Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Clintons Have Family Dinner in Hamptons While John McCain, Chris Christie Dance with Rich Dems

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More news from last Saturday night in the Hamptons: Bill and Hillary Clinton dined with pregnant daughter Chelsea and her husband Marc at Sotta Sopra in Amagansett. This was about as far as they could get from Revlon chairman Ron Perelman’s house called The Creeks, in Wainscott, right next door to Georgica restaurant, where he was busy entertaining Republicans John McCain and Chris Christie.

Indeed, most of the guests at Perelman’s house would have preferred mixing with the Clintons at Perelman’s benefit for Harlem’s Apollo Theater. Certainly Perelman’s having McCain and Christie over the Clintons is considered a snub on so many levels. After all, Bill Clinton is very identified with Harlem, where the Apollo is located. It’s doubtful either McCain or Christie has ever been in that neighborhood, let alone at the Apollo.

Interesting: most of his Democratic leaning rock and roll friends in New York probably don’t know this but Perelman has donated quite a bit of money in the least couple of years to Republican candidates. They include McCain himself, Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell, South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham, and something called the Prairie PAC. Perelman donated $4,800 to the Republican Party of Kentucky in March of this year.

What’s all the interest in Kentucky? If anyone knows, drop me a line.

 

Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

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