Damn!
I just changed those sheets!
Posted on 03/04/2005 2:13:45 PM PST by Borges
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Republican media adviser R. Gregory Stevens, recently co-chairman of the Bush/Cheney Entertainment Task Force, died in a guest room at the home of longtime friend and actress Carrie Fisher. He was 42.
Stevens was found dead by Fisher on Saturday at 10:14 a.m., said David Campbell of the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office. An autopsy failed to immediately determine the cause of death and the coroner was awaiting lab results.
Foul play wasn't suspected, Campbell said Friday.
Fisher, the daughter of actress Debbie Reynolds and actor Eddie Fisher, played Princess Leia in the "Star Wars" trilogy, and she is the author of several books, including "Postcards From the Edge" which became a successful movie starring Meryl Streep.
Fisher couldn't be reached through her representative PMK Public Relations.
Stevens, an associate with the Washington lobbying group Barbour Griffith & Rogers, specialized in foreign campaign consulting and has advised candidates in 24 international elections, according to his biography on the Barber Griffith & Rogers Web site.
He consulted on political operations in Costa Rica, Hungary, Kenya, Macedonia, Montenegro, Nigeria, South Korea, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Thailand and Togo.
Telephone messages left Friday for Barbour Griffith & Rogers spokesman Loren Monroe weren't immediately returned.
During last year's Bush for President campaign, Stevens served as co-chairman of the Bush/Cheney Entertainment Task Force and managed the campaign's relationships with key entertainment industry leaders and film, television and music celebrities.
He served as director of Entertainment Outreach for the 2001 Presidential Inaugural Committee, where he recruited and directed celebrity involvement on behalf of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
During the administration of former President George H.W. Bush, Stevens served as special assistant to Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp. Before that, he was deputy executive director of the California Republican Party where he directed financial operations for the successful Pete Wilson gubernatorial campaign.
From 1984 to 1987, Stevens was assistant to Drew Lewis, chairman of Warner-Amex Cable Communications Inc. During his tenure, he was appointed by President Reagan to assist Drew Lewis efforts as special envoy to Canada for acid rain.
Stevens also served on the Reagan-Bush 1984 re-election campaign as an assistant to Lewis, who was then chairman of national strategy and the Reagan-Bush Platform Team.
Stevens, a native of San Clemente, received a bachelors degree in political science from the University of Southern California.
Funeral arrangements weren't disclosed.
Interesting, I guess.
Strange place for the Bush spokeman to be. Fisher is an outspoken liberal.
Strange and sad. Will be interesting to know what caused him to die.
No mention as to whether the deceased leaves a wife and/or children.
I'm guessing Carrie is a fag hag.
Perhaps Stevens was related to Carrie's step-mom, Connie Stevens?
Well, politics makes strange bedfellows.
Lot's of places to pick up a bug.
Old school pics time!
The name is very familiar, can anyone find and post a photo of Greg Stevens?
Next they'll find out she's his sister.
Damn!
I just changed those sheets!
"It's good to see you, sweetheart..."
"You contemptible pig! I remained celibate for you. I stood at the back of a cathedral, waiting, in celibacy, for you, with three hundred friends and relatives in attendance. My uncle hired the best Romanian caterers in the state. To obtain the seven limousines for the wedding party, my father used up his last favor with Mad Pete Trullo. So for me, for my mother, my grandmother, my father, my uncle, and for the common good, I must now kill you, and your brother."
"Oh, please, don't kill us. Please, please don't kill us. You know I love you baby. I wouldn't leave ya. It wasn't my fault."
"You miserable slug! You think you can talk your way out of this? You betrayed me."
"No I didn't. Honest... I ran out of gas. I, I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts. IT WASN'T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD."
He was gay?
Or maybe to Carrie's favorite singer, Cat Stevens.
Nah...good thought, but I just went to IMDB and no mention of him in Connie Stevens' bio.
As if Carrie Fisher's home isn't bad enough.
If you're in Hollywood, and a conservative, you still have to be friends with liberals. A proud member of the VRWC, I still have to be friends with almost exclusively liberals based on my location.
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