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What you DIDN'T see at the Oscars: ALISON BOSHOFF reveals where Eva Mendes really was during Ryan Gosling's triumph, what happened at the Vanity Fair party and what guests got in their gift bags
Oscars Night 2024 fizzed into being with the energy of a popping champagne cork. After the trials of Covid and the lengthy actors' and writers' strikes, Tinseltown was ready to party again - to excess.
Academy publicists were insisting last night that the extraordinary, mumbling presentation of the best picture Oscar by Al Pacino was intentional – sources said the veteran actor was never going to do the usual thing and read out the titles of all the nominated films. Elton John’s Aids Foundation fundraiser attracted Liz Hurley and son Damian, plus Julia Fox, formerly Kanye West’s girlfriend, in an outlandish get up – a black minidress that left her breasts exposed but for a pair of bejewelled nipple tassels – which burnished her reputation for trashy dressing. The veteran actor went to a number of parties in the lead-up to the event, including the William Morris Endeavour bash where guests were given $169 Birkenstock clogs to soothe their aching feet, plus monogrammed-to-order baseball caps and pocket squares.
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