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