Sienna Miller, Poppy Delevigne, Florence Brudenell-Bruce

Wimbledon, held from June 20th to July 3rd this year, is the oldest and most prestigious tennis tournament in the world. We don’t know much about the players (sorry, I know!) but we do like the crowd!

On the list … Guest who’ve been in and out of the tennis championships since they started include Pippa Middleton, Will & Kate, Anna Wintour, Robert Redford, Sienna Miller, Poppy Delevigne, Dakota Fanning, Jay-Z, Kirsten Dunst (who starred in the 2004 film “Wimbledon”), Olivia Palermo, Brooklyn Decker (there to support husband Andy Roddick), Kim Cattrall (there to support friend Venus Williams), Leith Clark, Stanley Tucci, Sabrina Guinness, Alexandra Spencer-Churchill, Boris Becker, Maria Sharapova, Holly Branson, and Florence Brudenell-Bruce who is the new rumored lady love to Prince Harry … Florence is a lingerie model, nicknamed ‘Flee’ by her friends and eighth cousin to Harry.

Tournament Perks … Evian VIP Box, Ralph Lauren Wimbledon Party,pre-parties, post-parties, games and more ….

Dakota Fanning (Campbell Hall) was crowned Homecoming Queen, an upgrade from Homecoming Princess last year … if anyone knows who her partner(s) in crime are in these photos, we want to give them props too! Leave a comment or email me at caroline@dailytruffle.net

Ahmet Zappa had a big day in the media! The Los Angeles Times and Hollywood Reporter ran stories about his pending deal with Disney for a script loosely inspired from Disneyland’s Enchanted Tiki Room. Ahmet Zappa is the head of Kingdom Comics, Disney’s first graphic-novel-to-film division which he co-developed with studio head Bob Eiger a few years ago. Ahmet’s wife, Shana Zappa (also an LA native, Marymount High School), is a designer and is currently pregnant with their first child and recently started her own blog. Both friends of the Truffle …

Ahmet & Shana Zappa with Darren Romanelli at their Fraggle Rock launch last year at Kitson

DAYS MISSING creator Trevor Roth and executive editor Rod Roddenberry had a launch party last week at Meltdown Comics for the latest installment of their comic book franchise Days Missing — Grill Cheese truck and all!

“The original Missing told the tale of a solitary Earth-bound caretaker called The Steward. His job, in essence, was (and is) to “remove” days from history that he deemed harmful to the advancement of mankind. He would then sew time back together and catalog those particular missing days in a secret library. At the close of the original story arc, there were hints that The Steward might not be as alone as he had originally thought. The new Missing series introduces readers to a female character named Kestus, who may or may not be just as powerful as The Steward.” – http://www.usatoday.com

Both Harvard-Westlake grads and friends of the Truffle, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth are founder and COO of Roddenberry.com, respectively. On the Roddenberry website you can also find two amazing comic strips – one Gene’s Journal is about Gene Roddenberry’s (Rod’s dad) abduction by aliens as a child and the other Rod & Barry is about two aliens who come to dominate Earth but get caught up in sci-fi arguments on the couch instead. Also watch out for Questar, a TV show in development with Imagine TV that is based on a 70s pilot created by Gene Roddenberry. They also are in post-production on a documentary about the legacy left to us about Gene Roddenberry called www.treknationmovie.com.

DJ AM records will go on sale at Mark Hunter’s CobraShop Nov 12 – 14. Thousands of AM’sold records will be sold. Mark Hunter (also an LA native, SaMo high) proprietor of the Hollywood and Highland shop will be sending 100% of the proceeds to the DJ AM Memorial Fund, which maintains the legacy of Adam Goldstein (LA native, Beverly) and his commitment to helping other struggling with addiction.

Once again our choices for the week .. these are parties our friends are throwing and just things we like. Please do not re-post these invites on your calendars or our friends will stop letting us do it and no one will get to see.

Tuesday

Nylon Mag Music Issue soiree at Skybar >>  Hosted by M.I.A. >> La native Tennessee Thomas Dj’s >> After party at Trousdale

Jaguar party with LA native Robin Thicke (Montclair Prep)

Bing party with Drake preforming live

Wednesday

Adrian Grenier documentary screening “Dont Quit your Dream”

Rolling stone party

Thursday

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Premier at LA Live (Coverage day of)

Angeleno party at the W Hollywood

Friday

EDC Friday lineup:

Armand Van Helden, Travis Barker x A-Trak (RIP AM), Steve Aoki, Dada Life, Deadmau5, Swedish House Mafia, Kaskade, Dirty South, Moby, Basement Jaxx, Z-Trip, Afro Jack, etc.

Saturday

EDC Sat Lineup

Mstrkrft, Duck Sauce, Boys Noize, Roger Sanchez, Fedde Le Grand, Groove Armada, La Riots, Wolfgang Gartner, Armin Van Buuren, Benny Benassi, Will.i.am, Dada Life, etc.

Carly Margolis’ jewelry line All for he Mountain on sale at Byron & Tracy salon

Dakota Fanning rocks her Proenza Shouler bag

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Actresses Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart attend the Welcome To The Rileys premiere during the 2010 Sundance Film Festival at Racquet Club on January 23, 2010 in Park City, Utah.

The weekend has opened up well with some interesting documentarians bring shorts to Sundance Day 1 (Thursday) such as Senator Edward Kennedy’s acclaimed documantary-making daughter Rory who takes a look at our fence building project on the Mexican border, Pablo Escobar’s own son comes clean in a documentary about the crazy mo fo in Sins of My Father”, Spike Jonzes shows his dark and wierd side with a freaky semi-animated short about robots plugged into the system, blah, blah, blah and DRUM ROLL PLEASE … Adrian Grenier is a stand out in this category with his film about a pre-maturing star struck teen he took pity on and indulged in this documentary featuring tons of A-listers about the world’s obsession with celebrity – why this is such a mystery to Adrian is beyond me – everybody loves a good story and beautiful things. Simple as that.

In the category of MAJOR A LIST stars at Sundance, Ben Affleck and Tommy Lee Jones showed up to the premiere of The Company Men, a story about corporate downsizing. I use to looooove Tommy, but I feel like he’s just done too many movies. Is that wrong? Nothing wrong with working and making money I suppose … Ben Affleck sans Jennifer and getting testy with the cameras (see pics below). I love Ben because he looks like my ex-boyfriend. The most interesting thing to me here is little Sasha Speilberg making her way down the red carpet looking like an exact brunette version of her mom, Kate Capshaw. When Kate and Steven were first dating, he lived up the street from me off Coldwater Canyon and Jessica Capshaw was a friend (Harvard-Westlake). I remember when they wed, bought their house together in the Palisades, had Sasha, adopted Theo and we graduated and went to college … but I hear life went on for the Speilbergs after I left L.A. and they continued to adopt and have children. They are also at my neighbor’s house (Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson) in Malibu Colony all the time – though not recently since they been renovating.

Another interesting film from an actor – Josh Radnor of How I met Your Mother – which co-stars the most genius actor of all time NPH! (read: Neil Patrick Harris for the non-believers) – has directed a film good enough to make it to Sundance and sounds like The Pursuit of Happyness meets Swingers, and stars my favorite actress with a ritzy profile – Kate Mara (Transsiberian (2008), Entourage (season 6), Iron Man 2 (2010) – stand back Paltrow – Mara’s family owns the New York Giants and the Pittsburgh Steelers; she is the great-granddaughter of Giants founder Tim Mara, the granddaughter of late Giants owner Wellington Mara on her father’s side, as well as the great-granddaughter of Steelers founder Art Rooney on her mother’s side. Mara’s uncle is John Mara, the president and CEO of the Giants, and her father is the vice president of player evaluation. Mara missed the Steelers’ winning Super Bowl XL in 2006 because she was working in Los Angeles. Mara was so disappointed, she added to her contract that if the Giants or Steelers go to the Super Bowl, she can attend. Mara’s favorite Giants game was when she was asked to sing the national anthem in honor of her grandfather, Wellington Mara, who died in October 2005. Mara has regularly sung at home games and season openers of the Giants since about the age of 15 or 16 when her uncle asked her to fill in when they couldn’t find a singer. She has also sung at a couple of Steelers games. She sang the national anthem at the 2006 NFL season opener, dubbed the “Manning Bowl,” where the Giants played the Indianapolis Colts.

Sympathy for Delicious (2010) directed by Mark Ruffalo, starring Orlando Bloom, Juliette Lewis and Mark Ruffalo.

PLOT: A newly paralyzed DJ gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing.

“Cyrus” premiere, starring: Actors Jonah Hill, Matt Walsh, Katie Aselton, Catherine Keener, Marisa Tomei, John C. Reilly, directors Jay Duplass and director Mark Duplass attend the Cyrus premiere. PLOT: A recently divorced guy meets the woman of his dreams. Then he meets her son.

Actors Jonah Hill, Matt Walsh, Katie Aselton, Catherine Keener, Marisa Tomei, John C. Reilly, directors Jay Duplass and director Mark Duplass attend the Cyrus premiere

“The Dry Land” premiere, PLOT: A U.S. soldier returning home from war struggles to reconcile his experiences abroad with the life and family he left in Texas.

Ethan Suplee, Wilmer Valderrama, America Ferrera, Ryan O'Nan, director Ryan Piers Williams, Ana Claudia Talancon, Jason Ritter, June Diane Raphael and Diego Klattenhoff attend "The Dry Land" premiere during the 2010 Sundance Film Festival at Eccles Center Theatre on January 24, 2010 in Park City, Utah.

Actor Jason Ritter attends "The Dry Land" premiere during the 2010 Sundance Film Festival at Eccles Center Theatre on January 24, 2010 in Park City, Utah.

2010 Sundance Film Festival – “Welcome To The Rileys” Premiere

On a business trip to New Orleans, a damaged man seeks salvation by caring for a wayward young woman. Kristen Stewart and James Gandolfini star, Jake Scott directs.

2010 Sundance Film Festival – “Splice” Premiere stars Adrien Brod- PLOT: Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named “Dren”, the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators – only to have that bond turn deadly.

Actor Adrien Brody attends the "Splice" premiere at Egyptian Theatre during the 2010 Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2010 in Park City, Utah.

Paris Hilton and Doug Reinhardt attend premiere of Teenage Paparazzo

Teenage Paparazzo | Adrian Grenier 2009 | Spotlight, World Premiere | 91 min.

PLOT: Documentary written and directed by Adrian Grenier that examines the relationship between celebrity and society with cameos from Alec Baldwin, Drew Barrymore, Noam Chomsky, fKevin Connolly, Whoopi Goldberg, Paris Hilton, Perez Hilton, Martin Landau, Lindsay Lohan, Eva Longoria Parker, Mario López, Rosie O’Donnell.
MORE: When precocious 13-year-old paparazzo Austin Visschedyk snapped a photo of celebrity Adrian Grenier (HBO’s Entourage), little did he know his life was about to change. Turning the tables on the juvenile paparazzo, Grenier stepped on the other side of the lens in an attempt to mentor a teenager obsessed with the lure of the Hollywood lifestyle. Grenier develops a meaningful relationship with his camera-clicking young friend as he attempts to reconcile their mutual exploitation. Indeed, Grenier puts himself on the line here, trying to make sense of his own recently acquired fame.

Actor/Director Adrian Grenier arrives at the "Teenage Paparazzo" premiere during the 2010 Sundance Film Festival at Racquet Club Theatre on January 22, 2010 in Park City, Utah.

Austin ‘the pint size paparazzi’ Visschedyk attends the Teenage Paparazzo premiere during the 2010 Sundance Film Festival at Racquet Club Theatre on January 22, 2010 in Park City, Utah.

Davis Guggenheim and wife Elizabeth Shue

WAITING FOR SUPERMAN | Davis Guggenheim 2009 | U.S. Documentary Competition, World Premiere, Political | 102 min.

Despite increased spending and politicians’ promises, our buckling public-education system, once the best in the world, routinely forsakes the education of millions of children.

As he follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying “drop-out factories” and “academic sinkholes,” methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable problems.

Producer Jeffrey Skoll was the second employee and first president of internet auction firm eBay, and used the wealth this gave him to become a philanthropist and to found the independent movie production company Participant Media.

Jeff Skoll, Bill Gates, and director Davis Guggenheim attend the “Waiting for A Superman” premiere during the 2010 Sundance Film Festival

Hesher| Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Natalie Portman 2010 | U.S. Dramatic Competition, First Feature, World Premiere | 100 min.

PLOT: He hates the world and everyone in it. He has long greasy hair and homemade tattoos.

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HOWL | James Franco | 2009 | U.S. Dramatic Competition, World Premiere | 90 min.

PLOT: James Franco plays Allen Ginsberg in “Howl”, a drama centered on the obscenity trial Allen Ginsberg (Franco) faced after the publication of his poem, Howl.

(L-R) Sundance Film Festival Director John Cooper, David Strathairn, Elizabeth Redleaf, Jon Hamm, Jeffrey Friedman, James Franco, Rob Epstein, Christine Walker, Bob Balaban and Treat Williams attends Village at the Yard

The Company Men 2009 | Premieres, First Feature, World Premiere | 113 min.

Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Costner, Maria Bello

PLOT: The story centers on a year in the life of three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major company.

Little Sasha Speilberg, all grown up, attends the premiere of The Company Men with her mother Kate Capshaw.

Shorts Program I I’m Here | Spike Jonze 2010

Spike Jonze (director of “Where the Wild Things Are”) and son of, Arthur Spiegel III, a relation of the Spiegel catalog family and brother Sam Spiegel (aka DJ Squeak E. Clean). Jonze attended The Field School in Washington, D.C.
Absolut vodka funded this 35-minute short about a robot in a captivating world. Trailer:

Sins of My Father | Nicolas Entel 2009 | Categories: World Cinema Documentary Competition

Pablo Escobar, the most notorious and brutal drug lord in Colombia’s history, was gunned down in Medellín in 1993. After his father’s death, Juan Escobar fled to Buenos Aires, changed his name to Sebastián Marroquín, assuming a new identity to escape his father’s dubious legacy. For the first time since Escobar’s death, Marroquín comes forward to tell his father’s story. With heartfelt honesty, he recounts what it was like to grow up loving a father that he knew was his country’s number-one enemy. Unsatisfied with simply relating history, Marroquín requests a meeting with the sons of two celebrated Colombian political leaders who were among hundreds of victims that his father had killed in the 1980s.

Filmmaker Nicolas Entel captures the powerful and historic moment when the son of Pablo Escobar and the sons of his victims come together to heal wounds that have haunted them all for decades.

Director Nicolas Entell attends the "Sins of My Father" premiere during the 2010 Sundance Film Festival at Holiday Village IV on January 22, 2010 in Park City, Utah.

Shorts Program I | The Fence | Rory Kennedy 2009

Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy (born December 12, 1968) is a documentary filmmaker and producer. She is the youngest of the eleven children of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In October 2006, the United States government decided to build a 700-mile fence along its Mexican border. Three years and 3.1 billion dollars later, its stated goals—containing illegal immigration, cracking down on drug trafficking, and protecting America from terrorists—have unforeseen consequences.

happythankyoumoreplease | Josh Radnor | Categories: U.S. Dramatic Competition, First Feature, World Premiere

Josh Radnor (CBS’s How I Met Your Mother) makes his directorial debut at Sundance. Film stars himself,
Malin Akerman, and Kate Mara.

PLOT: Six New Yorkers juggle love, friendship, and the keenly challenging specter of adulthood. Sam Wexler is a struggling writer who’s having a particularly bad day. When a young boy gets separated from his family on the subway, Sam makes the questionable decision to bring the child back to his apartment and thus begins a rewarding, yet complicated, friendship. Sam’s life revolves around his friends—Annie, whose self-image keeps her from commitment; Charlie and Mary Catherine, a couple whose possible move to Los Angeles tests their relationship; and Mississippi, a cabaret singer who catches Sam’s eye.

Malin Akerman, writer director Josh Radnor and actress Kate Mara attend the Myspace Cafe at The Lift Day

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My little girl is all grown up!

Dakota Fanning covers this months (January 2010) V magazine with Precious star, Gabourey Sidibe.

“I’ve always been really small, really short, and I’m finally starting to be able to wear a size zero without having to take it in like five inches,”  says Dakota Fanning, cover girl for V magazine.

“Now that I’m getting older, I’m finally getting to the point where I can fit into those things,” says the petite 5’3″ star.

And she’s taking on more grown-up roles now too. Besides her turn as the evil vampire Jane in The Twilight Saga: New Moon, she’s playing a wild child rocker complete with girl-on-girl kissing, coke snorting and sexy halter and hot pants costumes in The Runaways, due in theaters March 19.

“I really enjoyed doing that subject matter for the first time in a biopic, because it really happened — it’s not just a made-up story about a 15-year-old running wild,” declares Dakota. “It’s a true story of her evolution from good Valley Girl to bad rock ’n’ roll princess,” she says of her role as Cherie Currie, lead singer of ’70s rock band The Runaways.

As for the kiss with costar Kristen Stewart, who plays rocker Joan Jett, Dakota reveals: “It’s passionate — they were just as close as two could get.”

And the coke? Well, Dakota admits it’s actually crushed B vitamins. “Kristen and I were, like, our hair is gonna grow a lot from these,” she jokes.  - Star Magazine

Runaways Trailer: The Runaways trailer starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning. Coming out at March 19th 2010.

Ms Fanning flying high! She is on Campbell Hall's Varsity cheer team!

Ms. Fanning is an attendee of Campbell Hall School, on Laurel Canyon in North Hollywood, California.  Graduates include Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, and John David Washington (son of Denzel).

Dakota school deets:
♥ On the Varsity cheer team
♥ Won prom queen in 2009
♥ Sister and actress Elle Fanning also goes here

Ms Fanning was named prom queen at Campbell Hall!

So, whats next for Dakota?

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