Spielberg! Affleck! J.Lo! They were among the Hollywood celebrities attending events in Denver as the Democratic National Convention nominated Barack Obama as the party’s presidential candidate.
Steven Spielberg, who reportedly directed a short film on military weapons that was to be shown at the convention, was spotted entering the Pepsi Center.
Jennifer Lopez spoke at a reception honoring children’s rights activist Marian Wright Edelman. Ben Affleck read excerpts from a Howard Zinn book and made an appearance at the city’s food bank for America’s Second Harvest.
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Affleck was joined by his wife, Jennifer Garner, at the book reading at the Starz Green Room across the street from the Pepsi Center. Also participating: Rosario Dawson, Kerry Washington, Taye Diggs, Hill Harper and Josh Brolin.
Other celebrity sightings around Denver:
-- The Black Eyed Peas performed a concert at the Fillmore Auditorium for the Creative Coalition. Fergie praised Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Tuesday-night speech, saying Clinton “really spoke to me as a woman. And I think she spoke to a lot of people in that way.”
-- Politicians including Virginia Gov. Mark Warner attended a ONE Campaign party featuring a Kanye West performance. Also in attendance: Forest Whitaker, Kal Penn, Jamie Foxx and director Davis Guggenheim.
-- Muhammad Ali sat in the convention audience.
-- Fran Drescher, Ashley Judd and Joy Bryant joined Lopez at the reception honoring Edelman.
-- Hathaway and others gathered at a morning reception honoring Annette Bening for her work narrating the documentary “14 Women,” about women in the U.S. Senate.
