Sightings…

The Washington Times may have been trying to capture the self-driving Google car in today’s edition, but they also captured The Daily Caller‘s Tucker Carlson, who has been caught repeatedly driving his wife’s scooter around town. He appears to be glancing at the car as if to say ‘That self-driving bullshit has nothing on me.’

The photograph below appeared on page A10 of today’s TWT.

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Sighting: TWT columnist and Drudge’s Charlie Hurt was seen outside 7th Hill Pizza near Eastern Market Wednesday enjoying a pie with wild mushrooms and basil. From the smile on his face and upper body stretch, looks like he had a good meal. A note of utter unimportance: Take note of Hurt’s freshly cut locks. He hardly looks like himself, so much so we thought it might be his brother, Rep. Robert Hurt, a member of Congress from Virginia’s 5th Congressional District. See a picture of him at right.

This weekend Hollywood types will begin parachuting into D.C. for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The event takes place Saturday evening but there are plenty of pre-dinner receptions and cocktail parties taking place between now and then to catch the celebs.

Here’s a roundup of who you might expect to run into over the next few days and which publications we know are hosting them:

Movie types:

Actor and outspoken Obama backer George Clooney along with his girlfriend actress Stacy Keibler (Time); Actor Adam Scott; director Steven Spielberg; MPAA Director Chris Dodd, actress Eva Longoria, Donald Trump‘s daughter Ivanka, actress Charlize Theron (Politico); actress and occasional inmate Lindsay Lohan (FNC’s Greta Van Susteren and husband John Coale); actress Reese Witherspoon; “Hunger Games” stars Elizabeth Banks (ABC/Yahoo! News) and Josh Hutcherson; actress Zooey Deschanel; actress Viola Davis, actress Goldie Hawn (her date: CNN’s Piers Morgan); actor Josh Dallas; actress Sanaa Lathan; actress Rosario Dawson (Atlantic/NJ); actor Paul Rudd, actors Ginnifer Goodwin and Colin Hanks (NPR); actor Pierce Brosnan and his wife Keely (WaPo); canine movie star Uggie (TWT).

Recording artists:

Singer Mary J. Blige (NPR); R&B legend Stevie Wonder; singer John Legend.

Media personalities and small screen actors:

Late-night comedian and this year’s WHCD host Jimmy Kimmel, reality TV star Kim Kardashian; CNN’s bighead Piers Morgan; “Modern Family”s Sofia Vergara, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Julie Bowen and Eric Stonestreet along with “Cougar Town”s Christa Miller and Bill Lawrence (ABC/Yahoo! News); actress Rashida Jones (Forbes); fashion designer Rachel Zoe (Politic0); radio host Tom Joyner; author Katherine Stockett and Facebook co-founder and publisher of TNR Chris Hughes (NPR); model Elle Macpherson, actors Matthew Morrison and Chase Crawford, CBS TV hosts Gayle King and Charlie Rose; actors Tim Daly and David Arquette (CQ-Roll Call); Sandra Fluke of Slutgate fame (HuffPost); actress Sofia Vergara.

While waiting for a ride that never showed FBDC staked out  the Ritz Carlton on 22nd St. NW Thursday night. And guess who popped up? We spotted legendary film director George Lucas looking frumpy in a plaid shirt, casual blazer and a crooked name tag (why in Ewok hell is GEORGE LUCAS wearing a name tag?!).

Lucas hopped off a bus at the hotel with some common folk and was nice enough to pose for a couple pictures with fans.

Tryst, located on 18th st. in Adams Morgan, has turned on the “classy.”

It looks like the restaurant has invested in new art to hang on the walls. Included among the new Roseart glitter portraits, President Barack Obama and “The Jersey Shore”s Snooki hanging side by side.

Just how the Founding Fathers intended.

Spotted: Late Sunday afternoon, The Daily Beast‘s Andrew Sullivan could be seen lounging in shorts al fresco at Napoleon Café in Adams Morgan. Dining with two men.Well-behaved dogs lying at their feet. Sullivan appeared to be enjoying his brunch of waffles and fruit.

Over the weekend, The Native Makers, the rock band featuring Carl Hulse on the drums, rocked Capitol Hill in an event labeled Rock and Roll Apocalypse. Hulse, the NYT Deputy Bureau Chief, ripped through a series of cover songs at the 18th Amendment on Capitol Hill. The playlist leaned heavily on the Rolling Stones and other classic rock favorites. In a bizarre stage setup, the band was forced to play directly beneath a giant TV playing a “Rocky” movie marathon. The howls of Grateful Dead cover songs provided a very unique soundtrack to Rocky Balboa’s defeat of Clubber Lang.

Jamming in the crowd were WSJ’s Neil King with his wife, Shalaigh Murray , who is now communications director for VPOTUS. Also spotted: HuffPost’s Arthur Delaney, WaPo’s Mike DeBonis and Susan G. Komen’s Kiki Ryan with Tim Burger. Quinn Gillespie & Associates was well repped with both John Feehery and Jim Manley in attendance in a marked sign of bipartisanship.

 

Spotted this morning: Ex-CNN host Eliot Spitzer saying hello to Slate‘s Dahlia Lithwick at Peregrine Espresso on Capitol Hill. They were both guests on Bill Press‘s “Full Court Press” radio show that airs on Current TV and met up after their hit.

Spitzer and Lithwick passed each other as she was on her way and he was on his way into the show. Lithwick emaled the show to have Spitzer meet her at the café after his hit. He did so, but had to leave early for a breakfast meeting.

 

Unfortunately for actor George Clooney, he was arrested today while protesting in front of the Sudan embassy in Washington. But the good news is the ABC 7 cameras captured a very enthusiastic Christina Wilkie as she walked with Clooney before the arrest.

The HuffPost reporter described the scene to FBDC in an email:

It was a zoo, with about 50 reporters all angling (and elbowing) for the same shot. We spoke to Clooney on the way over to the protest, though, so we already had a good interview in pocket when we got there.

HuffPost videographer Sara Kenigsberg was in the middle of the action, while I sneaked onto the wall of the embassy of Mali so I could catch the dialogue between Clooney and the cops, which was friendly but nothing newsworthy.

Wilkie told us that she didn’t see her cameo on ABC 7 today.

WaPo op-ed columnist and political commentator E.J. Dionne was spotted out to lunch this afternoon at Pesce (a restaurant after our own hearts) off Dupont Circle. He was dining with a blonde woman. His meal consisted of ice water and Caesar’s Salad.

As loquacious as ever, Dionne was heard talking about a column he wrote on Kennedy in 1998. The woman listened attentively and didn’t appear bored by the political chatter.

Here he is above at the table.

Update: We’ve corrected the above to reflect that Dionne wrote his column on Kennedy in 1998 not 1968. He wrote into FishbowlDC: “Greetings. E. J. Dionne here.A friend sent me this and I just wanted the record to be clear: I wasn’t old enough to write a column on Robert Kennedy’s death! I was talking about a column I wrote in 1998 on the 30th Anniversary of the death of my dad, who also died in 1968. Glad you have a source at Pesce, a lovely place.” Indeed, E.J., we have our fishy spies at all the best spots around town.