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Portia de Rossi and Ellen DeGeneres

Michael Fassbender

up Chinatown producer Robert Evans. Dom Perignon sent the champagne, proving that even behind private dinners, one can now spota sponsor.

Oprah Winfrey slipped into Essence’s “Black Women in Hollywood” lunch at the Beverly Hills Hotel where Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the first black female president of the Academy, was honored

with a Trailblazer Award. President Bill Clinton, in town for the first United4Humanity gala at Sony Studios

that night, had lunch at Larry Gagosian’s Leonardi

Dicaprio magnificent modern home in Holmby Hills.It

was designed by architect A. Quincy Jones, the mentor of Frank Gehry—not to be confused

with music legend Quincy Jones, the mentor Matthew . a McConaughey and of Michael Jackson. On this night, there were

Camila Alves

Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg

10 parties. English society decorator and Olympic

L/ ae! i) ] party animal Nicky Haslam flew in from England v Adams and j for the Vanity Fair dinner Sunday night and was my Cee Colo ie escort for this evening. We made it to five parties. Vanity Fair and Sony’s “Toast to American Hustle” at Ago on Melrose was our first stop, to pay homage to David O. Russell. Inquiring minds, including hotshot producer Megan Ellison, Amy Adams, Sony CEO Michael Lynton and co-chairman Amy Pascal, debated who was winning Best Picture. We still didn’t know. CAAs Josh Lieberman was on his way to ICM’s John Burnham’s Santa Monica home.

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