Party on! No matter what happens with the writers’ strike, the Denver Film Society will hold its 18th annual Party with Oscar Party on Feb. 24. It’ll be downsized, it’ll be cheaper, it’ll be different — but it’ll be there.
“We’re taking a gamble that there will be a regular Oscar ceremony,” says Britta Erickson, the society’s festival director. “But we’re not waiting to see what happens. We’re not in control, but we’re going ahead with the party.”
The black-tie event last year cost $150. This year it’s $50 for a VIP ticket, $20 for general admission. “Last year it was a fundraiser, this year it’s a celebration of filmmaking,” Erickson explains.
It will again come down at the Starz FilmCenter. One theater will feature Mile High Sci-Fi, a comedy group that’ll riff on Oscar, “Mystery Science Theater”-style. The lobby will feature concession stands and charity gambling. “It’s Hollywood goes to Vegas — with comedy,” says Erickson. Tickets available Friday at .
It’s a Croc.
Colorado shoe sensation Crocs is teaming up with Madonna and The Donald to get shoes on the feet of kids in Africa.
SolesUnited is the company’s charity outreach that recycles your old Crocs and gets them to people living in extreme poverty. It started last September when Crocs gave 20,000 pairs to Madonna for Raising Malawi, providing shoes for some of that country’s one million orphans.
In Thursday’s episode of Donald Trump’s “The Celebrity Apprentice,” the teams’ challenge is to raise awareness of SolesUnited. Crocs is hosting a party at the Boulder Theater to view the episode.
Feed me!
Tickets for Aspen’s Food & Wine Classic are flying out the door at $1,050 each. But if that’s not enough, you can pay $3,000 a ticket for a VIP Green Pass. That gets you a shout-out on the website, invitations to every party (even the press/chef welcome cocktailer that opens the fest) and the comfort of knowing $1,000 of it goes to Good to Grow, Food & Wine’s sustainable agriculture campaign. I feel green even writing about it.
This year’s stars include Jean-George Vongerichten, Bobby Flay, Michelle Bernstein, Danny Meyer, Ming Tsai, “Top Chef’s” Padma Lakshmi and Tom Colicchio and Momofuku’s David Chang, who’ll present “Whole Hog: Belly, Buns and Butt.”
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City spirit.
Carrie A. Besnette, named 9News Leader of the Year. She’s veep for institutional advancement at Metro State College of Denver . . . Sightem: Denver kid star AnnaSophia Robb on the red carpet at Sundance with Charlize Theron, Nick Stahl, and Dennis Hopper for the screening of “Sleepwalking” . . . Restaurateur Marco Colantonio, who came out last year big time and started a gay Denver website, has picked up and moved to Los Angeles . . . Sez who: “The radical right is so homophobic that they’re blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.” Dennis Miller
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