On The Hill….

On The Hill….

by guest contributor Shelley Hymes
Photo credit: Jean Card

How do you decide who to invite to the coveted White House Correspondents’ events?  “We wanted people we thought would be fun and be interesting,” said Sheila Casey, Chief Operating Officer of The Hill. “It’s a really fun time in the city when you get the people from Hollywood and the people from Washington who have great curiosity about each other and watch them interact.”

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Gary Doer, The Ambassador of Canada

The Hill, Extra and the Embassy of Canada threw a fabulous Red Carpet bash at the well-situated Canadian Embassy for a star-studded celebration leading up to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The evening’s hosts, Jimmy Finkelstein, Chairman and CEO of The Hill; Adam Prather, Publisher of The Hill; and Bob Cusack, Editor-in-Chief of The Hill; along with Gary Doer, The Ambassador of Canada to the United States, were omni-present to greet the stream of Hollywood’s policy minded A-listers, as well as Washington and New York’s media elite.

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Connie Britton

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Lucy Lui

Celebrity guests at the lavish event included Lucy Lui (Elementary), Connie Britton (Nashville), Connie Nielson (The Following), Constance Zimmer (Entourage) and Michael Kelly (House of Cards), in addition to media representatives Bret and Amy Baier, Tamron Hall, Shannon Bream and many more.

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When Hollywood on the Potomac asked what celebrity Fox’s News’ Howie Kurtz would like to see most at the Correspondent’s Dinner, he replied, “I’d like to see Hillary Clinton and ask her some questions. If I had a wish – she has been kind of keeping the press at arms length – she would come here and throw herself on the mercy of 2,000 ravenous correspondents.”

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Ed Henry

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Ed and Shirley Henry

And of course there’s always the “I want to meet McDreamy” – a response that never gets old, this time from Fox New’s Ed Henry.

 

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