Denver actress Maggie Roswell and her daughter, Spenser Rayle, 14, are headed to the hippest party in Hollywood.
On Tuesday, they’ll be in Westwood, Calif., walking the yellow carpet for the gala premiere of “The Simpsons Movie.” It’ll screen in two theaters across the street from each other, followed by a huge afterparty next door.
Roswell gets to go because she is in the flick – as the voice of Helen Lovejoy, wife of the Rev. Timothy Lovejoy.
“The movie is so tight-lipped,” she tells me. “All I know is I’m Helen Lovejoy and I’m in a book club. I live in Colorado and I’m in a book club, so I can draw on that.”
Roswell was also the voice of Maude Flanders – and you remember that Maude died.
Roswell was surprised that she was given two tickets to the exclusive screening. “Everybody in Hollywood is killing to get their kid there,” she says. “My daughter’s big thrill is to meet Green Day.”
The band has a cameo in the movie (in the trailer, they are seen performing on a capsizing stage) and is expected at the premiere.
Party on
Thursday night was party time in Denver.
5280 magazine took over the top of the Denver Athletic Club with 200 people to toast the winners in its Top of the Town issue.
Neiman Marcus brought out more than 600 of the young and trendy to Riverfront Park Fashion Series for a mojito-charged party and runway show.
Another 600 people showed up for the post-MLS All-Star game casino party at the Pinnacle Club at the Grand Hyatt. Spotted at the jock hop: MLS commish Don Garber, U.S. National Team coach Bob Bradley and MLS prexy Mark Abbott – more players than you can throw a yellow card at – and no David Beckham, who flew back to L.A. after the game.
But the best blowout came down at Vesta Dipping Grill, which celebrated 10 years in biz with a party for more than 400 friends, customers, former employees and fellow restaurant types. Too busy to cook, Vesta brass Josh Wolkon and Matt Selby pulled in food from their cooker pals Tyler Wiard, Sean Yontz, Troy Guard, Goose Sorensen, Sheila Lucero, and John Hinman.
Tasty
Add some celebrity sous chefs to Taste of the Nation, July 29 at the Westin Tabor Center. Janet Elway cooks tableside with Campo’s Jorma Fox; Hazel Miller cooks with Vita’s Max McKissock and Libby Weaver cooks with Zengo’s Clint Wangsnes. $100, go to tasteofthe .
City spirit
Beck’s best line in Denver came when he was interviewed during halftime at the All-Star game and referred to his wife, the pug-nosed Posh Spice, as a “Soccer Mum” … USA Today on Friday gave us a full-page shout-out, proclaiming “Denver scales new epicurean heights” with Frasca, Radda, Fruition, Sushi Sasa and Deluxe … Marco Colantonio’s QUENCH, billed as “Denver’s hottest and wettest gay dance party,” debuts 8 Sunday (and every Sunday) at 1109 Lincoln … Sez who: “Before I met my husband I’d never fallen in love, though I’d stepped in it a few times.” Rita Rudner
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