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Reefer madness

"I don't smoke weed on set all day. I just want to say that, you know, not all day. After lunch you get tired!" joked Seth Rogen, the star and screenwriter of "Pineapple Express," his funny new comedy, opening Wednesday, that's all about two stoner dudes and their hilarious adventures.

You'd never know that there wasn't pot being smoked at the massive outdoor after-party, held in a double parking lot in Westwood, after the film unspooled to raucous (and sustained) laughter at the Mann Village Theater -- except for all the real cops on duty all around, which put a damper on that activity. For there was a 420 lounge set up, with couches and hookah pipes at the ready (blueberry-flavored tobacco took the place of reefer in those), and bricks of "marijuana" and pot symbols decorated the jam-packed space.

And whether the heavy hitters who came out for Rogen's latest showed up for the jokes or the pot party was hard to say, but come they did. A hairless Jim Carrey brought Jenny McCarthy, Daniel Craig looked very James Bond-like in a three-piece suit and hung on to gorgeous gal-pal Satsuki Mitchell, Kanye West came solo, and Rogen's hilarious (who knew!) co-star James Franco escorted actress Ahna O'Reilly.

Judd Apatow, the film's producer, who has had the Midas touch lately, came with his wife, Leslie Mann, and Alicia Silverstone made the scene with hubby Christopher Jarecki. We spotted more funny people in the grinning crowd, from Jack Black to Debi Mazar, Jonah Hill, Jane Lynch, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Amanda Peet, to the rest of the happy "Pineapple Express" cast, including Rosie Perez, Gary Cole, Ed Begley Jr., Amber Heard and James Franco, and director David Gordon Green.

The only bummer about the night was the stoner food they served at the party -- why anyone would want to eat pigs in blankets unless they were really high is a complete mystery.

Read an interview with Franco and Rogen in Sunday's LA.COM.

>Jenny Peters/Spywitness

Music to their eyes

It was all about the guitar on Wednesday night -- except when Stevie Wonder took to the stage at the newly revamped Sunset Marquis Hotel and Villas and banged out two songs on the piano in exchange for a hefty check ($10,000) offered up to his charity by the hotel's owner, George Rosenthal.

"Gibson Through the Lens" was the point of the party, an incredible photo exhibit hung throughout the hotel's pretty gardens and brand-new villas that focuses on the Gibson guitar and the rock stars that love those axes. Billy Morrison of Camp Freddy fame joined "Almost Famous" director Cameron Crowe in checking out the 70 pics of Elvis, Bruce, Slash, Bowie, B.B. and the other iconic musicians memorialized with their Gibsons.

Familiar tunesmiths were everywhere you looked, from ZZ Top's still-bushy-bearded Billy Gibbons, who joined John Hall (of Hall and Oates fame) for a set on the makeshift stage set up in front of the pool, to Zakk Wylde (of Ozzy Osbourne fame) dodging the fanboy autograph seekers gathered at the bottlenecked valet stand. Klaus Meine and Rudolf Schenker of The Scorpions hung out all night, while "Desperate Housewives" star James Denton, he of "The Band From TV," looked like he wished he'd brought his own guitar. Actors Justine Bateman, Bill Mumy and Shayne Lamas stayed late in hopes of the promised appearance of guitar god Jeff Beck, but to no avail.

As actor Steve Valentine quipped, "You never know with rockers. Sometimes they lose track of time when the music calls!"

>Jenny Peters/Spywitness

Let the X Games begin

As X Games 14 rolled into town for this weekend's competition at the Staples Center and the Home Depot Center, parties rolled into town, too. Wednesday night's kickoff bash at the Key Club on Sunset was sponsored by Oakley; maybe those free shades being handed out to VIPs were what caused the fire marshals to curtail entries by 11 p.m.?

Luckily, most of the actors, athletes and Games competitors were already inside by then, jamming to the sounds of Lil Jon, T-Pain, and Eclectic Method and sucking on canisters of Oxygen Plus, the 90 percent pure oxygen being handed out in the VIP dungeon downstairs.

A bevy of beauties -- Christina Milian, Sophie Monk, Adrienne Frantz, Edyta Sliwinska and Nikki Dubose -- competed with a herd of handsome guys in the usual Hollywood party best-looking showcase; depending on your perspective, male models Kehoe, Paul Vandervort and Maurice Townsell, and hot actors Hill Harper, Emrhys Cooper, James Kyson Lee and John Hensley just might have been the winners.

But the fete was really all about the athletes, the X Games dudes and dudettes. Skateboarders/snowboarders Colby West, Fabrizio Santos and Ryan Sheckler checked out their female counterparts (Lin-Z Adams Hawkins and Chantelle Sladics), while everyone wondered what Barry Bonds was doing at the celebration. Perhaps he's looking for a new sport, now that pro baseball has let him (and his steroid-use scandal) go?

>J.P.

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(1 -- color) Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy

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(2) Christina Milian and Ryan Scheckler

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(3) Stevie Wonder

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(4 -- color) Seth Rogen