From: Stephanie Sent: To: 3/4/2011 11:15:40 PM Peggy Siegal Subject: RE: Oscar diary Attachments: Oscar story.doc I; [email protected] Jeffrey, Thanks, Stephanie Peggy's story is attached to the e-mail. I have included the story in the body of the e-mail as well. Gate a lie on he or t the to cre ren ines to aron on the new seria t the global headlines of a world spinning out of control. I head to Los Angeles like an overdressed lemming to attend the 83rd Academy Awards and attempt to make sense of artists thrust into combat. For the second year nearly 6,000 Academy members have nominated 10 films and the battle is down to two. The beloved timeless classic, passionate supporters of the brilliant edgier (and critics darling) "The Social Network" have not conceded. The ballots are counted, the party invites are out and still the feelings are raw. Filmmakers are exhausted from campaigning. At Bryan Lourd's famous star studded party Sony Classics' Co-President Michael Barker announces to me he has taken a random the Kodak Theater „sampling of voters in the room. He "There will be a 'Social Network' Shear panic radiates from my every pore as he says, "I am joking." It's like color Woody Allen and George Lucas tell me they are no longer members of the Academy because pitting artists against each other to determine the quality of their work is insane. They are right. My event and publicity company is considered "Switzerland" by the studios, as we help every filmmaker to present and position is work. This vear I am somewhat emotionally sucked in. In 2005 I meet the unknown 32-year-old English director Tom Hooper on his first film for HBO, "Elizabeth I". The Emmy award winning movie stars Helen Mirren, who takes credit for discovering him directing English television. Helen later wins her Oscar for portraying Queen Elizabeth in "The Queen" Elizabeth is the daughter of King George VI portrayed by Oscar winner Colin Firth in "The King's Speech". also become Hoober's chambron encouraana man to see his early work including his herculean 10 hour Bo mint-serte "John Adams" produced by Tom Hanks. Six years later at the Telluride Film Festival Tom Hooper is bathing in the glory of a hysterical standing ovation with colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush at the very first screening of "The King's Speech." Surprisingly, this drama's subtle humor gets big laughs leading up to its emotional ending. within two weeks, at The Toronto Film Festival, Harvey Weinstein is now standing with his filmmakers witnessing the same reaction. The film wins The Audience Prize. Their strategy is to say nothing. Do nothing. They have a possible Oscar winner. Four out of five past Best Pictures have premiered in Cut to New York City at the end of September. It's the opening night at The Film Society of Lincoln Center. One of America's most important and prolific producers Scott Rudin, along with Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Aaron Sorkin are in a brightly lit box waving down to their equally hysterical audience who have just seen "The Social Network" The film opens the next day to rave reviews and endless publicity. David Fincher is off making "The Girl . Aaron Sorkin becomes the face of the film and an immediate shoo-in for an Oscar. The Hamptons International Film Festival in October suddenly becomes a launching pad for "127 Hours" where cool Yale/NYU student James Franco appears and receives a heroic standing ovation. More Oscar buzz. "Black Swan" also unspools there in a tiny theater as Madonna, Alec Baldwin and even Harvey Weinstein slip in the back. Darren Aronofsky, ever present cool wool scarf around his neck is hailed a genius. Natalie Portman is instantly the hot nominee for Best Actress. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029773

Both films are sensational and movie goers go nuts, but it is "The King's speech" that edges out the competition for The Audience Prize. Mid-November David O. Russell and Mark wahlberg, working together for the third timelint Eastwood is sneak "The Fighter" in Manhattan. As their audience erupts in cheers, I tell producer/actor Wahlberg, "You are wrong. He turned it down because he's done it. He has seen it and he loves it. Puse i come no new in a we christian a and he as to are her Ted the suportini "True Grit" directed by the Coen Brothers and also produced by Scott Rudin doesn't premiere till mid- December at the Ziegfeld as the last serious Oscar contender for Best Picture. It gallops off to box This is the year many of the 78 million Baby Boomers go back to the theaters. Five small budget independent films become surprise hits as each exceeds $100 million. "The Social Network" now cements its battle cry with one word; "relevance". Mark Zuckerberg lands on the cover of Time Magazine as The Person of the Year. A smart and extensive ad campaign positions the film in the lead. Critics and pundits proclaim the race is over. "The Social Network" is the clear winner. Everyone goes on holiday. This is probably the only time in Harvey Weinstein's life that he is caught off guard. He quickly including Christmas. They mecome like a cher se Rest 15 at days operategy geeing days a week fine sing risey s they his become like a Chinese Restaurant... always open. film for the older voters. Everything is done by the books. Budgets are limited. He sends screenwriter David Seidler and Tom Hoooper to every corner of the country doing ata's till they are blue in the face from "finding their voice. SAG voters begin seeing the film 2 and 3 times. In January the Golden Globes voted on by about 88 foreign journalists gives Best Drama to "The Social Network" Best Director to perceived as the Oscar winner. David Fincher and Best Screenplay to Aaron Sorkin. Their film is still Team weinstein underestimates their hard work and is in shock when "haking's speech" wins the PGA in L.A. Harvey doesn't even attend and is working in sundance. They surprised when Tom Hooper wins the DGA and the actors win the SAG Ensemble. The BAFTAs reinforced the lead. They are now the front runner. It takes the media a few weeks to catch on. The Daily Mail announces Her Royal Highness, Queen Elizabeth has enjoyed a private screening of "The King's Speech" With no proof the Queen has actually seen the film, the weinstein Company sends out a global press release thanking her Majesty for the endorsement. They also acknowledge Prime Minister David Cameron's private Christmas screening. On Oscar night, Harvey's gang finally realizes tily as get sug tie osla for est Pictures the fog Bas spire or that Friday, February 24th Mid-day, I arrive at The Beverly Hills Hotel, where I have stayed for thirty years. As the housekeepers Another poor schmuck checking in downstairs will get the broom closet. organdy and embroidered silk evening clothes hang in my closet. where mend meadorn and Arrant are head a pity or fin tress mediterr the beaseiful ever kathy: "Veganist: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, Change the World. A perfect book for Monks. Arianna has just sold the Huffington Post for to AOL to $315 million dollars and rumored to have personally landed around $20 million. She is euphoric as she greets Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban at the door. Other drenched power players ushered in under umbrellas include Disney's Bob Iger and wife willow Fox's Jim Gianopulos, Candice Bergen and journalist daughter Chloe Malle. Google's Eric Schmidt, oliver Stone avoiding questions about Charlie Sheen and escortino his daughter Tara, Moby, Jamie Niven, Brian Grazer, Vivi Nevo, Tracey Ul1man. CBS's Les Moonves and Julie Chen. Rob Reiner, Paramount's Brad and fiancé Cassandra Marc and Jeff Bezos. Hors d'oeuvres include pigs in blankets, a food group not mentioned in Kathy's book. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029774

The party action migrates to UTA Jim Burkus's home in the neighborhood for "True Grit's" Ethan and Joel " Is he kidding? it to te cames shames Nancy Meyers and Jone kangingingle. Aserable Hallie Steinfeld is "peg, I am only 14. "there with her parents. I am trying to fix her up with Justin Bieber. She giggles, Hunky Josh Brolin tells me he is coming to New York in March to shoot two new films. He is working producing and starring in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" with Tim Burton as a future project. I am now inches away, face to face with Harrison Ford and stupidly tell him I love him in • He is looking at me in utter disbelief and I will not shut up. A gorgeous guy is also in a hat, glasses, jacket, layered sweater and scarves. I whisper to Harrison, "That looks just like Harrison rolls his eyes and reluctantly introduces me to his friend Johnny Depp. I babel a bit about his great work and run for cover to a corner next to my buddy, Jerry Bruckheimer. introduces me to the wives, Vanessa Paradis and Calista Flockhart. I bore them with girly chit-chat and it's time to get out of there. I head over to the CAA/Bryan Lourd "Friday Night Party". Torrential rains and horrific winds cause a traffic jam that makes it impossible to get near the house. Cell phones do not work. The world's most famous faces cower under black umbrellas and make a run for it. Bryan Lourd and Bruce Bozzi receive friends at the door all night. Inside Uma tells me she finally moved into a doorman building in New York after being terrorized by stalkers for years. Talented, Ben Walker talks about "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" he is about to shoot as his fiancé Mamie Gummer looks sexy shivering in a white satin gown. Producer Jon Kilik mentions he oversees a new cut of Julian Schnabel's "Miral" to be released in March. Bennett Miller, standing with Kristin Gore says Sony loves his new film "Moneybal" and Brad Pitt is terrific. (When is Brad Pitt not terrific?) Sandy Gallin tells me he has an actual job decorating Jeffrey Katzenberg's home and he has never been happier. I congratulate Barry Levinson's son, a director, for winning the writing award at sundance for his first film, Happy Day" which is inspired by his family. Also seen floating around are, Taylor swift and Jake Gyllenhaal, but not together, Sean Penn, Tom Curise and Katie Holmes, Anderson Cooper, Hilary Kate Hudson, Gerard Gonzalez-Inarritu, Bigelow and Mark Boal, to Broadway in "The Normal Heart" this spring and CAA's Kevin Huvane, Richard Lovett and Hylda Queally. Busy Bruce Cohen who is producing sunday's awards broadcast tries to get his car to leave. Limo lock is a standstill. Nothing is moving outside. Two hundred swells become party prisoners and resign to just having an absolute ball till 5:00am. Once again, this is the most star studded party in town. Saturday, February 26th, 2011 The sun comes up and dries up all the land. IAC chairmen and owner of The Newsweek/Daily Beast Barry pillate his dese wify Diareduce me to here star their anal chry erray ous tected their just elected to his third (nonconsecutive) term as California Governor. Diane's children, Alex and Tatiana, along with their children comprise three generations of guests, which makes this party so special. Like last year, enormous clear plastic tents are erected on the hill near the house. Long wooden picnic pates sausage one in said easely arahed on an ends burnet. Everyone Terrines of hot soup, wears winter clothes; comfy sweaters and sensible shoes. I arrive in a fur coat. Barry and Diane's loyal friends have been coming to this party for over fifteen years. Everybody knows or TV show this season. Oprah Winfrey kisses David greets people with wife Anna and Fran Lebowitz by his side. Ingrid Sischy and Sandy Brant, Rupert Murdoch, Ron Meyer, Bryan Lourd Francesco Clemente with his twin include the pregnant Victoria and David Beckham with Lynn wyatt, Larry Gagosian and Shala Monroque, Ben Silverman, Debbie and Allen Grubman, Tobias Meyer and Mark Fletcher and Stephen Gaghan and Mini Mortimer wearing her oversized cat glasses. Bruce Cohen has invited me to the Oscar broadcast rehearsal. This is a special honor. There are metal High-tech security includes photos and computer don't do is pat me down and ask for fingerprints. Once inside the adie herden some site a die dinner jackets an extern ses as pay preten to present Belin and Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay. Josh later told me at The Night Before Party acting methods are completely opposite. Josh says he is a quick study and is very creative and comfortable ad-libbing. Javier, whose mother tongue is Spanish, needs to have every syllable printed out. which he studies with a dialect coach. Little wiggle room for jokes. Life size photos on large cardboarc slaques are taped to each nominee's chair. I try to memorize their location, so when I return Sunday I can quickly kiss them all. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029775

Back at the Beverly Hills hotel, I slip into my gorgeous black tulle Dennis Basso cocktail dress with a plunging neck line and put on my mother's jewels. Jim Coleman takes me the Night Before Party in the hotel. This is Jeffrey Katzenberg's, 9th Annual A-lister event benefiting The Motion Picture & Television Fund where they raise $6.5 million dollars in one night. I walk right into Valentino who gives me the oncenight an Pariso es my nig the cans a festivaran they must bring the yalet ody i a the Cannes Film Festival and they must bring the yacht. Woody is also filming all summer in Rome and I am counting on them to entertain him. Elton John and David Furnish join our conversation and of course we ask for intimate details about the are delirious with parenthood. the hotel room. I tell her she's acted like a lady with So eaten the need tie a ween the ten on none reta he is ten ab in that someday soon she will win an Oscar because she consistently hands in amazing performances and everybody loves her. Next stop is Kate Capshaw in a black bowler hat chatting with Steven Spielberg's god-daughter Gwyneth Paltrow. Kate gushes as about her two grandchildren from daughter Jessica. is wildly excited about the film. I beg him to work on it. her new hair cut and her perfect little body. Her date tells me her secret "You should have said 'Hello'. I always cover my head because I The charity gives us a coupon booklet redeemable at various booths for cheap clothing, new iPads, make- Taylor and Ben Stiller, Cate Blanchette, Susan and Robert Downey, Jr., and Debra and Hugh Jackman. Next stop is The Weinstein Company's Pre-Oscar party at the Soho House, sponsored by MontBlanc, the piano in hopes of winning a Max Award. graciously pretends to know me. Her manager, Benny Medina is kicking me. I slip into Colin Firth's booth by the front bar to have a tete-a-tete with him and his wife Livia Giuggioli about tomorrow night. Jokingly, I suggest when he wins to say, "I'm speechless" patiently assures me many people, far more clever than I, have already mentioned this. He then says that I grill him about his wardrobe, as Ford only designs classics. I i on evadin be wearing ne i an unease ter geet he and Foran me For de models financial documentary "Inside Job" spend $6,000 dollars last week for a new Tom Ford tuxedo. In the back room Jennifer Lopez is now seated with weinstein's wife Georgina Chapman. Nominee Helena circulate. Celebs have now drifted over from , Michelle Williams and Leonardo Dicaprio with Bar Rafaeli. Russell Simmons "speech" filmmakers are functioning on high anxiety. Sunday, February 27th, 2011 Producer Donna Gigliotti is my date to the awards. We are both so nervous we arrive at the Kodak Theater at 3:00pm and nobody is there. We are driven around for an hour. When we arrive at the world's most famous red carpet, I guide Donna through the extreme right security check-in to make sure we mingle with the nominees and get on camera. correcting a fashion malfunction. Once again, five steps forward and three steps back. We are now posing for the still cameras between Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban. Our handbags begin buzzing. Countless friends are e-mailing us that they just saw us on television. James Franco and Anne Hathaway are hip and energetic hosts. The film montages are always the best and the Tom ristians we leads sat est HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029776

grueling work have finally paid off. King George VI and Harvey Weinstein now share the journey of a single man who triumphs over adversity. The Governor's ball, held above the Kodak Theater, recreates the Mocambo-Ciro's niteries of the 1930's using a palette of teal and white. Three bands alternate musical styles as hungry guests wolf down Wolfgang Puck' s delicious food. The winners triumphantly sachet around the room holding their heavy eight pound gold statues. An hour later there is a migration to the famous Vanity Fair party hosted by Graydon Carter at the Sunset Tower Hotel owned by Jeff Klein. One celebrity after another poses in front of the green hedge standing in the middle of the circular Vanity Fair logo to record their devotion and support to Graydon and the There's a hierarchy of arrival times. The inner circle of Graydon's 150 best friends attend a seated and viewing of the include Barry Diller Coppola, Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt, and Diane von Furstenberg+om Ford, Francis Ford Gallin, Mitch Glazer Carolina and Reinaldo Herrera, L wren Scott and sir Mick Jagger Naomi Watts and Live Schreiber, wendi stark, Judd Apatow, Jackie and Joan Collins, George Hammilton, Donna Karan and Steve Martin. The best and the brightest talent in town arrive at 9pm. They are Justin Bieber and his date selena Gomez, Andrew Garfield, Vera Farmiga, Armie Hammer, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Spacey, Charlize Anne Hathaway, Isla Fischer and Sasha Baron Cohen, Jane Fonda after her play, Hailee steinfield, Taylor Hackford and Helen Mirrel 33 Variations" Scarlett Johansson, Donald Trump whom I introduce to David O. Russell as The Trumpster gushes about "The Fighter" offers me a ride home on his plane. He is leaving in ten minutes. Too bad James Franco didn't know because he is presently sitting on a commercial flight back to school, skipping his own after party. Social standings of the rest of the guests are determined by half hour increments. Every other person previously mentioned in the story is here. VF's Beth Kseniak and Matt Ullian tell me the list is cut down to 800 this year. At 11:30pm there is another celebrity migration up the hill to Madonna manager Guy Oseary's house. One should note that earlier in the evening Madonna came down the hill to pose in a risqué outfit with daughter Lourdes in front of the green hedge. Madonna and co-host Demi Moore are able to lure the crème de la crème with the promise of fabulous music, dancing and no cameras. Those reported on their dance floor include Ryan Phillippe with Amanda syedfried, who were making out all night and Phillippe's ex-wife Reese Witherspoon and new fiancé Jim Toth. They pregnant Natalie Portman and choreographer Benjamin Millepied, Mick Jagger, Tom Hanks, Sean Penn, Ralph Feinnes, Mila Kunis, Cameron Diaz, Gwyneth Paltrow and Renee Zellweger and Bradley Cooper boogie til dawn. A winner's work is never done. Colin Firth, Tom Hooper and David Seidler show up at 4:30am at The Four Seasons Hotel for a live broadcast on The Today Show with Meredith Vieira. Functioning on an adrenalin they are back at the Kodak Theater with Geoffrey Rush to appear on Oprah's live broadcast. Leave it to Oprah to get the king's last words. -----Original Message ----- From: Peggy Siegal Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 6:12 PM To: Stephanie Subject: Oscar diary send to jeffrey HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029777