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TINSELTOWN SPYWITNESS.


Byline: Elizabeth Snead

GETTING WITH THE PROGRAM: Free your mind. And, apparently, your closet. The cast of ``The Matrix Reloaded'' stuck to basic black-and-white at Wednesday night's premiere in Westwood.

Keanu Reeves was somber in a black Nehru jacket The Nehru jacket is a hip-length tailored coat for men or women, with a stand-up or "mandarin" collar, and modeled on the South Asian achkan or sherwani, an apparel worn by Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964. , shirt and pants. Jada Pinkett Smith Jada Koren Pinkett Smith (born September 18, 1971) is an American actress and singer. She is married to actor/rapper Will Smith. Biography
Early life
Jada was born September 18 Jada Koren Pinkett in Baltimore, Maryland to Robsol Pinkett, Jr.
 and Carrie-Anne Moss Carrie-Anne Moss (born August 21, 1967) is a Canadian actress best known for her role as Trinity in The Matrix trilogy. Biography
Early life
Moss was born in Burnaby, British Columbia. She has an older brother, Brooke.
 were also funereal fu·ne·re·al  
adj.
1. Of or relating to a funeral.

2. Appropriate for or suggestive of a funeral; mournful: funereal gloom.
: a black dress with a leather jacket (Zool.) A California carangoid fish (Oligoplites saurus).
A trigger fish (Balistes Carolinensis).

See also: Leather Leather
 and a sexy strappy gown, respectively. Even Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) went casually dark in an open-collar black shirt and slim trousers. Only Monica Bellucci Monica Anna Maria Bellucci (born September 30, 1964) is an Italian actress and former fashion model. Personal life
Bellucci was born in Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy, to Luigi Bellucci, who owned a trucking company, and Maria Gustinelli, a painter.
 added a hue, shimmering shim·mer  
intr.v. shim·mered, shim·mer·ing, shim·mers
1. To shine with a subdued flickering light. See Synonyms at flash.

2.
 in a snug pale mauve satin gown.

But it was Laurence Fishburne Laurence John Fishburne III[1] (born July 30 1961) is an American Academy Award-nominated, Emmy- and Tony Award-winning actor of screen and stage, as well as playwright, director, and producer.  and the film's dreadlocked albino albino (ălbī`nō) [Port.,=white], animal or plant lacking normal pigmentation. The absence of pigment is observed in the body covering (skin, hair, and feathers) and in the iris of the eye.  twins, Neal and Adrian Rayment, who brightened the black carpet with stunning cream-and-white Ozwald Boateng custom-made suits.

Boateng, who dressed Daniel Day-Lewis for the Oscars and the SAG awards (remember that cool purple suit?) had only a month to make 12 suits for the three actors for ``Reloaded'' premieres in L.A., 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
, Cannes and London.

Boateng is a close pal of Fishburne's and designed his wedding suit. It was at his wedding last year that Boateng met and bonded with the twins. ``I was like, Brits! Great! Those guys are absolutely amazing. They're like one person.'' His new menswear collection, available at his London Savile Row studio, Selfridges in London and Les Galeries Lafayette in Paris and soon in his new Manhattan shop, has a futuristic ``Matrix'' theme. But he's no newcomer to Hollywood. As well as dressing actors such as Sam Jackson, Graham Norton, Russell Crowe and Will Smith, he's also done custom suits for Anthony Hopkins in ``Hannibal,'' the British gangsters in Guy Ritchie's ``Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,'' and some bad guys in ``Tomorrow Never Dies.''

Now he's got his eye on Bond. James Bond. ``Traditionally Bond wears Savile Row suits,'' Boateng says. ``But Pierce (Brosnan) has been wearing Italian suits. We need to get him back to Savile Row. But I'm optimistic.''

The mood was more than optimistic for the film, as hundreds of fans screamed for the download of stars, including Sandra Bullock, Tori Spelling, Heidi Klum, Alyssa Milano, Katie Holmes, Jamie Kennedy, Amber Valetta and musicians like Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit. ``I think this one is going to raise the bar, as far as special effects and what we can do with cinema,'' said Durst, whose band contributed to the soundtrack.

Always a man of few words, Reeves expressed one simple Neo-like wish: ``I just hope the fans like it.''

ON THE PARTY CIRCUIT: OK, everybody, ready set, shop til you drop - a bundle.

Two chic Rodeo Drive designer stores, Ralph Lauren and Gucci, flung open their doors Thursday night for shopping binges, with percentages of the sales going to charities. Vanity Fair teamed up with Ralph Lauren to benefit Step Up Women's Action Network while Gucci celebrated the 20th anniversary of AIDS Project Los Angeles AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of people affected by HIV disease, reducing the incidence of HIV infection, and advocating for fair and effective HIV-related public policy. .

Starting the night off at Ralphie's: Step Up spokeswoman Jessica Capshaw, Jessica Alba and Scott Foley, still separated from his wife, Jennifer Garner. Foley looked very tanned and rested. A little too tanned and rested, if you know what we mean. Yeah, right. You're so over her. Also in Ralph's 'hood, shopping, supping and sipping: Joanna Cassidy (the slutty mom on HBO's ``Six Feet Under'') and Ivana Milicevic (the slutty co-worker on HBO's ``Mind of a Married Man''), who got the flashes popping with a revealing top that resembled a very large lace doily.

Some shoppers tried to hit all the high spots, like Ryan Haddon, Christian Slater's lovely wife, and Shiva Rose, Dylan McDermott's equally lovely wife, who popped up at the sleek black Gucci gathering for pale pink salmon pink salmon

Food fish (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, family Salmonidae) of the North Pacific that constitutes half of the commercial fishery of Pacific salmon. It weighs about 4.5 lbs (2 kg) and is marked with large, irregular spots. Pink salmon often spawn on tidal flats.
 snacks and caviar on tiny black potatoes.

For those with a sense of adventure (and a limo driver), there were two more fashion bashes to fit into the night's schedule.

Glamour magazine hosted their Do's and Don'ts party at a Shakey's Pizza in Santa Monica, which drew a decidedly diverse (you might even say strange) mix of celebs: Kimberly Stewart, Aimee Osbourne (you know, the one that didn't want TV fame but now keeps showing up at parties all over town), Michael Michele and Nicky Hilton (carrying a sporty leather bag from her new purse line), along with Bruce Willis, Owen Wilson, Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon. All we can say is don't ask.

The night's pit stop was the grand opening of the new Gina shoe store (in the old Ghost boutique) on Robertson Boulevard, perilously close to the white picket-porched Ivy, a famed celeb ce·leb  
n. Informal
A celebrity.
 hangout. Darryl Hannah made a small splash when she wandered in and sat on a shoe shelf, looking carefully disheveled in a denim slit mini, black punk boots and a Silver Lake T-shirt.

One-time supermodel Kristy Hume was spotted hanging out with her husband, actor/model Donovan Leitch, son of '60s folk singer Donovan.

And lots of super-powerful L.A. stylists, fashion seers Seers is the plural of Seer

Seers may refer to:
  • Dudley Seers (1920-1983), formerly a British economist
, scribes and glossy mag editors popped in to survey the new line of sexy colorful heels, sure to be a contender for the Jimmy Choo crown come Oscar season. And while they were there, hey, why not sip pretty? The hot bubbly beverage is the new Moet & Chandon champagne splits that come complete with snap-on plastic flutes instead of those tacky plastic straws.

Bottoms up!

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Photo:

(1) FISHBURNE: He looks Morpheus.

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(2) NEIL NEIL Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited
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, ADRIAN RAYMENT: Twin killing.

(3) MOSS, PINKETT SMITH, BELLUCCI: Enter the babes.

Lester Cohen/WireImage.com

(4) MILICEVIC: Shawl 'nuff.

Gregg DeGuire/WireImage.com

(5) ONO and LENNON: Give pizza a chance.

Donato Sardella/WireImage.com
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