Sunday, September 3, 2006

Had a most interesting dinner over Ellen and Gerry Sigal’s house in DC. Guest were Sherry Lansing (Hollywood producer – “Fatal Attraction”, Black Rain” and former actress) and her husband, Billy Friedken (Multiple Academy Award winning Producer, Director and Writer – “Exorcist”, “The French Connection”, etc. ) He is now producing (successfully) operas all over the world. Also there were Joe Wilson, the ambassador involved in the big Washington issue of the Administration “misleading” the American public about WMDs in Iraq and his wife Valerie Plame , the CIA secret agent that was “outted” by Robert Novack’s column and for which Scooter Libby has been indicted for perjury. It was a most interesting discussion. Valerie and Joe seemed like very nice people despite being trashed by the Administration. Valerie insisted that she was still under cover despite the fact that it is reported that she had a desk job when she was outted. Joe, as he has said on TV multiple times, feels that the WH officials are all a “bunch of liars”. Also present were Washington power-lawyer (Watergate, Whitewater, 9/11 Commission) Richard Ben-Veniste and his wife Donna.