Gossip: WH asked trustees of the Kennedy Center not to come to ceremony...

[sabra]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/371647p-316198c.html

Stars get jitters over Bush bash

WASHINGTON - There's no people like show people - mostly die-hard Democrats - so a lot of folks were holding their noses yesterday as they prepared to attend President Bush's cocktail party at the White House for the Kennedy Center Honors.

"That's the lowest thing on my list," Glenn Close told me at a preshow brunch at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel here, where Brit actress Helen Mirren traipsed around the dining room sporting a hand-lettered T-shirt urging "Help New Orleans and the gulf."


Also roiling around the room was the word that for the first time in the event's 27-year history, the White House had asked the trustees of the Kennedy Center - via faxes to their homes - not to be present for cocktails and the awards ceremony at the White House. And Democratic trustees were complaining that they'd been assigned lousy seats for the show at the Kennedy Center.


Violin virtuoso Joshua Bell told me he'd heard that several of his fellow artists were boycotting the White House event "because of this President" - not Bell, though.

[FreedomAngel82]

1. Good

Glad to hear it. :)

[AspenRose]

2. He's a uniter, not a divider!

Helen Mirren rocks.

(So does Glenn Close)

PS- Here's the list of trustees

http://www.kennedy-center.org/about/kctrustees.html

(Bo Derek?!?)

[tsuki]

3. I agree with that assessment. All of it. eom

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. However, the WH had no problem giving Mike Brown of FEMA fame

one of the best seats in the house.

[Aviation Pro]

5. Cheney has a heart to cover?

Could have fooled me.

[Dhalgren]

6. He's covering his wallet - Bush is too close...

[Uncle Joe]

9. You were not fooled, it's just camouflage. n/t

[Zen Democrat]

7. Paul McCartney turned down the Kennedy Center award 2 years ago.

He didn't want to have to make nice with George & Dick.

[indepat]

8. Is everything done to reward or punish, depending whether one supports

their extreme RW agenda, including pre-emptive wars?