Portia de Rossi and Ellen Degeneres
Bono Michael Fassbender
up Chinatown producer Robert Evans. Dom Perignon sent the champagne, proving that even behind private dinners, one can now spot a sponsor.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27
Leonardi DiCaprio
Sienna Miller
Matthew McConaughey and Camila alves
amy adams and Darren Le gallo
Lady gaga
10 parties. English society decorator and Olympic party animal Nicky Haslam flew in from England for the Vanity Fair dinner Sunday night and was my 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, Adams Sony CEO Michael Lynton and co-chairman Amy Pascal, debated who was winning Best Picture. We still didn’t know. CAA’s Josh Lieberman was on his way to ICM’s John Burnham’s Santa Monica home.
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Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg
56 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • APRIL 2012
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, Clinton in town for the first United4Humanity gala at Sony Studios that night, had lunch at Larry Gagosian’s 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 of Michael Jackson. On this night, there were