Last night marked the annual fundraiser dedicated to feeding funding journalism scholarships. Members of the press invite and escort Hollywood celebrities as their dates to the fundraiser, this year held at the Hitlon Hotel; here’s who brought who:
TIME / Fortune / People / CNN Pre-Party, Women’s Wear Daily correspondent twitters Obama is using his Air Force One play list for the pre-party music
President and First Lady
Bloomberg: Alabama Maersk Capt. Richard Phillips and his wife. Daily News: Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger.
Captain Richard Phillips & Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger meet and shock hands at the Bloomberg/Vanity Fair after party.
CNN: Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Val Kilmer, Kyra Sedgwick, Bradley Cooper, Tyra Banks.
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer brought Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore as his “dates”, signaling some closure to the @aplusk vs. @cnn_break drama. Tech-savvy Ashton twittered from inside the dinner held at the Hilton in Washington DC, twitpic-ing a shot of Demi …
NBC: Colin Firth, Jimmy Fallon, Mariska Hargitay, Mike Myers, William H. Macy, Jason Bateman, Warren Buffett, John Cusack, Ari Emanuel, Whoopi Goldberg, Felicity Huffman, Samuel L. Jackson, Denis Leary.
Samuel L. Jackson
People: Sting, Kevin Bacon, Forest Whitaker, Eva Longoria, “Ludacris”, Brooke Shields.
Keisha Whitaker, Forest Whitaker / Sting and his wife,
Fortune: George Lucas, Glenn Close.
Steven Spielberg & George Lucas / Glenn Close
CBS: Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Colin Powell.
Ben Affleck, Jennifer Gardner
Newsweek: Tim Geithner, Arianna Huffington, Natalie Portman, Owen Wilson.
Owen Wilson / Natalie Portman
Fox News: Chace Crawford. / Atlantic Magazine: Ed Westick, Newt Gingrich.
Chace Crawford, guests / Ed Eastwick
ABC News: Rahm Emanuel, Justice Antonin Scalia, Jon Bon Jovi, Kate Walsh, Taye Diggs.
Eva Longoria Parker, Rahm Emanuel /Barbara Walters
Glamour: Narciso Rodriguez, Alicia Keys, Desiree Rogers.
USA TODAY: Justin Long
Also in attendance:
James Franco / Elizabeth Banks
Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes / Steven Spielberg, Kate Capshaw
Bloomberg /Vanity Fair post party, Mayor Michel Bloomberg and Vanity Fair held an after party at the Residence of the French Ambassador in Washington DC.
Graydon Carter, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, French Ambassador Pierre Vimont / Joyce Pierson and Donald Rumsfeld, Mayor Michael Bloomberg
