(Photo Credit: AP) President Barack Obama went to actor George Clooney’s Los Angeles home for a fundraiser on Thursday, POLITICO’s Jennifer Epstein reports: Obama thanked Clooney for hosting the much-hyped fundraiser on his basketball court. “I want to thank Clooney for letting us use his basketball court. This man has been talking smack about his basketball [...]
(Photo Credit: AP) “American Idol” star Clay Aiken wishes President Obama would “hurry up” and decide about same-sex marriage. “I certainly want the president to hurry up and evolve faster,” the singer told CNN in an interview on Tuesday. While Aiken called Obama’s stance on the issue “frustrating,” he nonetheless considers him “a champion for equality.” “I understand [...]
Johnny Depp looked to the White House for inspiration when playing Willy Wonka in the 2005 remake of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” “I imagined what George Bush would be like incredibly stoned,” the actor said on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” on Tuesday. “And thus was born my version of Willy Wonka.” “So the next time I [...]
Stars took to Twitter on Wednesday, responding to President Barack Obama’s new stance on gay marriage. Scroll through the gallery to hear what they had to say. (Politico/McDevitt) PoliticsofHollywood/ Varona
Before former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards told the world he had fathered a child with his mistress, he sought advice from actor Sean Penn, according to a testimony at Edwards’s criminal trial on Wednesday. Wendy Button, Edwards’s former speechwriter, said he sent drafts of his announcement to a few friends, including some Hollywood contacts, [...]
George Clooney’s L.A. home is getting the Fort Knox treatment for his big Obama fundraiser tonight — because TMZ has learned, security’s so tight … even the back-up has back-up. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ, the U.S. Secret Service will be getting help from the LAPD as well the California Highway Patrol to keep POTUS [...]
Before Jimmy Fallon’s big interview with Barack Obama last month, the talk show host reached out to several people for advice … including the King of All Media himself … Howard Stern. Stern appeared on Fallon’s late night show last night … and admitted he almost ignored Fallon’s plea … because he’s “somewhat evil” and couldn’t figure out what [...]
(Photo Credit: Reuters) Tennis legend Billie Jean King says she’s “thankful” for everything that President Barack Obama has done for the LGBT community since taking office. “President Obama is very good to the LGBT community, [as] he is for every single human being and I am thankful for what he has done,” King, who’s in D.C. to [...]
Best-selling author Jay McInerney said Thursday he’s “concerned” for John Edwards’s former mistress Rielle Hunter, whom he dated in the late 1980s. McInerney, who based his novel “Story of My Life” on Hunter, told CBS “The Morning” that he hopes she “comes out of this and has a great life.” “I knew her in the [...]
Hillary Clinton can’t be bothered by chatter about her physical appearance, the secretary of state told CNN’s Jill Dougherty in an interview on Tuesday. Asked about a photo of her wearing very little make-up that was tauntingly posted on yesterday’s Drudge Report, Clinton replied, “I feel so relieved to be at the stage I’m at in [...]