Hollywood history — or, perhaps, a meticulously coiffed footnote — was made at the Vanity Fair party when Justin Bieber sought out one of the town’s longest-running success stories, Tom Hanks, and got some fatherly advice. “Don’t become a jaded professional actor,” Hanks told the star-struck Bieber before sending him on his way with a hearty “Good luck to you.”
When we told Hanks later in the evening that we had a hunch this meeting with the Bieb was going to get play in the coming days, he deadpanned: “Did you feel the zeitgeist shudder — the tectonic plates of our culture shift?” We did, actually, although it could have been something we ate for breakfast.
As for Bieber, when we asked for his take on his encounter with Hanks, Haircut Boy drew a predictable teenage blank. “I don’t remember what he said,” Bieber told us. “He’s just a cool guy.”
Seeing double
Memo to the Winklevi: Stay single. When actor Armie Hammer arrived to the Vanity Fair party with his beautiful wife, Elizabeth Chambers, we got a big groan out of him by asking, “Where’s your brother?” Hammer, who via the magic of CGI plays twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in “The Social Network,” gave us a playful punch in the gut, then one-upped us: “Vanity Fair would only give two tickets and I wanted to bring my wife. So I killed him.”
Madge makes an appearance
Madonna, Mick Jagger‘s got your number. We spotted Madge and an entourage, including daughter Lourdes, high-tailing it back to the valet at the Vanity Fair party before 11 p.m., and word is she posed on the red carpet — ensuring her attendance was recorded by the media masses — did a single lap inside, then bolted. We also hear Madonna’s every calculated move on the red carpet was brilliantly deconstructed by Jagger — who wrote the bible on calculated moves — as he and a group watched via a closed-circuit TV feed that carried the action.
Gun control on set!
Not every celeb was at the Oscars. Sunday at the Cinema Society screening of “Rango,” Abigail Breslin told us co-star Johnny Depp won’t be what she recalls most from voicing a gunslinging mouse in the animated flick. “We actually had real guns on-set, which you don’t expect in an animated movie,” the 14-year-old told us at the Crosby Street Hotel. Let’s hope they had some child-safety locks on those things.
Larry David could hardly ‘Curb’ his enthusiasm
Larry David had a real-life “Curb Your Enthusiasm” moment at the Vanity Fair Oscars Party — and loved it. When “Borat” star Sacha Baron Cohen and his gorgeous wife, Isla Fisher, came by to say hi to the curmudgeonly comic, David hugged Fisher, and in the ensuing clinch a strap on the petite redhead’s gown broke. When David realized what had happened, his face broke into a gigantic smile. “Don’t blame me!” he told her as she grappled with the wardrobe malfunction. “I didn’t do it!” But he sure seemed to enjoy it.
Technical awards
“The Social Network” missed out on top honors at the Oscars Sunday night, but real-life tech types made quite a showing at the Vanity Fair post-Oscar party – and we’re not just talking about gregarious Napster founder Sean Parker. According to Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, what distinguished this year’s party from the fetes of yore was “the sheer number of tech entrepreneurs” in attendance. “We had the founders of Twitter (Jack Dorsey), Napster, Amazon (Jeff Bezos), Zynga (Mark Pincus) and even 4Chan (Christopher Poole),” Carter said. “When you mix them in with the stars and everyone from Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to Valentino, you’ve got a combustible mix.” Also present were former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, Paypal co-founders Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Justin Bieber Gets Wise Advice From Tom Hanks Post-Oscars: ‘Don’t Become A Jaded Professional Actor’ ♥
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