Bush tries to heal the rift with Hollywood; Hours lunch with Jane Fonda

President Bush, by a decline in his approval ratings, decided a frontal assault on Hollywood, a bastion of the reviews, make his disapproval by scheduling her lunch with a longer-lasting defence spokesman, Jane Fonda.

Mr. Bush said: "look at the meeting with Mr Fonda." It has so many outrageous things, told me over the years, it is a true joy to break bread, as if it were. "If I get intact by lunch, schedule I, to the next person on my list visitor to Barbra Streisand."

Invitees were careful, at least in its public reaction to the Overture.

Ms. Streisand joked, in the manner typically underestimated, "I see the entry for my dinner, lunch, but I have to sing?"

Robert Redford, another of the guests, said: "well, if you ask me, the whole thing is a Sundance rather smooth." "He is a former oilman and went out only against oil".

Mrs Fonda was, not surprisingly, noisy. "I have a lot of things I want to say to the President, but not during lunch." I would be thrilled to swallow without choking. He had the chance, would perform maneuvers and Himelick in addition to the fact that bear his touch, he would have to brag that, while he was undecided for a moment, went ahead and get saved my life. "I'm not sure I'm ready."

The President remained optimistic despite the first signs.

"You know that the people of Hollywood," he said. "they are not all Republicans."