail companies tend to have a more relaxed dress code. “Skirt suits are nobody’s friend in entertainment and retail,” Sauter said.

Though jobs in the fashion space do allow for more leeway, don’t take that as carte blanche to wear whatever you want. “Don’t wear things that are distracting,” Sauter said. “[Once], somebody interviewed with me in a derby hat, and it was so distracting it was hard to focus on anything else.”

Interviewing for a Job in Law

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“I’m a big believer that if you want to be hired by a big, corporate law firm, look to the partners [to see what they wear],” Linda Addison, immediate past managing partner of Norton Rose Fulbright U.S., advised. “Even if you’re interviewing for an associate position.”

According to Addison, even though many law firms now have a business-casual dress code, you’re not hired yet. Meaning, the expectation is that you should be respectful and dress the part. If in doubt, said Addison, wear either a navy or black suit or dress with a jacket.

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Still, some of the old-guard rules have relaxed slightly in recent years. “You don’t need to wear pantyhose anymore, and I even see women wearing peep-toe shoes,” she said, something that was verboten in recent years.

“It’s not just dressing conservatively; it’s about dressing appropriately,” Addison said. “Shoes that aren’t too worn or scuffed, clothes that are steamed and pressed, nails and hair that are appropriate.”

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On top of that, Addison said to remember that not all law jobs come with the same work culture—there’s a big difference within the industry as far as dress codes go. Jobs that focus on public interest, for instance, don’t require nearly as much formality as those in corporate law. “I have friends that work on appeals for death-penalty cases, and it’s much less important to dress a certain way,” she said.

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The First Lady Has a Huge Job. She Should Be Paid for Her Work


A few months into the 2020 presidential race, Politico posed a question: “Is America Ready for a Single President?” In the piece, writer Joanna Weiss looks at how the fact that Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) is unwed could affect his bid for the Oval Office. Of course, TMZ and CNN have both since reported that Booker and the actress Rosario Dawson are now in a relationship, which perhaps renders his status somewhat more palatable to our #BachelorNation nation.

The piece addressed a theme of American politics—our deep obsession with the spouse of the president. But it could have gone further; how is it that in 2019, there’s still such a critical role in the White House that awards zero compensation to the person who does it?

The president of the United States has a herculean job, but it is well understood. His wife, on the other hand? Like most women’s, her set of responsibilities is amorphous. In decades past, these women (and so far they’ve all been women) have pushed for and shaped the national conversation about education, nutrition, service, health care, and more. They’ve acted as the public face for the administration, particularly in times of crisis. They’ve coordinated state dinners, ceremonies, and celebrations. And they’ve traveled the world both to speak for their husbands and to stand next to them; the perfect photo opp.

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The sheer breadth of responsibilities has been baked into the position almost from the start. From Abigail Adams on, first ladies have weighed in on public debates, political appointments, and even whether the nation should go to war. In the modern era, women like Eleanor Roosevelt and Jacqueline Kennedy evolved the role further. Roosevelt delivered regular addresses on the radio and held almost 350 press conferences (nearly all of which were only open to female reporters). Kennedy took on a full-scale historical restoration of the White House during her tenure, which helped shape our current sense of the domestic duties a first spouse is supposed to fulfill. Later, Hillary Clinton famously lobbied for health care reform. Laura Bush was a staunch advocate for childhood literacy. Michelle Obama attempted to address childhood obesity one push-up at a time. But for all the rigor with which these women approached the position, the job’s responsibilities have also been said to include maintaining a “slavish devotion” to the president and providing nonstop “thankless labor.” It’s a massive, ever-expanding, mostly underappreciated role. And technically, first ladies are expected to do it for free.

Each time a man has won the White House, his wife has been expected to relinquish her life in deference to her husband’s political aspirations. And that means her job too. Worse still, she’s supposed to be grateful for it. As Bill Clinton ran for president in the early 1990s, Hillary Clinton defended her career ambition when she quipped to reporters, “I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life.” The public scorned her for the infamous quote, and soon enough, she was baking cookies for Family Circle magazine’s first ever First Lady Cookie Bake-Off. Michelle Obama too was criticized for her ambition before, in the midst of, and even after her husband’s time in the Oval Office.

Jacqueline Kennedy
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Of course, there have been single presidents before (although few) and widower presidents. Some have married women who weren’t available for every single task assigned to them. But now the demands of the role are full-time, unendingly public, and open to endless scrutiny, as Melania Trump knows very well. Meanwhile, spouses of heads of governments in other countries have often maintained their careers, in part because the roles that the American first spouse has to tackle are in some cases left to royal families, as Keli Goff pointed out for the Daily Beast in 2015. Who is British prime minister Theresa May’s husband? Yeah, I don’t know either.



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