Lena Dunham Hires Olivia Pope (the Real One)
The 'Girls' star seems to attract the wrong kind of attention
A recent analysis of HBO’s Girls on Vox claims that Lena Dunham doesn’t really care to address criticism of her show’s less-than-endearing protagonist. It would appear, however, that her personal/professional life is a different story: in an expertly timed pre-holiday weekend Friday Dump, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Dunham has hired PMK-BNC CEO Cindi Berger and crisis specialist Judy Smith.
Yes, that would be the real Olivia Pope.
Why did Dunham feel a pressing need to improve her public profile? We’ll call it chronic, compulsive oversharing.
While her memoir Not That Kind of Girl has attracted a great deal of media attention, not all of it has been positive: in October, the conservative National Review ran a cover story on Dunham’s “pathetic privilege,” and others have zeroed in on a couple of recollections from her memoir — one involving an alleged sexual assault and another involving her younger sister — to call her a liar, a child molester, and...
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