Christmas in January

There were hundreds of products given away today at The Boom Boom Room’s Baby and Big Kid Style Villa, a Golden Globes gifting suite for Babies and famous Moms/Dads. My two favorite things I would never ever have known existed? The Fairy-oke Wings (pronounced like Karaoke, with an “f’), pink plastic wings with an attached mic and preloaded jukebox favorites ….and a “Time Out Mat” for rambunctious Chimp-like children…and even dogs.

Tia Carre (left) and Kate K. ('03, right) both shed their high heels to slide in to the popular “Rainboots”

In LA, temples aren’t big enough to contain the 9000% attendance belch of the bi-annual High Holidays. To compensate, temples rent out hotel ballrooms..no joke. We atoned at the famed Century Plaza on Yom Kippur last year, and today in the same holy place, celebrities with babies came to pick up a divine bounty - 50-70lbs each of free stuff. The gifting rule of thumb stating you must leave lugging 3X your child’s weight was enforced strictly by security.

Even Hercules can hang with his son, be man enough for Barbie stuff, and be interviewed by EXTRA. (Kevin Sorbo)
Sidenote: There's a crease in the flier from being in my pocket... its not someone doodling in a slit in the kid's throat. BTW, I think it would be a good idea to create a "Time Out Cage" in bars, and as a plea bargain to bouncers automatically manhandling someone out the door, they throw them in there first for 30 minutes to see if they "come around".

Jason Davis, “big” brother of firecrotch toastmaster Brandon Davis came to the Mommy/Baby gifting suite because…uh…not sure. He did have a gold RAZR, indoor sunglasses, and untied shoes…to which he said “Tie my shoe” and propped it up on his buddy (hat guy) while a photographer tied it for him. Very befitting of an oil heir.

It wasn’t without heart though….the event benefited EBMRF, the nonprofit Epidermolysis Bullosa foundation created and honcho’d by Brillstein-Grey bluechipper Andrea Pett Joseph and her husband Paul.

Other Cool Moms and Dads:

E’s Samantha Harris picking up for nieces and nephews, Bill Bellamy wearing his baby around his neck and loading his gear in to a white Escalade, Angie Harmon literally carting out her gear via a gifted wagon, Emmy Winner Michael Chiklis, and Greg Grunberg (the ironic "Pilot” in the LOST “pilot” who becomes “the monster’s” first meal)

Photos: "1….2…..….no, look over here …stop pesking your brother, …ok, 2……3, CHEESE!”

• Wireimage: (Coming Soon)
• Getty Images: (Coming Soon)
• Film Magic: (Coming Soon)

"Lindsay Lohan is a Sapphire Crotch"

The girl likes diamonds. And probably sapphires too if they had been there.

Last night Nefarious fine jewelry and its designer Jason Hoehn (lineage unknown) showed off their bling at an intimate gathering at Shag. Stop ins came from friends of SSPR including Kim Kardashian (pictured below), Stacey Keibler, Chloe from “24”, and new friend of the night….sober Lindsay Lohan.

Lindsay (AA '06) showed up 3 hours after the scheduled arrivals…..picked up $40,000 worth of gifted jewelry in under 10 minutes, drank red bull (the blue can, with sugar), smoked a cigarette, had the oft-photographed AA tag on her purse, and pumped her right hand in the air in a “move the crowd” type motion getting really fired up by the song “It’s Going Down” by Young Joc. (That is the song that goes “Meet me in the mall..its going down, meet me in the club…its going down) - listen here

I realize at that point that we have two things in common:

1. I like Young Joc also

2. I also havent had a drink in a week.

Famed door host and restaurant owner was smacked by good holiday cheer. The guestlist says “Are you really on the list? If not, then don’t waste my time. ---the clipboard wielding bee-yotch!”. (see photo)Hollyscoop on the scene and awesome as always.

People Magazine was online by the time I got up this morning. Cool.

Red Carpet Photos:

WireImage: Here

Celebrity Photo: Thank You Vince, here

HollySCOOPS the Story.

HollyScoop is a top tier entertainment/celebrity/style blog master'd by the lovely Diana Magpapian (UCSB '04). Lady Diana is not just lovely for her blog and her signature "shoutouts", but moreso because she dumped her "9 to 5" job working for the man and started a professional blog with friends since kindergarten Nora Gasparian and Ani Esmalian. Cool.

Today she SCOOPED the story from TheCHIMP.net and so I will just link to her review of last night's premiere party for the "944-magazine-come-to-life" show of partying and bros in LA that is MTV's TwentyFour-Seven.

Go Directly to HollyScoop's Report of another SpinShoppe Success.

See more Photos:
Getty Images from Inside the Party: Here
Wireimage Photos from the Red Carpet: Here
Gonzalo Perez's Parents visitng from Sharon, MA who made their Hollywood debut right HERE:

Turtle Pokes His Head Out - Hatless

SSPR contributed to an A list charity campaign that launched at a private estate in Brentwood on Thursday night, October 5

Star-wise, it was nearly a company meet-and-greet for “Entourage”:

• Mandy Moore (Vince's Season 2 fling)
• Lloyd (Rex Lee),
• Sloane(E’s Girlfriend Emmanuelle Chriqui),
• Emily (E’s Season 1 Girlfriend/Ari’s Season 1 assistant Samaire Armstrong),
• and Turtle , (Jerry Ferrara ...without a hat ...or a high) all showed up to support :

The world famous LA mega-boutique Fred Segal Fun and the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Women’s Cancer Research Institute have joined forces for Design A Cure – a hollywood style breast cancer campaign. Design A Cure began with one of a kind t-shirts created by some of the most influential fashion designers in the world working with most recognizable and inspiring women in the entertainment industry: Jennifer Aniston, Cameron Diaz, Sheryl Crow, Demi Moore, even Mandy Moore, Beyonce, Christina Aguilera, and many more who were at the party.







One shirt from each “celebrity muse”, worn by them and photographed in it for the campagin will be signed by the celebrity muse and is now being auctioned off. The remaining 100 shirts created will be sold exclusively at Fred Segal Fun, Santa Monica with 100% of all proceeds going to benefit the Cedars Sinai Women’s Cancer Research Institute.

The shirts are very cool and a lot more wearable than other breast cancer awareness auctions going on this month.















It-Girl Stacy Keibler drew all over a KIIS FM stunt guy’s face with a Sharpie on the red carpet. I was most fired up about the Entourage crew, and someone scolded me, "You so want to be Turtle's best friend", but be assured he isnt "on my list".

Fashion Wire Daily: Woohoo! They cover the event here.

Photos, Photos, & More Photos:

• Patrick McMullan: Here
• WireImage: Here
• Getty (With Exclusive Photos from Inside the Party): Here
• TheCHIMP.net House Photographer: Here in a Kodak Gallery

Self Magazine: Breast Cancer Awareness

SpinShoppe continued its national wing spreading by working NYC this week in advance of October - Breast Cancer Awareness month. SSPR brought the sizzle to the “Self Magazine: Spotlight on Breast Cancer Awareness” benefit concert hosted by Gabrielle Union and Michelle Branch at Crobar in NYC on Wedensday night, September 27

Feeling a little breast envy as the tag along boyfriend and only breastless one in the team of: Melissa, Elissa Kravetz, Eileen Colavita (Philadelphia H.S. ’92, USC ’96, CAA ’97, Rogers & Cowan ’01, SSPR ‘current), Employee of the Month Andrea O., and Jessica Kravetz (Framingham High ’00, Indiana ’04, SSPR ’06) – I assumed the officially appropriate title as the "breast man".

Michelle Branch owned the concert portion of the event. She recently adopted a heretofore unknown girl to partner with her on a new country sound and album. The Wreckers performed inside, and outside on the red carpet we played an unsuccessful trivia game of “What other big star musicians have partnered with a total unknown, not just to make a one-off hit single, but to make a whole album ....and tour on it?” It proved to be a tough category. Had it been a drinking game, I likely would have been stumbling and groping people.

The overwhelmingly female and positive turnout, - over 500 people at $75 a ticket – got treated to fine celebrity company, but none more special than Joey Cioffi (Dayton High ’95, Monmouth ’99, Cioffi’s Pizza ‘life, Papa John’s National TV Commercial ‘fall 2006). Joey broke his red carpet cherry. Metaphorically, he ran back the opening kickoff and “scored a touchdown with this one” as an instant paparazzi darling. (Wait until they get ahold of the scandal of the famous Jersey pizza eatery's owner doing commercials for Papa John's. Get used to the flashbulbs.)

Also on the XY chromosome side of the DNA, Ted Roosevelt (Deerfield ’94, Princeton ’98, Lehman ‘current) popped in. Ted raised both his breast cancer awareness and a Heineken, without rubbing in the recent Amazing Race humiliation one bit.

Uptown from this pseudo “theatre”, in the legit theatre of Broadway – a V-VIP
made this her after own party, thankfully bringing along and introducing her cast mate and star of “Hairspray” to other suffererers of MTV’s “Two-A-Days” Addiction , Shannon During.

Jess Keyes (Hollywood, FL H.S. ’95, Maryland ’99, Private Jewish Upper East Side Nursery School ’06) gets bonus points for paying attention to breaking fashion trends and showing up in uniform. (picture of jumper at left)

Susie Castillo (Ipswich H.S., Miss USA ’03, MTV VJ ‘current), whom I auditioned over the phone several times for "Miss USA Fear Factor" years ago before all the remarkable credits listed above, confirmed that not booking that show hasn’t really hurt her career at all. I agree.

Companies losing money on Thursday morning due to employee barfing: NY Law Firm X (Lisa Sidman-Sanchez), Saks 5th Ave. (Aly Scherling), Nickelodeon (Jamie Moskowitz), Universal Consulting (Jeff Frumin), Marnie Luciani's store.




Photos, Photos, and More Photos:
My Pictures here….or go for the professional wire services:

• Patrick McMullan (Top Billing in Honor of the NYC Location)
• WireImage
• Getty

GNR - Red Carpets - and Vegas

The headline is that I spent the weekend working for and partying with former members of Guns and Roses until 8 in the morning. Ed Amorosi (St. David's '90, Deerfield '94, Georgetown '98, Merrill '06) vowed in 1992 that I wouldn't still like GNR in 10 years and he is still wrong 14 years later.....The rest of this entry is the what where why how and what the f*&k??!!

The Palms in Vegas celebrated the opening of their 40 million dollar pool and 2nd Tower - the “Fantasy Tower”) over the weekend of June 30 - July 2. The new tower has NBA suites, Hugh Hefner Suites, and other 14 year old boy fantasy suites. Thus the name of the tower.

“944 is 1” was the name of the weekend. It was 944 Magazine’s 1 year anniversary party – the excuse for the whole weekend. What is 944 Magazine? Why is it given away for free in the pizza parlor above my apartment for free… and why is it sold for 4.95 in the newsstand 11 yards away from that pizza place? More on this later.

So for the big weekend, they did a world IMAX premiere for Superman Returns, broke a world record for longest DJ set ever, had Camp Freddy and Panic Channel play an outdoor poolside concert over the pre-4th of July Weekend.

The Spin Shoppe posse flew in and took over as the publicists for the weekend. Luckily for the BFF’s and BF’s, they were invited to fly in as well. Besides the regulars everyone is sick of, this extended family luckily included Employee of the Month Andrea Oreckinto's boyfriend Mike, and the debut of Don, whose impromptu bartending Saturday afternoon at a gifting suite that had a fully stocked bar, thirsty celebs, but no bartenders is sure to win further kudos on this blog and elsewhere.

So who is 944? Some perspective to help frame the weekend’s host and sponsors appropriately……

My mother rips out photos from the New York Times Sunday Society pages when a Deerfield or Georgetown chum/acquaintance/ makes an appearance….they accumulate on my desk in my childhood bedroom in Longmeadow, Massachusetts until Thanksgiving or some other random time I am home. When I look at them I remember again how happy I am not to live in New York.

A sniff and tax bracket below that on the social registry, there is Ocean Drive and Hamptons Magazines for those who have cocktails at Casa Casuarino and drive their yellow Lamborghini home to their parents house after a night of bottles and models.

And on the other side of the velvet rope craving access, are the readers of 944 magazine, with localized editions for LA, Vegas, Scottsdale, and San Diego. The next time you spend a lazy Saturday afternoon at home in LA feeling like a total loser wondering how to “get all your bros in to a Hollywood cabana after spending the day picking up cuties on the pier at Sharkeez in Hermosa as part of the “Ultimate LA Weekend”, you should definitely subscribe. Think of it as a coed Maxim. For some perspective and flavor, consider these analogies of scale, with 944 being the latter:

Elton John as a Hollywood Party Host and Musician: Paris Hilton as a Hollywood Party Host and Musician

Keira Knightley :Tara Reid

You get the idea, good clean fun that doesn’t take itself too seriously.

Ironically, Paris Hilton was supposed to perform at Rain on Saturday night but got caught up in Germany at the last moment. Luckily, party incarnate herself, Tara Reid, WAS there all weekend, as was her American Pie costar – Shannon Elizabeth. But the weekend was all about the music and the bands….and they blew it out.

Camp Freddy is a “freak of Hollywood nature as front man/reality tv star Dave Navarro calls it. It is all these major rockstars that get together to play cover songs, sometimes their own, sometimes classic catalog stuff, and throw one hell of a party (tom cruise rocking out at Oscar Week).

Highlights of the weekend included Dean Cain getting a shot in his tush to recover from a 103 degree fever after Friday night’s Superman premiere to make it to the concert on Saturday….

Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luger from Smallville) picking up a Gibson guitar to rock out with the house band in the gifting suite

Eliza Dushku sticking out her hand and asking to be proposed to as her enticement for a wearable gift…

Whitestarr frontman and Mischa Barton bf Cisco Adler and his mates running rampant over sex toys and bondage items in the Booty Parlor gifting bedroom...

George Maloof wandering in to the gifting suite mid Saturday afternoon sweaty and disoriented from the sun and asking his publicist “What am I doing here?”

Brian Tee from “Fast and the Furious:Tokyo Drift” being everywhere at all times

ABC’s “The One”’s own Rich Leist going down to the pool and recruiting NFL Pro Bowler Warren Sapp to immediately come up to the gifting suite, where he promptly kissed every girl in sight, rejected an offer of free diamonds with the back of his hand as he blinded me with his watch, and then strapped on an acoustic guitar to strum a few notes…

Scott Weiland taking the stage in loaned out $30,000 Nefarious diamond encrusted sunglasses and keeping them (I think)…

…and rappa and I getting Matt Sorum in to the Fantasy Tower after he lost his room key and got negged by the security guy at the elevator. But the publicity handling doesnt end there as we then of course had to continue to hang with him in a small group until dawn-ish in his totally standard issue hotel room…(surprising)

It had been a long week in Vegas as I had already been there for 3 days doing a Vas o No Vas Casting call on Freemont St., the newest client of the most popular man in Vegas.

By the time Sunday morning dawned, we were ready to get on a plane and get the heck out of 944 and 702 and collapse for the 4^th of July days off (despite Dean Cain slapping me on the leg and encouraging me to party now that “my work was over”)

Big Congrats to the whole Spin Shoppe crew for a very challenging production.

Equinox Now Flexing Its Muscles and Shaming Wimpy Gyms in Westwood Too

Los Angeles magazine dedicates one issue each year to nightlife and it just came out. They plaster 1 celebrity on the cover to personify, brand, and publicly celebrate their role in (or “as”) the current peak of LA nightlife. You know it’s a top shelf event when the embodiment himself lights up your event that night. Sadly I lost out on the cover this year (Jeremy Piven), but if I hire Spin Shoppe PR, I think I’m a lock for 2007.

Last night Spin Shoppe opened the Westwood branch of Equinox Fitness Club, dubbed as “the best fitness club in America” by Fitness Magazine. If Ian Schrager once accidentally built the hotel gym in the lobby, it would be awesome,and look like Equinox Westwood.

Shiny, marbly, tons of wide open space, gleaming, clean, and just plain huge… with a faint eucalyptis whiff of calm that envelopes you at day spas – it makes you want to get really healthy. Naturally, we got right in the mood by drinking, smoking, and eating everything in sight. And we felt great afterwards.

In a brilliant marriage of LA’s favorite icons and lifestyles, SSPR brought a red carpet to a fitness club, and extended their streak by racking up another impressive Hollywood event in the 310. Making the trip to the Westiside to pick up free memberships: Not just a Duff, but both Hilary and Haylie Duff, supermodel Amber Valetta, ex-fling of a Fear Factor receptionist Jamie Kennedy, some kid who stars in NBC’s “Surface” who bears a striking resemblance to Will Makar who sadly across town at CBS television city was simultaneously being booted from American Idol. Oh yeah, and just to make it officially an athletic event, skater Tara Lipinsky.


Spin Shoppe brought their Entourage – various Rappaports of the Peter variety, a Valins, a Venessa, a Dax, and a G. and a Leonard (now a SSPR event regular) – and I demand that our Entourage had more fun.


Now don't get me wrong. I am a CRUNCH person - and my gym boils over with wannabees and the “almost elite” – at the social level where promoters and hosts recognize and say "hi", but don’t comp. (Hey, sounds like me. I guess Piven was the right choice for this year). Anyways, Crunch people are people who try to get "network approved" by, "produced by", and "promoted by" Equinox people.

Last night there were even female bartenders set up in the male locker room slinging drinks. There was some version of a teen flick fantasy scene in there, but I’m not sure what it is. And they were wearing monogrammed towel dresses . So the secret message is: If you can afford Equinox, join it. Or just get famous and go to the next opening instead.

The BOXSCORE:
Companies suffering lost productivity this morning: MTV Networks, Trench Studios, Spin Shoppe, United Vision Financial, The Monkey Bunch/ESPN Deportes, ShopBop.com, Prive.


Do 10 reps of “checking out my photos” at the Kodak Gallery here.

Or step touch over to Wire Image to check out Red Carpet photos.