The Obama re-election campaign rolled out the First Lady for a series of high-profile events on Monday, including a star-studded fundraising dinner, for which celebrities each paid $5,000.

Whoopi Goldberg, Gayle King, Angela Bassett and Ben Stiller also attended the event, joining producer Harvey Weinstein, who has reportedly donated more than $500,000 to the campaign.

The lure of the First Lady: Celebrities flock to lavish $5,000-a-head Obama election fundraiser hosted by Michelle (and she even manages a spectacular outfit change)
By Lydia Warren PUBLISHED: 09:30 EST, 20 March 2012 | UPDATED: 14:59 EST, 20 March 2012
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A lot of people have requested a list of which Hollywood airheads are at the Democrat convention this week. Apparently these readers plan to snub the celebs' movies, TV shows and music.

"In a speech that went on so long that California Democratic Party Chairman Art Torres began to hover nervously at his side, Dreyfuss called Bush 'arrogant and incompetent' and said 'his appeal to patriotism is simplistic and thuggish,'" the San Jose Mercury News reported.

Dreyfuss raged: "He is the enemy of thoughtfulness. I wasn't raised in George Bush's America, and I wouldn't be comfortable in it. "In this America, you point toward a sin and you are pointed at. You are the irritant, not the gatekeeper. You smell funny - sinister funny. Terrorist-friendly. You mention due process, and the silence is not respectful, it is ominous."

Other Tinseltown tyros having a gas in Beantown, according to publications ranging from Variety to the Chicago Tribune to the Toronto Star: Billy Crystal, John Cusack, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jon Bon Jovi, Joe Pantoliano, Liev Schreiber, Natalie Portman, Glenn Close, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, James Taylor, Chris Cooper, Sean Astin, Harvey Weinstein, Rob Reiner, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Ziggy Marley, Wes Craven, Montel Williams, Jason Bateman, Ellen Burstyn, Wyclef Jean, Rachael Leigh Cook, Minnie Driver and Alfre Woodard.

Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Not 'Bush's America': Hollywood Airheads Have a Gas in Beantown
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/7/27/161119.shtml

Tonight, Lieberman will join Gore in an unprecedented star-studded fund raiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York scheduled to include as hosts liberal actors Ben Affleck, Julia Roberts, John Cusack and Matt Damon – all of whom have starred in violent R-rated movies – as well as liberal performers Bette Midler, Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Jimmy Buffett, Don Henley, Macy Gray, Lenny Kravitz and Crosby, Stills & Nash.

The hosts are Miramax Chairman Harvey Weinstein, Rolling Stone Editor and Publisher Jann Wenner and VH1 President John Sykes, according to Center for Responsive Politics.

On Monday, Gore raised more than $1 million at a star-studded fund raiser in Camden, N.J., hosted by comedian David Brenner that included performances by Luther Vandross, Michael Bolton and Cher.

Focus on Hollywood Sleaze Ill-Timed for Gore UPI
Thursday, Sept. 14, 2000
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Wall-to-wall celebrities at the Democratic National Committee fund-raiser at Radio City Music Hall included Matt Damon, Salma Hayek, Julia Roberts, Michael Douglas, and Harrison Ford, who helped raise $6.5 million for the Democratic cause. Maybe it was her legal activist role in Erin Brockovich, but Roberts confessed, “I’m a Democrat, [but] I’ve never done anything political before” Performers included Sheryl Crow, Lenny Kravitz, and Jon Bon Jovi — who harmonized on The Beatles’ “Revolution” — and Bette “Bathhouse”Midler. The hosts of the event were Miramax’s Harvey Weinstein, VH1’s John Sykes, and Rolling Stone’s Jann Wenner. Introducing Lieberman, Weinstein acknowledged that the vice-presidential candidate “isn’t making my job any easier”but called him “a strong but fair critic of the entertainment industry.” He added, “I’m proud that we were the first to respond this week,”referring to the Sept. 12 statement by Miramax’s parent, the Walt Disney Co., which spelled out “responsible marketing practices”that the company would undertake in order to answer specific criticisms of a recent Federal Trade Commission report. (Mr. Showbiz is also owned by the Walt Disney Co.)

Stars Turn Out for Gore Fund-Raiser Holllywood Turns Out For Gore Fund-Raiser Sept. 15
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=115668&page=1

Independent candidate Arianna Huffington has raised $728,000 -- with $62,000 remaining. She garnered the support of Hollywood Democrats Paul Reiser, Noah Wyle, and Miramax Chairman Henry Weinstein.

Recall Race to Exceed $50 Million NewsMax.com Sunday, Sept. 28, 2003
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