…Mayor Adrian Fenty leaving the National Italian American Foundation dinner early and overheard by one Yeas & Nays spy as saying, “I had to get out of there…”

…Ellen Pompeo growing increasingly frustrated on stage as she tried to sneak away from the NIAF dinner for a bathroom break.

…Martin Scorcese, driving himself (how humble) down to D.C. for the NIAF gala.

…Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani jumping out of his SUV Saturday afternoon in order to run into Georgetown Tobacco.

…The Dallas Mavericks, in town to play the Wizards Saturday night, staying at the Fair Lakes Hyatt.

…Susan Lucci dining at Cafe Milano Friday night.

…Graham Nash, in town for Tuesday’s Pray for Peace concert at the National Cathedral, staying at the Four Seasons.

…Ben Affleck and Casey Affleck, staying at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Georgetown. Didn’t see them? They used the super-secret entrance linking the hotel and the nearby AMC-Loews movie theater, where “Gone, Baby, Gone” was screened on Thursday night.

-During Wednesday’s “soft opening” of Wolfgang Puck’s new restaurant, The Source, in the Newseum, the culinary icon himself held court with some of D.C.’s top toques, including Michel Richard and Robert Wiedmaier. Also on hand: Puck’s new wife, Ethiopian-born handbag designer Gelila Assefa. One source said she sat on his lap and he had his arms wrapped around her for a good portion of the evening.