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Sanjaya Malakar, the shy, slender, 17-year-old "American Idol" reject, was at his table when a tall, middle-aged man stopped by to ask for an autograph. The boy's hosts, from People magazine, tried to shoo him away.



"We are trying to let him eat," they explained.



The man protested: "But I'm the governor of New York."

(Spitzer, in turn, made a point of stopping by Sanjaya's table to get the 17-year-old's autograph.)



Whether one is a fan of Sanjaya Malakar’s singing or not, one certainly has to admire the way that this seventeen year old singer has handled the media spotlight with poise and wisdom far beyond his years. Considering everything that was being said about him, Sanjaya could easily have buckled under the pressure, and no one would probably have blamed him.



The annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner is the perfect marriage of class and trash. Where else do you find the President of the United States in the same room with the latest cultural tsunami ("American Idol'' Sanjaya) and a supermodel tsunami survivor (Petra Nemcova), a Mormon presidential candidate (Mitt Romney) and that guy who plays a Mormon on TV (Bill Paxton of HBO's "Big Love.''? Where else do you find people actually making curtsies to Helen Thomas, the queen mother of the Washington press corps and Karl Rove getting freaked and saying "Don't touch me!'' when touched by...Sheryl Crowe? (OK she wanted to talk about global warming).