O Nerdprom! My Nerdprom! Highlights From WHCD 2010
BRUNCHES, PRE-PARTIES AND AWKWARD WALKS OF SHAME: Everything Else at the WHCD
Woe betide he who thinks only of his tux, or she who packs but a single pair of shoes for NerdProm weekend. You will not only be highly out of place across the sprawling tented lawn of Tammy Haddad and husband Ted Greenberg, but your clothes will also be very sweaty. The smart ones look after the dry-cleaning in advance, and come outfitted with the following: (1) An outfit for the Friday-night parties (2) An outfit for the Garden Brunch (with shoes that won’t sink into the grass) (3) Your Official NerdProm Outfit™ (4) an outfit for Sunday brunch (5) An extra, in case you can’t fit into that thing you totally used to be able to fit into; (6) A selection of shoes. If you still don’t have what you need, help awaits 2 blocks from the Hilton in the form of Secondi, a fabulous consignment shop, where I went at 5:15 pm on Saturday to buy my dress, just in case Glee’s Matthew Morrison liked blue. Sigh.
The White House Correspondents Garden Brunch – hosted at the home of the inimitable Tammy Haddad – isn’t just for milling sweatily around under a tent with media and Hollywood elites. It’s also for a good cause: CURE – Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy, the charity founded by Susan Axelrod in support of her daughter Lauren’s fight with the disease, and, in that vein — Mother’s Day! Here a bunch of not-yet Tweens probably don’t quite realize the significance of being that close to Morrison (aka Mr. Schue from Glee), Chace Crawford (aka Nate Archibald from Gossip Girl) and Joe Mazzello (aka The Kid From Jurassic Park, but more germanely, the star of Steven Spielberg‘s The Pacific).
Former Romney spokesperson Kevin Madden of the Glover Park Group and Betsy Fischer, executive producer of Meet The Press. Between the two of them there probably isn’t a D.C. party they are not invited to.
Politico’s Patrick Gavin, wearing his signature garden party pastels and double-popped collar, with his recent bride Anne Bracken, the perfect, colorful complement to her husband. I hope she will forgive this next thing, but how can I resist? RELEASE THE BRACKEN! There. Sorry, Anne.
Big Journalism meet Big Government: Andrew Breitbart was out and about at the garden party, taking out his little flip cam and making jokes about heading to the Media Matters afterparty. His wife was lovely. I asked her how much of the online hoo-ha she followed. She said none of it, and smiled, looking serene. She may be on to something.
Matthew “Bust A Move” Morrison with CNN’s Leslie Sanchez. Then the “cool kids” in the White House Press Corps came over and threw slushies on them. Just kidding. Then he and I did a romantic duet with fabulous choreography, and learned that our true friends will accepts us as ourselves. No?
I spy with my little eye…Jane Hamsher!
…and Andrew Breitbart! And that’s not the ONLY thing those two have in common! [Long pause.] Er, actually, yeah, that’s probably the only thing those two have in common.
I’m so bad. I photographed this guy in 2008 and totally forgot his name, and I’m doing the same thing now. Though I think it’s Lee. (Sorry, Lee!) He’s with FNC’s Greg Gutfeld, whose shirt seems to be straining against his massive pecs.
