Even Hollywood seems less impressed with Barack Obama this time around. The Hollywood Reporter forwarded the news Wednesday that Nicole Avant, named ambassador to the Bahamas by Obama after her fundraising for his 2008 campaign, is coming back to La La Land “in the hopes of patching up the incumbent president’s battered relationship with the entertainment industry.”
Avant is the daughter of Clarence Avant, a Democratic fundraiser and longtime soul music executive who founded Tabu Records in the 1980s and ran Motown Records in the Clinton years. Sources said Nicole would be one of Obama’s top liaisons in Hollywood for the re-election effort, and she has some fences to mend:
These sources characterize the relationship between the Obama administration and Hollywood as tense and troubled, even though all of the president’s fundraisers in town have sold out and have been attended by a diverse array of industry leaders.
Hollywood activists believe Obama has given their causes short shrift since moving into the White House. Making matters worse, some of Obama’s top money givers have felt ignored and disregarded — except for when the president needed campaign contributions.
