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Few people get to meet a U.S. president. Dule Hill has met four — one fake and three real ones. And now he's gotten to strut his stuff in front of a sitting one.
The actor and dancer, who played a personal presidential aide on “The West Wing,” got a chance to perform a song for hundreds of world leaders, including President Barack Obama, on Monday night during a reception for U.N. leaders.
Hill and cast members of the upcoming Broadway musical “After Midnight,” a musical celebrating Duke Ellington’s years at the famous Cotton Club nightclub in Harlem, sang a few numbers at the Waldorf Astoria, a swanky Park Avenue hotel. Hill sang “I’ve Got the World on a String,” and other cast members sang the songs “Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” and “Creole Love Call.”
“I really enjoyed it,” Hill said afterward. “I never thought this would ever happen. If you’d have told me I was going to sing in front of all these dignitaries a month ago I would have laughed.”
It’s just Hill’s latest close encounter with a commander in chief: He met Jimmy Carter at a Democratic National Convention a few years ago and has met Bill Clinton many times, even watching his last State of the Union from the White House. And Hill was, of course, a close associate of Josiah Bartlet, the president played by Martin Sheen on “The West Wing.”
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Paul McCartney doesn't really need the publicity, but when he desires it he sure can make a dent. On Monday he and his band shut down a stretch of Hollywood Boulevard to perform a handful of songs for a lucky few thousand as part of "Jimmy Kimmel Live." Many in the crowd had been waiting much of the day for a chance to catch the ex-Beatle in action.
McCartney was pushing his forthcoming album “New” by doing a few songs for TV, but stuck around for a set that included older songs fans wanted to hear.
His list was full of big-ticket songs. He and his touring band tore through Beatles classics “Hey Jude,” “Let It Be,” “Back in the USSR,” “Magical Mystery Tour,” “Birthday,” “Lady Madonna” and more, and peppered in solo and Wings songs such as “Band on the Run,” “Another Day,” “Jet” and three new works, including the excellent title track.
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Her licensed suspended, Dina Lohan left a suburban New York courthouse in a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce on Tuesday after entering a not guilty plea on speeding and drunken driving charges.
Lohan, 50, was surrounded by a media throng usually associated with her troubled actress daughter, Lindsay, as she left a Long Island courthouse following her arraignment. She was released without bail until her next court appearance Oct. 23.
The only apparent family member accompanying Lohan to court was her mother, Ann Sullivan.
Judge Joy Watson released Lohan without bail but ordered her driver’s license suspended, citing the severity of the alleged drunken driving charge.
State police arrested Lohan on Sept. 12 after stopping her for allegedly driving 77 mph in a 55 mph zone on a Long Island parkway. Police said her blood-alcohol level was 0.20, more than double the legal limit of 0.08.
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CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Newswoman Barbara Walters is 84. Singer Ian Tyson of Ian and Sylvia is 80. Actor Michael Douglas is 69. Model Cheryl Tiegs is 66. Actress Mimi Kennedy is 64. Actor Anson Williams is 64. Actor Mark Hamill is 62. Polka band leader Jimmy Sturr is 62. Actor Colin Friels is 61. Actor Michael Madsen is 55. Actress Heather Locklear is 52. Actress Aida Turturro ("The Sopranos") is 51. Actor Tate Donovan is 50. Actor Jason Flemyng ("The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen") is 47. Actor-singer Will Smith is 45. Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones is 44. Actress Bridgette Wilson-Sampras is 40. Rapper T.I. is 33. Actor Lee Norris ("One Tree Hill") is 32. Singer Diana Ortiz of Dream is 28. ASSOCIATED PRESS
