Is Hillary Livid? Of Course She Is



We would think that an Old School pol like Hillary, who projects icy calculation almost to a her detriment, would be smarter than to telgraph her obvious displeasure at New-Jack Barack Obama's drawing on the same contribution waterhole -- Hollywood -- that she considers her possession. But if those intrepid Page Sixxes and Maureen Dowd are to be believed -- and we believe 'em -- Senator Clinton is livid (*The Corsair shudders*). Poor HGillary: If she is too calculating, she is lambasted; If she is too emotional, she is being too much of a Woman. From Dowd's column today:

"Barack Obama has made an entrance in Hollywood unmatched since Scarlett O’Hara swept into the Twelve Oaks barbecue. Instead of the Tarleton twins, the Illinois senator is flirting with the Dreamworks trio: Mr. Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg, who gave him a party last night that raised $1.3 million and Hillary’s hackles.

"She didn’t stand outside the gates to the Geffen mansion, where glitterati wolfed down Wolfgang Puck savories, singing the Jennifer Hudson protest anthem 'And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going.' But she’s not exactly Little Miss Sunshine, either. Hillary loyalists have hissed at defecting donors to remember the good old days of jumping on the Lincoln Bedroom bed.

“'Hillary is livid that Obama’s getting the first big fund-raiser here,' one friend of hers said."

David Geffen goes on to say "slyly" that Steven Spielberg kind of got in trouble with The Clinton's for attending last night's Obama fundraiser (And, possibly, Terry McAuliffe had to spin Rovak to explain the embarassment of Dreamweorks' flirtation with Obama). And that is the least of it. On record, Geffen really blasts The Clintons. Kurt Andersen, on his Esquire blog, writes:

"The Clintons and Geffen used to be mutually, passionately smitten. At one Clinton White House dinner, I learned from a friend who sat at the president’s table along with Geffen and George Kennan, Clinton simply ignored Kennan — the éminence grise who masterminded our successful 'containment' policy toward the Soviets — in order to gossip with Geffen about Hollywood."

But, ironically, Clinton -- who was widely speculated in the 90s as being bound to be a Dremworks Executive -- ultimately turned out more Kennanish statesman than Hollywood Player. We all grow up.