Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo schmoozed with New York celebs on Friday night, days before facing a likely less hospitable Republican-led Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.
Spies told that Cuomo was spotted at a dinner at the hip and glamourous Chelsea Hotel on Friday night at an annual private VIP dinner for the Tribeca Festival — along with attendees including fest co-founder Robert De Niro, “The View” host Whoopi Goldberg, “Ripley” star Dakota Fanning and former “Dawson’s Creek” star Katie Holmes.
Also at the power gathering was MTV co-founder John Sykes and other business bigwigs. The group dined on “dined on “fillet mignon and roasted chicken,” we hear.
The Tribeca fest this year includes documentaries on Roger Federer, Diane von Furstenberg, Elizabeth Taylor, “South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker and the famous 1980s “Brat Pack,” as well as movies starring Michael Cera and Kristen Stewart, Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn, and a big De Niro retrospective called “De Niro Con.”
A spy told us that Tribeca Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal, “addressed the assembled glitterati speaking passionately about Tribeca’s roots, how it was founded in the wake of the horrific terror attacks of 9/11 [and] is going strong 20-plus years later.”
The producer of hit De Niro films including “Meet the Parents” and “Analyze This” also told the crowd about the “ongoing imperative of the arts in storytelling and recovery.”
De Niro has previously said he’d want to play Cuomo in a movie about the pandemic, and Cuomo attended the star’s 80th birthday party last year at the star’s Greenwich Hotel, we reported.
Goldberg has been a Cuomo supporter, and appeared at a 2020 fundraiser for the former New York pol in 2020, with De Niro’s “Meet the Parents” co-star Ben Stiller and Rosie Perez.
There has been buzz that Cuomo could launch a political…
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