President Clinton: Monica Lewinsky scandal to be retold in film

New York, Wednesday
President Clinton’s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky and the 1999 impeachment proceedings it led to are to be dramatised on US television.
The latest series of American Crime Story will air in the run-up to next year’s presidential election.
Lewinsky is among the producers on the FX show, which follows previous seasons devoted to the OJ Simpson trial and the murder of Gianni Versace.
Booksmart actress Beanie Feldstein will play Lewinsky.
Sarah Paulson, meanwhile, will play Linda Tripp, the civil servant who secretly recorded Lewinsky’s private phone calls about her affair with the president. It is not yet known who will play Bill and Hillary Clinton in the show, which will be based on a 2000 book by Jeffrey Toobin.
In a statement given to Vanity Fair, Lewinsky said she was “hesitant” and “more than a little scared” to be involved in the Ryan Murphy production.
But she said she had come around to the idea after “a lengthy dinner” with the American Horror Story producer and now felt “privileged to have this opportunity”. —BBC