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| Cory Booker |
From the Hollywood Reporter, about the moderate-liberal Democratic mayor's bid for the U.S. Senate: "And, as local fundraising begins in earnest for the coming midterms, it looks like Hollywood has found its new 'it guy' in Cory Booker
, the ultra-telegenic, social media-savvy young mayor of Newark, who hopes to capture the New Jersey senate seat veteran Frank Lautenberg is vacating. On April 25, a glittering who’s who of Hollywood Democrats, and even a
sprinkling of industry Republicans, will contribute $5,000 apiece to
attend an 'evening in support of Cory Booker for Senate' at the Beverly
Hills mansion of producer and former United Artists CEO Jerry Weintraub [who is a longtime Republican donor] and his longtime girlfriend, producer
Susan Elkins."
The article continues about the event: "The list of co-hosts takes up most of the invite. Among the studio execs: Disney head Bob Iger
; DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg and wife Marilyn; Sony CEO Michael Lynton and wife Jamie
, a leader in the local school-reform movement; Barry Meyer and Kevin Tsujihara, the respective outgoing and incoming CEOs of Warner Bros.; Bruce Rosenblum
, president of Warner Bros. Television Group; HBO president of programming Michael Lombardo and partner Sony Ward; and
Sean Bailey, Disney's president of motion picture production."
Other folks backing Mayor Cory Booker's bid for the U.S. Senate include Steven Spielberg, Rob Reiner, Bruce Willis, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.
