Kennedy Center Honors

Ryan's social forwardness at the allegedly high security Kennedy Center Honors worked out quite well for him tonight. The President left before he could say hi, but he managed to meet a bunch of other celebs, elbowing his way past their bodyguards and handlers. He's just home with a load of photos to add to his collection of celebrity pictures. Do you recognize any of these people?









Incidentally, the top picture was taken by Sen. Chuck Schumer....who was talking with the Speaker when Ryan interrupted them for a photo request. And Ed Schlossberg (Mr. Caroline Kennedy) isn't very excited when people ask him to take a picture of them with his wife. LOL

By the way, Madame Speaker is surprisingly frugal! Odd for a Democrat, eh? She wore the exact same dress tonight that she wore to the state dinner last May in honor of Queen Elizabeth. Looks like the same nasty old pearls and earrings, too. Don't we pay that poor millionnairess enough money in her job? At least she wasn't wearing a pant suit.

I hear furs are in in a big way! And Diana Ross and Aretha Franklin (plus Aretha's husband) were all wearing white full-length furs at the gala. Lots of other "normal" black and brown minks of all shapes and sizes there, too. I've always wanted a full-length mink coat (almost as much as an opera cape), but the only guys I've ever seen in them have been Luciano Pavarotti and Wayne Gretzky, and both of them live(d) in colder climates than Oklahoma or D.C.

Here're some shots of the tables in the Grand Foyer and the menu for the post-gala supper.