Posted on 11/13/2002 10:03:43 PM PST by Deb
Hollywood---and the creative community---will have a friend leading the Democratic caucus in Congress when on, Thursday, Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) becomes the first woman to head the minority reps. She is taking over as Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) announced he would not seek re-election as minority leader. (He will probably, however, seek the Democratic nomination to run for president) (But let's not bet the Ferrari on it just yet, okay?).
I met up with Pelosi at the Kodak (theatre) Sept. 29, at Barbra Streisand's National Democratic Gala concert honoring Gephardt. At the time, the national election was a month away and the atmosphere was alive with enthusiasm (We were all positively tingly!!!).
At the reception following the program, the AFI's Jean Firstenberg and Roz Wyman invited us to sit at their table and meet Nancy Pelosi and her husband, successful businessman, Paul.
The Pelosis had attended the AFI's Life Achievement Award dinner honoring Barbra Streisand in 2001. And Paul is a singer appearing in musicals in the SanFran area (I thought he was a "successful businessman").
Roz Wyman's association with Pelosi dates back to the Demo convention in SanFran in 1984 (when they both worked for the KGB).
"She (Pelosi) has many friends in the industry," Wyman told me. They include (all the best commies), the Kirk Douglases, Warren Beatty and Annette Bening and Sherry Lansing, who co-hosted one of the Hollywood welcoming parties for Pelosi earlier this year...and of course, Jack Valenti has known Pelosi throughout her career and reminds, "She makes sure that our highest priority is protection of copyrights." (Oooooh, exciting stuff!! More tingles!!)
Hollywood's closest friends to Nancy Pelosi and her family must surely be Sid Ganis and his wife, Nancy Hult Ganis. You recall, they optioned feature rights to daughter Alexandra Pelosi's docu on George W. Bush, "Journeys With Geroge."
The highly praised (but unwatchable) docu was created by the then-29-year-old (talentless and lonely) NBC News producer on the campaign trail with contender Bush.
It aired on HBO Election Night and repeats Wednesday, plus two more times.
Sid Ganis watched the election returns with the Pelosis in SanFran while Nancy was in Maine still stomping to the bitter end for Chellie Pingree for the Senate. (PS: She lost in the GOP sweep).
The Ganises are in confabs with Alexandra, who tells them, "All that the press wants to know now is...'Who is going to play me in your (the Ganises') movie'?"
The snottier asides are mine.
See? It's that easy.
Poor, naive Harold Ford has no idea what he's trying to go up against.
The leadership of the Dumb-O-Insects is beyound belief.
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