Monica Lewinsky hangs out with Alan Cumming

Here's a blast from the not-so-distant past - the former White House intern at the center of the Clinton impeachment case, Monica Lewinsky, 35, was photographed out in New York yesterday with Broadway star Alan Cumming. It's hard to tell from the photos whether Alan and Monica just ran into each other and stopped for a chat or if they were hanging out the whole time.

We haven't heard much about Monica and a quick glance at her Wikipedia page reminds me that I last saw her on The Tom Green show in 2000. She laid low for a couple years after the scandal with President Clinton and launched her own handmade fabric purse line without a lot of fanfare. Her purses don't seem to be available anymore and it looks like she's carrying someone else's high end purse in these photos. In 2003 she briefly resurged as the host of a dating reality show on Fox called Mr. Personality. Monica then went on to earn her masters in social psychology from the London School of Economics in 2006.

I listened to most of the secret phone recordings between Monica and her turncoat former BFF, Linda Tripp, about ten years ago when they were available on Broadcast.com. It was a way to kill time while I was working at whichever now-defunct Internet company that employed me. Most of it was boring girl talk, and I remember that they talked about their hair a lot. Lewinsky still has great hair. She also has some awesome friends if she's hanging out with Alan Cumming. He's one of the most amusing people I've ever seen interviewed. Hope you're doing well, Monica.

Photo credit: Hector Vallenilla, PacificCoastNews.com