Opinion: Obama-backer Scarlett Johansson to join his new administration?

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No, of course not.

But since it’s only Monday and we’re already sick of Rahm Emanuel’s prizefighter puss, The Ticket needs to write about something else right now. And Scarlett is our favorite stand-in.

She was, as you may recall, a fervent fan, outspoken supporter, surrogate speaker and a self-described intimate e-mail buddy of Barack Obama’s during the campaign.

Until, that is, the married Democrat candidate purposely let it be known that she did not actually have his e-mail address, but had sent one message one time through an aide. (Got that, Michelle?)

So Scarlett is putting that political disappointment aside for the moment and appears to be trying to move on, as they say, attempting to rebuild her life.

She’s on the cover of the new issue of Allure and in what passes for an in-depth interview she clearly is still feeling the pain as she can’t bear to talk about politics.

She says she doesn’t understand any feud with Lindsay Lohan, which many of us were unaware of in the first place and anyway Scarlett’s only seen LL a few times.

Scarlett says her new sunrise tattoo makes her happy to look at, but it’s so personal she can’t discuss it, even though it’s on her forearm for anyone to see. (No doubt, something about a new day dawning in Washington and change you can believe in.)

She can’t discuss how she met husband Ryan Reynolds either; also too personal. And she doesn’t believe she’s a muse to Woody Allen, even though he says so. (To see photographic proof of her inspiration of the one-time comic and movie director, click on the ‘Read more’ line below.)

--Andrew Malcolm

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