Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:26 pm |
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Maggie Downs
The Desert Sun
January 20, 2008
Anything is liable to happen at a Bob Hope Chrylser Classic party
The final party for the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic hosted by George Lopez was a doozy.
Held at Stir lounge at the Renaissance Esmeralda in Indian Wells on Friday, it was a visual feast of beautiful people and surroundings.
It was a place where you could kick back
and eat sliders and sparkly cupcakes
with celebrities. A magical wonderland
filled with hunky guys
and Tila Tequilas-in-training.
And most of all, a hotspot for drama, drama, drama.
Here's what went down:
Samuel L. Jackson was there. And really, that's all you need for a party. Like if you were at a meeting for Amish left-handed knitters and then Samuel L. Jackson showed up, it would be a party. He wouldn't even need to talk. He would just sit there and look cool.
And that's pretty much what he did Friday night.
George Lopez was escorted into the place with a number of beefy security guards who kept him away from the buzzing crowd. Does he always cause that kind of chaos?
"Here I do," he said.
He also attracted the unwanted attention of one particular woman, who ended up leaving in a police cruiser. As she went, she howled her face off.
George spent the rest of the night in a secluded part of the VIP section with a guard posted a few feet away.
Anthony Anderson gets my award for cuddliest star. He was hugging people so enthusiastically, he lifted many of them right off the ground.
I praised him for consistently being so friendly and kind.
"No, I'm an #@$hole," he deadpanned. "I've changed!"
Don Cheadle didn't get as much attention as the other stars. I'm guessing people were just intimidated.
It's pretty much impossible to talk about his meaningful and important work (like "Crash" or "Hotel Rwanda") while "Shook Me All Night Long" thumps in the background.
Do you think when Taylor Hicks auditioned for "American Idol," he imagined that someday women would be pressing themselves against the glass windows of a club, furiously trying to get his attention?
Because that's what happened Friday night. He ended up outside by a limo, flanked by beautiful ladies.
That silver fox is living the dream.
Energy healer Jim Weathers, who has rubbed down everyone from Phil Mickelson to John Daly, is becoming quite the celeb himself. The former Green Beret has become a fixture on the PGA tour and has a motivational book in the works. He performed his magic on a few people around the VIP section.
Other sightings: Olympic skier Toby Dawson, chef Ming Tsai and golfers Robert Gamez, Daniel Chopra and John Daly.
"Ma'am, I'm sorry, but there's glass in your head and I don't want it to get infected."
That's something you don't hear every day. Especially at a golf party.
But that's what a paramedic said to a woman outside the Renaissance, who had blood oozing from her head. There was glass everywhere - not sure exactly how some of it ended up in her skull.
The woman eventually left for treatment. Her friends snapped photos of her on the stretcher as she was carried away.
Maggie Downs is bummed she never saw Kevin Nealon.
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