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Arianna Huffington
Cecily Strong at the MSNBC after party (Photo by Ben Droz)
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Mayor Muriel Bowser
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WASHINGTON’S BIGGEST BASH Who went where over the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner weekend B Y J A N E T D O N O VA N
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e careful what you wish for, sometimes you get it. Journalists attending the annual White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner and the fourday weekend festivities surrounding it finally got theirs. After years of criticism that imports from L.A. were stealing their thunder, few A-list celebrities showed up. Nobody seemed to mind at the “Welcome to Washington: A Salute to Women in Jour nalism” event at the home of Gloria Dittus where now retired ABC News reporter Ann Compton was honored. “We looked several years ago at events that were going on in Washington around the WHCA dinner and realized
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there was nothing that celebrated women, so we decided to do it,” Dittus said. The pre-event circuit included a dinner at the home of Atlantic Media’s David Bradley, the Washington Jams event with Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell (sponsored by Mother Nature Network), Politico’s “An Evening with John Legend” and an uber-private bash hosted by Funny or Die. Celebrity watchers were periodically compensated. Lucy Lui (“Elementary”), Connie Br itton (“Nashville”), and Constance Zimmer (“Entourage”) were at The Hill-Extra party at the Canadian Embassy where media folks got their due — including Fox News; media cr itic
Howie Kurtz, who said he wished Hillary Clinton had come to “throw herself on the mercy of 2,000 ravenous correspondents.” Rock the Vote highlighted Gossip Girls star Kelly Rutherford. The United Nations Foundation, Devex, Foreign Affairs Magazine and Washington Life hosted actress Alfre Woodard, who plays President Constance Payton on NBC’s drama “State of Affairs.” U.N. Foundation president Richard Parnell said he hoped that Woodard wouldn’t be the last Madam President in the near future, a reference to Hillary Clinton we’re guessing. We want to thank PEOPLE/TIME for bringing us Michael Kelly, who plays White House Chief of Staff Doug Stamper to
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Elon Musk, Susan Blumenthal and Sen. Ed Markey Jenna Dewan Tatum
Diana Taylor and Michael Bloomberg
PRE-PARTIES AND RED CARPET [THE WASHINGTON HILTON] P H OTO S BY TO N Y P OW E L L
Martha Stewart
Lorraine Wallace, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Julie Chaffetz and Chris Wallace
Katie Couric
Philip Deutch and Marne Levine
Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker
Tracee Ellis Ross
Hilary Rosen and Tammy Haddad
Bianna Golodryga and Peter Orszag
Sally and Mark Ein
GARDEN BRUNCH Carolyn Murphy
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Kelly Rutherford
Tina Tchen and Valerie Jarrett
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Richard Woolfe and Chris Matthews
Chris Jansing and Tara Lipinski
Michael Kelly
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John Engler and Ajay Banga
David and Katherine Bradley, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Paul Pelosi
Rep. Bill Paxon
Sally Quinn and Christopher Isham
Melinda Maxfield, Adrienne Elrod
DAVID & KATHERINE and Melissa Maxfield BRADLEY DINNER [BRADLEY RESIDENCE] P H OTO S BY TO N Y P OW E L L
Australian Amb. Kim Beazley and Susie Annus
t James Bennet
Claire McCaskill Jennifer and Jake Tapper
Adam Cahan, Anne Vyalitsyna
Howard Fineman and Amy Nathan
Darren Sands, Jummy Olabanji and Fran Holuba
Beata Gutman, George Lehner and Anastasia Dellaccio (Photo by Alfredo Flores)
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fictional President Kevin Spacey in “House of Cards.” “So, who is your character most aligned with in real life?” we asked him. “I am not going there,” he said. No kidding, especially since he ran over his girlfriend in the series. Patrick Gavin, who produced an unflattering portrait of the dinner in his new documentary, “Nerd Prom,” swore that the event was the only one he was attending! Gina Rodr iguez was the honorary chair at OUR VOICES: Celebrating Diversity in Media. “Eventually, we are going to have the first Latino
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Michelle Taylor-Spearman and Autumn Burnett
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president come out of Voto Latino,” the group’s CEO, Maria Teresa Kumar, said. Arts advocates showed up for The Creative Coalition’s party with Tim Daly, actor Jason Isaacs, “Gossip Girl” alum Michelle Trachtenberg and Emily Osment, who stars in the ABC show “Young & Hungry.” Most of the aforementioned piled on at the annual Garden Brunch spearheaded by Tammy Haddad on Saturday at the home of Mark and Sally Ein where guests loaded up on Bloody Marys anticipating the rest of the weekend.
There was lots of eye candy on the red carpet at the actual dinner, including supermodels Chrissy Teigen, Adriana Lima and Chanel Iman. But as one guest put it, “Who are these people?” The more recognizable carpet strollers were Jane Fonda, Bradley Cooper, Katie Couric, Ronan Far row and Donald Trump. The CBS/Atlantic pre-party boasted former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and actors Tim Daly and Tea Leoni. The threesome were inseparable. In the CBS “Madam Secretary” series, Tea plays a fictional secretary
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Fred Humphries, Gina Rodriguez, David Sutphen and Maria Teresa Kumar
VOTO LATINO “OUR VOICES” PARTY
Jose Diaz-Balart
Al Sharpton and Aisha McShaw
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Laverne Cox
MSNBC AFTER PARTY [UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE]
Michael Eric Dyson and Tamron Hall
Andrea Mitchell
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Mary Anne and Abby Huntsman
Emily Tisch Sussman and Meredith Fineman Canadian Guard and Ambassador Gary Doer
ROCK THE VOTE PARTY
Ben and Ashley Chang
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Nikki Schwab, Scott Brodbeck, Judy Kurtz and Neil Grace
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Nick Schmit and Jonathan Capehart
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Kiki Burger and Ashley Spillane
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of state and co-star Daly plays her husband. Throw in CBS‘ Bob Schieffer and you have the perfect “Nerd Prom.” Leoni was Schieffer’s date, Daly claimed Albright ... besties forever. Guests were still laughing at the hilarity of President Obama’s speech en route to the MSNBC After Party where “bucket list” took on new meaning after his amusing post-dinner remarks to a receptive audience. (“Do you have a bucket list? I say, well I have something that rhymes with bucket. Immigration executive action? Bucket!”) Dinner host Cecily Strong also held her own: “President Obama came
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out in support for putting women on money — as opposed to DEA agents who prefer to put money on women.” Late night elsewhere: included the Bloomberg/Vanity Fair closer at the French ambassador’s residence. The Hangover Tour: the Allbritton, Reuters and CNN brunches were morningafter destinations. Guests at CNN included Donna Brazile, Sam Feist. Wolf Blitzer, Jake Tapper, Dana Bash and Suzanne Malveaux. No where in sight: the Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitts of the world. Be careful what you wish for!
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Michelle Kosinski and Don Lemon
Lucy Liu
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