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‘IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY’ Writer-director Angelina Jolie and long-time
Washington celebrates the Kennedy Center Honors
love Brad Pi arrived on the red carpet for
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the premiere of “In the Land of Blood and Honey,” her gripping film about two lovers on opposing sides of the Bosnian War, befi ingly held at the Holocaust Museum.
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As a human rights activist who o en travels to destinations other than the French Riviera, it was natural to ask if she is ever afraid to go to certain places. “I have fear because I’m a mother and Brad o en reminds me to be as safe as possible,” she said. “I don’t go to places unless I feel the need. I go because my children are from some of these countries. If no one had paid a ention to the poor people of Vietnam or
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the public — vividly and with more presence and greater clarity,” he said. “I have always been interested in science and for 11 years did a science program on television.” On the red carpet at the ceremony, honoree Neil Diamond commented on his meteoric rise to fame at an early age: “I wrote ‘Red, Red Wine’ when I was 19 while working in a haberdash-
ery store on Long Island,” he recounted. “There were no customers. I sat behind the counter and wrote the song in a couple of hours.That was the journey of the song.” Elmo provided a few laughs in his own upbeat way, telling the audience that his bedtime was a little later that night. “It’s usually 8:30 to 9,” he said, “and I am three and a half going on 52.”
have happened to their birth parents? So, I feel a direct connection and responsibility to other people’s children as well as my own, not just my own safety.”
Q&A QUICKIE HEARD QUOTABLE QUOTES FROM AROUND TOWN
SOPHIE LA MONTAGNE co-owner, Georgetown Cupcake: “We are excited to call Georgetown Cupcake the home of the World’s Largest Cupcake and set Guinness World Record history!”
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BRAD PITT on “In the Land of Blood and Honey”: “I’m really proud of Angelina. It’s a difficult subject ma er.”
FLORENCE HENDERSON on her book “Life Is Not a Stage”: “The thing that is very rewarding about my book is that I helped a lot of people and inspired them, which was its purpose.”
JUSTIN KRAEMER on the art of wine at Elisir: “Pairing wine with great cuisine is a performance art, one part intuition about your audience, two parts flavor combination, and a large dose of passion in your presentation.”
Before leaving for Sundance, 8112 Studios Executive Producer Pergrin Pervez hosted a bon voyage cocktail hour for Washington’s “The novelty “Official Creative of chipotle Ambassadors to for breakfast Sundance” at Serendipity seemed like in Georgetown. A er that a good idea he kept us posted on all at the time. the news from Park City Now I’m via Twi er. One notable reconsidering.” example: “Just ran into Elija Woods in the tortilla chips section. Perhaps he was on a quest for the one chip to rule them all at Whole Foods.”
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rivate parties before and after the Kennedy Center Honor s kept companies with gas-guzzling limos in business. The most intimate and highly coveted invite of all? Liz and George Stevens Jr.’s Sunday Honors Brunch at the Mandarin Oriental, where A-List guests including Robert De Niro, Glenn Close and Alan Alda mingled with Washington stars like Nancy Pelosi and David Rubenstein. A fascinating take-away from the Oscar-feeling brunch was Alda’s dedication to science — all that doc stuff from his days on “MASH” must have worn off on him. “I helped start the center for communicating sciences at Stony Brook University and we train scientists to communicate with