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More Stars to the WH Correspondents’ Dinner

April 13, 2012 By WHC Insider

The names keep coming!  CBS is bringing Homeland’s Claire Danes, Christine Baranski from “The Good Wife” and Daniel Dae Kim from “Hawaii Five-O”.  Also on CBS’ list is hero Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger.

The Huffington Post’s list includes Georgetown Law Student Sandra Fluke; and Hollywood stars Dakota Fanning, Daniel Day-Lewis, Rebecca Miller, Anna Paquin, and Stephen Moyer, in addition to  “Glee” star Darren Criss, and Nasim Pedrad from “Saturday Night Live”.

NBC has Olympic gold medalist Allyson Felix and The Atlantic/National Journal has actress Rosario Dawson, chef Jose Andres, and “Sex and the City” writer Darren Star.

And The Washington Times wins in the 4-legged category with Uggie, the dog from “The Artist”

Filed Under: 2012 WHCD Tagged With: Allyson Felix, Anna Paquin, Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, Christine Baranski, Claire Danes, Dakota Fanning, Daniel Dae Kim, Daniel Day-Lewis, Darren Criss, Darren Star, Jose Andres, Nasim Pedrad, Rebecca Miller, Rosario Dawson, Sandra Fluke, Stephen Moyer, Uggie, White House Correspondents Dinner

Newsweek and Daily Beast Bring the Big Names #WHCD

April 28, 2011 By WHC Insider

The combined forces of Newsweek and Daily Beast strike gold again. Take a look at their invites for the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

Actress Anna Paquin, and husband Stephen Moyer (HBO’s True Blood), Colin Powell & wife Alma, Russell Simmons, Meghan McCain, German Ambassador Klaus Scharioth, and Rep. Aaron Schock.

This may also be the best dressed group, with designers Michael Kors and Diane von Furstenberg.

President Obama and WHCD host Seth Meyers will have their own cheering section with WH Speechwriter Jon Favreau and fellow SNL funnyman Jason Sudeikis.

Plus Tina Brown, Barry Diller, Jane Harman join NewsBeasters Howie Kurtz, Andrew Sullivan, Lois Romano, Peter Beinart, John Avlon, Lloyd Grove and Kathy O’Hearn.

Filed Under: WHCD 2011 Tagged With: Anna Paquin, Barry Diller, Colin Powell, Daily Beast, Diane von Furstenberg, Jane Harman, Jason Sudeikis, Jon Favreau, Klaus Scharioth, Meghan McCain, Michael Kors, Newsweek, Rep Aaron Schock, Russell Simmons, Stephen Moyer, Tina Brown, WHCD

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