Barack Obama

  • Genachowski Outlines Bold Broadband Policy

    Says broadband infrastructure will be the platform for growth in the 21st century.

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    Wrap Staff

  • Obama Wins at Cannes

    OK, your ads helped do the seemingly impossible in electing Barack Obama as President of the United States.   Then on top of it you find out that in a pretty usual forum for examining political ads — the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival — you win the top prize for ads worldwide last year…

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    Ira Teinowitz

  • The Ben Silverman-Barack Obama Show

    It’s a White House visit for Ben Silverman, co-chair of NBC Entertainment and Universal Studios.   In Washington for Wednesday night’s premiere of “The Philanthropist” that was co-sponsored by the Creative Coalition and Microsoft’s Bing search engine,  Silverman was due Thursday to join the star of the program, James Purefoy, and others involved in the…

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    Ira Teinowitz

  • Obama to First-Pitch the All-Star Game

    It only seems logical, really.   President Obama, a longtime Chicago White Sox fan who sometimes would show up on the campaign trail wearing a Sox hat, is returning the tradition of the president throwing out the first ball at the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.   Major League Baseball said Tuesday that Obama would…

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    Ira Teinowitz

  • Are ABC’s Obama Plans Blurring the Lines?

    Network is embedding its news telecasts with the White House on June 24.

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    Wrap Staff

  • Obama Orders Colbert: Get a Haircut

    If Stephen Colbert wants to be one of the troops …

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    The Colbert Report

  • Obama Urges Digital TV Compliance

    President urges unprepared viewers to get ready…because it’s coming.

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    Ira Teinowitz

  • Jolie Tops Forbes 100 List

    Actress ranks as top celebrity; Obama first president to make the cut.

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    Lucas Shaw

  • Hey Obama…Where’s Kal Penn?

    White House official: “Kal is not working for the administration at this time.”

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    Dominic Patten
    Hey Obama…Where’s Kal Penn?

  • Stretch, Obama and the Miracle of Beverly Hills

    I was parked at the Beverly Hilton with a couple dozen other limos when the dispatcher signaled me to roll because my client was ready. I thought it a little strange that I was the only driver told to rev up. But you don’t have time to think when you’re working a big event. You…

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    Stretch the Limo Driver

  • At Obama Event, Celebs Reach for Checkbooks

    Despite the celeb outpouring during the campaign, his famous supporters have had no face time with Obama since the Inauguration.

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    Dominic Patten
    At Obama Event, Celebs Reach for Checkbooks

  • Hollywood: Not Obama’s Kind of Town

    Call it a tale of two types of towns. Barack Obama’s appearance in Las Vegas Tuesday night at a Caesar’s Palace fundraiser that brought in $2 million for incumbent Harry Reid saw the President share billing with Bette Midler and Sheryl Crow. Wednesday night, the leader of the Free World broke bread with the likes…

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  • Obama & Timberlake: A Tale of Two Videos

    This weekend produced two must-see viral videos: footage from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, featuring separate clips of Barack Obama and Wanda Sykes cracking up the press corp, and a new "Saturday Night Live" musical sketch with Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg called “Motherlover,” which follows up their viral hit from last year, “Dick in…

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    Maria Russo

  • Sony Picks Up Edward Norton’s ‘Obama’

    “By the People: The Election of Barack Obama” follows the former Illinois senator from candidacy to inauguration.

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    Wrap Staff

  • Hollywood: Faster Change on Darfur!

    With their man now in the White House, George Clooney and others are starting to demand results

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    Michael Janofsky