Entourage Live in Vegas: NBA All Star Weekend

Entourage has set the standard in distilling quintessential Hollywood rites of passage in classic episodes such as Sundance and the Vegas trip. Last night (Sat, 2.17) during the NBA All Star Weekend, it was like seeing the Entourage "Ice Capades" at the T-Mobile Sidekick 3 Party.

The Maloofs (NBA All Star hosts '07) put up a mega tent in their parking lot and recruited LA phenom Bolthouse (Joseph's '03, Lounge '03, Hyde '07)to run the ropes.

The Accidental Concert Neighbors:

• Ciara took the stage innocently enough for what felt like a radio station mall performance....but then a surprise duet with Will.I.Am followed.....
• and then a real surprise as NAS joined the stage for "Made You Look" (the "you a slave to a page in my rhyme book song)...
• and then a bigger surprise as Ludacris joined the stage. Ludacris encouraged "Sing along, we just won a grammy for this song" (Money Maker).
• and then Jeremy Piven and Kevin Connoly rocked out their way right in to our personal space(like anyone else, not aggressively)...
• and then they head bobbed themselves.

Check out the video below to see how E's head, and then Piven's head, make better doors than windows.



Ludacris will always be the man for standing up to demagogues on TV, like facing O'Reilly and Oprah. and can still appear in Oscar winning movies.

• and then DJ AM took the stage and phoned in the weakest 25-30 minutes he's done in eons. Must have been in a hurry to get to Body English.
• and then...we smelled weed. Like everywhere. Like Godzilla had farted pot brownies.
• and then...we saw Bustah Rhymes. That was the first thing that wasnt a surprise. They took over the table where Piven, Danny Masterson, Brody Jenner, and others had been before the performances.

Professional Photos:
Wireimage Here

The Competition:
The outnumbered Hollywood crowd was ripped between T-Mobile and the competition: Jay Z/Lebron James' "Two Kings" party at TAO, Paris birthday uggh at Body English, and Eva Longoria and Tony Parker's party at PURE. We went upstairs to the new nightclub Moon and saw Shaq, in a yellow suit, still out way past gamenight curfew at 2AM!

9 Days to the Red Carpet

Sherman Pore is the old guy who sang an original song for the judges on American Idol, just 2 days after his "lady love of 20 years" had passed. While clearly out of position for the show, the judges actually gave him a warm reception, enough so that 9 days later he was a red carpet media darling.Friday night (Feb 16), Shag hosted a record release party for Fall Out Boy. Frontman Pete Wentz, who arrived with Rumor Willis (Bruce's daughter) grabbed the spotlight, but after them, and Benji Madden ('not the one dating Nicole Ritchie), Sherman was the story. He sang to a confused photographer pool , who didnt know whether to clap or be embarassed. How does this happen? He lives next door to a huckster/fake publicist (cropped out of this photo), who took Sherman from grieving Romeo to Red Carpet watercooler talk in 9 days...at least until everyone got wind of breaking "Britney shaved her head bald" news.

P.S. Search "Britney Bald" in Google...what comes up is both surprising, and not...at the same time.

It's Always Xmas/Oscar Time at the Four Seasons

It could be July 4th weekend, but whenever you walk through the Beverly Hills Four Seasons, it feels like Steve Spielberg might walk by in a tuxedo clutching an Oscar at any moment. So when it really is awards season, you can get dizzy just watching other people's heads swivel in the lobby. Such was the case tonight (Tues, Valentine's eve) as Vivica A. Fox (Kill Bill '03, 50 Cent '03)hosted a "deb ball" of sorts for her glamour guru, Jayneoni Moore.

While common in political circles, the loyal turnout for a cozy introduction to the Hollywood Creative Community was nearly 50/50, celeb and civilian. Dancing with the Stars' Samantha Harris, let on that the new cast will be announced on Thursday 2.15...and that they dont even tell her who until then.... Holly Robinson Peete (21 Jump Street '91) checked out the black and white blowups of Oscar nights behind the scenes moments, Rachel Leigh Cooke told me that she too always likes the "classy Four Seaons cause it doesnt feel like LA", and Miss J. Alexander (America's Next Top Model) rocked a Sidekick with a little too much bling and little too much "sidekick" for 2007.

65 people cramming in to a room the size of my office? Yup.
Recruited by new solo artist, Rappa? Stronger.

Find a valentine here by picking them out of a professional photo:

• Patrick McMullan: Here
• Wireimage: Here

Breaking: Anna Nicole Barbershop Talk

Updated 6:50 PM EST - Thursday 8 February 2007

The Barber Shop Talk is coming fast and furious for Anna Nicole (Retired '07) on the internets:

• When they find the baby girl dead, don't believe the suicide note. Arrest the lawyer immediately.
• Has the astronaut been ruled out yet? God Hates Florida.
• If her kosher boyfriend can prove he's the father of that baby, I believe he may acquire control of Anna's fortune.
• It's really lucky for him that her oldest son happen to die last year....funny how things work. P.S. Where was Stern (lawyer, not radio) when the 89 year old billionairre died?
• Well at least now Angelina can adopt the baby.

As always, Defamer best sinks its fangs in to this bloody steak. More thoughtful eulogies here.

Imdb's rapid response team is on-call, having already revised Anna Nicole to a past tense. Wireimage also. (Weird that her final celeb photo is with Hulk Hogan - her namesake, having been born Vickie Hogan.

Just another lazy Thursday over at Anna's quasi official website (for now). The “latest news” headlines mention an ironically titled movie “Illegal Aliens", no reference to the (prior? still ongoing?) Bahamas legal situation she was in.

Wikipedia best exemplifies the yin and the yang of “open source” projects as it already has her death and details enshrined obituary style, yet temporarily reported that she had died of a “sex overdose, the first such death by this means,” which has already been retracted in the amount of time it took to write this sentence.

AnnaNicoleSmith.com, the looney bin flagship, is too inundated to even load, as Perez was earlier today around 4PM EST.

UPDATED (2.8, 6:50PM PST) Blockbuster on Sunset reveals that the only uptick in Anna Nicole interest is one guy calling for "some B-movie sex thing she did."

UPDATED (Sat 2.10): Quasi site now forwards to official site, both with a solo black and white idolotry photo, inspired by Abercrombie and Fitch.

Pat, I 'd Like to Solve the Puzzle

An SNL parody it is not, but TheCHIMP.net has arrived! That'll be the day....get yourself on Wheel of Fortune from these funny guys.

The Best Saturday Afternoon Promoter

So three months after the electoral thumpin', the campaign enthusiasm of even the most die-hard Bush-haters could use some Viagra. It's kinda like asking Eli Manning if he can "do it again" before they have even left the field. Yesterday (Sat 2.3) there were elections in Massachusetts to send delegates to the state convention.

Nobody showed up in any city except Longmeadow. Everywhere else, fewer voters showed up than even the positions available..except in the ironclad tyrannical political empire of Candy Glazer (Dana Hall '65, Crestview Country Club '07) where all warm bodies within 30 miles are subpoenaed in a community house basement on a cold snowy Saturday because she says so.

The Springfield Republican reports today:

Democrats were hardly out in full force yesterday to elect delegates to the party's state convention ...However, a full allotment was chosen in Longmeadow, and Democratic Town Committee Chairwoman Candy Glazer said the turnout of close to 50 people was the largest she has seen in a nongubernatorial election year.

Read the full story from the Springfield newspaper here, or else Candy will railroad you to debtor's prison on a trumped up enemy combatant charge

Ringing in Year 1998 - at Skybar

A fairly innocous looking invitation arrived earlier this week touting the re-lanch of an all new Skybar last night (Thurs 2.1). The lure was potent, and Hollywood was yoked west of Cahuenga for the first time in years, maybe becase of the much liked DJ Zen. When was the last time you saw a line like this for a regular night on Sunset? Was the internet even invented? Living 50 yards from the weak pulsed door the past 3 years, I pass by nightly, lamenting the embarassing sign out front that says "Joseph's/Nacional-middle-aged -foreigner-trespassing-only" ...a sad fall from its monopoly as the only nationally gossip'ed place in the late 90s. Infamous for needing "reservations" - an outrageous concept at the time - it was the place I knew I would never get in to when I moved to LA as an intern. Well, last night, it was 1998 all over again at the Skybar. The last time Skybar had a line, Leonardo was cowboying around with his infamous P**sy Possee, and he was last night again. When Skybar had a line, Yahoo looked like this. (Click to see the actual yahoo homepage from 1997, the last known time there was a velvet rope mob at Skybar)New uniforms and new smug grins on the staff, sorta like a Surreal Life D-Lister who was waiting for royalty checks in Tampa a week ago and is now downing patron shots with Mischa Barton at Hyde. The Danny Zuko tagalong who normally consults the fake list at the door (Ron) actually had something to do. He usually spends most of the night in solitary confinement of a 4X4 velvet roped cell, and couldnt quite tell whether to welcome the frenzy of a throwback crowd or despise having to share the hosting duties with 2 newbies crashing the graduation party from the lean years!

Either way, glad that it's back. Or is it?

Gwen, Fergie, Beyonce, and Rappa - Superstar Soloists

Pop the Kristal! (The Departed: Andrea O. Left and Melissa R. right)

On Sunday, January 21, Rappa hosted a Justin Timberlake dinner at The Green House at Sundance. A few days later, she announced her Justin...making bigger hits going solo.

(Friday, January 26 - Hollywood, CA)

After three great years of founding and building Spin Shoppe Public Relations with partners, I have chosen to leave the company. Please change your address book to reflect the following business contact info:

Melissa Rappaport
New Email- rappaport.melissa@gmail.com

From now on, please use rappaport.melissa@gmail.com. Other people will be checking this account beginning this afternoon.

The story was snapped up by the press and without delay, the Four Seasons, Oscar week, and new events are underway: Vivica Fox (50 Cent '03) will introduce friend and glamour guru Jayneoni Moore (Baby Boom Boom Room founder 'current) to the Hollywood fashion press community only with Rappa's help.

In related "good night and good luck" news, there is now only a former employee of the month as Andrea Oreckinto, has hung her last seat sign as well. The universal smiles are 100% natural.