The late-night excursion followed an official RNC event in Los Angeles for donors in its “Young Eagles” program...
[Erik Brown,] the donor who was reimbursed for footing the bill... “has verbally agreed to repay the funds to the RNC.”
... Brown, a church-going mid-level political operative, “was not entirely thrilled with the venue that people ended up at,” but nonetheless agreed to foot the bill after the RNC staffer in question told him the committee would reimburse the cost.
Why is Brown's name in the article and the staffer's name isn't? Seems Brown got screwed. He didn't even want to go. Apparently, he paid only because he was going to be reimbursed. And now he's the one whose name has a sex-smear on it. And he's out $2,000.
ADDED NOTE: This post isn't meant to excuse Michael Steele or any other RNC fool. It's just a shred of sympathy for the devil Brown.
1. Oh, why not? Ricky Gervais is here, hosting, making jokes about the tininess of his penis and how it looks big in his small hands where it usually is. That might sound funnier if it weren't 7 pm (Central Time) on network TV. Then, here's Nicole Kidman looking great with red hair and a light pink dress featuring prominent tiny nipples. She reminds us about Haiti, then hands out the best supporting actress award to Mo'nique, who is overdraped in gold satin and fabulously made up with ultralong eyelashes. Mo'nique loves God and all the other actors in her movie "Precious."
2. Most of the women are wearing asymmetrical dresses, and Julianna Margulies, who won the TV actress award, looked like she got confused getting into the straps of hers. Michael C. Hall, who won the TV actor award, has on a wool stocking cap for some reason. As a tribute to victims of the Haitian earthquake? I don't know. [ADDED: I'm told Hall has cancer. I'm sorry.]
3. The set is orange. I'm tired of looking at orange. Is it supposed to be "golden"? Hey, suddenly: Cher! She looks statuesque and hourglassy. It's the song award. Paul McCartney is nominated and there, but he doesn't win.
4. Meryl Streep wins best [comedy/musical] actress for "Julie and Julia." She's shrouded in a big black dress clamped on with a thick buckled belt. But she has one naked shoulder left out of the shroud, so she's on the asymmetry kick with everyone else. She pretends she didn't remember what she wanted to say and stammers her way into a tribute to her mother and a mini-breakdown over all the suffering in the world.
5. Drew Barrymore gets a TV actress award for "Grey Gardens." She's wearing the best outfit for the day, but it's quite silly, covered in crystal pimples with a glitter hedgehog at one shoulder and the opposite hip.
6. Samuel L. Jackson introduces "a real-life movie star" — Sophia Loren. She's got a beautiful symmetrical dress. It's black, outlining her famous breasts and nipping in at her should-be-equally-famous waist, and it has sheer sleeves that are shaded at the shoulders with a sprinkling of black beads for an ombre effect. She gives the foreign film award to "The White Ribbon."
7. "Mad Man" is the best TV show. The best TV actress is Chloe Sevigny (for "Big Love"). Cool. I like her. She's wearing an insane widely-ruffled mauve dress and she's gasping about ripping it, not that she ripped it in any kind of an interesting way.
8. Halle Berry looks sharp and sleek in a tight black dress with little cap sleeves and a giant plunge down the chest. Her hair is crisply modern too — short and sticking up on top. She gives the supporting movie actor award to Christoph Waltz, who was so wonderful as the Nazi in "Inglourious Basterds."
9. "Marty eats, drinks, and sleeps film. I hear there are videos on the internet of Marty having sex with film." It's Robert DeNiro, talking about Martin Scorsese, who's getting one of these lifetime awards. Cool clip show, reminding me, among other things, of how much I love... "After Hours"... and "King of Comedy"....
10. Oh, they love Jodie Foster. She's wearing a plain black dress, that makes it's nod to asymmetry with a slit up the left leg. She's not giving an award, just presenting one of the films. Gervais, sipping from that beer he's got at the lectern: "I like a drink as much as the next man... unless the next man... is Mel Gibson." Here's Gibson, acting drunk, for fun... supposedly. The category is director, and the award goes to ... suspense... James Cameron. He doesn't say "I'm the king of the world." He tells us he's got to "pee something fierce."
11. The best TV show is "Glee." That's nice, I guess. "This is for everybody who got a wedgie in high school."
12. Ah, we're almost done. It's the best comedy/musical award. "The Hangover." Mike Tyson is involved. Strange!
13. Arnold Schwarzenegger! The actor. It's as if that whole thing about him being governor was just some crazy dream. He presents "Avatar," which looks really annoying. Then Mickey Rourke comes out — in a cowboy hat — to do the drama actress award. It's Mickey because he won best actor last year, not because he's the height of Hollywood glamour, which he's not. The winner is Sandra Bullock, and Mickey looks really disappointed. Sandra is wearing a very filmy, very purple dress.
14. Sally Hutton announces the drama actor award. She's wearing a nutty short dress. It's Robert Downey Jr.! I've always loved him. He's got a whole standup routine going. He's not going to thank anyone... but he does. "Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms." [ADDED: Oops. That was the comedy/musical actor. Hmm. Sherlock Holmes is comedy? Or was there music?]
15. The best drama actor is actually Jeff Bridges. The presenter was the lovely Kate Winslet, who's wearing a simple black dress with one thick vertical strap on the right side. Asymmetry. Jeff gets a standing O. Why? Because he's The Dude? "You're really screwing up my 'under appreciated' status," he says.
16. The best drama movie — presented by Julia Roberts, who thought it was cute to tell her kids to go to bed — is "Avatar." James Cameron warns us that now he has peed, so he's going to blabber. He loves his job. We have the best job. "Give it up for yourselves." He says that twice. Because "that's the most amazing thing." Jeesh. "'Avatar' asks us to see that everything is connected, all human beings to each other, and us to the earth."
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are new parents, after welcoming newborn daughter Sunday Rose into the world. Kidman gave birth in Nashville, Tennessee on Monday, weighing 6 pounds, 7 and a half ounces.
Speaking exclusively to People.com, the pair revealed, "We feel immensely blessed and grateful to be given this beautiful baby girl. She's an absolute delight."
Nicole's father revealed that Sunday is named after famous Australian artist Sidney Nolan's muse Sunday Reed.
"She was a key mover and shaker in the arts around the beginning of the century," Nicole's dad told an Australian newspaper. "The name Sunday struck me as being a nice name for a woman, so my wife and I mentioned it."
The baby's second name Rose is named after by Urban's late grandmother.
Nicole Kidman and her husband of 18 months have confirmed they are expecting their first child.
The Oscar-winning actress and her husband, country singer Keith Urban, are said to be "thrilled" at the news.
Kidman aloready has two adopted children - when she was married to Tom Cruise. It was also revealed in the past that Nicole miscarried Cruise's child while the pair were together.
The Daily Mail reported that Nicole Kidman was pregnant. Is said, "Nicole Kidman and her husband of 18 months (Keith Urban) are expecting their first baby."
However Nicole's rep told news.com.au, "She's in Australia making a film and her family are in Australia. She's happily ensconced away somewhere having a few days break. It's the silly season. As far as we're concerned, it's another rumour out of London." Via TMZ
Nicole Kidman told Vanity Fair magazine she suffered a miscarriage when she was 23-years-old.
She said, "From the minute Tom and I were married, I wanted to have babies. And we lost a baby early on, so that was really very traumatic."
The 40-year-old actress and Cruise, who were married for over 11 years, went on to adopt two children. The couple, who divorced in 2001, adopted Bella, now 14, and Connor, 12, two years after they lost their baby.
Kidman, who married country singer Keith Urban last year, said she is desperate to have a baby with him. Click Here To Read More>>>
Nicole Kidman is "100 per cent not pregnant" according to her publicist.
The News of the World today claimed that Kidman and her country singer husband Keith Urban were "over the moon" about expecting their first child.
But Kidman, 39, is due to spend the next seven months filming Baz Luhrmann's outback epic Australia.
Her publicist told the AAP, "She is about to get on a horse in the outback and breaking brumbies [free-roaming Australian horse]. I hardly think she will be able to do that if she is pregnant."
He added, "As if she would confirm a pregnancy to News of the World."
After months of fertility treatment, sources say the actress has told family and friends that she and husband Keith Urban are finally expecting their first child together.
A source revealed, "Nicole and Keith are having a baby"
"They've been riding on clouds since they got the news. Nicole's been hoping for this since the day they got married. Everyone knows how she's been aching to have a baby. It's all she's been talking about for ages."
Nicole Kidman has admitted that she wants to have a child with Keith Urban.
The actress spoke about how the country music singer's stint in rehab has affected their marriage during an interview with Russell Crowe.
She said "Keith is doing very well, we've been through a lot."
As Russell began to ask another question, Kidman wanted to finish what she was saying:
"Let me finish that because that will be seen as a superficial answer and I don't like to give those. We've dug really deep. Three months into our marriage we had to dig really deep and that's what we are doing and we are in the process of doing that."
When asked if she would like to have a baby with Urban, Nicole replied: "Yes, I would hope so."
