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Obama Campaign Takes Message To Hollywood's VIP Booths
mark · 04/30/07 12:53PM
Hoping to reach the next generation of politically minded entertainment industry influencers who one day might achieve enough success to throw him lavish, billionaire-courting fund-raisers at their Carbon Beach compounds and kneecap his rivals in the pages of the NY Times, the Obamamania Campaign Hummer pulled up to the valet stand at Boulevard3 on Saturday night, an attempt to reach Hollywood up-and-comers in the environment in which they're most comfortable: a club the LAT describes as a "one-stop shop for conspicuous nightlife consumption. Variety reports on the scene at Barack Obama's weekend trip to Sunset Boulevard:
Guns & Blammo
abalk2 · 04/30/07 09:00AMObamamania: Clooney Worries His Burning Passion May Consume His Chosen Candidate
mark · 03/30/07 10:47AM
When George Clooney isn't busy hunting for the real leaker of the Huckabees videos or developing socially conscious movie projects to assuage the guilt induced by all the fun he's having placing Saran Wrap over the toilet bowl in Brad Pitt's double wide (Brad always falls for that one!) on the set of Ocean's 13, the committed actorvist spends time fretting about whether or not it's a prudent idea to publicly repress his intense feelings for Democratic Presidential mancrush Barack Obama for the good of his campaign. In discussing his acute case of Obamamania in today's LAT, Clooney notes the delicate balance between using celebrity to raise a politician's profile and tainting him with the perceived Gay Satanism of "Hollywood values" that Middle America so thoroughly fears:
Clinton Fundraising Shocker: Obamamania Dealt Major Setback!
mark · 03/26/07 08:52PM
It seems that whatever evil rainmaking ritual Hillary Clinton participated in during her recent trip to the CAA Death Star (human sacrifice was presumably involved, as we're hearing reports they're still trying to power-wash the blood off Bryan Lourd's office walls) paid off handsomely, as the skies above billionaire Democratic cheerleader Ron Burkle's compound opened on Saturday night and showered the N.Y. senator's campaign with a possible showbiz record $2.6 million in donations, according to Clinton fundraising group Let's Not Throw That Hollywood Victory Party Just Yet, Mr. Popular. The gauntlet has clearly been thrown at the feet of Chief Obamamania Entertainment Industry Strategist David Geffen, who's faced with the difficult decision of whether to throw another beach party for his political king, schedule a new interview session with Maureen Dowd in which he shockingly reveals that he once saw Hillary kill a drifter with her bare hands (a crime her philandering husband assisted in covering up), or have troublemaking rival Burkle disappeared, hoping to cut off a source of future funds.
Matt Drudge Shocked That Multiracial Candidate May Have Diverse Genetic Background
abalk2 · 03/23/07 12:42PMSerena Torrey Can Do It All In Her Spare Time
abalk2 · 03/09/07 04:00PM
This morning's Sun reports that—due to his stunning popularity—the Barack Obama fundraiser already moved to The Grand Hyatt hotel from its original location was selling out its new block of tickets quickly. This did not come as news to us! We'd already gotten the following missive from event planner Serena Torrey, who is better known as New York magazine's flack.
Serena Torrey, Still So Political
abalk2 · 03/06/07 04:46PM
Serena Torrey, the ice goddess publicist responsible for letting the world know just how excellent New York magazine—and everything associated with it—really is, may be more talented than any of us really know. She spends her days toiling in the trenches of Mosstown, lovingly handcrafting paeans to the mag's ever-growing ad page count, but she can't stop working in her spare time!
Remainders: Obama Parties N.Y. Style
Doree Shafrir · 03/05/07 06:05PMWill Obama Instant Book Flop Like 'Brad & Jen'?
Emily Gould · 03/01/07 01:50PM
Hopes and Dreams: The Story of Barack Obama, an "instant-book" slapped together by a freelance writer in two weeks, will be published this week by Black Dog & Leventhal. According to the WSJ, this is an instance of a burgeoning trend: "with book sales declining, publishers increasingly are looking for quick-turnaround opportunities, hoping to tap public interest in a subject when it is hot." Oh, those desperate publishers, always looking for new ways to compensate for their tragically declining sales!
Mrs. Clinton Goes To The Death Star
mark · 02/22/07 01:40PM
By now, everyone's aware of the shocking attacks DreamWorks mogul and Democratic primary fixer David Geffen made yesterday on Hillary Clinton, her intern-despoiling husband, the White House's substandard lodgings for billionaire rainmakers, and all that is good and holy about civilized political campaigning in an attempt to demonstrate that all of Hollywood has fallen prone at the feet of Barack Obama, ready to do the Chosen One's bidding. Now that most of the factually inaccurate, post-attack bickering has been dispensed with, Team Hillary is regrouping today, ready to launch a Hollywood counteroffensive that includes trips to fundraisers hosted by her own stable of local billionaires, and, ominously, a trip to the CAA Death Star. Says Var:
Obamamania: David Geffen Declares War On Hillary
mark · 02/21/07 01:59PM
Not content to demonstrate his Democratic kingmaking power by throwing a beachside cocktail party/Hillary Clinton effigy burning for Hollywood Chosen One Barack Obama on the pristine sand behind his Malibu compound last night, DreamWorks activist David Geffen granted the NY Times's Maureen Dowd an exclusive fireside chat, during which the power-mad billionaire stroked an overfluffed white cat while cackling his way through his plans to destroy his presidential-hopeful nemesis. The column is behind a subscriber wall, but here are some of the thoughts Geffen shared with Dowd about Hillary, Bill, the political hot water in which Steven Spielberg finds himself submerged for going along with the Obama fund-raiser, and his luxurious sleeping quarters:
Obamamania: The Big Night's Finally Here!
mark · 02/20/07 11:25AM
Just in case your assistant has forgotten to pencil it into your calendar, tonight is the $2,300 per person fundraiser/pre-coronation ceremony for Barack Obama that begins at the Beverly Hilton and ends at David Geffen's Malibu compound (the parade from the hotel to the beach, during which kingmaking DreamWorks billionaires Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Steven Spielberg will take turns carrying the senator on their shoulders, is expected to be spectacular), where Hollywood's hottest presidential hopeful will officially receive his much-anticipated reacharound from industry players who were able to scare up 20 well-monied Friends of Barry for the event. In an effort to keep out undesirables, only those who've ponied up their tribute will be allowed to join in the festivities. Reports the NY Times:
Media Bubble: 'Radar' Now En Español
abalk2 · 02/20/07 08:56AMFacebookers: Obama Not Quite Clean Enough
Choire · 02/18/07 03:54PM
The Sun and The Washington Post have both reported that Barack Obama is using sinister social-networking and uploading-while-drunk tool Facebook.com to attract young voters. He joins a long line of adults who don't quite get it, like fellow Senator Evan Bayh, a man that includes both "Graeter's Black Raspberry Chip Ice Cream" and "War on Terror" on his list of likes. Of course, the kids aren't entirely okay either—Obama's Facebook profile indicates he's received 185 clip-art-for-charity "gifts." The first one? A bar of soap. Enjoy it, our articulate and clean black friend.
Is There Anything Bill Clinton Can't Do?
Emily Gould · 02/14/07 12:40PM
"Former President Bill Clinton helped his wife, Hillary, secure..." Wow, who would have thought that Bill and Hill would be the ones who finally tracked that Osama guy down! GO TEAM AMERICA! Oh. "...secure a key endorsement from an African-American leader who was being courted by Illinois Sen. Barack Obama." So it's just yet another Obama/Osama typo—one at least, we see, corrected in later editions. But we had our little flags all ready to wave and everything!
Obamamania: Hollywood Will Take Its Sweet Time Before Crowning Its Democratic King, Thank You Very Much
mark · 02/13/07 06:58PM
It's a question threatening to tear Hollywood's most prominent, liberal-kingmaking billionaires apart at the gilded seams: Do they throw a fabulous fund-raiser aimed at continuing the spread Obamamania, the sensation sweeping the industry, or do they fall back into the calming, emasculating embrace of longtime Democratic stalwart Hillary Clinton, a tragically unsexy, but arguably safer, choice? The answer, of course, is, "Why can't we do both? We have so much fucking money that no one can tell us to make up our minds until we're good and ready," but Slate notes that a recent Robert Novak column seemed to imply that the officially unbetrothed Steven Spielberg's hosting of a Clinton event means that he's already decided to abandon DreamWorks partners David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg's desire to call forth from the heavens a deluge of showbiz cash that will carry their beloved Obama to an easy nomination: