TINSELTOWN SPYWITNESS.Byline: Joel Stratte-McClure POLITICAL PARTYING: "This beats any party I've been to in Washington," said Al Gore Noun 1. Al Gore - Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948) Albert Gore Jr., Gore when he arrived at the Governors Ball atop Hollywood & Highland immediately after the Academy Awards. The gigantic Grand Ballroom was transformed into a romantic labyrinth of flower-and-vine decorated pergolas amid a Tuscan decor that imitated al fresco buffet dining. Gore, who hung out near the seafood and sushi stations in the foyer, loved the "organic and hormone-free" Wolfgang Puck Wolfgang Johann Puck (born Wolfgang Johann Topfschnig on July 8, 1949) is an Austrian-American celebrity chef, restaurateur, and businessman based in Los Angeles. cuisine and laid-back atmosphere. He hobnobbed with Jack Valenti and gave bear hugs to Melissa Etheridge and director Davis Guggenheim, who both picked up Oscars for "An Inconvenient Truth." The erstwhile presidential candidate also revealed that he had planned to make an important announcement before the orchestra cut him off during the awards. "That was an upsetting and very inconvenient orchestral interruption," Gore, his head bowed, quietly admitted. "Now the moment has passed." The non-candidate, whose daughter Karina came up with the idea of musical interruptus, watched wife Tipper dance with Lawrence Bender and congratulated other Oscar winners, including Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker. The two best-actor favorites were overjoyed o·ver·joy tr.v. o·ver·joyed, o·ver·joy·ing, o·ver·joys To fill with joy; delight. o to fete the end of an awards season that's kept them busy for months. "I'm going to party tonight and then sit back and admire my wife, Keisha, for a few days," said Whitaker. "I want to thank everyone, including the customs agent at LAX the other day, for telling me that I deserved the Oscar," said Mirren. "I couldn't have continued without their support." Jennifer Hudson Jennifer Kate Hudson (born September 12, 1981) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and singer. She first gained notice as one of the finalists on the third season of the FOX television series American Idol. and Alan Arkin were still in shock. "My brain and I are somewhere else tonight," admitted Arkin. "I still can't believe any of this is happening to me," said Hudson, as she did biceps exercises with her statuette. But Ari Sandel, the USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. film school graduate from Calabasas whose film "West Bank Story" picked up the live action short Oscar, had a plan: "This is still very surreal, but I'm going to hang out with my mom, meet as many people as I can and continue to the Vanity Fair party." He wasn't the only winner/celeb at an incredibly packed Morton's restaurant on Melrose in West Hollywood West Hollywood A community of southern California northeast of Beverly Hills. It is mainly residential. Population: 36,600. where a 30-by-10-foot VANITY FAIR sign in topiary topiary Art of training living trees and shrubs into artificial, decorative shapes. Topiary is known to have been practiced in the 1st century AD. The earliest topiary was probably the simple development of edgings, cones, columns, and spires to accent a garden scene. lettering let everyone know who was giving out the hottest tickets in town. Scorsese, Mirren, Whitaker, Hudson, Etheridge, Gore, Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Noam Baron Cohen[1] (born 13 October, 1971) is an English comedian, writer and actor most noted for his comic characters Borat (a Kazakh reporter), Ali G (a junglist-hip hop gangsta wannabe , Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, Ellen DeGeneres, Celine Dion, Kirk Douglas, Ryan Gosling, Elton John, Nicole Kidman, Rinko Kikuchi, Madonna, William Monahan, Peter O'Toole, Will Smith, Sharon Stone, Meryl Streep, Naomi Watts, Kate Winslet and Oprah Winfrey were among the guests snapping up custom-made Zippo lighters engraved en·grave tr.v. en·graved, en·grav·ing, en·graves 1. To carve, cut, or etch into a material: engraved the champion's name on the trophy. 2. with "VF 2.25.07." "I'm not looking too far ahead," said Scorsese. "I just want to see the sun come up tomorrow." Stone and John dropped in after the Elton John Foundation party at the nearby Pacific Design Center raised a record $4.2 million for the fight against HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome . John performed with James Blunt before a crowd that included Keifer Sutherland, Simon Cowell, Victoria Beckham, Gloria Estefan, Sean Diddy Combs and Marlee Matlin. "I'd like Elton to be my piano player when we go on tour," said Blunt. Stone may win the award for bringing in the most money on Oscar night. She auctioned the "Sir Elton John's 60th Birthday Celebration Weekend" package to two bidders who each paid $250,000 to attend John's upcoming birthday party in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . And, yes, that includes concert tickets, air fare and accommodation for two couples. Who else did well? "I've got one friend who bet $10,000 on my film and won $65,000," said Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Florian Maria Georg Christian Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck (b. May 2 1973, Cologne) is an Academy Award-winning German director and screenwriter. Personal life He grew up in New York, Brussels, Frankfurt and West Berlin and speaks English, German, French, Russian and , whose "The Lives of Others" beat favorite "Pan's Labyrinth" for best foreign language film. Maybe he'll donate the profits to the Elton John Foundation or Al Gore's non-campaign. CAPTION(S): 5 photos Photo: (1 -- color) WHITAKER and ARKIN: Oscar winners get a good grip on their gold Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com (3 -- color) Al and Tipper GORE: "Truth" squad Danny Moloshok/Associated Press (2 -- color) CRUISE and HOLMES: TomKat comes out to play at the Vanity Fair bash (4 -- color) SANDEL: He's taking the Oscar home to Calabasas (5 -- color) HUDSON: Getting all kissy with her new idol Mark Mainz/Getty Images |
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