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"I&amp;#x27;m going to let you guys in on a little secret: Oscar week might look like one unbelievably amazing Bar-Mitzvah party full of Wolfgang Puck bite-sized eats and an endless flow of champagne, but in reality, it&amp;#x27;s like running a marathon&amp;amp;#8212;you get spurts of energy and enjoyment, but you&amp;#x27;re definitely looking forward to crossing the finish line. And when you do, all you want is to take one long vacation where you can stop worrying about sodium counts and whether your spray tan is starting to streak. Yes, welcome to Oscar week in Hollywood! There are approximately 4 or 5 Oscar events and parties every night leading up to the ceremony on Sunday, and every film, TV, and reality star (yes, I said reality) is out to walk down a red carpet or talk Oscar faves. I hit up the Hollywood Domino &amp;amp; Bovet 1822 Gala Benefitting Artists for Peace and Justice last night, which was hosted by Revenge leading lady Madeleine Stowe, Scottish heartthrob Gerard Butler, award-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis (Crash), and Donna Karan. The non-profit organization, founded by Haggis, helps poverty-stricken communities in Haiti. Madeleine Stowe was looking glam in a black, velvet grown, which she proudly declared was not the result of a stylist. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t have one!&amp;quot; You know what else she doesn&amp;#x27;t have? Hair products! When I asked Stowe what she does to get her gorgeous hair so healthy and shiny, she told me she didn&amp;#x27;t know and that she &amp;quot;hates product in her hair!&amp;quot; Not fair, Stowe. Not fair. Meanwhile, Kristen Davis proudly showed off her Katherine Jetter earrings to me in a black, off-the-shoulder Michael Kors gown. As for what Kristen&amp;#x27;s Oscar week is like, it&amp;#x27;s actually relatively tame. &amp;quot;I come out to events when they&amp;#x27;re important, like this one. I&amp;#x27;m not really that party-oriented. It&amp;#x27;s a little hard to get me out of the house!&amp;quot; Heather Graham showed up with next-door neighbor Moby! Now that&amp;#x27;s a pairing we didn&amp;#x27;t expect! Graham was setting off flashbulbs in her form-fitting Nicole Miller dress. &amp;quot;I feel hot in it! It&amp;#x27;s leather, it&amp;#x27;s short, but it&amp;#x27;s not too tight!&amp;quot; Reminds us of a certain saying in a children&amp;#x27;s fairytale book, right? Meanwhile, the highlight of my night was meeting former Prison Break star Amaury Nolasco. Aside from the fact that I loved him on the FOX drama, he&amp;#x27;s also good friends with another friend of mine (Paul Adelstein from Private Practice&amp;amp;#8212;who also worked opposite Amaury on Prison Break&amp;amp;#8212;and David Freese from the St. Louis Cardinals. In fact, Amaury and I were both in the Cardinals clubhouse when the team won the World Series in 2011 (Amaury is still very close friends with former Cardinal Albert Pujols). So when I told Amaury about our mutual connections, he showed me a picture of when David Freese guest-starred on an episode of the ill-fated Work It, which ran for about two episodes on ABC last spring (Amaury played a man masquerading as a woman to get a job). Check out the picture below! We then called David in Florida (where the Cardinals spend Spring Training), where Amaury *might* have jokingly said, &amp;quot;Go Yankees!&amp;quot; Knowing what a good sport David is, he&amp;#x27;ll get a kick out of it when he listens to our ridiculous message. Meanwhile, Amaury, who is currently in the new Die Hard 5 (and has a recurring role on Rizzoli &amp;amp; Isles), said that he was happy to be supporting Haggis&amp;#x27; endeavor. &amp;quot;We have to pay it forward. Look where we live. We&amp;#x27;re very blessed, and this is one of many ways to give back.&amp;quot; Man of the hour Gerard Butler graciously worked the press line and told me he got involved with the charity, &amp;quot;crazily enough&amp;amp;#8212;one week before the earthquake hit Haiti.&amp;quot; So we know Gerard is good when it comes to helping out the less fortunate, but what about when it comes to playing dominoes? &amp;quot;I just told some guys I was great and going to win, but to be perfectly honest, I&amp;amp;#8217;m absolutely crap and I haven&amp;amp;#8217;t played in many years.&amp;quot; Good to know, Gerard. As I was leaving the Sunset Tower Hotel (a staple for Jennifer Aniston whenever she goes out), I ran into a mini-dress clad Kelly Ripa, who was on Jimmy Kimmel Live earlier in the night. She was taking out a group of women whose husbands are in the military. You just know that had to have been one fun evening! Oh, and guess who else showed up at the Hollywood Domino event? None other than Mr. Belding himself, Dennis Haskins! On Wednesday night, The Wrap&amp;amp;#8212;a Hollywood insider publication&amp;amp;#8212;held a pre-Oscar party at the Four Seasons Los Angeles&amp;#x27; restaurant, Culina, to a packed crowd of Hollywood heavyweights. Among them, oh, just Harvey Weinstein, who said he was planning on hearing Argo and Ben Affleck&amp;#x27;s name many times during Sunday&amp;#x27;s telecast. I asked Harvey what advice he had to give for aspiring producers and he said, &amp;quot;Read. I read constantly... two or three books a week. Out of great literature I&amp;#x27;ve found great stories. My love of literature has led to my love of film. For me, that&amp;#x27;s what works.&amp;quot; Zero Dark Thirty director Kathryn Bigelow braved the chilly temps and offered up her advice for navigating the entertainment industry with grace and class. &amp;quot;Just stay true to yourself and that way at least your conscience is clean. That&amp;#x27;s the most important thing.&amp;quot; Meanwhile, check out some of the desserts at the Four Seasons that night! Can we give that an Oscar? And here&amp;#x27;s the big tent going up for the Elton John Oscar Party on Sunday night, where I&amp;#x27;ll be all day and evening interviewing your favorite stars! Some of the guests attending? Matthew Morrison, Katy Perry, Kim Kardashian, Ian Somerhalder, and more. Got questions? Let me know! Who would you most want to party with during Oscar week? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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