Monthly Archives: January 2012

Weekly Juice– P. Diddy’s Revolt, Suri Cruise’s Burn Book, Ferris Bueller, Prada’s 24 h Museum, Sushi Nozawa Closing and More.

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Our Little Truffle Hunters | Leave a comment

Sushi Nozawa is closing after 20+ years. The Studio City sushi hot spot that is infamous for its no cell phones, no children, no send backs policy has provided scant details as to why. Speculation abounds. Get it before it’s gone – Feb, 29. via LA Eater
Philippe vs Mr. Chow — the million dollar stolen recipe goes to trial - The Wrap
In a resolution that ends a story that arguably started years ago, WME has reportedly been ordered to pay somewhere between $20-30M in damages for the leasing fiasco regarding the 6-story office building over on Beverly Drive - Nikki Finke
It’s official - Hillary Rush is leaving LA for the East to set up shop in the Berkshires. Sales in LA will run throughout February and the last store will be fully packed up by March – with everything else shifting to web until the Berkshire store officially opens.
Dakota Fanning and Elle Fanning have both signed on as clients with WME (see image right).
Cast of “Lovelace” will include Sarah Jessica Parker (who will replace Demi Moore), Amanda Seyfried and Peter Sarsgaard (Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedmen to direct).
P. Diddy has announced he has teamed up with old-time MTV programmer Andy Schuon to produce Revolt which will offer simply music news and music- like the MTV of old. Comcast will distribute and the current plan is to launch on 12/12/12. via Perez Hilton
Matthew Broderick reprises his role as Ferris Bueller for car ad – NY Mag
HBO’s Girls has a premiere date – Lena Dunham’s new comedy series Girls, executive produced by Judd Apatow, debuts April 15, 2012 at 10:30pm – HBO
Prada has also announced this week the grand opening of the “24 h Museum” which Francesco Vizzoli designed along with AMO. An invite only dinner on January 24 marked the opening of the museum. - New York Times
Quite possibly our favorite event on the annual social calendar — the World Economic Forum in Davos each year attracts more businessmen and decision makers than any other event on the planet — Your guide to Davos: Financial Times & UK Gauradian
Last but not least, if you are female and went to high school (or watched Mean Girls) you have made or seen a ‘burn book’ …. we caught wind of this genius tumbrl which surfaced regaling readers of how Suri REALLY feels about all the other Hollywood offspring — no one if safe, not even the royals! http://surisburnbook.tumblr.com/

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Category: Weekly Juice

2012 Awards Ceremony Guide: Complete list of Nominees and Winners — SAGs, DGAs, Golden Globes, and Oscars!

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Our Little Truffle Hunters | Leave a comment

ET Emmys red carpet 2011

Getting confused about who won what? We have a complete list of all the awards to date counting down the Oscars — We have the winners from this weekends DGA and SAG awards … Next up is the Writers Guild Awards Sunday, Feb 19th.

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Category: Awards Season

Tagged: Awards Season, Emmys, Golden Globes, grammys, Oscars, Sundance

Hier Soir: 2012 SAG Awards & After Parties [SLIDESHOW]

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Our Little Truffle Hunters | Leave a comment

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Tilda Swinton in Lanvin and Pomellato jewelry

Actresses Tilda Swinton and Angelina Jolie chat during a commercial break at the 18th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles

Tilda Swinton and Angelina Jolie at the SAG Awards

Brangie kissing at the 2012 SAGs

Emma Stone in McQueen at the SAGs

Michelle Williams in Valentino

Rose Byrne in an Elie Saab jumpsuit

Entrance at the Shrine

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Director Robert Rodriguez, Justin Timberlake, Quentin Tarantino at the Weinstein / Dewars SAG after party

Harvey Weinstein, Busy Philipps, Darren Aronofsky at the Weinstein / Dewars SAG after party

Director Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) and Mila Kunis at the Weinstein / Dewars SAG after party

Tobey Maguire and Jen Meyer at the Weinstein / Dewars SAG after party

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Category: Awards Season

Los Angeles Restaurant Sightings — January 2012 [SLIDESHOW]

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Our Little Truffle Hunters | Leave a comment

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Larry King picked up a small pizza from Mulberry Pizza on Beverly Drive before flipping a u-tun in front of Rite-Aid and heading home on January 30, 2012

Rumer Willis and her friend Annie Stark along with Annie's mom Glen Close leave Comme Ca on January 28, 2012

Bradley Cooper leaving the Hotel Bel Air on January 5, 2012

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Brian Grazer and Deepak Chopra leaving Mr. Chow on January 12, 2012

Brad Grey, Bryan Lourd, Mark Walberg, Martin Scorses at the Bel Air for Paramount's Golden Globes lunch on Jan 14, 2012

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Cindy Crawford & Rande Gerber leaving Mr. Chow on January 13, 2012

Dakota Fanning leaving Mr. Chow on January 17, 2012

Sean Penn with his children at Dan Tana's on January 18, 2012

Katherine Heigl on the Culina patio (with her SmokeStik) on January 18, 2012

Brad Pitt leaveing Madeo's on January 19, 2012

Local celebrity and veterinarian Dr. Winter with owner Craig Susser at Craig's on January 27, 2012

From newcomers like Craig’s to oldies like Madeo’s from pizza joints to French cuisine, we got it covered.

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Category: Restaurants & Food

Tagged: Craig's, Dan Tana's, Hotel Bel Air, Madeo's, Mr. Chow

#Sundance Party Report — T-Mobile Google Music, Tao, Bing Bar & Hyde [SLIDESHOW]

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Our Little Truffle Hunters | Leave a comment

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Inside / Entrance to Tao at Sundance

Tao red carpet at Sundance

T-Mobile charging station outside Tao

#GoogleMusic at Tao @ Sundance 2012

This is what Tao looks like before Jeff Best and Noah get to it :D

Tao red carpet at Sundance

red carpet / basement entrance to Tao at Sundance

Basement entrance to Tao at Sundance

Keep going? Time to stop?

Todd Dufour and Blake Wassenaar at Tao

Kaskade at Tao

Kaskade at Tao

Zen Freeman is his Kaskade shades at Tao

The Daily Truffle on the Tao Google Music board

Press filming at #GoogleMusic at Tao in Sundance

#GoogleMusic at Tao in Sundance

#GoogleMusic at Tao in Sundance

Tao at Sundance

Invites to Google Music

Bar at Tao

The Lift at night

Bing bar -- coat check

Bing bar on Main at Sundance

Coat check at Bing

Bar at Bing

Bing bar -- fireplace

Bing bar

Drake with his body guard who wouldn't let anyone take pictures

Drake at Bing

Drake at Bing

Drake at Bing

Bing at Sundance

Entrance to Hyde

Party: Google Music and Tao at T-Mobile Village at the Lift

Where: Town Lift on Main St.

When: Friday, Saturday and Sunday Night — 7pm – 10pm, 11pm – 2am

Sightings: On Friday we saw Mary J Blige leaving while Aziz Ansari barely made it past the lines in the snow. Saturday we saw Danny Masterson late night on the red carpet, Paris Hilton at the first table in front of Kaskade with brother Baron Hilton and his girlfriend, Lil Jon at a table a little further back, James Marsden at a table across from Lil Jon’s, Aaron Paul, Malin Akerman, Drake, Kristen Dunst and Garrett Hedlund, Harvey Weinstein, Estelle, Blythe Danner, Angela Kinsey, Donald Faison, Chris Rock, Common, Cisco Adler, Jamie Chung, Olivia Thrilby, Mechad Brooks, Aaron Paul, Emma Roberts, Lizzy Caplan, Cuba Gooding Jr., Christina Hendriks and husband Geoffrey Arend, Julie Delpy, Teresa Palmer, Wilmer Valderama, Allison Janney (West Wing), Spike Lee, Danny Masterson, Robin Thicke, Ben Lyons, Mario Lopez, Rashida Jones, Quincy Jones (in town for Rashida’s new film — by coinicidence, we were greeted in our hotel room with a gift basket of Phylia prodcuts from Quincy’s other daughter. Her name is Kidadda and she has a new business venture with friend and partner Kazu Namise). Also spotted: Noah Tepperberg (Strategic Group / Tao owner), Jeff Best (event product for T-Mobile Village at the Lift), Dan Reagan, Chris Paul, Taylor Russell, Blake Wassenaar with Todd Dufour from Buzz Media, stylist Johnny Wujek, Carlos Manzanillo of PMK-BNC, Donovan Leitch, Ashlee Margolis, Red Foo of LMFAO, Afrojack, Chris Dennis, Thomas Cushing, Paul Brown, Risa Shapiro, Sarah Shyn, Karen Samfilippo, Jason Spiro, Melissa Hirschenson, and Pantera Sarah. Deb Fass and Fred Grimmel manned the Tao door as usual. Continue reading →

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Category: Music, Sundance

#Sundance Party Report — Burton Experience & Burton Après Lounge at Park City Mountain Resort [SLIDESHOW]

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Our Little Truffle Hunters | Leave a comment

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Welcome to Sundance

Burton Experience -- party

Burton igloos

Aaron Paul and his fiance

Emma Roberts

Burton Experience -- view from street

Amanda Wormann and Jessica Kaplan - pic via Style Sight

DJ Tay James - pic via Style Sight

Brent Bolthouse - pic via Style Sight

Burton Experience -- inside the tent

Burton Experience -- pizzaaaa

Burton Experience -- Drink menu

Mannequins and a man at Burton Experience

Burton Experience -- moving out

Gifts bags from Burton

Lauren Brokaw and Chase Weideman from Bismarck Phillips

Burton Experience -- view from the mountain

Burton Experience

Burton Experience

Celine Nano Luggage spotted

Board bench

Burton Experience -- First Time lift

Burton Experience -- hill view

Mountain Resort map

Event: The Burton Experience & Burton Après Lounge, Park City Mountain Resort

Where: Park City Mountain Resort, First Time Lift

When: Friday January 20th – Sunday, January 22nd

Sightings: Aaron Paul, Brent Bolthouse, Justin Beiber’s DJ, Tay James, Jason Mraz, director Catherine Hardwicke, Emma Roberts, Marc Webber (For a Good Time, Call…), and a more grown up Asher Roth (yes, he is now out of college) plus Burton PR Queen Anne-Marie Dachyshyn and Chief Creative Officer of Burton Snowboards Greg Dachyshyn, Katie Walters and Chase Weideman from Bismark Phillips who called Burton a client, and members of Burton’s pro team including Gab Viteri, Mark Sollors, and John Jackson.

Music: Great music such as Phantogram, Lana Del Rey, Chromeo, and the Beatles

Notes: The best chips and pizza ever PLUS a delish bar, and hot chocolate.

Pics via The Daily Trufle and Stylesight

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#Sundance Party Report: CAA Annual Sundance Party sponsored by Simple Night

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Our Little Truffle Hunters | Leave a comment

DJ Lady Sinclair spins the CAA party at 2012 Sundance

Party: CAA event at Sugar with DJ Lady Sinclair and DJ Ruckus
Where: Sugar, 268 Main Street

When: Saturday night, January 21st 2012

Sightings: Kristen Dunst with boyfriend Garrett Hedlund, James Marsden, Paul Dano, William H Macy, CAA’s hosts of the night and co-heads of the CAA finance dept, Roeg Sutherland & Micah Green, Don McNeill of Digital Kitchen *(who is responsible for bringing you the elevator commercials for the Cosmopolitan hotel in Las Vegas), Bianca White, reps for Sheets (LeBron James’ new energy strip company that co-sponsored the party), Jaren Eng of Just Jared, Wynter Mitchell of US Weekly and more, Silver restaurant on Main Street owner Lisa Barlow and her publicist New Yorked based Helena Renee, and more.

Music: DJ Lady Sinclair aka Michelle Kath Sinclair and DJ Ruckus

Notes:

• DJ Lady Sinclair aka Michelle Sinclair learned her skills direct from DJ AM who she grew up with in L.A. Michelle’s birth father is late Chicago guitarist Terry Kath; Michelle is in pre-production on a doc about him. Now it’s time for some Truffle 6 degrees of separation … Michelle’s mother was once married to Kiefer Sutherland who is brothers with CAA agent Roeg Sutherland who threw the party. Michelle has been known for her DJ gigs at major events like the Modern Warfare 3 Launch Party, the Louis Vuitton / Vanity Fair rooftop party in Beverly Hills, and currently has an in-house gig at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs.

• Greg Andrews, aka DJ Ruckus, made us feel bad about ourselves because we will never be as good at anything as he is at DJ-ing. Watching this man DJ is entrancing and we would have loved to do it for hours! We also think it’s pretty ff-ing cool that Ruckus dated uber super model (understatement) Doutzen Kroes. Ruckus is signed with Yoni Goldberg and Damon DeGraff’s, DGI Management, (DUHH) which has a pretty impressive roster list such as Paul Sevigny, Rev Run, Andre Saraiva, The Misshapes, Jesse Marco, photog Bronques, and more… #NBD, right?

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Category: Sundance

Tagged: CAA, Dj Lady Sinclair, Dj Ruckus, James Marsden, Kristen Dunst, Micah Green, Roeg Sutherland, Sundance

A little side note from Sundance on the new West Memphis Three documentaries

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Caroline | Leave a comment

Although there were many points of interest at this year’s Sundance, the most fascinating and moving element was hands-down the new Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) produced documentary about the West Memphis Three which is directed by Amy Berg (who won an Oscar for her preist-molestation film Deliver Us from Evil in 2006) and is titled: West of Memphis. Moreover, the biggest star of Sundance, and biggest shock was one of the West Memphis Three, Damien Echols, who came along with Peter Jackson and several of the parents of the murdered boys that led to his possibly false imprisonment and death sentence in the 90s. Damien was joined in Sundance with his wife whom he met and married while on death row. The doc is aptly timed with the release of the West Memphis Three from prison this past August although it’s been in the works for ages. Peter was also with his wife who co-produced the film- the couple has been providing financial and public support for the defense since seeing Joe Berlinger’s 1996 documentary Paradise Lost for HBO about the case. The situation is only going to get bigger and bigger, as Berlinger’s follow up in a series of three HBO documentaries, “Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory,” was just nominated for an Oscar yesterday.

UPDATE (February 1, 2012): Deadline Hollywood is reporting Colin Firth has signed on to join Reese Witherspoon to co-star in Devil’s Knot, based on investigative reporter Mara Leveritt’s 2003 book Devil’s Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three, to be directed by Atom Egoyan (The Exorcism Of Emily Rose). Colin will play private investigator Ron Lax who offered his services for free to the defendents in 1993 and who helped find the DNA in the knots that bound one of the victims that cast suspicion on the stepfather of one of the 8-year old murdered boys. Filming begins next summer in Louisiana, and other big names are expected to join the cast in smaller roles.

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Category: Awards Season, Sundance

#Sundance Party Report — T-Mobile Village at the Lift (#VATL) with Puma and Miami Oasis [SLIDESHOW]

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Our Little Truffle Hunters | Leave a comment

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Check-in at the Lift #VATL

Stella Artois Cafe at the Lift

#VATL pass

Entrance to Miami Oasis

#VATL -- Drink menu at Miami Oasis

#VATL -- inside Miami Oasis

#VATL -- Patron do-it-yourself muddling bar at Miami Oasis

#VATL -- Chalk roof at Miami Oasis

#VATL -- Patron do-it-yourself muddling bar at Miami Oasis

#VATL -- inside Miami Oasis

#VATL -- Cisco Adler getting tattooed by Code of Conduct’s Jason Hoodrich at Miami Oasis

#VATL -- drink menu at Miami Oasis

Matt Donnelly in Jeremy Scott bear ears

#VATL -- Udi's gluten free food at Miami Oasis

#VATL -- Patron do-it-yourself muddling bar at Miami Oasis

Puma entrance at the Lift

Tracy Pendleton & Lauren Brokaw

Tracy Pendleton and Matthew Gray Gubler

#PumaSocial at the Lift

#PumaSocial -- Patron 2 way mirror tells you the inner truth

McSmores and McChocolate chip cookiessss

Patron 2 way mirror typing up my diagnosis

Print out from Patron 2 way mirror

#VATL -- Outside the Puma tent

#VATL -- ambiance at Puma

#VATL -- ambiance at Puma

#VATL -- the Wireimage photog at Puma

#VATL -- ambiance at Puma

#VATL -- ambiance at Puma

#VATL -- Ping pong at Puma

#VATL -- silk screening at Puma

#VATL -- Matthew Gray Gubler at Puma

#VATL -- lil Jon at Puma

#VATL -- signing the ping pong table at Puma

#VATL -- garage entrance

#VATL -- garage entrance

#VATL -- outside

The Lift at night -- #VATL

Party: Puma Social & Miami Oasis at the T-Mobile Village at the Lift

Where: Town Lift on Main Street

When: Friday, January 20th – Sunday, January 22nd

Notes: Jeff Best of Best Events converts the Town Lift in Park City on Main Street every year into a snow oasis for Snowdancers… I mean Sundancers — PMK-BNC and Brandlink Communications are brought in to handle press. Domain Media is brought in to wrangle talent for this 3 tiered event which includes Puma/Wireimage inside a tent on the snow by the lift, Miami Oasis housed below on the ground level, and Tao’s pop-up nightclub on the garage level. Stella Artois Cafe is set up next to the Puma tent by the lift. The best part about the whole thing are the girls who do the list camped out in the ticket consuls where one normally buys their ski lift passes; LUV!

Spotted at Miami Oasis at The Lift: Liv Tyler, Andie MacDowell, Isla Fisher, Laura Prepon, James Marsden, Lil Jon (who is still using a blackberry), Cisco Adler getting tattooed by Code of Conduct’s Jason Hoodrich, LA Times’ Matt Donnelly in Jeremy Scott bear ears, Kristin Patrick (Playboy’s Chief Marketing Officer, formerly from WME’s marketing dept), Martine Williamson (Chief Marketing Officer for Revlon), Chris Hopkins (Playboy’s SVP of Brand Partnerships) & his wife Iran Hopkins, Noah Tepperberg walking in with Mario Lopez, and more.

Spotted at Puma/Wireimage: Matthew Gray Grubbler (Criminal Minds), Sigourney Weaver, Cillian Murphy, Tim Daly, Mechad Brooks, Will Forte, Emma Roberts, Rashida Jones, Elijah Wood, Andy Samberg, Joel Edgerton (The Killing), producer Peter Jackson, Blythe Danner, Anne Heche, Carrie Preston (Good Wife, True Blood), Richard Gere, Emily Blunt, Lizzy Caplan, Rosemarie DeWitt, Lake Bell, Kate Bosworth, Ryan Kwanten, Elizabeth Olsen, Allison Janney, Nia Vardalos, Liv Tyler, Cheryl Hines (Suburgatory),Malin Akerman, Cisco Adler, Rebecca Hall (Vicky Christina Barcelona, The Town), Ari Graynor, Edward James Olmos, Frank Langella (here for Robot and Frank), Jason Ritter, Michael Cera, Neil Young talking to MTV inside, Jeff Vespa doing celebrity photos inside the Wireimage studio within Puam, Tracy Pendleton who represents Puma, and more.

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Category: Sundance

Tagged: Puma, Sundance