SPOTTED: Bradley Cooper, who played a character with bipolar disorder in last year’s “Silver Linings Playbook,” at the White House Monday for a national conference on mental health hosted by President Obama and Vice President Biden.

The White House said Cooper was poised to deliver remarks Monday afternoon as part of the conference.

The actor, 38, has been speaking out about mental health awareness since taking on the Academy Award-nominated role.

The 27-year-old son of Sen. John McCain is now a married man.

The Arizona Republican was on-hand to toast his son, Jack, at the Navy lieutenant’s Saturday wedding in San Francisco.

Jack McCain took the plunge with Renee Swift, 29, a Bay Area native and a captain in the Air Force reserve.

The couple met in Guam, where they were both stationed.

The just-married pair will honeymoon in Africa, before the younger McCain returns to Guam for another deployment.

Jack McCain is the fifth of the lawmaker’s seven children.

Unlike Ashley Judd or Al Franken, don’t count on Woody Harrelson to be one of the entertainers who flirts with a political run.

The actor, who played real-life John McCain 2008 presidential campaign strategist Steve Schmidt in “Game Change,” tells the June/July issue of Details magazine that the role didn’t make him more sympathetic to Republicans.

“I like Steve Schmidt,” Harrelson says, “But I tend to not like politicians, because it’s a subtle form of prostitution. Or maybe not so subtle.”

No one can accuse Harrelson, on the other hand, of being subtle.

When asked if he dislikes Democrats as much as Republicans, he replies, “It's all synchronized swimming to me. They all kneel and kiss the ring. Who's going to take on the oil industry or the medical industry?”

A new (and rather morbid) report details lawmakers who have met their untimely deaths by or on trains. 

According to the University of Minnesota’s Smart Politics analysis, nearly two dozen former or then-sitting members of Congress have been killed after getting way too close to the choo-choo-chugging machines.

Over a 100-year period, from 1858 through 1957, 23 lawmakers died in or were killed by trains.

The report details the death of the first senator via train. It was curtains for former Sen. Robert Hanna, an Indiana Whig, when a train struck him as he was walking on the tracks in 1858.

Rep. Jared Polis made the cut on two exclusive lists recently, but seems to be pleased only by one of them.

The Colorado Democrat tweeted Friday:

Was surprised (also flattered) to find out I'm still on the list of 20 youngest members of the US House:nationaljournal.com/congress/the-2…

— Jared Polis (@jaredpolis) May 31, 2013

The congressman, 36, was featured on National Journal’s “20 Youngest Members of Congress” list along with a bevy of youthful lawmakers, including 30-year-old Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) and 32-year-old Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.), among others.

But just moments later, Polis, a prolific Twitter user, posted another message on the site:

Was surprised (also NOT flattered) to find out I'm on the list of 23 most important comb-overs in Congress:buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/2…

— Jared Polis (@jaredpolis) May 31, 2013

She’s already played a fictional American president, but Geena Davis says she’s really aiming to step into the role of a real-life former first lady.

“I’ve long wanted to play Eleanor Roosevelt,” the “Commander in Chief” star told Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) when she sat down with the congresswoman on Wednesday for the Motion Picture Association of America’s (MPAA) “Evening With…” series.

Davis, a former model, said she wouldn’t have much trouble slipping into the role, since like former President Franklin Roosevelt’s spouse, she’s very tall.

“It’s been difficult to find somebody to write the exact right story about it that would be very arresting,” Davis said.

Hanabusa says Memorial Day has lost meaning since Congress pegged it to last Monday in May.

Rob Lowe is slated to play former President Kennedy in a television movie based on a book by Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard.

The “West Wing” alum will portray the late commander in chief in “Killing Kennedy,” which is poised to debut on the National Geographic channel later this year, according to Variety.

The made-for-TV flick is timed to hit airwaves around the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s death on Nov. 22.

“Big Love” actress Ginnifer Goodwin has reportedly been tapped for the role of first lady Jacqueline Kennedy. “Gossip Girl” star Michelle Trachtenberg will play Marina Oswald, the widow of Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

First lady Michelle Obama urged donors to “max out” their contributions at a pair of posh Manhattan fundraisers for the Democratic National Committee on Wednesday night.

“We need you to keep on writin' those checks!,” she said, according to a pool report of one of the events. “And if you haven't maxed out, you know what's my motto: Max out! Let's say it again, max out! And if you've maxed out, get your friends to give and max out!”

The first fundraiser was at the Park Avenue private residence of clothing designer Tory Burch on the East side of Manhattan. About 100 people paid between $5,000 to $25,000 for the event. The second event was an LGBT Gala, where approximately 350 people paid up to $32,400 to see the first lady speak.

Actress Julianne Moore, designer Vera Wang, and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour were among those in attendance. Read more...