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By William Keck, USA TODAY
WEST HOLLYWOOD — For Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Richie, Ryan Seacrest and Jessica Biel, an invitation to hobnob at a chichi dinner party with some of Hollywood's other hottest stars was too alluring to turn down. They were among the guests who turned out for Allure magazine's annual Hollywood soiree at Dominick's restaurant Wednesday night.
"I love the scene at Dominick's," said Lohan. "I come here all the time. And there's lots of friends here tonight." It has been two weeks since Lohan's car was struck by a paparazzo, and the Herbie star again spent the earlier part of her day being pursued. "They were standing in the bushes and (one) made a really nasty comment, which I'm not going to repeat," said Lohan. Richie had a similar day. "They followed me home from a photo shoot and then to lunch; I can't go anywhere," said Richie, who denied reports that she and fiancé Adam Goldstein might be shooting a Fox reality series about their path to the altar: "That's not something Adam or I would ever do." Dawson's Creek alum Joshua Jackson was there but kept his lips sealed about former TV love Katie Holmes' whirlwind romance with Tom Cruise. But David Spade said of the coupling, "It feels like we're being 'punk'd,' " adding, "I'm actually jealous that you can fall that head-over-heels in love in like 38 minutes." Party guest Jenna Elfman, who like Cruise (and now Holmes) follows Scientology, attributed her own happy coupling with husband Bodhi to the religion. "You tell me how many actors have been with their spouse for 14 years." Of Tom and Katie's enthusiastic public displays of affection, she says, "Happiness is a beautiful thing that should be celebrated and supported. If that has become so unreal to our culture, then that's a problem." Over a patio dinner of filet mignon and Alaskan halibut, Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo chatted up big-screen Dukes of Hazzard producer Billy Gerber, who broke news that he'll next be giving the movie-makeover treatment to the 1970's TV hit The Jeffersons. Gerber says he is envisioning Martin Lawrence and Queen Latifah in the roles of George and Weezy, though no offers have yet been made. Pompeo mentioned having just read Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink, about trusting our instincts, and chatted about how things seem to be interconnected. For instance, when she first met her boyfriend of two years, music producer Christopher Ivery, at a grocery store, she was more focused on food than romance. But two days later, they met again, started dating, and discovered they grew up in Boston 10 miles from each other — and Ivery knew Pompeo's father. And, the Hollywood home she and Ivery rent is just 10 doors down from her Anatomy TV love, Patrick Dempsey. Ivery and Dempsey race scooters together down their street. Said Pompeo, "It's a very small world." |
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