Lynn Sweet

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WHCD: Stars Speak to Ordinary Humans

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05/10/09

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Hollywood power couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes were super good sports at the White House Correspondents Dinner. When they entered the ballroom a horde of camera wielding folks asked for pictures with the stars--and both very pleasantly obliged. They seemed in no hurry, posed for all comers, and chatted with strangers.

President Obama and his speechwriters knew going in that heavy doses of self-deprecating jokes make the best type of political humor. Even so, Obama was at ease poking at others: the press, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Joe Biden and Rahm Emanuel, among others. Obama's speech-writing team for Saturday's gig included David Axelrod, Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett and some outside writers.

More From the White House Correspondents Dinner:
A History by Walter Shapiro
Have Camera, Will Make New Best Friends by Melinda Henneberger
Snark after Dark by Jill Lawrence
Amber Who? by Patricia Murphy

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RIChris

6:30PM May 10th 2009

No one is ordinary, therefore no one should be made to feel that some people are better than others just by virtue of how they make their living. Hollywood does not make the people who live and/or work there better people than those who live/work elsewhere. And Washington most certainly does not produce better people.

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sandsnnydz

7:12PM May 10th 2009

so well said..
the Poliwood Crowd can not get enough of their own faces,
and if only Oprah had just given the King Of The TelePrompTers a talk show gig....
Obama could be the actor he so longs to be

1273 days to go......

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bob

6:57PM May 10th 2009

Given the attached photo-op, shouldn't that be "Aliens Speak to Ordinary Humans"?

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sandsnnydz

7:12PM May 10th 2009

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jtkt13

10:43AM May 11th 2009

Oh, great. The Cruises and the Washington elite in the same room. What a freakshow.

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ProPalin

11:39AM May 11th 2009

I'm glad to be ordinary, then. Most of the "stars" are miserable unhappy drugged out shallow vain objects of derision.

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BonBon

3:50PM May 11th 2009

Are you serious? LOL

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Truth

3:59PM May 11th 2009

This is news? Or interesting?
Tom Cruise, cult member, goes to party for another cult leader, Barack Obama. Now that's interesting. Maybe I should write these srories. I guess I couldn't do any worse than these hacks.
Dull. Duller, and Dullest. That's what most of the writers offer on a daily basis. Isn't Yommy Christopher due for another story on the Palins? Talk about pathetic.

Hi bonbon.

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