Why do some revelers feel the need to crash a party?
Romeo might still be alive if he had not crashed a masquerade ball, met Juliet and fallen in love. And look what happened last week to Tareq and Michaele Salahi, who crashed President Obama’s first state dinner. The infamous couple who opened their private lives to criticism and ridicule now face public condemnation. It doesn’t pay to party crash. Or, does it? “Assuming we’re not talking about something more sinister, most crashers simply want to be able to say they did it, and to get close to celebrities and bask in that reflected glory,” stated Lisa Hurley, editor of Special Events magazine, based in Pacific Palisades, Calif. “This certainly seems to be the case with the Salahi incident, though it seems they are also trying to make it pay!” said Hurley, in an e-mail interview. “When the movie ‘Wedding Crashers’ came out in 2005, we saw a spate of people trying to crash any old wedding, but that trend has faded. Thank goodness!” For now. The Washington incident has focused renewed int
