Soundbite: Vanity Fair Oscars Party Crasher Reveals Details
“Rupert Murdoch told me he liked the hamburgers Graydon served up (not personally), from In-N-Out burger. When he asked who I was working for and I told him Gawker, he immediately explained that he didn’t talk to the likes of us. Captain Chesley Sullenberger was more hospitable. He, too, was a fan of the burgers, and he also said that all the stars were ‘so nice.'”
— Gawker’s Ravi Somaiya crashed the notoriously-uncrashable Vanity Fair Oscars party last night, and describes some of what he saw.
Gawker’s Ravi Somaiya made it into the Vanity Fair Oscars Party uninvited last night for “seven minutes in total,” and today described (with pics) some of what went down in the extremely hard-to-crash event. Besides the interaction with Rupert Murdoch and everyone’s favorite pilot Chesley Sullenberger, he also ran into Anjelica Huston before getting run out of the event.
Here’s the security he encountered:
This year it was rumored that, in addition to the scores of regular security guards and bomb-sniffing dogs, there were undercover ex-CIA agents on hand to keep the A-listers safe and the riffraff out.
Check out VF’s official party coverage here.
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