LOS ANGELES - Comedian Billy Crystal called it “Woodstock for really, really rich people” as Hollywood’s artists came out to raise $5 million to put Democrat John Kerry in the White House.

Other performers included actors Ben Stiller, Esai Morales, Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro and singers Willie Nelson and Angie Stone.

Stars come out for Kerry Hollywood raises $5 million for Democrat
Updated: 1:53 p.m. ET June 25, 2004
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Jennifer Aniston, Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy were just some of Hollywood's hottest celebrities who forked over campaign dollars at a fundraiser for Democratic presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama.

Updated 2/21/2007 11:00 AM ET
Obama swing through L.A. attracts A-list celebrities and cash
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Moving right along, Kerry raised money with some big Dems at a sprawling beachside hacienda in La Jolla yesterday, including recalled Gov. Gray Davis and his wife Sharon. Other big names under the big top were former Secretary of State and L.A. lawyer Warren Christopher; former Carter adviser Midge Costanza; and Lynn Schenk, former San Diego congresswoman and former Davis chief of staff.

But the real stars came out later Tuesday at a Beverly Hills fund-raiser, held at Ron Burkle's 50,000-square-foot mansion known as "The Green Acres" estate. Singer James Taylor entertained and Kerry earned an estimated $2 million to $2.5 million for the campaign.

Roselli provides us with an assortment of A-List celebs who attended (in no particular order): Meg Ryan, Barbra Streisand, Tom Cole, Kevin Costner, Don Henley, Jason Alexander, Helen Hunt, Danny DeVito, Leonardo DiCaprio, Oliver Stone, Tobey Maguire, Ed Harris, Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller, Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Lucas Haas, Christina Applegate, Paul Reiser, Martin Short, Tom Arnold, Sharon Stone, Lucy Liu, Lance Bass, James Brolin, Quincy Jones, Peter Boyle, Rhea Perlman and Henry Winkler.

John Kerry, from hobnobbing to hospital
By John Mercurio CNN Political Unit
Thursday, May 6, 2004 Posted: 2:15 PM EDT (1815 GMT)
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This rhetorical eruption came one day after Geffen—along with Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg, his partners in DreamWorks SKG—hosted a $2,300-per-person fundraiser for Obama at the Beverly Hilton, site of the glitzy Golden Globe Awards.

An all-star cast

Actors Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Morgan Freeman, and Christine Lahti also showed up. Singers Jackson Browne and the Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines were there. And so were producers Norman Lear, Ron Howard, Lawrence Bender, producer of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," and J.J. Abrams. The heads of several major studios also attended. Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington bought tickets but did not show up.

Clinton, Obama, come out swinging Fundraiser's barbs spark war of words By Mike Dorning and Jill Zuckman |
Tribune national correspondents February 22, 2007
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Among those seen Tuesday night heading into the Obama fundraiser at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills:

Actors Rosanna Arquette, Morgan Freeman, Ben Stiller, Hill Harper, Mario Van Peebles, Christine Lahti, Paul Reiser, Taye Diggs; musician Jackson Browne and music executive Steve McKeever; producers/executives Norman Lear, Sherry Lansing, J.J. Abrams and Tommy Schlamme.

Hollywood: Democrats' land of plenty
By Mike Dorning and Christi Parsons, Tribune national correspondents; Mike Dorning reported from Beverly Hills and Christi Parsons from Washington, D.C
February 21, 2007 BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.
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