Actor Val Kilmer — rumored to be looking at a run for governor of New Mexico — has been spotted recently all over town meeting with politicians and adding his name to dozens of political causes. But at an event on Saturday, Kilmer showed he still has a lot to learn about schmoozing.
Arriving an hour late Saturday to the Invisible Children rally in front of the Capitol, Kilmer avoided his fans and refused to take any pictures. When a father and his young son asked to take a picture with him, he begrudgingly agreed, but turned his head to the right as the picture was snapped.
Earlier in the day at the same event, a less obvious celeb who lent his name to the cause shocked us with just how politically savvy he was.
Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz told Yeas & Nays that he “is very upset” that critics think the young ages of his bandmates and fans mean they don’t have the power to make change. “Don’t accept complacency,” he earlier urged while speaking onstage.
This is his first time back in Washington since coming last year for the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. So does he feel the election of President Barack Obama gives Washington a different feel now?
“Absolutely, I really think now the young generation finally has a chance to break down the obstacles society has created for us,” Wentz said.
He advises that the best way to do this “really is about peer-to-peer media. I mean, why would I turn on CNN if I could talk to a kid in Palestine on my computer?” Good to see that his own embarrassment with social networking online — think self-taken photos of his naked lower half — hasn’t turned him off to the technology. In fact, his Twitter feed has several posts on him attending Saturday’s event.
We couldn’t resist asking Wentz about his new baby boy with wife Ashlee Simpson. His son, Bronx, Wentz said, has “made me more responsible,” but, Wentz added, “you don’t need to have a child to want to stop the trafficking of child soldiers in Africa.”
On Saturday, Pete Wentz and Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy make an unlikely alliance with Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla.
