Bruno couldn’t make it to the Getty House for the mayor’s premature Oscar party, too busy chomping down on the dribbles of kibbles dispensed from the new damn MannersMinder machine. At least that’s my story, not getting an invite might also have had something to do with it.
But other media mongrels did so. The Hollywood Reporter came up with some pictures of the mostly from the second tier glamor and glitterati set.
Of all the dog trainers in the world, it was the Wall Street Journal that provided an account of the rest of us missed.
Speakeasy writer Stephen Kurutz, who might have sneaked in saying he was Paul Koretz, described the soiree, saying that “for much of the evening we felt like we were in a scene from “The
Player.’”
Noting the mayor being photographed on the red carpet and the city workers seeing red with protest signs out front of Getty House, Kurutz mingled with industry exec types in suits and eavesdropped on two guys he made as agents or managers. You know the type. They were exchanging boasts about who they represent.
Then he heard these snippets from other partygoers:
“Oh, my God. Ben Silverman is here. We truly have arrived.”
“Best agent in the business, right here.”
“Was Morgan Freeman trying to take your tacos?”
The last comment was his favorite and made his think it was some kind of Hollywood “sexual innuendo,” whatever that means.
Freeman only stayed long enough for a cameo and Kathryn Bigelow stood the mayor up so this WSJ guy hung around “The Blind Side” star Quinton Aaro, who is so big even Bruno wouldn’t mess with him.
He was about as well known as Bruno until this movie but the ladies seem to be enamored so he was asked what it was like to be fawned over and a big-time celebrity.
“I’m loving it,” he said.
The Speakeasy commented “It wasn’t exactly Tolstoy but it seemed to sum everything up quite
well.”
Bruno feels a whole lot better about the mayor’s snub hearing that.