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Hollywood Mocks Clinton
U2, Kevin Spacey? Plus: Bono rocks the GOP. Gephardt goes cash crazy. Rosty Rahm’s bicoastal friends.
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LAUGHING STOCK
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Maybe
Bill Clinton
is no longer as popular in
Hollywood as he thinks. At a charity fundraiser for cardiovascular
research in L.A. last Thursday, U2 lead singer
Bono
was honored by the usual throng of
celebrities and hangers-on for his “extraordinary philanthropy.”
The “Love Rocks” event featured everyone from comedian
Drew
Carey
to
Cher
. Even
Larry
King
dropped by. Bono is best known for his longtime
advocacy of debt relief for third-world nations and has lobbied the
United States Congress for debt forgiveness for African and Latin
American countries. He’s also served as a spokesman for Amnesty
International.
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Now a self-important Hollywood event wouldn’t be self-important if it didn’t include Bill Clinton. This time, it was Bill on video, greeting Bono, just after Mick Jagger’s video tribute. When Clinton’s face appeared on the giant screen over the stage, it was met with not very friendly laughter from the audience, and Clinton’s first couple of sentences were inaudible. “It was embarrassing, to say the least,” says a spokesperson for the Entertainment Industry Foundation, which helped organize the event. “Clinton got less respect here than Sylvester Stallone, and that’s saying something with this crowd.”
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