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THIS JUST IN  Former White House press


secretary Dana Perino is headed to George Washington University, where she’ll teach a graduate class in political communication this fall.  Lindsay Lohan checked into Pickford Lofts, a “sober-living” house in L.A., on Wednesday, reports People. Why now? Either she wants to get a jump-start on her court-mandated rehab — or hopes that a judge will alter or reduce her 90-day jail sentence, scheduled to begin Tuesday.  A Michigan couple was found guilty Thursday of trying to extort $680,000 from John Stamos, reports AP. Allison Coss and Scott Sippola threatened to sell pictures of the actor with strippers and cocaine to the tabloids. “There was no hot tub, no drugs, no nudity and nothing sexual in nature involved in my friendship with this woman,” Stamos said after the verdict. “They lied about everything.” They face up to five years in jail.


Library of Congress honors Jack Kemp; will the NFL?


AMY ARGETSINGER/THE WASHINGTON POST Paul Wharton and MenzFit fundraiser co-host Erika Gutierrez catch up at the Donovan House hotel. Moving in on the ‘Housewives’


This city may snooze in the depths of summer, but reality TV never sleeps.


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A Michigan couple has been found guilty of trying to extort $680,000 from John Stamos.


During a week when our dance card had dried up, we got a last-minute invitation to a cocktail fundraiser for MenzFit, a nonprofit that gets struggling fellows into proper suits to compete in the job market. And, as with so many invitations lately, the grim warning was: “This event will be filmed for TV.” The cameras were there all right, on the rooftop of the Donovan House hotel Thursday,


circling one partygoer in particular. Paul Wharton, a local stylist and occasional TV personality (VH1, CW), hasn’t been highlighted in the promos for “Real Housewives of D.C.,” but he’s poised to emerge as the unofficial “sixth Housewife.” The flat-ironed,


high-cheekboned fashionista is all over the premiere, debuting next month — cackling as Lynda Erkiletian declares Michaele Salahi to be anorexic, then telling Michaele what Lynda said. Fun! And Thursday, a camera (labeled “HYP” — for


“Housewives” producer Half Yard Productions?) rolled on around him . . . Now wait: It’s too late for the


first season of D.C. “Housewives,” and too soon to shoot a second season. . . . Do we smell spinoff? Will the madness never end? We pried Wharton (pinstriped skinny pants, pointy shoes) from his frenetic airkissing. “I am in the business of TV, and D.C. is the place to be these days,” he told us cryptically. “I’ve found a great partner in Half Yard . . . and the rest you’ll have to see.”


it in Maryland.” — Timothy Dean, the D.C.-bred, B’more-based chef eliminated on “Top Chef D.C.” this week, defending his controversial decision early in the series to serve rockfish with the skin on, in a Washington Post online discussion Wednesday.


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Shakespeare Theatre picks Bening for its annual Will Award


by Jacqueline Trescott


The actress Annette Bening has been selected as this year’s re- cipient of the Will Award, the an- nual honor given by the Shake- speare Theatre Company. Bening’s Shakespeare résumé includes a turn as Queen Eliza- beth, wife of Edward IV, in the 1995 film “Richard III.” She ap- peared in that film with Ian McKellen, a former winner of the Will Award. Michael Kahn, artistic director


of Shakespeare, said he has long watched and admired Bening’s stage work. “The major reason is how much I admire people who have a hugely successful film career and then go back to do theater,” Kahn said in a phone interview Thurs- day as the selection was an- nounced. “This is a way of cele- brating a movie star who, like Al Pacino, goes back to the theater and does the difficult roles.” In the past couple of years Ben- ing has performed in “Medea” and “The Cherry Orchard” with regional companies in Los Ange- les. Her work with Shakespeare and other classic roles dates from her early career at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. In her film career, Bening has received Academy Award nomi- nations for “The Grifters,” “Amer-


ican Beauty” and “Being Julia.” She won a Golden Globe for the latter film. She was also nominat- ed for an Emmy for the HBO tele- cast “Mrs. Harris,” about educa- tor Jean Harris, who murdered her lover, Herman Tarnower, au- thor of “The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet.”Much earlier, Ben- ing received a Tony nomination for Tina Howe’s 1987 play “Coast- al Disturbances.”


“I admire people who . . . go back to do theater.”


— Michael Kahn, Shakespeare Theatre Company artistic director


The Will Award, to be pre- sented Oct. 3, was established in 1988 and has raised about $5 mil- lion to support the Shakespeare company’s education programs and its annual “Free for All” event. Past Will awardees include


Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Judi Dench, Fiona Shaw, Ralph Fiennes, Anthony Hopkins, Mag- gie Smith, Patrick Stewart, Sam Waterston, Lynn Redgrave, Mor- gan Freeman, Mel Gibson, Ken- neth Branagh, Christopher Plum- mer and Kevin Kline. trescottj@washpost.com


DOONESBURY by Garry Trudeau JOAN MARCUS ‘WE’RE YOUR DREAMGIRLS’: Lorrell (Adrienne Warren, left), Deena (Syesha Mercado) and Effie (Moya Angela) won’t sing here. ‘Dreamgirls’ producers cancel D.C. leg of ailing tour by Peter Marks


Citing disappointing ticket sales, the producers of a national tour of the musical “Dreamgirls” have canceled a planned two- week Washington engagement that was to start at the National Theatre on July 28. This latest revival of the 1981 musical opened to mixed reviews last November at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. It then went on tour, with a cast that includes a past “American Idol” finalist, Syesha Mercado, as Deena Jones. It still has bookings through the end of the year in such cities as


San Francisco, Memphis and Mi- ami. A statement from the pro- duction released Thursday said that “the producers hope to bring ‘Dreamgirls’ to Washing- ton at some later time.” Cancellations of visits by ma- jor touring productions to the National are rare, especially so close to the planned opening. In the fall of 2001, a month-long run of “The Full Monty” musical was canceled several weeks before it was to open, along with several other subsequent stops on that tour.


Although the National is


booked only sporadically for Broadway-style shows — the


Kennedy Center gets the lion’s share of the big touring attrac- tions, as evidenced by its current summer offering, “Mary Pop- pins” — some visiting large-scale musicals have had notable suc- cesses there in recent years. A Broadway tryout of “West Side Story” at the National a year and a half ago, for instance, was a huge hit at the box office, as was “Jersey Boys” last fall. Mercado is perhaps the most recognizable name associated with the revival, staged by Rob- ert Longbottom, who has direct- ed both on Broadway (“Side Show”) and at the Kennedy Cen- ter (“Carnival”). But whether the


CUL DE SAC by Richard Thompson


lack of a star performer, so close on the heels of the “Dreamgirls” movie adaptation, played a role in the sluggish ticket sales is not clear. The 2006 movie featured Beyoncé Knowles, Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Hudson, another “American Idol” alumna, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Effie. The tour’s producers say tick-


ets paid for by credit card will be refunded automatically. Tickets purchased by cash or check should be returned for a refund to Telecharge.com. For more in- formation, call Telecharge at 800-543-4835.


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Turns out, Donovan is not the father of a British lady’s baby.


LOVE, ETC. Relieved: Landon Donovan, who turns out is not, repeat not, the father of some British lady’s baby, he told E! News. This after the soccer superstar got ahead of a damaging tabloid report last month by divulging that he might, repeat might, be the dad (and if so, he’d do the right thing). Did that tabloid report ever actually emerge, or do we still only know about it from him? Thanks for keeping us in the loop, Landon!


Jack Kemp wore many hats: pro football player, congressman, Cabinet secretary, presidential and vice-presidential candidate. The charismatic Republican, who died last year, was celebrated at the Library of Congress on Wednesday with a chair established in his name and the donation of 400 boxes of speeches, personal papers and football memorabilia, reports our colleague Richard Leiby. Among the guests: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who was asked if Kemp — a former Buffalo Bills quarterback with two AFL titles — should be voted into the Hall of Fame. “I sure hope so,” Goodell said. So far, it looks like a long shot. When former commish Paul Tagliabue pushed the voting committee to include Kemp a few years ago, football purists pushed back arguing that the only criterion for inclusion is skill on the gridiron. But others think former players who served the country should be honored — such as Pat Tillman, the Arizona Cardinals defensive back who gave up his football career for the Army and died in Afghanistan, or Kemp. Goodell falls into that camp:


“As time goes on, people will recognize even more the contributions he made both on and off the field.”


FRIDAY, JULY 16, 2010


ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE, 1964


The jury is still out on whether the ex-Buffalo Bills quarterback’s two AFL titles can help him make the Pro Football Hall of Fame cut.


MARK LENNIHAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS Kemp, in 1987, with Sen. Robert Dole, his 1996 running mate.


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