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...Last stand at Spago...
...amiable ghost of super-agent Swifty Lazar will be beaming down behind his oversize glasses as Los Angeles magazine hosts its benefit event in aid of the charity Children Uniting Nations. That is because the party is being held at the famous Hollywood Spago, where Swifty ruled supreme on Oscar night for so many years. Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck is closing this branch of his restaurant empire to focus on the newer Beverly Hills branch, and this bash will be the last major event to be held there...
...stories." It's food as lifestyle accessory. The recipes are still there, but like the video fragments on MTV's live request show TRL, they're abridged or buried amid chat. Take the newest potential hit, the eponymous show of chef to the stars Wolfgang Puck of L.A.'s Spago (Fridays, 9 p.m. E.T.). In the cooking portion, Puck, the quintessential celebrity chef, shows the range that made him a one-man empire. But the clear selling points are the long, taped segments of him hobnobbing with Hollywood big shots. "I want to show not just what...
...gotta love Wolfgang Peterson summer popcorn flicks. (Not Wolfgang Puck. He makes pizzas. Though Spago's pies in the summer time are warm and refreshing!) In any case, The Perfect Storm, Peterson's entry in to this year's derby, is building up buzz as the film to beat. His films always have a balance of compelling drama and the requisite action; Air Force One and In the Line of Fire both were international box-office smashes. Here, Clooney and Walhberg (it's two of the Three Kings) star in the adaptation of the best selling book about a monster...
What would you pay to party with SHARON STONE at Spago? Or sit with BILL CLINTON as his party names a successor? The bidding begins at $100,000 for premier perks at August's Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, marketed as a mosh pit of star power--show biz and political. House and Senate campaign committees have already emptied so many deep pockets for VIP packages that party chairman ED RENDELL is scrambling to control what bennies are left. Last month he wrote letters begging the heads of the legislative groups, PLEASE STOP. Rendell told TIME he hoped...