South Park” cartoon creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone were guests of The Denver Post at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C.
“We were trying to think of celebrities we could invite with Colorado connections,” says Denver Post Washington bureau reporter Mike Soraghan. “We gave their agent a call, and for some reason they said yes.”
And the boys had some fun, spending most of the evening telling GOP bigwigs they were setting up a think tank.
Stone particularly wanted to meet Fed chairman Alan Greenspan. Stone confided that his dad was an economist, so he finds “the tones of Greenspan talking economics strangely soothing.”
As for Laura Bush’s speech, which brought down the house, Stone said, “She’s got spunk!”
Stone and Parker were at home at the dinner. They’re the new darlings of the right, as N.Y. Times columnist Frank Rich pointed out in his Sunday editorial, “Conservatives ‘South Park.”‘
Blowing town
Former Ch. 9 sports anchor Tony Zarrella still won’t say why he was suddenly fired by the station in the middle of May sweeps last year – but he’s moving on.
He leaves today for San Francisco, where he will attend law school in the fall.
“It’s something I thought about long before anything went down at Ch. 9,” he said. “I had been losing my affection for the TV business. I don’t know what I’m going to do with (a law degree); I’ve just always been interested in it.”
Zarrella has been “hanging out” in Littleton for the past year, taking his LSATs and applying to colleges, including Harvard. Now, he says, he’s ready to get back to work and back to school, at 41. cq
He is suing Ch. 9; the trial is scheduled to start in December. “I don’t know what I can or should say,” said Zarrella. “A lot will come out in the trial. I wasn’t the bad guy here.”
Car toys!
Catch Westminster’s Angie Green on “Letterman” Friday night. Her Stupid Human Trick is sounding like a car alarm. Trust me. It’s quite impressive.
She taped the show Monday in NYC. “(Letterman) really liked it,” she told me. “He kidded around. He’s really funny. He can think of things right off the top of his head, for sure.”
City spirit
I wrote here Tuesday that local writer Andrea Bankoff dined with financier Teddy Forstmann and Architectural Digest editor Paige Rense last month at Prima. Forstmann and Rense beg to differ. Through their assistants, they insist they were not at a dinner in Colorado and are not acquainted with Bankoff … Fore! Records show golfer David Duval and wife Suzanne just bought a $5.8 million cq house in Cherry Hills … Friday’s the last night for Manhattan Grill. It reopens as Steak au Poivre in a few weeks, helmed by Marco Colantonio … The 2005-2006 Post-News Pen & Podium Series includes Alexander McCall Smith, Sept. 21; Suzan-Lori Parks, Nov. 14; Michael Cunningham, Feb. 20; Alice Sebold, March 21 … Possums! Dame Edna returns to the Buell with “Back With a Vengeance” Jan. 17-29 … Sez who: “There are days when it takes all you’ve got just to keep up with the losers.” Robert Orben
Bill Husted’s column appears Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Husted also appears on Fox 31 News at 9. You can reach him at 303-820-1486 or at bhusted@denverpost.com.
