Monday, Mar. 15, 1999
Numbers
By Harriet Barovick, Daniel S. Levy, Lina Lofaro, Michele Orecklin, David Spitz, Flora Tartakovsky and Chris Taylor
48 Percentage of all TV-watching households in America that were tuned to the Barbara Walters interview with Monica Lewinsky last Wednesday
38 Percentage of TV households that watched Bill and Hillary Clinton's famous post-Super Bowl interview on 60 Minutes in 1992
$800,000 Lewinsky's share of the publisher's advance for Monica's Story by author Andrew Morton
$800,000 ABC's asking price for a single 30-second commercial during the Barbara Walters interview
$2 million Latest estimate of Lewinsky's legal bills
288 vs. 167 Pages in Monica's Story vs. Diana: Her True Story
1 Mention of Diana's eating disorder listed in the index of Her True Story
9 Mentions of Lewinsky's weight listed in the index of Monica's Story
1 Mention of her wit
Sources: Nielsen Media Research, AP, Advertising Age, St. Martin's Press, Simon & Schuster