DENVER – Spielberg! Affleck! J.Lo! They were amid the Hollywood celebrities accessory contest in Denver as the Democratic National Assemblage nominated Barack Obama as the party's presidential candidate.
Steven Spielberg, who directed a abbreviate blur on veterans that aired Wednesday at the convention, was spotted entering the Pepsi Center.
Jennifer Lopez batten at a accession anniversary children's rights activist Marian Wright Edelman. Ben Affleck apprehend excerpts from a Howard Zinn book and fabricated an actualization at the city's aliment coffer for America's Second Harvest.
Photo Essay: Stars at the DNC
Affleck was abutting by his wife, Jennifer Garner, at the book account at the Starz Green Room beyond the artery from the Pepsi Center. Additionally participating: Rosario Dawson, Kerry Washington, Taye Diggs, Hill Harper and Josh Brolin.
Other celebrity sightings about Denver:
— The Black Eyed Peas performed a concert at the Fillmore Auditorium for the Creative Coalition. Fergie accepted Hillary Rodham Clinton's Tuesday-night speech, adage Clinton "really batten to me as a woman. And I anticipate she batten to a lot of bodies in that way."
— Politicians including above Virginia Gov. Mark Warner abounding a affair sponsored by Bono's ONE anti-poverty advance and the Recording Industry Association of America featuring a Kanye West performance.
West's affliction on the day Barack Obama was nominated for president: That his mother, Donda, hadn't lived to acquaintance it.
"It's an absurd time to be around. I ambition my momma could accept apparent this day," the 31-year-old rapper told a army aggregate for his achievement aboriginal Thursday morning.
Also in appearance at the Kanye show: Forest Whitaker, Kal Penn, Jamie Foxx and administrator Davis Guggenheim.
— Muhammad Ali sat in the assemblage audience.
— Fran Drescher, Ashley Judd and Joy Bryant abutting Lopez at the accession anniversary Edelman.
— Anne Hathaway and others aggregate at a morning accession anniversary Annette Bening for her assignment address the documentary "14 Women," about women in the U.S. Senate.
— Big Boi of Outkast was at the airport on his way out of boondocks afterwards hosting a Radio One appearance area he interviewed John Legend, amid others.
An anti-war concert accent by the reunited Rage Against the Machine drew bags of admirers to the Denver Coliseum on Wednesday morning, abounding with tattoos, anatomy piercings or "Iraq Veterans Against the War" T-shirts.
Sean Penn showed up at the city's accessible library Tuesday as an eyewitness at an Oxfam America round-table console about Gulf Coast accretion efforts.
Other celebrities spotted about the burghal Tuesday:
— Spike Lee, on the assemblage floor, wore a T-shirt that featured caricatures of Obama ablution on John McCain. Additionally on the floor, and after at the Do Something affair at the Jet Hotel and Lounge: "The Daily Show" contributor John Oliver.
— Chevy Chase and his wife additionally chock-full by the Jet party, adage they were accessory Obama's Thursday speech. Chase's acknowledgment to aftermost weekend's advertisement of Sen. Joe Biden as Obama's active mate: "I wet my pants."
— Chris Daughtry performed with his bandage at a club alleged the Church. Daughtry said he'd announced with Jon Bon Jovi a few canicule advanced and the rocker hadn't mentioned a accounted Thursday pre-Obama accent gig (Bruce Springsteen is accounted to comedy afterward).
— At the aforementioned club, Everclear frontman Art Alexakis debuted a song alleged "Jesus Was a Democrat." "This song is a acicular advance at bodies who alarm themselves Christians but act annihilation far from it," he said.
— Moby played an acoustic set at the Jet, assuming "Ring of Fire" and, aloft request, "Free Bird." He told the army it was his action to comedy the Lynyrd Skynyrd song if anybody shouted it out. Afterward, he exchanged a handshake and airish for photos with rapper Bun B.
— Charles Barkley roamed the CNN Grill, chatting accidentally with others in the restaurant. "This is activity to be historic," he said.
— Amid those spotted branch into the Pepsi Center through the VIP entrance: Angela Bassett and Richard Dreyfuss.
At a Creative Coalition banner, Danny Strong, an amateur and biographer who is befitting a video account of the DNC for the Associated Press, batten with Hathaway, who said she was "kind of abashed of Obama the aboriginal time I saw him."
"I thought, I've been austere by guys like you before. I've been austere by politicians afore that I capital to accept in and aloof didn't alive up to it. And I was abashed to assurance him and I was abashed to accept achievement back I aboriginal affectionate of became acquainted of him. It was about the time that he gave his accent on chase that I aloof said 'I can't abjure how I feel about you, Barack Obama. I appetite you to be the president. I appetite you in the White House.'
Legend performed his new song, "If You're Out There," from the attic of the Democratic National Assemblage on Monday.
Among added celebrities spotted on the aboriginal day of the convention:
— Danny Glover, cutting a anorak over a Martin Luther King Jr. shirt, who talked about unions at a Creative Coalition event.
— Cyndi Lauper was interviewed on the assemblage floor. Susan Sarandon, Alan Cumming, Tim Daly, Rachael Leigh Cook and Josh Lucas were additionally spotted.
— Robert Randolph & The Family Bandage and The Fray performed for convention-goers.
— Daughtry was in the admirers at a Rock the Vote concert at the city's opera house, which featured Jakob Dylan, NERD and Fall Out Boy.
At Sunday night's alpha concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater alfresco Denver, Sheryl Crow committed her song "Strong Enough" to Barack Obama and again added a aberration to the lyrics for the occasion.
"Are you able abundant to be my man, or my president?" Crow sang.
Dave Matthews and Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles additionally performed.
Crow told the Associated Press advanced that she hadn't been affected from speaking out for Obama by the candidate's "celebrity."
"That tag that Sen. Obama's been accustomed is a advance ploy, obviously, by the Republican party," Crow said. "I don't see him blind out. I accept yet to see him at any celebrity events."
