Posted on 02/22/2012 9:39:47 PM PST by grundle
Fact: David Cross once snorted cocaine at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
The actor confessed to the persistent rumor in an interview in the March issue of Playboy magazine, saying he pulled the stunt while sitting some 65 feet away from President Obama.
"It wasn’t even that much cocaine. It was literally the size of, I don’t know, a tick. It was a tiny granule of coke that I put on my wrist and said, 'Watch this. I need a witness,'" Cross recalled.
"And then I ducked under the table and did it. It wasn’t like I got high," he continued. "The jolt was similar to licking an empty espresso cup. It wasn’t about that. It was just about being able to say that I did it, that I did cocaine in the same room as the president."
Cross, the star of the IFC series The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, recently took heat for his rant against a producer on Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, a film he's vilified in public as "most miserable experience I ever had in my professional life."
As for the White House incident, Cross said he's not "ashamed" but regrets the embarrassment it caused his fiancee, actress Amber Tamblyn, who had invited him to the dinner.
"I was her date, her plus-one, and she got dragged through the mud because of what I did. She had nothing to do with it. And because of that she’ll never be invited to the White House again. That’s not cool."
Another Cross confession: he remains "curious" about new recreational drugs, and considers crack to be wack.
"I smoked it once, and it was a huge wake-up call ... When it came time to get some more, I knew very clearly that if I stayed there—and I wanted to—my life would change right then and there for the worse. I never touched crack again."
Never heard of Russ Tamblyn?!?!
No wonder my joints hurt this morning. I am old!
Given that 0 has admitted to coke use in his bio book how is this daring in any way?
A couple of years ago, Amber Tamblyn starred in the short-lived series "The Unusuals":
http://www.buzzsugar.com/Interview-Amber-Tamblyn-about-Unusuals-ABC-3014435
My condolences to Russ Tamblyn, as he is about to gain this loser David Cross as a son-in-law. What the heck is wrong with his lovely daughter Amber??
Amber looks like her Dad; wonder if she inherited his dancing talent.
Russ Tamblyn also had a "small" part in Tom Thumb. <;^)
‘What the heck is wrong with his lovely daughter, Amber??’
All my years on earth, now and again I have noticed that very attractive women are paired with dubious-looking men, but rarely the other way ‘round. . .
‘__________made him share.’
Got that right!
Speaking of this current administration - - - we saw Star Parker, syndicatd columnist, speak at a dinner last night in Ventura County, CA. Got a photo with her, as she autographed her book, ‘Uncle Sam’s Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America’s Poor And What We Can Do About It.’
Star was absolutely dynamic - an ‘iconoclast,’ says Sean Hannity,- briefly told a messy beginning to her life, and is just energizing. Over 200 of us could have listened for at least another hour. Don’t miss her if she is ever in your neighborhood.
You can bet the Blacks don’t embrace her - how could she EVer be a Black Woman REPUBLICAN???!
Star was absolutely dynamic - an ‘iconoclast,’ says Sean Hannity,- briefly told a messy beginning to her life, and is just energizing. Over 200 of us could have listened for at least another hour. Don’t miss her if she is ever in your neighborhood.
We LOVE Star Parker! We usually see her every year at CPAC. This year my husband and I and our two friends got lucky and got to hang around with her for awhile as she was setting up her booth in the exhibition hall the night before CPAC officially opened. She was thrilled that we were such big fans of hers and encouraged us to hang out.
On Friday at CPAC, Star participated in a great panel entitled "The RIGHT View" with S.E. Cupp, Michelle Duggar (star of TLC's "19 Kids & Counting"), Kate Obenshain and moderator Marji Ross (President, Regnery Publishing). During this conservative parody, they played outrageous clips from "The View" (usually featuring the odious Joy Behar) then discussed how insane and ridiculous those liberal 'views' were, and backed up their opinions with plenty of facts about how misguided the women of "The View" are (except for Elizabeth Hasselbeck of course).
"The RIGHT View" was a really fun and informative panel - it would make a great TV show on its own. Star was definitely the STAR of "The RIGHT View" by the way! ;-)
;-)
I found Star Parker to be the same at this venue as you describe at yours.
Sounds like ‘The RIGHT View’ was great!
Recognize most of those ladies names - well didn’t know the one from Regnery. (Whatever happend to that dark-haired women from Regnery on FOX late at night - remember her??? Was her name Judith something - - - ) ?
Star has such an easy-breezy, dynamic delivery when she speaks.
The next morning, I e-mailed the Republican club officers, thanked them for their getting Ms Parker to speak here, and kidded about wondering if some of us should have gone and hung out with her at the hotel, so she wouldn’t be alone quite yet!
After all, we had had such a good time, and she signed every last purchased book, not looking at all like she was ready to leave!
Of course I was (sort of) kidding, actually assuming why wouldn’t she like to be alone after so many hours with us??!
But it was only about 9:30pm - early for a night-owl as myself!
W e l l, when the club president e-mailed back, she said she actually did spend almost an hour at the hotel with Ms Parker - just darn! I envy her, but happy for her at the same time!
Club president said she wishes she could get into and have some of Ms Parker’s brain-power!
BTW, Ms Parker took the train to Ventura County - from San Clemente, think she said!
You may know she is really a California girl!
I found Star Parker to be the same at this venue as you describe at yours.
Sounds like ‘The RIGHT View’ was great!
Recognize most of those ladies names - well didn’t know the one from Regnery. (Whatever happend to that dark-haired women from Regnery on FOX late at night - remember her??? Was her name Judith something - - - ) ?
Star has such an easy-breezy, dynamic delivery when she speaks.
The next morning, I e-mailed the Republican club officers, thanked them for their getting Ms Parker to speak here, and kidded about wondering if some of us should have gone and hung out with her at the hotel, so she wouldn’t be alone quite yet!
After all, we had had such a good time, and she signed every last purchased book, not looking at all like she was ready to leave!
Of course I was (sort of) kidding, actually assuming why wouldn’t she like to be alone after so many hours with us??!
But it was only about 9:30pm - early for a night-owl as myself!
W e l l, when the club president e-mailed back, she said she actually did spend almost an hour at the hotel with Ms Parker - just darn! I envy her, but happy for her at the same time!
Club president said she wishes she could get into and have some of Ms Parker’s brain-power!
BTW, Ms Parker took the train to Ventura County - from San Clemente, think she said!
You may know she is really a California girl!
Couldn’t he be her grandfather and not her father?
Russ was 48 when Amber was born.
So yeah, he’s old enough to be her grandfather. But he’s her father.
Grandsons.
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