Styles & Scenes

MORE Golden Globes parties?

Get your party dresses cleaned and your tuxes pressed.

Earlier than ever, the Golden Globe parties are locking down their locations. And the inside word is that guests will have two more big after-parties to attend on January 15.

The big five will still be contained in the Beverly Hilton - Instyle/WB, Fox, NBC/Universal/Focus (on the roof), Weinstein Co. (back in Trader Vic's) and HBO (taking over Circa 55 and the prime pool area).

But the two new entries MAY be within spitting - and strolling - distance. The buzz is that E! Entertainment Networks first big Globe bash and Paramount/Dreamworks' party will both be held in the former Robinson's May retail space. Natch, security issues have risen but rumor is that everything will be ironed out soon.

Paramount says it has the space on hold but will wait until they hear the GG nominations before they confirm. Which makes total sense.

Better starting thinking about what to wear soon. At this rate, all the good gowns are gonna be gone too.

Photo Credits: NBC Universal's hits the roof again. On the front page, Kiera Knightley dances with her mom at last year's NBC/Universal/Focus bash.
Eric Charbonneau/Wire Image

De Beers vs Bushmen: who will win the bling PR war?

Diamonds - a staple of Hollywood award season attire - are having a rough time lately.

De Beers recently mounted a massive PR campaign to educate consumers about how good diamonds are for Africa and the efforts to control and/or eradicate the sale of "conflict" or "blood" diamonds.

Now the international diamond cartel has hired some hot new corporate communications guns, including one exec head-hunted from a global pharmaceutical company called AstraZeneca.

Judging from that company's recent problems, I'd say De Beers got themselves an expert corporate spinner to help them fight the negative publicity expected from Warner Bros’s “Blood Diamond” (Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou and Jennifer Connelly) that focuses on the link between diamonds and bloody civil wars in Africa.

But someone else has joined the fray.

Last week the Kalahari Bushmen of Botswana took out an unprecedented large ad in Variety, asking for help from DiCaprio. In the ad, Bushman Roy Sesana wrote: "Friends have told us that you are in a film, “Blood Diamond,” which shows how badly diamonds can hurt. We know this. When we were chased off our land, officials told us it was because of the diamond finds. Please help us, Sir. We know you are a famous and respected man, and that if you speak up for us many people will listen. We just want to go home, and hunt and gather and live in peace like we have always done."

And on behalf of the Bushmen, Survival International has asked Linda Evangelista to step down as the new face of De Beers. Don't laugh. SI already has Colin Firth and Julie Christie on the Bushmen's side. Christie has said, 'Diamonds as the cause of misery and suffering are not a thing of the past. The Bushman evictions in Botswana are a clear demonstration that local people are still suffering because of these stones.” And SI already convinced supermodel Iman to step down as the face of De Beers a few years ago.

That said, Iman is married to David Bowie and is very wealthy in her own right. Good luck getting Linda to turn down that big fat spokesmodel contract. The early ‘90s era supermodel, who once bragged that she didn’t “wake up for less than $10 grand a day,” now has a.. how shall I put this, slightly less stellar modeling career. 

Gosh, this Hollywood diamond war is getting so exciting. Will the Bushmen of Kalahari make a trip to Hollywood? Can the displaced tribe and their celebrity supporters  persuade A-list actresses to boycott the bling and not wear dazzling diamonds to awards shows?

Hey, these dudes have already taken out an ad in Variety. I’d say anything is possible.

Photo Credit: Leo and Djimon star in "Blood Diamond," the movie about conflict diamonds financing bloody civil wars that has De Beers execs shaking in their designer boots.
Jaap Buitendijk/Warner Bros. Pictures.

Felicity's slapstick lightens up the "Hipvah" luncheon

Don't call it the 2006 Hollywood Foreign Press Installment Luncheon. Call it "Hipvah," as Dustin Hoffman suggested.

In truth, the annual HFPA luncheon was more like an Afternoon at the Improv.

Hostess Felicity Huffman got the laughs going from the get-go Thursday when she stepped up to the podium after being introduced by HFPA President Philip Berk.

“Okay, I’m supposed to ad lib now,” said the elegantly attired Golden Globe winning ("Transamerica") actress. “Not gonna happen.” Then she started reading the slowly scrolling tele-prompter, “For many years….” before she (gulp) realized she was reading Berk’s speech, not hers. “Oh, I’m supposed to step aside now,” she exclaimed,looking slightly horrified.

“Oh, I’m gonna be fired,” she whimpered as she backed up and backed up and bumped into a giant Golden Globe statue, very nearly knocking it over. She bowed her head in shame and covered her eyes.

The hysterical move was so perfectly timed that many in the audience - including those spitting out their salad with laughter - thought she’d rehearsed it. So did Dustin Hoffman, who tried to recreate her brilliant slapstick back-up when he got onstage but couldn’t pull it off with Huffman's “I Love Lucy” aplomb.

“I salute you. I’d give anything to work with you. You are my kinda girl,” Hoffman said to the still blushing Huffman.

Hoffman, who accepted a $30 grand check for the Los Angeles Conservancy, was nostalgic about the Rodeo Ballroom in the Beverly Hills Hotel because it was where his daughter’s Bat Mitzvah was held many years ago. “Now I know we're running a little late today and there is another Bat Mitzvah at 2, so I’ll try to hurry up.”

But he got the biggest laugh for his renaming of the HFPA to a more Jewish-sounding name, pronouncing it “Hipvah.”

Another comic standing was the legendary Jack Nicholson, there to accept a $300,000 check for Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation.

“When I was asked to accept a check, something I’m very comfortable doing, no one told me I would also have to make a speech, something I’m not very comfortable doing,” slow-mo growled Nicholson, who then read a prepared speech, making it sound like an outtake from “Five Easy Pieces.” He ended by saying the $1.8 million the HFPA has given to the FF over the years “makes up for a lot of rubber chicken dinners.”

All I can says is Nicholson really does do a spot-on Jack Nicholson impersonation. I mean, Jay Mohr does a better Christopher Walken than Walken but no one can hold a candle to Nicholson’s Nicholson.

Others accepting checks: Diane Lane, Annette Bening, Christina Ricci, Bill Condon, Lisa Kudrow, Mark Ruffalo, Edward James Olmos and James Franco. They all did fine, were dressed appropriately and acted very respectful  reading their prepared speeches and accepting checks that totaled over $1 million in support for organizations such as Film Aid International, Outfest, California State Summer School Arts Foundation, Inner-City Arts, American Cinematheque, Sundance, Institute, IFP West and Inner-City Filmmakers.

But next time I hope they loosen up a little. Take a tip from Felicity, Dustin and Jack.  A little less decorum, a little more Hipvah and lot more slapstick, please.

Photo Credits:
Don't be fooled by Felicity Huffman's red carpet manners at the Hipvah Luncheon. She's capable of doing physical comedy, even when she hasn't rehearsed it.
WireImage/Steve Granitz
C'mon, Jack. Do Jack Nicholson for us! Man, are you good at that or what? Hey, can you do it for my cell phone voice mail when you're done at the Hipvah Luncheon?
WireImage/Steve Granitz 

Do Hollywood Swag Addicts need an IRS intervention?

It's okay. You can all relax. Looks like Oscar presenters, performers and nominees won’t have to pay back taxes on their past gift baskets, after all.

According to a release from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, they've reached a “mutually satisfactory agreement” with the IRS settling the tax obligations on gift bags up until 2005.

What a relief. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been losing sleep about this ever since I heard rumors that Academy swag bags filled with goodies, fabulous trips, services, designer stuff estimated at $75-100 grand, might be dubbed additional income and could cause a slight tax hike for celebs.

Because I’m sure these poor stars who make $10-50-100 million per movie don’t have accountants who can hide a gift basket or find a charity contribution to offset a measly hundred grand. I've also been worried about what the elimination of goody bags might do to the Hollywood re-gifting habit when all that unwanted swag is handed out on birthdays/holidays to loyal servants, maids, gardeners, hairdressers, personal trainers, manicurists, stylists, pet-sitters and yes, even friends.

C’mon, guys. You know you do it.

But gift bags will continue. And the recipients of the Oscar gift basket given at the 2007 awards will be issued appropriate informational tax forms by the Academy and will be responsible for satisfying their income tax obligations.

“We appreciate the Academy’s leadership on this issue,” IRS Commissioner Mark W. Everson says in the release. “The gift basket industry has exploded, and it’s important that the groups running these events keep in mind the tax consequences.”

“We are happy to have reached an agreement with the IRS which works to the benefit of the gift basket recipients and the Academy,” said Academy president Sid Ganis.

Ganis said that it was unclear as to when the practice of thanking Academy Award presenters and performers with baskets began, but that it was well established by the early '70s.  The major stars who present awards on the show are not paid for that service, and the performers receive only the minimum union payment.

Over time these so-called “thank-you gifts” – call them incentives - became more elaborate as hotels, resorts and high-end clothing lines vied to associate their services and products with Hollywood’s most famous names.

In April, the Academy Board of Governors voted to discontinue the practice of thanking Academy Awards presenters and performers with gift baskets.

And publicity about the baskets led Everson to issue a press release three days prior to the 2006 Academy Awards broadcast which focused on gift baskets and pointed out that “movie stars face the same tax obligations as ordinary Americans.” 

“The Commissioner worked some movie titles into his reminder that gave it a humorous spin,” Ganis said, “but the basic message was clear:  the contents of the baskets, however much we may have been inclined to view them as mannerly thank-yous, in fact constitute taxable income.  And since we didn’t want any of our presenters to get hit retroactively for a gift we had given them, we asked the Service if there was a way for us to take on the tax obligations and they were very willing to work with us.”

Whew. Well, at least that’s over with. But somebody should tell IRS Commissioner Everson that this is just the tip of the iceberg. There is more work that must be done. He may not realize that the Oscar gift basket created a virus of freeby fests that sprout up all year round in Hollywood.

And trust me, it’s reached dangerous and toxic levels...

Photo Credits: Hollywood life imitates "Sopranos" art. Michael Imperioli makes off with his goody bag stash at the VHI Big in 2002 Awards. Bet Tony doesn't want it!
WireImage/Jeff Vespa

Scarlett Johansson fleshes out new Reebok role

What do Scarlett Johansson, Allen Iverson and Donovan McNabb have in common?

Inexplicably, the four-time Golden Globe nominee (“Match Point,” “A Love Song for Bobby Long,” “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” “Lost in Translation”) will join the Philadelphia 76er and the Philly Eagles quarterback in endorsing Reebok.

Okay, guys. Who made this brilliant marketing call? And who was the runner-up, Patricia Arquette?

No question the talented buxom blonde actress oozes sex appeal onscreen. Just ask Scarlett's "Match Point" director Woody Allen. Their second film, “Scoop,” opens July 28 and he told reporters last year that the pillow-lipped starlet is so divinely sexy that she’s been “touched by God.” 

But let’s face it. Johansson's voluptuous image is way more bedroom than weight room. She just doesn’t fly as a fitness role model. Certainly not when compared to buffer babes like "Charlie's Angels" Cameron Diaz, "X-Men"s Famke Janssen, "Fantastic Four" femme fatale Jessica Alba or even Tomb Raider Angelina Jolie. 

Miss Scarlett won’t be appearing in Reebok's "When Did I Know" campaign or in the “I Am What I Am” campaign which has featured the equally uninspiring and unathletic-inclined actresses Maggie Gyllenhaal and Christina Ricci.

Wonder if Reebok knew that a few years ago Ricci's former Hollywood trainer - who shall go unnamed - fired her, making her the only actress client he's ever dumped, because she smoked cigarettes between workouts and missed her morning training sessions due to late night partying.

Come to think about it, the only Reebok poster actress who made sense was Lucy Liu. She'd at least been a believable kick-butt babe in films like “Charlie’s Angels” and “Kill Bill” and looks like she might wear Reebok sneaks and duds somewhere other than a photo shoot.

Anyway, Miss Scarlett's multi-year contract will have her posing for "Scarlett “hearts” Rbk," a "fashion-forward athletic-inspired footwear and apparel collection" aimed at the international sportswear company's young female customers. The line will debut in spring 2007 in high-end department stores and boutiques.

According to new prez/chief executive officer Paul Harrington, Reebok will make marketing changes after being gobbled up by Adidas earlier this year. So expect fewer music figures like Nelly, Jay-Z and 50 Cent and more pretty Hollywood faces like Johansson.

There is one consolation to their latest choice.

At least Reebok chose a healthy-looking actress with a body fat level over 10% and didn't sign up one of Team Anorexia's bony babes Nicole Richie, Kate Bosworth, Mary-Kate Olsen or Keira Knightley.

Photo Credits: Woody Allen admires Scarlett's astonishing athletic achievements at the LA "Match Point" premiere.
WireImage/Eric Charbonneau

Photo Credits: Wonder if Reebok saw Scarlett's graceful sprints on the set of "The Nanny Diaries" before they signed her to a multi-year contract?
WireImage/James Devaney

BAFTA/LA makes Clint Eastwood's day

 
Clint Eastwood already has four Oscars and three Golden Globes.

Hope he’s got room for the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts/Los Angeles will make Eastwood's day by awarding him the 15th prestigious honor on November 2 at the Century Plaza Hotel.

“Clint Eastwood is an undisputed international icon and an enormous creative force, both behind and in front of the camera,” says BAFTA/LA chairman Peter Morris. “It is our distinct pleasure to honor him with our highest film award.”

Now we just have to wonder who will be there to laud him and present the award.

There’s his “Million Dollar Baby” co-stars Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman. Their presence is pretty much a lock. Hil always loves to sing Clint's praises. And rightly so, since  she won an Oscar for her "Baby" role.

But there’s also his “Space Cowboys” co-star Tommy Lee Jones, now an acclaimed director in his own right and who would kill to duplicate Clint's successful directing career.

How about Meryl Streep, his “The Bridges of Madison County” love-interest? A possibility.

The 76-year-old actor/director/producer is currently doing his infamous “Go ahead. Make My Day." voice for a Dirty Harry video game. Also talking for the game: Gene Hackman and Laurence Fishburne. So they could be in the BAFTA/LA presenting game as well.

It's pretty much a lock that someone from Eastwood’s new film “Flags of Our Fathers" (co-written by "Crash" Paul Haggis), due out in October/November, will be there.

"Fathers," already getting good Oscar buzz, is the true story of the six American soldiers seen in that famous photo planting the flag on Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi in WWII. The huge young cast includes Ryan Phillipe, Barry Pepper, Paul Walker and Ken Watanabe and promises to be another moving, gritty war film akin to “Saving Private Ryan.”

Can the BAFTA/LA Britannia award jump start Eastwood's 2007 Oscar Race engine? It not only can, it will.

Photo Credits: Clint Eastwood won the Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement award in 2006. Can he snag an Oscar in the 2007 Awards Season?  Do you feel lucky, punk?
WireImage/Jeffrey Mayer

Mandela to defend De Beers from bad "Blood"

The international diamond industry must be getting pretty nervous about “The Blood Diamond.”

Word is that Sitrick and Company, Tinseltown’s top spinmeisters, have been hired by De Beers, the world's largest supplier of rough diamonds, to deflect the negative image of their industry portrayed in the upcoming film which stars Oscar nominee Leonardo DiCaprio  (“The Aviator”), Oscar-winner Jennifer Connelly (“A Beautiful Mind”) and Oscar nominee Djimon Hounsou (“In America”).

“Diamond,” produced by Ed Zwick, will not be released until Jan 12, 2007. It’s the wrenching story of two South Africans, a mercenary (DiCaprio) and a fisherman (Hounsou) during the savage ‘90s Sierra Leone civil wars when rebels seized mines to sell “conflict” or “blood diamonds” to buy arms, murdering and mutilating (hand/arm amputation was a popular rebel sport) thousands of innocent men, women and children.

So guess who Sitrick plans to trot out to help stop the bad bling publicity? 

None other than South Africa’s activist and first post-apartheid president Nelson Mandela.

“Mandela is going to say that all that stuff seen in the film is in the past, that there are no more conflict diamonds in circulation and that the diamond industry is economically good for South Africa,” a smiling inside source revealed. “And who in their right mind is going to argue with Nelson Mandela?"

Who indeed.

But “Blood Diamond” will be one of those “important issue" awards season frontrunners. Diamonds used to fund wars and fuel massive slaughters is pretty nasty stuff. Imagine what this negative buzz could do to the bling quotient on the 2007 awards season red carpets.

The Academy/Globe consideration screenings in November may start the bad press that could hurt December diamond sales, not to mention Valentine's Day.

As far back as September 2005, De Beers’ honcho Jonathan Oppenheimer warned an industry convention that the movie was likely to attract a huge audience. "Can you imagine its impact on the Christmas-buying audience in America if the message is not carried through that this (conflict diamonds) is something of the past, that this is something that has been managed and taken care of?"

But it shouldn’t be a shock that Mandela would take the diamond dudes side. After De Beers chairman Harry Oppenheimer's death in 2000, Mandela recognized his support for democratic and philanthropic causes in a Time magazine obit, hailing him as "monumentally instrumental in helping our country become the economic leader it is today."

Gosh, who can argue with that?

Photo Credit: Nelson Mandela - seen at the 46664 HIV/AIDS Awareness Concert in 2005 - may show up in Hollywood to help De Beers fight any bad publicity due to "The Blood Diamond."
WireImage/Shayne Robinson

It isn't easy being in the MTV Movie Awards "Green Room"

First off, Saturday night's MTV 2006 Movie Awards “Green Room” wasn’t green. It was amber – like show sponsor Neutrogena’s amber glycerin soap. Duh. Even the suede sofas were shaped and colored like Neutrogena bars.

Second, it wasn’t a traditional intimate backstage “Green Room” where the talent chills before and/or after going onstage. It was a huge sound stage party on the Sony Culver City lot with two bars and buffets tables and filled with – shudder – Unattractive People Who Are Not Famous At All.

No sign of Colin Farrell, Jake Gyllenhaal or Jim Carrey, probably in the actual show's nearby sound stage. No Christina Aguilera or Jessica Alba. I did see Owen Wilson walk by without even looking in. And Andy Dick wandered in for a while before the show. So did Golden Globe winner Steve Carrell ("The Office"), who (sorry, Steve) really is famous but just doesn’t look it and probably never will. Even though he ended up winning MTV’s Best Comedic Performance for "40-year-old Virgin" later on.

But it was Jessica and Ashlee’s sister act svengali/dad Joe Simpson who was the first person to hit the party. In fact, he was so early the party wasn’t even open so the guards made him wait outside, even though he pleaded with them that he just wanted to go in and get a drink. At 5:30, he was let into the empty party and ran to the bar for a whiskey n’ coke so he could sip and see the arrivals televised on plasma screens.

Cornered by a "I'm so desperate for quotes I will even interview this guy" reporter about Jess's upcoming album - ”And the Band Played On” - Joe went out on a limb and predicted that it "will NOT be what most people expect.”

So... I’m thinking he means it’s NOT the expected retort to her bitter ex Nick Lachey’s “What’s Left of Me” (“and My Bank Account?”), album, a musical whine about their nasty break-up and impending divorce.

Well, thank God someone in that family has some class.

When Joe got a jingle on his cell from Jess, who’d finished the blue carpet, he broke all land speed records. Boy, did he toss that drink and run so he could escort his money-maker, er, daughter into the show.

Kate Beckinsale also wandered into the party after doing the blue carpet press line.

But she was visibly POed when a security guard at the door made her sling a big ugly plastic credential around her neck, which so ruined the line of her black silk cropped pantsuit.

She quickly ripped off the offending cred when she was 2-steps inside the party. Then she blinked and assessed the scene – which was now wall-to-wall normal people - and wrinkled her perky nose (euuwww) like she’d just caught a whiff of a dirty cat litter box.

Turning on her stacked white heels, she trotted back out, making a quick louie to slip backstage and - whew- get to hang with the Very Important People, like her “Click” co-star Adam Sandler.

Dudette, that was a close call. You almost had to mingle with real people.

Photo Credits: Joe Simpson's Escort Service makes sure Jessica gets to her seat in the MTV 2006 Movie Awards. WireImage/Kevin Mazur
Photo Credits: Kate Beckinsale way prefers the photo-op company of famous Adam Sandler to non-famous strangers in the MTV Movie Awards Green Room.WireImage/Kevin Mazur

Karl Lagerfeld shows his face in Hollywood

Was Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld's recent appearance in Beverly Hills designed (sorry) to boost the house’s sagging image in the aftermath of the 2006 award season dress debacle?

C’mon, you remember that style scandal: Chanel gave Reese Witherspoon a so-called vintage frock to wear to the 2006 Golden Globes that had been previously worn by Kirsten Dunst to a 2005 Globes party? Ouch.

But apparently Herr Karl is above all that mundane mortal stuff. He was here Friday night strictly to unveil and celebrate (er, publicize) a champagne, Dom Perignon Rose Vintage 1996, with ads photographed by Lagerfeld. And you thought all he could do was design dresses! He also shot the ads for 1998 vintage uncorked last year. Yeah, I know. I don’t much care either.

Anyway, the party was held high in the hills in a private home and yes, A-list stars came out dressed in Chanel attire: Eva Herzigova, Jessica Simpson, Maria Bello, Thora Birch, Kelly Lynch and Pierce Brosnan. Suffice to say that Lindsay Lohan looked none too pleased about being forced to pose with Lagerfeld and her nemesis Paris Hilton who giggled throughout pal Brandon Davis's recent video rant about Lohan's genitalia. (I'll show you Fire Crotch, you little -------!)

Non A-listers Brittany Murphy, Courtney Love and Mickey Rourke were also there, no doubt invited for the unpredictable edgy frisson of self destruction they bring that every good party needs.

Both Love and Rourke have taken self-improvement too much to heart. Or rather, face.

Rourke’s distorted kisser – a seriously surgical work in progress -  is starting to look even more cartoony than that of his “Sin City” prosthestic palooka.

Love, meanwhile, appeared to be staying on the straight and narrow. She didn’t even bare her breasts once!

But judging from her painfully immobilized kisser, she may have seriously ODed on Botox in the past few weeks.

LA designer Jennifer Nicholson, Jack’s daughter also showed up to see Karl. And is it just me or does she not look just like her dad in drag?

Hey, if her fashion career flops, she could always get a job starring in a traveling tranny production of "The Shining" or "Five Easy Pieces."

Finally, can we talk about the incredibly shrinking Lagerfeld?

A vaporous mist of his former self, we suspect the designer has been receiving text messaged diet tips from Nicole Richie, who was noticeably not at the party but was probably not home eating dinner either.

Photo Credits: A sullen Lindsay Lohan poses with Karl Lagerfeld and Paris Hilton. Man, I'd hate to be in Karl's place, sandwiched between those two hissing kittens. Pfft, pfft!
WireImage/Eric Charbonneau

Photo Credits: Mickey Rourke looks so surgically altered, he could star in a Witness Protection Program.
WireImage/Lester Cohen

Photo Credits: Heeeere's Jack's designing daughter, Jennifer Nicholson, arriving at the Lagerfeld/Dom Perignon party.
WireImage/Lester Cohen

Star Wears: winning awards garb

The 2006 award season may be officially over. But red carpet couture will live on.

C'mon, admit it. You're just dying to slide into Heidi Klum’s Vanity Fair Oscars party frock. How about Pamela Anderson's vintage Bill Blass Golden Globes gown? Or maybe you'd like to unbutton Oscars host Jon Stewart’s Ralph Lauren tuxedo?

Now’s your chance.

Clothes Off Our Back is doing another one of their inexplicably successful online auctions in which stars donate their ABW (already been worn) award show clothing and people actually bid good, hard-earned money for the celebrities' used duds, money that goes to marvelous causes supported by the various celebs. Just check out clothesoffourback.org.

Other award show-worn garments on the block: Peter Jackson's Kenneth Cole dress shoes worn to the Globes, Ellen DeGeneres' Grammys sneakers, Joss Stone’s Grammys gown worn onstage to perform (hopefully dry-cleaned); Joaquin Phoenix’s Globes tux, Jessica Alba’s Golden Globes dress and last — but most certainly not least — Scarlett Johansson’s red Jimmy Choo heels worn to the Globes.

Too bad the offer isn't Johansson's spectacular red Globes gown. In case you don’t remember, that particular couture creation got foppish fashionista Isaac Mizrahi, E!'s current red carpet critic, into deep doodie.

Mr. Miz got scathing reviews for his impertinent questions to Ms. Scarlett about her strapless dress and a verbal hand slap from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for daring to reach out and touch her treasure chest during their carpet chat. As a result, he was noticeably reined in — at least in manners — for the Oscar carpet.

In Style magazine and Clothes Off Our Back children’s charity founders “Malcolm in the Middle” star Jane Kaczmarek and her “West Wing” husband Bradley Whitford, showed off all the to-be-auctioned awardsware last week at Republic restaurant in Los Angeles. And to sweeten the pot, Saturn tossed in a 2007 Sky roadster customized by fashion designer Richard Tyler.

But just because you weren’t invited to their show off party, do not despair. You can still bid on all this stuff — including the car — until March 31.

Just one word of caution when buying celebrity cast-offs: These people are very, very small. Klum's gown, for instance, is a size 2-4. Anderson is also a size 4. Most women may have better luck fitting into Camryn Manheim's size 18-20 Mon Atelier Globes gown.

Photo: For a good cause, you could look just as "smokin'" as Heidi Klum does in this Michael Kors gown at the Vanity Fair Oscars bash.
(Eric Charbonneau / WireImage)