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DiGiacomo:<\/strong> I was going through the crowd, and I kicked something with my foot. It was heavy. And I looked down, and it was this clearly very expensive diamond bracelet. And I was like, \u201cWhat do I do with this?\u201d So I went and I found someone who works at Vanity Fair, and I say, \u201cI found this on the floor.\u201d After the party, I was told that it was a $750,000 Harry Winston bracelet. It had been on Elizabeth Hurley\u2019s wrist. I\u2019m a little miffed that she never thanked me for that. [Hurley did not respond to a request for comment.]<\/p>\n Lisa Robinson<\/strong> (contributing editor): In 2001, Bob Dylan RSVPed that he was coming\u2014which is shocking, because that\u2019s just not him. I called his manager and said, \u201cBob is really coming?\u201d He said, \u201cYes, he\u2019s coming.\u201d<\/p>\n Bob Dylan never showed up. John McEnroe, Jewel, Sheryl Crow, and I sat at a table right in the middle room at Morton\u2019s with an empty seat for the entire night.<\/p>\n At the party, not all guests were created equal. Invitations came with time slots. The top talent got invited for dinner. The pretty young things and up-and-comers came afterward. Plus-ones got 11:30 p.m. But anyone who won an Oscar, in any category, could enter through a dedicated fast lane.<\/p>\n Paltrow:<\/strong> Walking into the Oscar party with an Academy Award was a surreal and out-of-body experience. I felt somewhere between floating and completely disassociated.<\/p>\n DiGiacomo:<\/strong> In 2002, Jennifer Connelly won best supporting actress for A Beautiful Mind. I asked her if there was any better natural high than winning an Oscar. I remember she just looked at me. She has these amazing eyes. There\u2019s something very almost translucent about them. She said, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t suck.\u201d<\/p>\n Lebowitz:<\/strong> This thing\u2014the Academy Award\u2014that these people want with a level of desire you cannot imagine. To me, it always seemed silly. It still does! I used to say, \u201cIt is a knick-knack.\u201d At the beginning of each night before the thing started, I would say, \u201cWho won last year?\u201d Lots of times, people couldn\u2019t remember. I\u2019d say, \u201cIf it was really important, we\u2019d remember who won last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.vanityfair.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DiGiacomo: I was going through the crowd, and I kicked something with my foot. It was heavy. And I looked down, and it was this clearly very expensive diamond bracelet. And I was like, \u201cWhat do I do with this?\u201d So I went and I found someone who works at Vanity Fair, and I say, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2310455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25060,348109,344473,378300],"class_list":["post-2310454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-awards","tag-awards-season","tag-oscars","tag-oscars-2026"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/An-Oral-History-of-the-Vanity-Fair-Oscar-Party.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2310456,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310454\/revisions\/2310456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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