It's Washington's biggest party weekend. Can anyone see the stars?
As guests scanned the room at a Friday party hosted by United Talent Agency, a mainstay of the White House correspondents' dinner weekend, their eyes eventually — finally — fell upon a famous face.
'From 'The White Lotus'!!!' screamed a woman in a blunt-cut black bob.
She was ecstatic to see Jason Isaacs, who played the pill-swallowing pater familias of a wealthy Southern family, haunted by legal trouble and frequently zonked out in the latest season of the show. He was standing by the wine bar at the back of Osteria Mozza chatting and taking selfies in a dark shirt and dark jacket — once again a guest in a decadent setting, this time playing himself (alert, English-accented).
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