AND THAT’S A RAPBY JANET DONOVANWhether it was Diddy and Jay- Z partying with Radio One or Tim Russert and Norah O’Donnell getting newsy at the Watergate, Washington has been awash with celebrities recently. View from the top There’s really no place for Cathy Hughes to go these days, but she’ll think of something. Already at the pinnacle of radio broadcasting success, the feisty founder of Radio One — which celebrated its 25th anniversary with a party at the J.W. Marriot on August 17th — has had more lives than your typical cat. What do people like best about her? “She’s always been concerned about the community and her people,” said Dorothy Height. Radio Host Tom Joyner remarked, “She’s such a genuine person and allows people to be who they are. She’s a little bit crazy, but so am I.” Go-Go creator Chuck Brown reminisced, saying, “We go back to the late ’60s. Ms. Hughes has always supported us.” Better late than never If you wanted a private tour of The National Zoo, you could have had one if you were “on the list” for the sassy soiree held at the Indian Embassy for members of The National Press Club on India’s National Day. Guests were bused from the zoo’s parking lot to the residence of Ambassador Ronen and Kalpana Sen, who were enamored hosts; unusual since journalists don’t get much respect these days. The late comedian Rodney Dangerfield would’ve loved it. “This evening is basically dedicated to journalists of all countries and the role they are playing to promote democracy and freedom. On this occasion I salute you,” remarked Amb. Sen.Raminder Singh Jassal, deputy chief of mission, added, “One thing we have in common in both India and The United States is the fact that we have a very strong, very independent, some would even say very opinionated press, and we like it that way.” Follow me Why bother doing a book or film Osama bin Laden? “In my view, certain individuals have changed history,” says Bergen, co-producer of CNN’s In the Footsteps of bin Laden, partially based on his book Osama bin Laden I Know. “You can’t explain Holocaust without Hitler. You can’t explain the French were in Moscow in 1812 without Napoleon. And, it’s really impossible to explain Qaeda without reference to bin Laden.” But where is Osama bin Laden? This, of course, was on the minds of everyone at CNN's party at the Cosmos Club, where the intellectual Fahrenheit of combined guests puts global warming to shame. Attending were CNN brass Jon Klein and David Bohrman, CNN on-air talent Suzanne Malveaux and Barbara Star, Newsweek's Eleanor Clift, The Ashcroft Group's Juleanna Glover Weiss, U.S. News & World Report's David Kaplan and Chitra Ragavan and The Nation's Marvin Leibstone. Buzz of the night: “Wondering if we are going to find him before November.” Read into that what you will. The Art of the Deal There they go again: broadcast, dotcom and print, all getting into the team spirit. This time it was NBC News, MSNBC. com and The National Journal getting hitched and bundled up for political news. Sounds like a prelude to group therapy. The union was marked by a party at the Watergate on September 7th.
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