They say that Washington is Hollywood for ugly people. That changes once a year at the White House Correspondents' dinner – an intimate affair of roughly 3,000 guests that takes place in the basement of the Washington Hilton. It is awash with real celebrities. For some reason, many media outlets are describing this year's list of invitees as "low key". By this they presumably mean that Kim Kardashian and Lindsay Lohan turned down their invitations (both have accepted in previous years).
In fact, this year's dinner, which takes place on Saturday night, looks as star-studded as ever: among the guests will be Scarlett Johansson, Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Michael Douglas, the cast of House of Cards and Stephen Spielberg. For the first time, E!, the tabloid entertainment television channel, will be live streaming the red carpet at the "WHCD". It doesn't get much more Hollywood than that. But it is a fair distance from the dinner's original purpose, which was to give reporters a chance to socialise with their contacts.
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