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Celebrities: They care

Maguire_5 Brinkley_4 Spiderman, Zoolander and Mr. Spock went for Barack Obama, but Hillary Clinton can count on Hugh Hefner and Marla Maples. That's the news from the freshest presidential campaign reports, which show a long list of Hollywood donors to seven major candidates.

A few contributors sat on the fence, such as Steven Spielberg, who donated to both Clinton and Obama. The Illinois senator seemed to attract a hipper crowd than the New York senator, whose celebrity stable looks straight out of a Trousdale Estates cocktail party, circa 1986.

Here's the list, culled from The Hill and the New York Post:

  • Clinton: Candice Bergen, Christie Brinkley (pictured), Chevy Chase, Hugh Hefner, Christine Lahti, Barry Manilow, Rob Reiner, Marla Maples, Rosie O'Donnell, Jerry Springer, Elizabeth Taylor, Steven Spielberg, Timbaland, Barbra Streisand.
  • Sethgreen_2 Obama: Jennifer Aniston, Steven Spielberg, Jackson Browne, Morgan Freeman, Tom Hanks, Dennis Haysbert, Tobey Maguire (pictured above), Zach Braff, Angela Bassett, Barry Manilow, Branford Marsalis, Eddie Murphy, Ed Norton, Ben Stiller, Gene Wilder, Leonard Nimoy.
  • Christopher Dodd: Edie Brickell, Michael Douglas, Steve Martin, Lorne Michaels, Paul Newman, Elisabeth Shue, Paul Simon, Joanne Woodward.
  • John Edwards: Larry David, Seth Green (pictured), Don Henley.
  • Dennis Kucinich: Mark Ruffalo
  • Bill Richardson: Michael Douglas, Rosie O'Donnell, Rob Reiner
  • Rudy Giuliani: Kelsey Grammer, John O’Hurley, Adam Sandler, Ben Stein.

Seth Green?

Anyway, hat-tip to Wilshire & Washington, which also featured this item: "Christophe, Deja Vu?: According to The Politico, the Edwards campaign paid $400 for a haircut at Beverly Hills-based Torrenueva Hair Designs on Feb. 20 and another $400 on March 7."

(Photos: Ed Betz/AP; Franck Robichon/EPA; Charley Gallay/Getty Images)

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Robert Salladay
Robert Salladay has covered California governors and state politics for 10 years. He has worked for the Oakland Tribune, the San Francisco Examiner, and the Capitol bureaus of the S.F. Chronicle and L.A. Times. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley in history and Northwestern University in journalism. He covered the election of Gray Davis (twice), the 2000 Florida presidential recount, the 2003 recall and the Schwarzenegger administration. A native of Sacramento, he has lived in San Francisco, Oakland, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Chesapeake, Va.