Word: soire
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...wink of a mascaraed eye. But for the humble reporter in Hollywood (a dying species of which I'm clearly not a member) it is a little harder. One has to pick a maximum of two or three events per 24-hour party cycle and hope that those chosen soirées will yield moments that reflect the industry's celebrations. You might not be at the Vanity Fair party at the precise moment when Russell Crowe finally encounters Stave Martin and "thanks" him for his crack about him hitting on Ellen Burstyn, but you hope to encounter enough pieces...
...swanky convention hall in the center of Paris, French entrepreneur Nicolas Garreau sips his orange juice and curses his lot. It's the March 2001 meeting of First Tuesday - a monthly soirée at which entrepreneurs and venture capitalists exchange war stories and business cards - and Garreau is on the prowl. He needs an investor to provide between $400,000 and $700,000 to launch Goodycash.com, his Internet gambling venture. Garreau casts his eye hopefully around the red-carpeted room, sizing up the dwindling number of investors in dark suits who continue to attend this once red-hot networking...