Two younger hopefuls, Bobby Jindal (governor of Louisiana) and Mark Sanford (governor of South Carolina) have self-destructed, one with a dismal speech, the other with a sexual scandal.
The most self-aware of the gay men in this picture revel in the ironies of their social and sexual identities, and Livingston makes us appreciate the comic grace and the strange wisdom of that approach.
Monroe emerges as a painfully self-aware and motivated performer who craved achievement as much as fame yet understood the value of her sexual allure, which she donned like a mask and became, to her dismay, her public identity.