Outside the French ambassador’s home the people of Washington, D.C., mobbed John Legend as if the city had never before seen a star. David Arquette walked out of the gates and met bunches of fans clutching outdated head shots and fresh sharpies. David Byrne emerged, and a man broke into a sprint, holding in his Read More
At the end of April members of the White House press corps began to speak out against a perceived lack of access to the president. Now White House correspondents are facing a whole new type of access issue: Their travel budgets have fallen off, making it harder for them to keep up with the Read More
President Obama may have gotten some help with his jokes for the White House Correspondents Dinner, but at least he had good, fresh material. It would be generous to say Jay Leno had one of those things Saturday night. Not only did his jokes fall flat, but a lot of them Appear to Read More
Filmmaker Alex Gibney has a post on his Atlantic page about what should have been a very awkward encounter with former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld--who he accused of sanctioning torture in his documentary Taxi to the Dark Side--at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
But Mr. Rumsfeld was in a good mood, so he smiled and posed Read More
At the MSNBC after-party on Saturday night--after Rachel Maddow and Andrew Breitbart had an awkward exchange at the bar Ms. Maddow was tending--Mr. Breitbart complained that the MSNBC host hadn't accepted his offer to come on her show and debate the merits of those ACORN videos.
So, we wondered, when might Mr. Breitbart be at Read More
"I feel about Washington the way my mother used to feel about me. She used to tell me: 'I love you, I just hate the things you do,'" said David Axelrod, Barack Obama's senior advisor.
It was Friday night on the rooftop at the W Hotel, at The New Yorker's first-ever party on the White House Read More
If President Obama seemed to blow Jay Leno out of the water at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, it's because he received a little presidential aid.
The Daily Beast's Lloyd Grove notes that Obama received help with his jokes from Daily Show writers.
"The only person whose ratings fell more than mine did Read More
So, who's bringing the coolest celebs to this weekend's WHCD?
The Wall Street Journal's table sounds like a hoot, for example, with Securities and Exchange Commission chairwoman Mary Schapiro, RNC chairman Michael Steele et al. And look at Newsweek (Chevy Chase) and The New Yorker (Tracy Morgan, Judd Apatow).
But Politico's table might win for sheer variety: Mary Read More
Media Mobsters John Koblin and Felix Gillette are on the road with Observer.com blogger Reid Pillifant to cover the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington this weekend. Koblin writes from the road:
Dispatch! We are currently at the Maryland House. Reid had to go! He got the large soda at Roy Rogers. Also, why didn't Read More
Last year, John McLaughlin moved his annual Sunday spring brunch from its historic home on the lovely roof terrace of the Hay-Adams Hotel overlooking the White House to some street-side Italian place on K Street.
Experientally and symbolically, it was a major blow.
Seemingly every year since the the dawn of human history, Mr. McLaughlin's brunch has Read More
Jon Meacham, the editor of Newsweek, was pacing in a little corner of the basement of the Hilton Hotel in Washington at 6:02 p.m. on the evening of May 9.
It was two hours before the start of the White House Correspondents Dinner, that annual soggy, boozy, clammy hammerlock between journalists and celebrities that Read More
On the morning of Sunday, May 10, Pat Buchanan sauntered across K Street. The political pundit was wearing a blazer and a blood red tie. It was the day after the White House Correspondents Association dinner, and the weather in the nation's capital was beautiful, bright and breezy.
Mr. Buchanan was zeroing in on John Read More
Will Chuck Todd rack up the most airtime of any broadcast TV news correspondent in 2009? How long will conservative media critics remain enamored with Jake Tapper? Will Mark Knoller ever shave his beard?
For those of us with an unhealthy fascination with the minutia of Read More
On May 9, when celebrities and reporters come stumbling out of the Hilton Washington following this year’s hotly anticipated White House Correspondents Dinner, there’s one party they can scratch off the list: Christopher Hitchens’ house party.
Mr. Hitchens, who has played host for Vanity Fair’s intimate after-party on and off for years, is pulling Read More
These nearly-over final four years Read More
