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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