Last week, we told you about Harrison Ford’s new public service announcements for the Department of State, which warn against trading in illegally trafficked wildlife.
On Monday, model/actress/animal activist Bo Derek was at the State Department to discuss the same issue.
Derek is no stranger to lobbying for her four-legged friends. You may remember her staunch activism for a national ban on slaughtering horses for food.
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In other local VIP news:
- After their recent wedding, CNN’s Dana Bash and John King were spotted together in public. At Saturday’s Nats game, to be precise. According to our source, the pair had “primo seats” in section 129.
- Ben “Cooter” Jones, the former congressman and “Dukes of Hazzard” star, has a thing for John McCain’s mother, Roberta. At his book party on Foxhall Road this weekend, he said he had to reveal that there was a woman in the audience he was in love with, and then introduced Mrs. McCain. Jones talked briefly about growing up poor in Tidewater, Va., being married three times, spending time in jail and nearly killing himself through alcoholism in the 1970s. Also on hand: John and Debbie Dingell, Gordon Peterson, Kathleen Matthews, Bob Barnett and Rita Braver and a number of friends of Ben’s wife, Alma Viator, who used to handle public relations for the National Theatre.
-That was Dick Smothers out and about in our fair city Saturday. Here, Widmeyer Communications’ Adam Shapiro says hello to the Smothers Brothers star at Oceanaire restaurant.
