Politico ^ | April 21, 2011 | CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN
Posted on Friday, April 22, 2011 3:57:50 PM by RobinMasters
LOS ANGELES — President Barack Obama drew A-list movie stars and studio execs. He spoke from the sound stage that produced some of the biggest Hollywood blockbusters of the last decade. He even professed his love of Spider-Man.
It wasn’t just any given Thursday for the president, who turned on the charm and pocketed big bucks from his loyal Hollywood base, a group that included Jamie Foxx, Tom Hanks, Will Ferrell, Berry Gordy and Sony honcho Amy Pascal.
Some of this city’s biggest names turned out for three fundraisers at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City and Tavern restaurant in Brentwood — outings that cost attendees as much as $35,800 a head, helping to push Obama’s two-day West Coast fundraising haul into the millions.
The president, who fashions himself as a no-frills, no-drama guy, appeared most starstruck not at the sight of Steven Spielberg or George Clooney but by the fact that he spoke on the Sony stage most recently used to film “Spider-Man 4.”
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