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NBCUniversal's Ron Meyer, Gus Van Sant, Emily Ratajkowski, Dasha Zhukova, artists Alex
Israel, Harmony Korine and Dan Colen, rocker Robbie Robertson and Page Six's Ian Mohr dig
into orange chicken on sticks. Larry's girls come around and slip his home address onto laps.
This means you have made the cut to attend Larry's after party at his house.

Ian and I head to Paul Haggis' intimate Artist for Peace and Justice benefit dinner for 65 at the
LA club No Name where a great time set guests back $2,500 for Haiti. We arrive just in time to
hear Jeff Bridges sing a song from "Crazy Heart", Jack Black recall "School of Rock " and Rita
Wilson sing ABBA's "Dancing Queen". Jackson Browne is the master of ceremonies.

I end up at A24's party at the Sunset Tower for their films "20th Century Woman" and
"Moonlight". Barry Jenkins wants to know if he is winning the Oscar. I chirp, "Yes, best adapted
screenplay is all yours!" Not the answer he was looking for. I should have said, "Yes, you will
win best picture, make history and bring the house down." I would have looked like a genius.

Finally, I speak to Janelle Monae, who is absolutely stunning. She also wants to know if
"Hidden Figures" is winning the Oscar. I assure her that her real win was at the box office.

Before passing out in my Sunset Tower suite, I email Damien Chazelle a social wrap-up on the
evening, as he is now sick as a dog, in bed with his dog and has had visiting nurses injecting
fluids into his flu-infested body all day.

He, too, asks if he is winning the Oscar. I write, "It's not if, but how many".

Friday, February 24

I’m a gal hell bent on making a fashion statement with every outing, who runs her business
from the back seat of a chauffeured black Cadillac with the license plate PEG-FILM. So
marching or attending a protest rally is not the likely place to find me. But when I read the
United Talent Agency's United Voice Rally was happening at their Beverly Hills headquarters--
2,000 of the creative community’s best looking turning out on a gorgeous afternoon to stand
together for freedom of speech, and against exclusion and division, it was an invitation I
couldn't refuse. This is a substitute for UTA’s traditional pre-Oscar party--and the ten
percenters donated and raised $320,000 for the American Civil Liberties Union and the
International Rescue Committee. CEO Jeremy Zimmer and clients Jodie Foster and Michael J.
Fox speak passionately.

The surprise highlight is taped remarks from Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, nominated for
"The Salesman". Farhadi made international headlines announcing he would not travel to
Hollywood in protest of President Trump's proposed travel ban on seven Muslim countries.
Some Oscar voters do not see all five nominated foreign films, so Trump assured Asghar his
Oscar.

I stop by the Women in Film cocktail party at Nightingale Plaza where Meryl Streep
announces, "I feel like never saying anything again." We hear last year's best actress Brie
Larson and activist/documentary nominee Ava DuVernay speak. Back at the Sunset Tower,
Livia and Colin Firth host their annual dinner for 50 to celebrate The Green Carpet Challenge
and The Journey to Sustainable Luxury. Spotted: Emma Stone, Meryl Streep, Ruth Negga,
Kevin Bacon, Tom Ford, Salma Hayek, and Mick Jagger. Kyra Sedgwick arrives late from
directing her first film, "Story of a Girl," starring her husband Kevin Bacon. Kyra sits with Meryl

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