The New York Times tell me something I didn't know about one of the now-departed giants of journalism:

The White House Correspondents Association dinner, long considered the Academy Awards of exclusive Washington galas, will be more Hollywood than ever this May 1. The guests scheduled to attend include Drew Barrymore, Meg Ryan, Ben Affleck, Anna Kournikova, Mary-Louise Parker, Drew Carey and George Clooney.

The celebrification of the dinner officially began in 1987 when the late Michael Kelly, then a reporter for The Baltimore Sun, mischievously invited Fawn Hall, Oliver L. North's document-shredding secretary, as his date.

Yes, we all miss his deep moral seriousness, don't we?