Time 100 party: A killer time was had by all!
Posted: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 4:54 PM by Hardball
Tammy Haddad
A visit to 30 Rock is enough to send any hardworking Hardballer into happiness, but walking the red carpet into Rick Stengel’s Time 100 party at the Time Warner Center with NBC News Snr. V.P. Phil Griffin, Arianna Huffington and Ana Marie Cox and, excuse me, Cate (Blanchett) so nice to meet you, that’s a grand slam!
With Chris Matthews, Mayor Mike (Hey, I asked Kevin Sheekey if you could announce on Hardball’s 10th Anniversary show), John Mayer, Jeffrey Sachs, Matt Lauer, Dan Abrams, Page 6’s Richard Johnson, Richard Branson, and Brian Grazer among the notables….a killer time was had by all.
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| From left to right: Hardball's Tammy Haddad, Time's Anna Marie Cox, Elizabeth Edwards and ABC's Elizabeth Vargas. |
Rick Stengel might be getting his own show soon after his Oprah-esque host role of introducing some of the honorees to talk about their inspiration. NBC’s own Brian Williams was among those who spoke so beautifully, but all eyes (some wet) were on Elizabeth Edwards as she spoke of growing up in Japan and the geisha-in-training who inspires her to this day. She carried the scars of Hiroshima on her chest, yet showed up at their home every week to teach Elizabeth and her sister how to dance. Silence followed by wild applause. 
ABC’s Elizabeth Vargas told Elizabeth Edwards she too had spent part of her youth in Japan in a military family. And look at Elizabeth “Mayweather” Edwards give Time Washington Bureau Chief Jay “de la Hoya” Carney a piece of her fist -- I mean mind…
Ana Marie Cox told me that the new Newseum not only wanted her turquoise slippers, as the New York Times reported yesterday, but they also wanted the pajamas she wore as she changed the media industry with Wonkette. She declined. She was in diamonds and Armani.
Our table included the fabulous Jeffrey Sachs and Iceland’s DNA tracker Kari Stefansson and movie and TV impresario Brian Grazer who was surrounded by such an elite crowd no one asked him to read their script! The group, including Brian, flipped as Phil showed us MSNBC live on his experimental PDA.
Two of NBC News biggest stars behind the cameras were in attendance, Today show’s super booker Matt Glick (affectionately known as half of Matt squared) and senior producer Noah Oppenheim (right), the bestselling author of “The Intellectual Devotional: American History: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently about Our Nation’s Past.” Noah and George Lucas were really yakking it up. Switching to pictures, Noah?
Of course, any party with "Meet The Press" topper Betsy Fischer, Condi’s deputy Dina Powell (double kisses from Queen Rania), Phil and CNBC’s Jim Cramer is one you need to attend.
NY Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and his wife Veronica could not be talked into moving back to DC, despite all your briefers efforts. A note to bookers, John Mayer is a great talker as well as a terrific entertainer.
