The entertainment industry has contributed at least $6 million to the 2008 presidential campaigns in the first nine months of this year – and $5 million of that sum went to Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

The high-profile Hollywood figures who have donated to the Clinton campaign include Barbra Streisand, Quincy Jones, Rob Reiner, and Renee Zellweger. Obama’s supporters include Tom Hanks, Ben Stiller, George Clooney, Jennifer Aniston, and Streisand, according to a Los Angeles Times review of campaign finance reports.

Hollywood Bets $5 Million on Hillary, Obama
Friday, October 19, 2007 12:51 PM By: Newsmax Staff
http://newsmax.com/insidecover/hollywood_obama_hillary/2007/10/19/42418.html

 

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was a busy man Tuesday night, courting Hollywood power players in two soirees that earned a single-night fundraising record of $11 million.

A-listers such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Jodie Foster, Tobey Maguire, Will Ferrell, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, and Renee Zellweger all made the list. Directors supporting their preferred candidate included Steven Spielberg (assigned to a table with his wife, Kate Capshaw, and uber-agent Ari Emanuel), Peter Berg, Christopher Guest (with his wife, Jamie Lee Curtis), James Mangold, Garry Marshall, Adam Shankman, and Robert Zemeckis. Making the invite list from the TV world: Curb Your Enthusiasm's Larry David, Office showrunner Greg Daniels, 24 star Dennis Haysbert, Sex and the City director Michael Patrick King, Heroes creator Tim Kring, Aaron Sorkin, Randy Jackson, Darren Star, and Joss Whedon. Music royalty on call included Quincy Jones, Berry Gordy, Hans Zimmer, and Herb Alpert. Of course, many of Hollywood's top executives also scored seats: the DreamWorks cabal of David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Stacey Snider; Fox's Tom Rothman and Jim Giannopoulos, and their boss Peter Chernin; Warner Bros.' Barry Meyer; Sony's Michael Lynton; and Universal's Ron Meyer. So while you may not be able to fork over $28K-plus for steak and potatoes with the possible future leader of the free world, now you can at least envision the crowd that handed over those hefty checks.

Table No. 24
Will Ferrell, Andy Gordon, Tom Hamilton, Victoria Jackson, Brittany Lovett, Richard Lovett, Viveca Paulin Ferrell, Arnold Stiefel, Pauletta Washington, Renee Zellweger

(Editor's note: This is a faithful transcription of the guest list for the Obama fundraiser. It cannot be assumed that everyone on this list attended the event or sat at the tables to which they were assigned, nor does this list necessarily include all of the people who attended the event. Every attempt has been made to ensure that names are spelled correctly.)

Obama's Hollywood fundraiser: Who was on the guest list?
Sep 17, 2008, 09:36 PM | by Nicole Sperling Categories: Current Affairs, Movie Biz, Music Biz, On the Scene, TV Biz
http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/09/obamas-fundrais.html?iid=top25-20080918 Obama's+Hollywood+fundraiser%3A+Who+was+on+the+guest+list%3F

"All Good Things" = Jimmy Carter

"I have a crush on Jimmy Carter. I admit it. He has an extraordinary mind. He’s an exceptional human being. And he writes poetry, for crying out loud. He’s all good things."

— Actress Renee Zellweger, January 30 USA Today.

http://www.mrc.org/notablequotables/nq/2009/20090407010700.aspx