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Justin Bieber’s Mother Promoting Anti-Abortion Film And Offshoot Conservative Charitable Fund

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Justin Bieber’s Mother Promoting Anti-Abortion Film And Offshoot Conservative Charitable Fund

Exclusive: Justin Bieber’s mother, Patti Mallette, is promoting an anti-abortion film called “Crescendo.” She hopes to distribute it beginning February 28th.  She’s also promoting a conservative right wing offshoot charitable foundation associated with the film’s producer. Here’s the message on the Crescendo website:

“On February 28th, Crescendo, a short film that has been globally heralded and has won over 11 international awards, will be screened at 100 events and then 1,000 events total in 2013. Bring a screening to your community today by clicking below! Each screening is a terrific fundraising opportunity for you. We thank you for experiencing this groundbreaking short film by the producers of Bella, Eduardo Verastegui, Jason Jones and Leo Severino and executive producer Pattie Mallette, the mother of Justin Bieber!”

It’s interesting timing that Bieber is releasing an “Acoustic” album this week, while his mother, Mallette, is also soliciting donations to a so-called charity run by her co-producers on “Crescendo”– including Jones. The registered 501 c(3) is called Hero, Inc. and it’s run by Jones out of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Los Angeles. Jones is also the president and founder of Movie to Movement, which ran the grassroots campaign for the right wing funded documentary “2016: Obama’s America,” according to the “Crescendo” website. Jones is passionately aligned with the Pro Life, anti-Obama movement, having written articles for Breitbart.com and other websites.

HERO has some questionable finances. According to its most recent federal tax filing Form, HERO Inc. paid exactly HALF of the $554,000 it claimed in revenue for 2011 for salaries–$270,000. They finished 2011 over $20,000 in the red, the minus column. Jones was paid $88,000 in salary.

HERO-stands for Human Rights Education and Relief Organization. Its “primary exempt purpose”: “promoting a “Whole Life” ethic that recognizes the intrinsic worth of the sanctity of human life at all stages of physical development, regardless of social standing, physical or mental abilities, or geopolitical circumstances.”

http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2011/261/209/2011-261209762-089a37f4-9.pdf

There’s more: somehow these people have taken a charming 2006 indie movie called “Bella” and bent its meaning into a pro-life crusade. Jones and Severino were two of many producers on the film. Verastegui played the male lead. But the entire meaning of “Bella” has been perverted in the name of starting “pregnancy care centers”–or places where teens are advised not to consider abortion. Mallette is fully behind this as evidenced by a video on the Crescendo website.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kF_zlvzYuQ&feature=player_embedded

 

 

 

Arnold Terminated: First New Movie Since Hollywood Return Bombs at Box Office

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Arnold Terminated: First New Movie Since Hollywood Return Bombs at Box Office

Arnold Schwarzenegger did say “I’ll be back” when he left the movies to become governor of California. But his return to film is not a celebration. His first movie since returning full time to the big screen is a bomb. “The Last Stand” made just $2 million on Friday night. It’s projected to do $6.7 million for the long weekend and finish in 10th place. Is Arnold finished? He very well may be. His autobiography, published last fall, called “Total Recall,” was a total dud, too. Schwarzenegger’s age isn’t helping at the movies. Neither is his personal behavior in public. His lack of contrition for the terrible things he inflicted on his real life family has come back to haunt him in the commercial market place.

Meantime at the box office: Jessica Chastain must feel pretty good this morning. She’s starring on Broadway in “The Heiress.” On film, she’s in the number 1 and 2 movies– “Mama” and “Zero Dark Thirty.” She has an Oscar nomination. What else could she want? Maybe– sleep!

And “Silver Linings Playbook” finally went “wide” on Friday, to over 1,700 theaters, after weeks and weeks (months!) of playing a limited run. The David O. Russell serious comedy is a serious crowd-pleaser. It also has a big number of Oscar nominations and should be the Best Ensemble film at the SAG Awards next Saturday. This movie has become the little engine that could. Now its box office is booming. Very good news indeed. It could do another $11 million this weekend.

 

Scorsese, DeNiro, Pacino Stage Reading of Mob Movie in NYC

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Scorsese, DeNiro, Pacino Stage Reading of Mob Movie in NYC

Well, I do feel like an idiot now. I knew about the reading in Tribeca yesterday afternoon for “The Irishman” but didn’t write about it. Someone involved asked me not to, and I said Okay. So Mike Fleming gets the “Scoop” on Deadline.com. However, the reading didn’t “just happen.” It was yesterday–Thursday–afternoon well before Al Pacino had to get back to the theater for “Glengarry Glen Ross.” Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci all took part in the reading of the adaptation of “I Hear You Paint Houses” to be directed by Martin Scorsese. I’m told it was very exciting. Harvey Keitel will also be in the movie.

Read my original announcement from December 2010: http://www.showbiz411.com/2010/12/16/deniro-announces-scorsese-all-star-film-with-pacino-pesci-and-keitel

The reading also dragged into town a bunch of L.A. agents all of whom turned up later at Scarlett Johansson’s premiere in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” And Mike is right. “The Irishman” is good to go, but Scorsese wants to make “Silence” next after “Wolf of Wall Street” is all done. Too bad. We’d all like to see “The Irishman” now. And what about “Sinatra”? Scorsese may be waiting so Leonardo DiCaprio can age some more. Here’s what you do. Marty: give Leo golf lessons in Palm Springs, no hat, no sunblock, no sunglasses, just dames and Scotch.

Flashback to 2009 Huffington Post Inaugural Party in DC: No Party this Year

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Most of what I remember about the 2009 Inaugural weekend is trying to get from Sundance to Washington DC in time for the big Huffington Post gala. There is no such thing this time around. But on January 20, 2009, Delta Airlines did everything they could think of to keep me from leaving Salt Lake City. I was six hours late. Since most of these people aren’t going this time around, here’s what I wrote:

It was supposed to be an intimate affair but Arianna Huffington‘s gala last night in Washington was a wildy overbooked media bash for thousands.
They came to celebrate the inauguraiton of Barack Obama, and so they did, greeting the chiming of the clock at midnight as if it were New Years Eve. Huffington’s peeps handed out a ton of New Years Eve tchochtkes like hats and horns to make the most noise when the clock struck midnight.
At that point Sting had just finished singing “Brand New Day” and “Every Breath You Take,” as well as joining in with will.i.am on his remake of “Englishman in New York.” The Black Eyed Peas leader also performed a couple of his own hits.
Among the stars we saw were Robert DeNiro, Ben Affleck, Josh Groban, Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Norman Lear, Rosie Perez, Gerald Butler, Marisa Tomei, John Cusack, Kerry Washington, Leigh Taylor-Young and kind of an endless list of bold face names who must read The Huffington Post blog site, or at least just wanted to be seen. The stars had total access, and the result was a hot mix of Hollywood and politics that only Huffington could pull off.
Things were a little different this morning—Tuesday—as some stars made it in to the swearing in and some didn’t.
The crowds were so huge and the disorganization of security so massive that thousands of ticket holders were kept from seeing or hearing the Obama swearing in. I ran into actress and writer Anna Deveare Smith, an Obama supporter, who simply gave up rather than brave the bone chilling cold. Dana Delany hunkered down at a brunch where other luninaries watched ceremony in safety and warmth.
But plenty still made it, some with the Creative Coalition group, including Anne Hathaway, Tony Goldwyn, Tim Daly, Adrian Grenier, Barry Levinson, Matthew Modine, Gloria Reuben, Tamara Tunie, Lynn Whitfield, Giancarlo Esposito, and Rachel Leigh Cook.
More to come … stay tuned tonight as the A-list really rolls out the red carpet. But some are wondering why it’s Beyonce and not R&B legend Etta James who’s singing the Obamas’ favorite song, “At Last,” tonight to the First Couple. James is alive and well, and it’s her hit the Obamas have swooned to all these years.
The White House needs a director of music, I think—a new cabinet post!

Oprah-Lance Show 3.2 Mil Viewers for OWN, But Second to Oprah’s Whitney Houston Post-Death Show

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Oprah-Lance Show 3.2 Mil Viewers for OWN, But Second to Oprah’s Whitney Houston Post-Death Show

Well, Lance Armstrong’s big confession last night was only the second highest show ever on the OWN network. Oprah’s crazy show with Pat Houston and Bobbi Kristina after Whitney died remains number 1 on OWN. The Lance Show got 3.2 million viewers, which is still pretty good.  OWN just sent out a confusing press release claiming 3.2 and 4.3 mil at the same time. Then Variety sent out a blast saying it was 3.1 million.

So no one really knows. But they do know that it wasn’t as big as Pat Houston saying Whitney was “looking for love in all the wrong places” as an explanation for her death– weeks before the coroner said he found cocaine and paraphernalia in the room. But that’s another story. Anyway, tonight is Part 2 when maybe Lance will explain everything he said last night.

Oh wait I get it. You have no idea how press releases are worded from networks about their ratings. This is what they meant: 3.2 million from 9 pm to 10:30pm first showing, then another 1.2 million for the second showing at 10:30pm. So you decide. But neither number is as big as the Whitney Houston number. In that show, there was no idea that Bobbi Kristina was going to run off with some kid who Whitney had “adopted” and had been been in their house for years.

As far as Lance goes: Who else knew? When did they know it? Did Sheryl Crow not know her boyfriend was doping? Or Robin Williams, his bff? How did Lance keep it a secret? How did he look his mother, wives, and children in the eye? And why does his haircut never change? Those are things I’m interested in now.

Mariel Hemingway Says Father Sexually Abused Two Older Sisters Including Super Model Margaux

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Mariel Hemingway Says Father Sexually Abused Two Older Sisters Including Super Model Margaux

Exclusive: In an extraordinary new documentary, actress Mariel Hemingway says she’s realized that her late father, Jack, son of writer Ernest Hemingway, sexually abused her two older sisters. One of them, the famed model Margaux Hemingway, committed suicide in 1996. The eldest sister, an artist, lives a quiet life in Idaho. The film, “Running from Crazy,” directed by Oscar winner Barbara Kopple, debuts at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday night. It was executive produced by Oprah Winfrey for her OWN network.

It’s quite a film, actually. Mariel is now 51 years old and the mother of two beautiful daughters, one of whom–Dree–is now a model. Mariel has aged sort of miraculously on the outside. She doesn’t look much different than she did at 18 when she was nominated for an Oscar in Woody Allen’s “Manhattan.” But her

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story, the story of her family and a grandfather she didn’t know has taken its toll on her. The other miracle is that she’s survived and is able to address a number of subjects including mental health and suicide. She’s become a spokesperson for each, which is admirable considering the legacy with which she was saddled.

And that’s not to say that “Running from Crazy” is depressing because it’s not. Mariel makes the observation that the Hemingways were a little like the Kennedys, a dynastic American family always in the public eye. But there was trouble. “We were WASPS and we didn’t talk about our problems,” she said. Everyone drank. Ernest Hemingway killed himself in 1961; Mariel lives near the house where he shot himself. She didn’t know until she was in her 20s that it was not accidental.

But it’s the wrenching tragedy of her sister, Margaux, the middle daughter of Hemingway’s son Jack, that really informs this film. I knew Margaux slightly in the 1980s. She was incredibly beautiful and troubled, a lot like Lindsay Lohan and some others who appear regularly in tabloids. Kopple has found a lot of amazing archival footage of her, and of a film Margaux was trying to make about Ernest. There’s also a lot of home movies of Jack and his wife at home in Ketchum, Idaho with the girls as kids and as adults. They look like a Norman Rockwell painting. But under the surface there is a lot of pain. A particularly wrenching episode: when Margaux is in recovery at Betty Ford and none of the Hemingways come to see her on family day. It breaks your heart.

I don’t know how Mariel’s older sister, Muffet, who seems fragile, will take to the revelation of this headline. But Mariel is very definite. “When I was really small I shared a room with Margaux. My dad came in the room. I don’t recall what it was, but it wasn’t right. It’s hard to have a visual of that. I know what happened. I think my dad sexually abused the girls when they were young.”

It’s tough stuff. But Mariel comes off as brave and courageous. Kopple has made a compelling portrait of a complex American saga.

 

Lance Armstrong Tells Oprah “Not Possible” to Win Tour de France 7 Times in a Row (Video)

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Lance Armstrong Tells Oprah “Not Possible” to Win Tour de France 7 Times in a Row (Video)

Below in our homepage video player, Lance Armstrong tells Oprah Winfrey that it wouldn’t have been possible to win the Tour de France seven times without doping. The entire Oprah interview is fascinating. The bottom line is that this guy comes off like a sociopath. I do wonder what all the celebrities who gathered around him during his heyday and championed him — people like Robin Williams and Matthew McConnaughey, to say nothing of Sheryl Crow– are thinking right now. Anyway, it’s a sad story of a terrible hoax that was perpetrated on the public, on the people around Armstrong, the cyclists, etc. It’s a miserable way for people around the world to view an American athlete who was held out as a hero.

Paul Dano Excited to Learn Piano to Play Brian Wilson Circa “Pet Sounds”

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Paul Dano Excited to Learn Piano to Play Brian Wilson Circa “Pet Sounds”

Paul Dano is the soft spoken but oft-buzzed about young actor who’s already been great in films like “Little Miss Sunshine” and “There Will Be Blood.” Now he’s just been signed to play Beach Boy Brian Wilson in “Love and Mercy,” about the life and times of the troubled genius behind America’s answer to the Beatles. “Love and Mercy” is set to be directed by first timer Bill Pohlad, the money man who’s been funding Terrence Malick’s latest chapter of films, and whose family comes from Minnesota Twins fame. (I wish he’d reconsider; producers rarely make good directors even when their hearts are in the right place.)

Dano was very excited about his new role when I ran into him last night at the opening of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” on Broadway. “I have to learn to play the piano,” he told me. “And I have to work on my singing.” Dano said he plays guitar, so he’s on top of that. And he doesn’t seem daunted by the keyboards. “I can play chords already, and I know enough to get by.” But he’s really going to work on it.

(UPDATED And CLARIFIED) “Love and Mercy” is the name of a late Brian Wilson song from his 1988 solo debut album. At the time, Wilson was still under the sway of his Svengali, Dr. Eugene Landy, now deceased. Dano will play young Wilson around the time of the recording of “Pet Sounds” in the mid 1960s.  Wilson will also be depicted around  the time in the late 1990s when he was finally freed from Landy’s clutches. Depending on how it’s written and who plays the older Wilson and the character of Landy, the movie could be very interesting. I met Dr. Landy at Wilson’s “autobiography” launch in 1996, and he was one scary guy. The fact that he had Wilson under his thumb was made abundantly clear.

Chuck Klosterman wrote in the New York Times in 1996: “If Landy wasn’t around, Wilson was shadowed by two musclebound assistants. (When Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac tried to work with Wilson in the late ’80s, he called these henchmen “surf Nazis.”) Over time, Wilson took to referring to Landy as “my master” and turned over to him the reins of his semiresurrected career. Landy (who managed the jazz guitarist George Benson during the 1960s) began writing Wilson’s lyrics and taking 50 percent of his earnings, plus a monthly $35,000 fee. He became the beneficiary of the musician’s will. He produced Wilson’s 1988 solo record and engineered Wilson’s ghost-written autobiography, “Wouldn’t It Be Nice — My Own Story,” much of which lionized the brilliance of Dr. Eugene Landy. (Later, Wilson would admit that he didn’t even read the book he supposedly helped write.)”

Producers of “Love and Mercy” are looking for someone to play Wilson– who thank god is still very much alive and active–in those years.

PS This is a total non sequitir– but if you’re in New York this weekend and you love good music– Garland Jeffreys plays tonight at the Highline Ballroom, 8pm; and Peter Asher does his one man show at the Iridium Jazz Club on Sunday at 3pm and 8pm.

Scarlett Johansson in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” Brings Out Meryl Streep, Daniel Craig, A List Stars

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Scarlett Johansson in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” Brings Out Meryl Streep, Daniel Craig, A List Stars

Believe it or not, Scarlett Johansson already has a Tony Award– for her work as a featured actress in Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge.” That was in 2010. Now she’s the lead as Maggie the Cat in Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” Benjamin Walker, the star of Bloody Andrew Jackson on Broadway and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter in film, and Meryl Streep’s real life son-in-law (married to Mamie Gummer) is Brick. Of course there’ s Big Daddy in the person of Ciaran Hinds and Big Mama is Debra Monk. There are worse things you could do to heat up a cold Thursday night in New York.

In the audience: Meryl Streep with husband Don Gummer, Mamie and Grace Gummer, Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Tracy Ullmann and her daughter Mabel (who is all grown up and works for The Daily Beast), as well Sarah Paulson (one of my personal faves) and Jessica Hecht (another), ABC’s Cynthia McFadden, Perri Peltz, Peggy Siegal, lots of agents and managers from Hollywood, plus all the Broadway cognoscenti who’ve experienced many cats on many tin roofs over the years. Streep, by the way, is a trouper. She is still getting over the flu, but persevered for family.

The cast in this production all very winning, starting with Scarlett and including the many supporting players like Michael Park and Emily Bergl. We see so much of Debra Monk around New York that we forget she is phenomenal and can do anything. She makes for a wonderful Big Mama.

Benjamin Walker is right on the precipice of being a big star. His Brick is a brooding hunk, but he’s also got a good sense of humor. Hinds, of course, is a most relaxed Big Daddy, very at home on stage as the leader of this warring clan. His second act with Walker rings very true.

Scarlett Johansson is a theater actress. When I asked her about doing movies and returning to theater, she sighed and kind of brushed off the movies. Her next one is “Captain America” Pt. 2 with Chris Evans. “This is where I want to be,” she said. “It’s a relief. I feel so free on stage.” Her Maggie has a soulful strut, and a deep Southern accent that Scarlett has invented. “It comes from some place deep,” she said. “From the Delta.” She gives one hell of a performance, and she’ll be back soon. I have no doubt.

 

Obama Inauguration Heavy Hitters AWOL: No Bruce, Aretha, Barbra or Bon Jovi

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Obama Inauguration Heavy Hitters AWOL: No Bruce, Aretha, Barbra or Bon Jovi

Where have all the superstars gone? In 2009, the Obama inauguration was so filled with A listers they caused gridlock. Aretha Franklin and her famous hat sang at the swearing in. She also did a free concert at the Kennedy Center. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsNHhJTZAM0  An ABC special featured a dozen or so performers including Sting, Stevie Wonder, and Mariah Carey. They all sang Stevie’s “Signed Sealed Delivered I’m Yours.” Sting and Stevie performed “Brand New Day.” Over at The Creative Coalition Ball, Sting, Elvis Costello and Sam Moore performed. Elsewhere, there were musical extravaganzas galore. Bruce Springsteen performed at the Lincoln Memorial for free with a half dozen stars at least.

Alas, this won’t be the case this year.

The heavy hitters are staying home. Neither Bruce, Jon Bon Jovi nor Aretha Franklin is coming to Washington. They’ve all passed for a variety of reasons– schedule, exhaustion, etc. And that’s interesting because they were all big Obama supporters during the election.

The only holdovers are Beyonce and James Taylor, whose participation is not very intense this time around. Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, and Alicia Keys are set to perform at a children’s event on Saturday of Inauguration weekend. Kelly Clarkson is singing at the inauguration. Of course, the number of Inaugural balls is way down too. But the talent is very B list. The Creative Coalition was only able to secure The Goo Goo Dolls. Lynyrd Skynyrd is said to be at another. John Legend, who’s game for anything, will be at one of the events.

But no Bruce, Aretha or Bon Jovi. And not a peep out of Barbra Streisand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rL9AIW9TzEI#!

It’s very different. Look at this story I wrote in 2009: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2009/01/05/obama-picks-stars-inaugural/

And here’s what I wrote on January 21, 2009:

Even though Barack Obama‘s Neighborhood Ball was beaten in the TV ratings last night by “American Idol,” it was without a doubt the hottest of the official inaugural events.

Stevie Wonder, Sting, Mariah Carey, Aicia Keys, Queen Latifah, Jay Z and Beyonce were just some of the performers who wowed the crowd of 2,000 or more former Obama campaign workers and residents of Washington, DC.

And there was plenty of Hollywood star power with Denzel Washington, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Jamie Foxx all hanging out backstage and introducing segments. Leo brought his dad, who took video footage on a minicam of the acrobat troupe that formed a human pyramid. Denzel took a large freight elevator to the stage with a costumed gospel choir. They sang to him and asked if he had a voice. “Not me,” he laughed. “My wife can sing. You don’t want to hear me.”

At the back of the elevator Sting, incognito in his brown beard, almost went unrecognized until one of the ladies gasped and the attention shifted.

Down in the dressing rooms – thin curtained partitions with card tables and couches – Sting and Stevie Wonder were next door neighbors. While Stevie practiced his harmonica riffs, Sting listened to an instrumental track of “Signed, Sealed, Delivered” for the big group superstar singalong.

Suddenly Stevie started playing along from his side of the curtain while Sting tried out the lyrics on his side. Then Stevie went into a jazz riff that stopped everything. It was an extraordinary moment, topped only by the pair’s show closer on Sting’s “Brand New Day.”

Meanwhile in the holding area, Alicia Keys greeted Queen Latifah. Their moms talked about how much they loved the women’s performances in “The Secret Life of Bees.” Latifah looked sensational in her gown. Sean Diddy Combs, dressed to the nines in a spiffy tux, lingered in a corner ,even though he wasn’t on the show. Later Latifah went up on stage with the moms to watch Alicia’s knockout performance of “No One” and took pictures with a beautiful nine-year old girl in a formal white gown. The mother was over the moon.

And then, of course, there was Mariah Carey with her young husband, Nick Cannon. The latter was perched above the stage where was deejaying, playing the songs that went with the artists. When Wonder finished his terrific new single “All About the Love Again” from the new Obama CD (on Hdden Beach Records), Cannon launched into a medley of Stevie’s classic hits.

“Do you do bar mitzvahs?” I asked. He laughed. “Why not? It’s good money!”

Mariah meantime was glowing (but not pregnant) and very happy with her performance of “Hero.” “Was it ok?” she asked me when we ran into each other. Her next question was maybe more relevant. “Is Randy here?” She asked of pal Randy Jackson, our mutual friend.

Alas he wasn’t. Jackson was busy on “American Idol,” the ratings king, listening to “Gong Show” types. Something tells me he would have been happier here.

Hanging Out At The All-Star Obama Party

It was supposed to be an intimate affair but Arianna Huffington‘s gala last night in Washington was a wildy overbooked media bash for thousands.
They came to celebrate the inauguraiton of Barack Obama, and so they did, greeting the chiming of the clock at midnight as if it were New Years Eve. Huffington’s peeps handed out a ton of New Years Eve tchochtkes like hats and horns to make the most noise when the clock struck midnight.
At that point Sting had just finished singing “Brand New Day” and “Every Breath You Take,” as well as joining in with will.i.am on his remake of “Englishman in New York.” The Black Eyed Peas leader also performed a couple of his own hits.
Among the stars we saw were Robert DeNiro, Ben Affleck, Josh Groban, Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Norman Lear, Rosie Perez, Gerald Butler, Marisa Tomei, John Cusack, Kerry Washington, Leigh Taylor-Young and kind of an endless list of bold face names who must read The Huffington Post blog site, or at least just wanted to be seen. The stars had total access, and the result was a hot mix of Hollywood and politics that only Huffington could pull off.
Things were a little different this morning—Tuesday—as some stars made it in to the swearing in and some didn’t.
The crowds were so huge and the disorganization of security so massive that thousands of ticket holders were kept from seeing or hearing the Obama swearing in. I ran into actress and writer Anna Deveare Smith, an Obama supporter, who simply gave up rather than brave the bone chilling cold. Dana Delany hunkered down at a brunch where other luninaries watched ceremony in safety and warmth.
But plenty still made it, some with the Creative Coalition group, including Anne Hathaway, Tony Goldwyn, Tim Daly, Adrian Grenier, Barry Levinson, Matthew Modine, Gloria Reuben, Tamara Tunie, Lynn Whitfield, Giancarlo Esposito, and Rachel Leigh Cook.
More to come … stay tuned tonight as the A-list really rolls out the red carpet. But some are wondering why it’s Beyonce and not R&B legend Etta James who’s singing the Obamas’ favorite song, “At Last,” tonight to the First Couple. James is alive and well, and it’s her hit the Obamas have swooned to all these years.
The White House needs a director of music, I think—a new cabinet post!
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