Word: geffen
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...been in the thrall of Bill and Hillary Clinton, pouring millions into their campaigns. But now there's a new "it" pol on the scene. Senator Barack Obama had his Tinseltown premiere Tuesday night at a glittering $1.3 million fund raiser thrown by DreamWorks founders Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg. Moneymen who brought in at least $46,000 got a "private" dinner with the candidate at Geffen's home...
...Maybe in 2012. In only the third month of what we will be a 15-month primary process, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are already in a battle over who has the meanest supporters. After David Geffen, the Hollywood producer who held a fundraiser for Obama this week, blasted Hillary Clinton in the New York Times as "ambitious," called her husband "a reckless guy" and said the pair "lies" with "such ease, it's troubling," Clinton's campaign attacked Obama for allowing his supporters to practice the sort of "slash and burn" politics the Illinois Senator preaches against. Obama...
...those differences aside - trust them, the Democrats all want to get along. Clinton, asked if Obama needed to renounce Geffen's remarks, said, "I'm going to leave that up to the other campaign." Biden, who started off his run a few weeks ago by blasting Obama, Clinton and Edwards' ideas on Iraq in an interview, said, "Sign me up, no negatives," shortly after Richardson's appeal. Of course, campaigns are about illustrating differences, and Richardson's Mr. Positive approach can be tough to sustain. Just seconds after his plea for civility, Richardson noted, "Governors actually do things." Undoubtedly...
...Hollywood's Democratic powerbrokers. "I call this the courting phase," says Los Angeles political consultant Andy Spahn, who gets a call almost every day from a politician or his aide inquiring about a meeting with his clients, the Dreamworks power bloc of Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen...
...crooner Eddie Fisher - has used her Hollywood childhood, drug addiction, mental illness and romantic failures as fodder for screenplays (Postcards from the Edge) and books (Surrender the Pink) Now the actress, 50, is on stage each night performing in her first one-woman show, Wishful Drinking, at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. What does she talk about? Her life, of course! From her iconic role as Princess Leia (remember the "bagel braid" hairdo?) in Star Wars to her marriage to singer Paul Simon, her father's affair - and subsequent marriage - to Elizabeth Taylor and her daughter Billie, whose...