If Wednes­day was “Attack Night”, then Thurs­day looks to be The Night of a Thou­sand Stars.

CNN is report­ing that actresses Scar­lett Johansen, Natalie Port­man, and Kerry Wash­ing­ton will appear together on stage dur­ing the final night of the 2012 Demo­c­ra­tic National Con­ven­tion from Char­lotte, North Carolina.

Oh, and there’s a Vice Pres­i­dent and Pres­i­dent sched­uled to speak, as well.

Though orig­i­nally planned for the Bank of Amer­ica Sta­dium, which hosts the Car­olina Pan­thers (who played their open­ing game yes­ter­day because of the con­flict), fore­casts of severe thun­der­storms have resulted in a weather-​​related change for the Democ­rats. The events of this evening will be held at the much smaller, but indoor, Time Warner Cable Arena instead. It is a smaller change than that caused by Hur­ri­cane Isaac, but nonethe­less a dis­ap­point­ment for the many Obama reëlec­tion vol­un­teers who were offered the oppor­tu­nity to see tonight’s fes­tiv­i­ties in person.

Natalie Port­man: Neu­ro­sci­en­tist, Oscar win­ner, Democrat…although not nec­es­sar­ily in that order.

The New York Times reports:

Vice Pres­i­dent Joseph R. Biden Jr. will appear before the hall on Thurs­day night around 9:30 p.m., right before his boss, and will offer up a tes­ti­mo­nial on the Obama years, offi­cials said. Finally, around 10 p.m., will come the pres­i­dent himself.

My only per­sonal inter­est in see­ing Ms. Port­man (neé Her­schlag) is of course her pub­li­ca­tion record in devel­op­men­tal neu­ro­science from her Har­vard days. Or per­haps the attrac­tion is the cog­ni­tive dis­so­nance of hav­ing Evey from V for Vendetta appear at a polit­i­cal event with­out (pre­sum­ably) caus­ing mayhem.

Kerry Wash­ing­ton, one of the stars of the aptly-​​named Scan­dal, has report­edly been banned from the White House, for the high crime and mis­de­meanor of “flirt­ing with the Pres­i­dent”, by a jeal­ous Michelle Obama. If that par­tic­u­lar piece of float­ing celebrity gos­sip dreck is true, then the ban clearly does not extend to a stage occu­pied by the President.

The Demo­c­ra­tic National Com­mit­tee has played this year’s daily sched­ule very close to the vest. Once the DNC releases the sched­ule, I’ll post the Thurs­day night sched­ule after the jump.

These are the speak­ers slated to appear:

  • John Kerry (Senior Sen­a­tor for Massachusetts)
  • Tammy Bald­win (U.S. Rep­re­sen­ta­tive for Wisconsin’s 2nd con­gres­sional district)
  • Char­lie Crist (For­mer Gov­er­nor of Florida)
  • San­dra Fluke (George­town Law School Graduate)
  • Jen­nifer Granholm (For­mer Michi­gan Governor)
  • John Hick­en­looper (Gov­er­nor of Colorado)
  • Denise Juneau (State Super­in­ten­dent of Pub­lic Instruc­tion, Montana)
  • Car­o­line Kennedy (Author and daugh­ter of the late Pres­i­dent John F. Kennedy)
  • Austin Ligon (Co-​​founder and for­mer CEO of Carl­max, the country’s largest used-​​car retailer)
  • Eva Lon­go­ria (Actress, and Co-​​Chair of Obama 2012 Campaign)
  • Dan­nel Mal­loy (Gov­er­nor of Connecticut)
  • Michael Nut­ter (Mayor of Philadelphia)
  • Bar­bara Mikul­ski (U.S. Sen­a­tor of Mary­land, the longest-​​serving female sen­a­tor and the longest-​​serving woman in the his­tory of the U.S. Congress)
  • Annise Parker (Mayor of Houston)
  • Cecile Richards (Pres­i­dent of Planned Par­ent­hood Action Fund)
  • Cristina Sar­alegui (Cuban-​​American busi­ness­woman, talk show host and journalist)
  • Brian Schweitzer (Gov­er­nor of Montana)
  • Jim Sine­gal (Co-​​founder and for­mer CEO of Costco, one of the largest retail stores in the world)
  • Joe Biden, Vice-​​President of the United States
  • Barack Obama, Pres­i­dent of the United States

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