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Well, for one thing, it's the Clintons' sheer, star-loving promiscuity. Making time during the first 125 days for Billy Crystal, Barbra Streisand, Sharon Stone (twice), Richard Gere, Richard Dreyfuss, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Quincy Jones, Sinbad, Christopher Reeve, John Ritter, Sam Waterston, Hammer, Lindsay Wagner and Judy Collins is a remarkable achievement. When Hillary Rodham Clinton, after seeing Liza Minnelli sing on TV, calls and asks her to stay overnight, it looks frivolous, a little unseemly...
...least it is easily portrayed as unseemly by a lazy-minded Washington press corps, whose members are doubly envious -- of the show-business clique for supplanting them as the coolest people in town, and of the Clintonites for getting to hang out with Streisand & Co. Washington reporters' lust for proximity to stars is at least as intense as the Clintons' (it's the journalists who shamelessly drag trophy stars to the White House correspondents' dinner every spring), so naturally they are quick to detect a groupie instinct in Clinton, and to give a knee-jerk, pseudo-high-minded critique...
...says one of his Hollywood intimates, "have never been to Washington before"), yet unlike all other well-connected capital hangers-on, these visitors don't come for a tax break, a contract or any venal purpose; they ask not what their country can do for them. Although Medavoy (like Streisand) works for the Japanese, he says that nudging Clinton on trade policy is "the last conversation I'd ever have with him. I don't lobby the President...
...most consistent image of the White House so far is the parade of celebrities being whisked in and out of the iron gates for private audiences with Administration officials. Barbra Streisand played her new CD for the President first, made calls from the study next to the Oval Office and dined with Janet Reno. Christopher Reeve and Billy Crystal got environmental briefings from two Cabinet Secretaries. A group of Hollywood celebs was invited for a Saturday-morning briefing on health care. The overnight guest list for the Lincoln Bedroom sometimes reads like the register at the Hotel...
WASHINGTON -- From Barbra Streisand to Richard Dreyfuss, dozens of Hollywood types are treating Washington like Malibu East. Now Designing Women producer and Clinton adviser Harry Thomason, who has ensconced himself in a White House office, is trying to curtail the trend. "We don't want to discourage the enthusiasm," said Thomason last week, "but yes, there may be too many of them around." Maybe so, but Hillary Rodham Clinton was so impressed by a recent Liza Minnelli performance that she invited the singer to stop by for a visit next month...