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Vanity Fair: Madonna celebrates with Oscar winner Forest Whitaker at 2007's famed Vanity Fair Oscar party, cancelled in '08 only to see the strike cool down and the show heat up.
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How Oscar partiesThe strike is off and the Oscar galas, bashes and shindigs are on! We eavesdrop on the party hotline and share the latest with you.
VANITY FAIR'S cancellation of its legendary Oscar party dramatically changes the landscape of Hollywood's most glamorous evening for the first time in years.
When editor Graydon Carter threw his first Academy Awards viewing and post-party at Morton's in 1994, he wanted to inherit the über-hosting mantle of the late talent agent Swifty Lazar. Instead, he did Swifty one better -- Carter practically eliminated the competition. Vanity Fair has been such a magnet for A-listers that studios don't even bother to compete anymore and throw pre-Oscar parties instead. But this year, the 15-week writers strike quashed Vanity Fair's plans to celebrate the 80th annual Academy Awards on Sunday. Other high-powered Oscar parties that have been canceled include William Morris honcho Ed Limato's Friday-night-before, the Entertainment Weekly party, Hollywood hostess Dani Janssen's private awards evening festivities, and Diane von Furstenberg and Barry Diller's pre-Oscar lunch at their Coldwater Canyon home. That leaves the adjoining Governors Ball, of course, which will feature a multi-leveled floor for bird's-eye A-list spotting. But Hollywood's who's-who won't stay there long, leaving the Elton John AIDS Foundation bash at the Pacific Design Center the clear winner for Oscar-night cachet. Last year, John's viewing dinner party was scaled down to a relatively restrained 600. This year, it may be hard to turn away the masses clutching little gold men. Here are other festivities on tap. A toast to the kids What: Children Uniting Nations and Billboard magazine's 9th annual awards celebration Where: Beverly Hilton Hotel When: Oscar viewing and post-award party Who will be there: Stephen Dorff, Tracey Edmonds, Radha Mitchell, Esai Morales, Jane Seymour and Wilmer Valderrama Spotlight: This is the music industry's Oscar bash, so that can only mean one thing: a rockin' post-award concert. Organizers are tight-lipped about which "top recording artists" to expect but last year brought out an eclectic mix that included L'il Kim, Lili Haydn, DMC, Tyler Hilton and "American Idol" winner Reuben Studdard. Rocket Man's blast What: Elton John AIDS Foundation's 16th annual Oscar party Where: Pacific Design Center courtyard When: Oscar viewing and post-party Who: Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, Jeffrey and Marilyn Katzenberg, Sharon Stone |
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