Sure, she collected a little cash for her Clintonian difficulties, but the poor twangy-voiced darlin' just can't manage to take the spoils of her damp victory and fade quietly into obscurity to pursue her various misguided career goals. According to the Associated Press, the little lady was pulled over for a burned-out taillight by her old friends the Arkansas state police while she was tooling around an area not too far from Little Rock. He handed over a whopping ticket and a call for the devilish Miss Jones to show up in court. Whoa, Miss Twang. When your brittle benefactor Susan Carpenter McMillan hears about this, you'll be begging for mercy like Bill Clinton at a Promise Keepers rally.
Reality is much more scary.
Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday. News sources can't seem to get straight just why the Gloved One-der was rushed to the hospital following a charity concert in Munich on Sunday. But the most Thriller-ing report comes via a British tabloid, which quotes eyewitnesses at the children's benefit concert as saying that Jackson was not only scorched by a wayward firework, but also unceremoniously hurled into the orchestra pit at Munich's Olympic Stadium when the bridge he was standing on collapsed in the massive fireworks mayhem. It was really frightening. People in the audience were screaming and crying.