WE WERE JUST LEAVING McCains, Stone (inset) (Photo: Getty Images)

While reporters patiently waited on the red carpet at Manhattan’s Ziegfeld Theatre for the premiere of Oliver Stone‘s anti-Bush film W. Tuesday night, they were treated to an unlikely surprise: John McCain leaving his hotel across the street. With Cindy McCain waving excitedly to everyone staring at her in the back of her Suburban, the irony wasn’t lost on Stone.