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Vivid Halloween Party
2002-10-31 23:41:50
The party started at 9PM.
Hugh Hefner showed up around 10PM with half a dozen Playboy Playmates.
Shaggy, a big Jamaican reggae star, showed. He had last year's biggest
reggae song, "It wasn't me."
The wait to get in lasted up to an hour for people on the low end of the
prestige bar.
Steve Hirsch and the Vivid executives arrived around 11PM.
Director Michael Bay, all 6'5" of him showed. Before he married, he went
through almost every blonde porn star including Houston.
I arrived at 8:20 PM. Luckily I brought a book on tape that I listened
to through my Walkman - Johnathan Franzen's Connections.
I stood beside the rope on the walk in with half a dozen paparazzi photographers.
A Los Angeles Times photographer went straight inside.
A few stars from TV reality shows like Big Brother appeared (black guy
Marcellus Reynolds and white girl Lisa Donahue).
Tori Spelling was one of the few stars who refused to pose for pictures
for the paparrazi.
I only recognized a handful of porn stars including Wicked director Brad
Armstrong with date Stormy, a new Wicked girl. Sydney Steele came. She
had a big Afro and didn't want to be photographed.
Scott Fayner from Hustler walked in early.
Sheera, a girl I know from Jewish singles life, walked in.
The desperation by the people outside to get in was palpable and a quick
measure of a person's status. The less status, the longer the wait.
A guy walked up and told the security guards, "I'm the owner." Guard didn't
know him. Called over another guard, who said, "I don't know you sir."
Five minutes later, he got in.
Men stood with their dates, trying to demonstrate their pull by getting
into the party.
It seems pathetic to me that people over 30 years old still want to go
to these things.
MFSD writes on www.theeroticreview.com: I saw a piece on TV the other
day. Hugh Hefner was giving a guided tour of the Playboy mansion and surrounding
grounds. While interesting to me, in the sense of, this is how a rich,
famous guy lives, the closet full of pajamas and smoking jackets was a
bit silly.
As much as I admire the guy for his ground breaking lifestyle, the image
of this 75 year old cavorting with his cavalcade of post pubescent betty
boops, is getting a bit tired. I mean really, what in the world does he
talk to these women about, the majority of which are young enough to be
his grandaughters.
I spoke with a gal who has visited the mansion and knows one of Hef's
20 something girlfriends. Her take was the mansion wasn't all that, Hef
was downing viagra by the box, his "act" was a bit lame, but that he was
basically a nice, generous man.
Hef get out the PJs, buy some dockers and top siders, stop insuinating
you're the world's greatest stud, and date a woman who's only young enough
to be your daughter.
From: http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/cl-et-piccalo02nov02.story
Director Michael Bay and his stunner girlfriend Lisa Dergan worked their
way through the crushing, costumed crowd -- a human nightstand, a flock
of French maids, a towering Anna Nicole Smith -- to a series of "interactive
rooms" where scantily clad porn actors entertained passers-by with suggestive
antics.
Out in the back parking lot, the Lakers' Rick Fox (as Santa Claus), hip-hop
artist Shaggy (as himself) and Tori Spelling (as a genie?) mingled among
hundreds more as several naked women dazzled the crowd from a small stage.
The Halloween party in West Hollywood, a 1,000-strong affair with a modest
budget of about $35,000, was a group effort, funded by adult film giant
Vivid Video Inc. and co-hosted by hotel heiress Paris Hilton, Flaunt magazine
and Pony sportswear. It brought out a motley mass of actors, writers,
rock star progeny (Jack Osbourne and Ahmet Zappa) and exotic dancers.
"This is the only party where the porn stars dress like lawyers," said
guest Josh Etting, a writer for the WB's "The Jamie Kennedy Experiment."
Bay, himself an experienced partygoer, was trying to make sense of it
all. "What is this place?" he asked. "We've been walking around for the
last 10 minutes trying to figure out whose party this is!" Dergan nodded
furiously, her eyes wide.
The event was held at the Live Acts Video Inc. building on Beverly Boulevard,
a two-story place with blank white walls where couples rent out theme
rooms (a dentist's office, a barn, a psychedelic lounge, a Pottery Barn
bedroom) to create their own videos.
The most popular room on Thursday night was the dungeon, where an enormous
bare-chested man flogged a blindfolded, topless woman. With each strike,
voyeur Tori Spelling cringed and then giggled.
AVN.com reported: VAN NUYS, Calif. - Vivid Girls Sunrise Adams and Taya
joined hotel heiresses Paris and Nicky Hilton and several celebrities
at Vivid's Halloween bash in West Hollywood.
Vivid, Flaunt magazine and Pony Sportswear sponsored the event at the
two-story Live Acts Video building that attracted a crowd including Hugh
Hefner, Lakers forward Rick Fox, Vin Diesel, Tori Spelling and hip-hop
artist Shaggy.
"We were expecting about 700 but we ended up with about 1,000," T.J. DiReda,
director of marketing and publicity for Vivid, told AVN.com.
Other personalities spotted included Jaime Pressly, Brittany Murphy, Mickey
Rourke, Jack Osbourne, Ahmet Zappa, director Michael Bay, Lisa Dergan
and Backstreet Boy Kevin Richardson.
LA Times Covers Vivid's Halloween Bash
2002-11-03 08:29:24
Director Michael Bay and his stunner girlfriend Lisa
Dergan worked their way through the crushing, costumed crowd -- a human
nightstand, a flock of French maids, a towering Anna Nicole Smith -- to
a series of "interactive rooms" where scantily clad porn actors entertained
passers-by with suggestive antics.
Out in the back parking lot, the Lakers' Rick Fox (as Santa Claus), hip-hop
artist Shaggy (as himself) and Tori Spelling (as a genie?) mingled among
hundreds more as several naked women dazzled the crowd from a small stage.
The Halloween party in West Hollywood, a 1,000-strong affair with a modest
budget of about $35,000, was a group effort, funded by adult film giant
Vivid Video Inc. and co-hosted by hotel heiress Paris Hilton, Flaunt magazine
and Pony sportswear. It brought out a motley mass of actors, writers,
rock star progeny (Jack Osbourne and Ahmet Zappa) and exotic dancers.
"This is the only party where the porn stars dress like lawyers," said
guest Josh Etting, a writer for the WB's "The Jamie Kennedy Experiment."
Bay, himself an experienced partygoer, was trying to make sense of it
all. "What is this place?" he asked. "We've been walking around for the
last 10 minutes trying to figure out whose party this is!" Dergan nodded
furiously, her eyes wide.
The event was held at the Live Acts Video Inc. building on Beverly Boulevard,
a two-story place with blank white walls where couples rent out theme
rooms (a dentist's office, a barn, a psychedelic lounge, a Pottery Barn
bedroom) to create their own videos.
The most popular room on Thursday night was the dungeon, where an enormous
bare-chested man flogged a blindfolded, topless woman. With each strike,
voyeur Tori Spelling cringed and then giggled.
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