Even when you're nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, it’s all about the noodles.

When "Blood Diamond" star Leonardo DiCaprio heard that his fave Beverly Hills restaurant - the An family's Crustacean – had started a catering biz, he asked Catherine An, “You mean, now I won’t have to take my hat off?"  Its an in-joke. Seems the dress code frowns on baseball caps and Leo has to take his off. Chapeau-less, he always sits upstairs in their celebrity zone to avoid stares when he's eating his regular order of two servings of garlic noodles.

The new catering biz will delight Crustacean's other celeb foodie fans and restaurant regulars: Denzel Washington, Michael Douglas, Oliver Stone, Heidi Klum and Seal.

Last Saturday, family head chef Helene An -– fresh from being honored for the An family's culinary arts at the opening of the Smithsonian’s new Vietnamese exhibit in Washington DC -- flew home to dish out oodles of noodles (in bright red take-out cartons) at fashion designer Randolph Duke’s birthday party/Hollywood Hills house warming. His new angular glass-walled mod pad with a spectacular LA view took him two years to design and build. The party was organized (decorated, etc) by top  LA party planners Chris Events.

Sharon Stone and Felicity Huffman were too deep fried from awards fetes to hit the late night bash. But Duke, who’s designed for Stone, Huffman, Angie Harmon, Angelina Jolie, Barbra Streisand and Jennifer Lopez, sez he isn’t about red carpets any more.

“It’s become all about money," Duke lamented. "When I first started dressing actresses for events, it was working with women who were also your friends. Now it’s just money, contracts and agents. The actresses don’t even send ‘thank you’ notes. Neither do their publicists.”

It's actually worse than that.

One party-goer let it slip that La Stone recently rang up her longtime hairdresser and offered to let him do her hair for an awards show for just $20 grand. Money talks, friendship walks. Still, actresses (and civilians) would do well to check out the Duke's new how-to fashion tome, "The Look: A Guide to Dressing from the Inside Out."

Wanna see the view from Duke's new hilltop pad? Just in case you're not lucky enough to get invited over?