Epstein Secrets

ng categories were easy to predict. Cate Blanchett wowed the minute Blue Jasmine was released in July. This instantaneous phenomenon is known as the “Colin-Firth-Daniel-Day-Lewis slam dunk” In November, beautiful darling Jared Leto stole everybody's hearts dressed as a woman in Dallas Buyers Club. His long ha

s and winners including Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Oprah Winfrey, Charlize Theron, Bradley Cooper, Jonah Hill, Alexander Payne, Steve Sean Penn, 58 | AVENUE MAGAZINE « APRIL 2012 McQueen, and Alfonso Cuarén were among the evening’s migrating tribe. SATURDAY, MARCH 1 Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg cancele

r love of what Americans do best: making the most wonderful and culturally enlightening movies that entertain the world. On to Cannes!+ APRIL 2012 * AVENUE MAGAZINE | 59 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010722

eel that films should be in competition. He told me, “A statue does not change your life. You still get a cold. You can't get a date. You still 58 | AVENUE MAGAZINE « APRIL 2012 have everyday things to worry about.” The Academy learned to love him from a distance and gave him Best Original Screenplay as a consol

e a seated dinner at her Holmby Hills home for best friends Nancy Reagan, Wendy Stark, Bob Colacello, Joan Collins and fashion icon Lynn Wyatt. 62 | AVENUE MAGAZINE « APRIL 2012 Tobias Meyer, auctioneer for Sotheby’s and art dealer Mark Fletcher hosted an open house at their Mulholland Drive home for American av

at a neighborhood school where a luxury van transported guests to the stone and glass Bel-Air estate situated on a narrow street. I knew that guests Colin Firth, Penelope Cruz, Sofia Vergara, Salma Hayek, Sandra Bullock, and Glee’s Matthew Morrison did not arrive by bus. Once inside the playing field leveled

shenanigans, including celebrating with Colin Firth, Jesse Eisenberg, Elton John, Oprah Winfrey and many more. photographs by PATRICK MCMULLAN 64 | AVENUE MAGAZINE - APRIL 2011 addafi is hunkering down in Tripoli, giving press interviews, denying that rebels are taking over Eastern Libya. Oil prices are shootin

remind her we met on Len Blavatnik’s yacht in Cannes. She graciously pretends to remember me. Her manager, Benny Medina, is kicking me. I slip into Colin Firth’s booth to have a téte-a-téte with him and his wife Livia Giuggioli. Jokingly, I suggest he say “I’m speechless” when he wins. Colin patiently assures