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RSVIP: Oscar Countdown: 26th Film Independent Spirit Awards

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Day Five: The countdown is complete. Saturday, for reporters, the day before the Academy Awards, began at 9:00 a.m. at Santa Monica Beach. Public parking lot 5, reserved for the press, was a half-mile walk to the behemoth lunch tent pitched beside the beach. Wind off the ocean bit hard. Even towering palm trees looked cold as their branches whipped in gusts that littered Ocean Avenue with browning fronds.

The tent for the Film Independent Spirit Awards was a white plastic Quonset hut the size of an office complex. A crane huddled beside the white plastic structure that rippled in the wind. But apparently it was strong enough to hold the man standing on it three stories in the air, drawing a rope over the top.

Driving wind cut across the choppy surf, accumulating fine sand on the cement bike path. In our bones, we could feel the raw, salty proximity to the briny sea. One foreign female journalist in a short black sequined dress had goose bumps on her legs that resembled hives.
Waiting while staffed dried rain that had poured into the tent the night before, the press struggled for an hour in the bitter chill.

By 11:00 a.m.,the gray carpet arrivals corridor was flanked on one side by metal stanchions and a thousand journalists. Open at both ends it had flaps cut into the side facing the Pacific, creating a mild wind-tunnel.

"I love the weather," said director John Waters, above, a host at previous events, wearing Comme des Garcon and pants decorated with camouflage paint. "It's like a face lift." Actor Rainn Wilson, too, said he was relaxed "not to be hosting this time."

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RSVIP: Oscar Countdown, Women in Film Pre-Oscar Cocktails at Soho House

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Day Four: Skipped my first event. Oscar week in Hollywood is an endurance contest. For every party RSVIP attends, there are five more equally deserving ones. And of all the very special invites RSVIP receives, some go well beyond an ordinary envelope and printed card, especially during Tinseltown's busiest week.

RSVIP received the most extraordinary invitation from Trident Vitality as a part of Vanity Fair magazine's Campaign Hollywood. It was sent by express mail to my office in a mirrored box that will end up on a shelf at my house.

Thanks to the impressive physical invite, RSVIP had meant to stop by the West Hollywood event, ending at 6:00 p.m., but got caught up with work. The party launched the new Trident Vitality flavors. And the box also held a supply of Trident Vitality gum, which does have delicious flavor. But, sadly, a turn in the weather and traffic made the timing impractical.

On Friday afternoon, with only two days before the Academy Awards, the sunny weather we had been enjoying took a turn for the worse. With chilly temperatures and driving rain, Soho House, with its underground garage and sparkling penthouse views on Sunset Boulevard, called.

The Fourth Annual Women in Film pre-Oscar cocktail party began at 5:00 p.m. on February 25. As RSVIP arrived, we spotted Amy Sacco, a tall, blond diva of New York night life, leaving the underground parking structure at 9200 Sunset Boulevard. She was likely beginning her day.

When yet another special Amy, Amy Adams from "The Fighter," above, climbed out of her black town car, she was fighting with her clingy black dress.

The fabric had gathered static and had ridden up in the car. And she repeatedly pulled it down and flattened out wrinkles before facing the phalanx of photographers.

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Kate Walsh To Debut Fragrance On HSN

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Filed under: Cosmetics and Fragrance, Celebrity Design

Actress Kate Walsh is the latest to join the celebrity sellers over at HSN. The "Grey's Anatomy" and "Private Practice" star will launch her first fragrance, Boyfriend, on multichannel retailer HSN and at hsn.com on November 11 and 12, 2010. The collection is a unique new line of five beauty products. Terry Richardson photographed the brand advertising campaign.

The fragrance was inspired by the scent of a "guy on a girl," and has notes of amber and woods mixed with a bright floral scent. Notes include dark plum and myrrh with night blooming jasmine. The Boyfriend Kit, a black train case inspired by a vintage design retails for $79.95 and comes with a miniature fragrance spray, body creme, dry body oil, votive candle and pulse point oil. After HSN, the line will be stocked by Sephora in 2011.

[via Now Smell This]

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Kate Walsh in Los Feliz, Estate of the Day

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

We first learned that "Private Practice" actress Kate Walsh had listed her home in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles back in February from the Real Estalker but it looks like there's been a price change which is a great excuse to take a more detailed look. Walsh recently extricated herself from a 14-month marriage. She and her husband bought the four-bedroom home for $4.75 million in 2007 so they are clearly breaking the rule I was raised with which is that you have to sit on any property for five years.

The Spanish-style house was built in 1928 and was remodeled by a real estate investor who bought it for $2.9 million in 2006 before flipping to Walsh. The home has many of the key vintage Mediterranean details like tiled stairs, arched windows and a red tile roof. To keep up with the trend for great rooms the home has been updated with a larger kitchen and family room combo. The living room has a fireplace and arched French doors. The master suite has dual walk-in closets and a modern glam decor. There is also a media room, breakfast room, wine room and home gym. The backyard has a swimming pool, pool house, outdoor fireplace and cooking area. It probably doesn't look like the listing pictures now, one of the Real Estalker's commenters spotted moving vans carting off the home's belongings in late March. The home was listed at $3.995 million a couple of months ago but is now up to $4.295 million.

[via Move Trends]

Gallery: Kate Walsh in Los Feliz

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 02/14/10

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--A Hollywood Hills home owned by TV dance show judge and producer Nigel Lythgoe has been listed for $2.649 million.

Gallery: Nigel Lythgoe in the Hollywood Hills

--Eyeworks television production company founder Reinout Oerlemans has sold his Beverly Hills contemporary for $12.5 million.

Gallery: Shadow Hill Way

--Walton Goggins, who starred in the crime drama "The Shield" from 2002 to 2008, is putting his remodeled Hollywood Hills home on the market for $1.175 million.
-- A Beverly Hills house designed by architect Wallace Neff in 1956 for Groucho Marx has sold for $8.8 million. It was listed at $12.9 million when we covered it as an estate of the day.

Gallery: Groucho Marx Estate

From the NY Post:
4Kids Entertainment CEO Al Kahn has picked up Bernie Madoff's old penthouse and listed his apartment at the Time Warner Center for $33.6 million. The listing is here.

Gallery: Al Kahn at Time Warner Center

--Interior designer Jamie Drake is close to closing on the sale of his home in East Hampton. He is reportedly selling for $2.75 million.

Gallery: Jamie Drake in East Hampton

--Alec Baldwin seems to have been spotted everywhere in New York looking for an apartment. He was most recently spotted in SoHo last week, where he checked out the $13.75 million penthouse duplex at 34 Greene St.
--Joseph Plumeri, the CEO of Willis Group Holdings, has reportedly gone into contract to buy a 15th- floor apartment at 995 Fifth Avenue which had been listed most recently for $23.5 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Actress Kate Walsh listed her home in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles with an asking price of $3,995,000.
--Deion Sanders has listed a three-bedroom penthouse at the Azure building in Dallas, Texas for $7.5 million. His mansion in Prosper, Texas is still on the market for $21 million.

Gallery: Deion Sanders in Dallas, Texas