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“I never get fed up going to these parties,” said RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer at the entrance to the PEOPLE/TIME party at The St. Regis Hotel in honor of The White House Correspondents’ Association weekend. “It’s like Christmas in Spring for Washington celebrities.”
Reliable Source’s Emily Heil and Sean Spicer
““The ABC table has a number of people from the ABC shows,” said Ann Compton, White House Correspondent for ABC News, “including Sofia Vergara from Modern Family. But, we try to mix it up a little bit. I think she is at the same table as Jack Lew, Treasury Secretary. Part of the fun of this is just trying to get that mix and mingle thing where cultures collide.”
Ann Compton with her husband and daughter
“Yes, I have been interviewed for the piece Patrick Gavin is doing,” she added referring to the trailer for a docu on the WHCAD week. Patrick did a good job. I think all of the good controversies I thought of to tell him about that were really interesting, I remembered after I left and went home,” she added, “including the year when days before the dinner, there were the Virginia Tech shootings (Virgina Polytechnic Institute & State University in Blacksburg, Virginia) and the President (George W. Bush) called and said, ‘I am still coming’ but I am not doing a humorous speech.”
U.S. News & World Reports’ Nikki Schwab and Patrick Gavin
“I spent the next two days on the phone with a young woman who had just taken over for the student newspaper there.” she explained, “who became a primary news source for everybody. She was exhausted. Her parents were coming down from New Jersey to see her for the weekend so she agreed to come to the dinner and so her parents drove her in from southwest Virginia because there is no air service and we had her speak at the dinner. We ended up giving the paper a five thousand dollar grant.”
Christina Sevilla with Patrick Duffy
Patrick Duffy (think Bobby Ewing on CBS’s Dallas) was a hit on the party circuit which for him started at PEOPLE/TIME. “That’s my son,” he told Hollywood on the Potomac when asked if he was still a good guy. “If he wants to stay in the will, he’ll say whats good for him,” he joked.
In honor of the 2014 White House Correspondents’ Association Weekend, Joe Ripp, CEO, Time, Inc. and Norman Pearlstine, EVP and Chief Content Officer, Time, Inc. co-hosted the lavish event along with Jeff Cagle, Editorial Director of PEOPLE and Nancy Gibbs, Managing Editor of TIME.