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George Clooney’s Obama Fundraiser Now Up To Record $15M: ‘Starmeggedon’

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday May 9, 2012 @ 7:31pm PDTTags: George Clooney, Hollywood campaign fundraising, Hollywood Democrats, Jeff Katzenberg

Barack Obama Hollywood FundraiserUPDATE: Insiders now tell Deadline that Thursday’s fundraiser at George Clooney’s Studio City home now has reached close to $15 million. The breakdown when the total was at $14.5M equaled $6M raised for the dinner and $8.5M for the accompanying online raffle which attracted general public donations for a chance to attend by leveraging Hollywood star power. In actuality, the fundraising dinner co-hosted by Obama bundler Jeffrey Katzenberg and organized by his political right-hand Andy Spahn is attracting an expected 150 Democrats ticket-price guests George Clooney Barack Obamawho come from a number of industries in Los Angeles besides showbiz including finance, law and healthcare. They spent $40,000 per ticket for the Wolfgang Puck-catered dinner at Clooney’s canyon home. It’s the largest amount ever raised for a single Obama campaign event. And that exceeds the sum that the Obama campaign raised from the entire entertainment industry in the 2008 presidential race when Hollywood types were slow to embrace Obama as their candidate over Hillary Clinton. Meanwhile news reports are branding the fundraiser ‘Starmeggedon’ because of the traffic mess it’s expected to cause in the surrounding areas.

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Spielberg “House Whisperer” For Democrats?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday December 22, 2010 @ 5:59pm PSTTags: Democrats, Hollywood Democrats, Marvin Levy, Nancy Pelosi, Politics, Steven Spielberg
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I have a response to that Washington Post report claiming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s transition to minority leader is being aided behind the scenes by Steven Spielberg. The paper makes it sounds as though Spielberg will become a veritable House Whisperer, … Read More »

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Michael Moore Calls On Democrats To Run Tom Hanks And Oprah As Candidates And Use Hollywood To Help Fashion A Message

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday November 4, 2010 @ 8:08pm PDTTags: Hollywood Democrats, Michael Moore, Oprah Winfrey, Politics, Tom Hanks

Michael Moore today called for Democrats to run “beloved… smart… good” Hollywood stars like Tom Hanks and Oprah Winfrey as candidates and for the Obama administration to use Hollywood to “help fashion” its message. In an MSNBC interview with host … Read More »

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