Attending the unveiling of Frank Underwood's presidential portrait.
On February 22, Andrea Mitchell, Alan Greenspan, Valerie Jarrett, and other members of the Washington, D.C., glitterati gathered beneath the undulating skylight of the National Portrait Gallery on golden catering chairs to witness the unveiling of an “official portrait” of President Francis J. Underwood. As in the president on the binge-casted Net flix series House of Cards, which has just uncorked its fourth season (the occasion for the unveiling). The show has become Washington’s favorite glamorously sinister dramatization of a story people there tell themselves about its amoral inner life and what it takes to make it to the top. House of Cards focuses on the conniving Underwood (Kevin Spacey); his wife and increasingly restless co- conspirator, Claire (Robin Wright); and, certainly by season three, Doug Stamper, Underwood’s emotionally stunted, implacably loyal, blankfaced chief of staff, portrayed by Michael Kelly as the perfect henchman: He not only knows where the bodies are buried but has in fact buried at least one himself.
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