http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2010/05/01/HP/A/32290/2010+White+House+Correspondents+Dinner.aspx
C-SPAN has the dinner video on their website. If you have time, fast forward to the President's portion. He was hilarious (again this year) and actually topped Jay Leno. Hey, it's great having speech writers.....and having a natural talent for telling jokes. My mom watched and caught Dave and me leaving the dinner. Just in case you want to see a tired Jennifer and Dave, fast forward to around hour 2:48. You'll see Kathy Lee and Hoda, then us. The guys in front of us were with the Vanity Fair group as well - he was President of Hermes and the other guest, no photos, was PR executive of David Yurman jewelry. She gave me compliments on my necklace, so 'thank you' Amy P. for the loan. It was a fun group. We also sat at the dinner table with Secretary Donovan, head of HUD. Dave's dad and Barbara worked at HUD most of their careers, so it was ironic that we sat next to them the entire evening and chatted it up.
As you can imagine, it was an unbelievable evening. We stayed at The Four Seasons hotel and I ran into Michael Douglas, exchanged 'hellos', on my way out to get my hair done and one of the Jonas brothers on my way back in. Georgetown was hopping all afternoon, so the streets were crowded. I think they had to import black SUVs for this event because that's all we saw. We even had our own black town car that drove us to The Washington Hilton for the dinner, waited on to take us to the after party and back to our hotel around 3 am! After we were dropped off at the Hilton, Secret Service stopped everyone and we had to wait until the President arrived. Helicopters flew over, the motorcade arrived with motorcycles, black SUVs and finally the President's limo. We were standing with Donovan McNabb, Mike Shanahan (football player and coach for those of us that are not fans), Rosario Dawson from Lost and several Congressmen (Senator Levin specifically). It was funny because we saw the President looking out of his window to see who was at the event :-) Of course, we were all looking at him! Unfortunately, since the President was taken into that entrance, we all had to take a walk around the block...UP Connecticut Avenue in tuxes, dresses and high heels for 15 minutes. Tough walk!
We walked in with Anne Curry of the Today Show and Angela Kinsey (Angela from The Office). Everyone was going crazy over Anne Curry, so I asked Angela if she wanted to go into the news business. She said "yes, that's going to be my next job". :-)
Inside, at the reception, we saw Tracy Morgan (30 Rock), Al Sharpton, Matt Lauer, John Cramer (eh) and many more.
We had a table right in the middle this year - great spot. The Jonas brothers were next to us, Kathryn Bigelow (Best Director for Hurt Locker) - that's her back on the above picture and Christiana Amanpour at the next table and Ty Burrell (Phil from Modern Family) was at another table. Seriously, everywhere you looked, was another famous person. Julie Bowen (Claire from Modern Family was waiting outside with us - she's extremely skinny, too skinny). When we arrived at our table, I saw Kathryn Bigelow and talked to her for a bit. I told her she deserves a huge congratulations and what an amazing year she has had. She was so nice and said that this year has been incredible and overwhelming for her. She kept talking to me, so that was really nice! Jeremy Renner, actor in the Hurt Locker stopped by her table. Photo of Chevy Chase.... Justin Bieber popped over to talk to the Jonas brothers, and everyone crowded around - weird for an older crowd.
The Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/05/01/GA2010050104100.html
Here are the people we met/saw:
Stephen Spielberg
Madeline Albright
Morgan Freeman
Scarlet Johansson
Donovan McNabb
Tony Romo
Mike Shanahan
Ashely Judd
Jessica Simpson
Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air actress
Matthew Morrison from Glee
Dana Delaney
Mariska Hargitay
Tim Daly
Kim Kardashian
Michelle Pfieffer
Cynthia Nixon -Sex and the City
Justin Bieber
Randy Quaid
Elizabeth Moss from Mad Men (woo hoo - love that show)
Jeff Probst
Greta Van Susteren
Kathy Lee Gifford & Hoda
Jon Bon Jovi
Gabourey Sidibe - Precious
Jessica Alba
At the after party:
Morgan Freeman
Colin Powell
John Oliver - from John Stewart show
Donnatella Versace - walked in with her to the party
Ryan Seacrest - again
Seth MacFarlane - Family guy
Ty Burrell- Modern Family - talked to him a couple of times
Quinton Aaron - played Michael in The Blind Side
Sunday morning, Dave and I were trying to remember everyone we saw and talked to, but there were so many famous people there! Luckily, Vanity Fair's link below will show you beautiful photographs from the after party.
It was long night, and we finally got into bed at 3:30 am. But 8 am came around soon and reality hit that we had our two little munchkins waiting to see us. Dave's dad and Barbara took Olivia and Zach to the fair Saturday while we were in DC. We were all able to see lots of family while we were there and enjoyed hanging out on the Miller's farm (Barbara's parents). Olivia's dream is to grow up and own a farm (really), so it was hard to get her to leave.
Back to DC we went and enjoyed a tired, but fabulous day at the Air and Space Museum and the Smithsonian.
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