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Update 10:20am Eastern. Fox has been reporting the last 20 minutes that Hugo will be sitting out the U.N. meetings this week. Maybe all that sulfur he complained about last year is keeping him away.

Or maybe he’s run out of Chomsky books to pimp. Remember?

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The celebrity love affair with Venezuela’s thug-in-chief continues. Sean Penn. Danny Glover.

Now, Kevin Spacey:

Actor Kevin Spacey met privately Monday with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, one of Washington’s most outspoken critics in Latin America.

Neither Spacey — who has won Academy Awards for roles in “The Usual Suspects” and “American Beauty” — nor Chavez spoke to the press after the nearly three-hour encounter in the presidential palace in Caracas. They shook hands warmly on the red carpet as Spacey left after a dinner with Chavez.

Nearly three hours?

Somehow, I doubt this came up. Or this. Or this.