On March 26, the day before the 94th Academy Awards, Hollywood went to the Polo Lounge, in the legendary Beverly Hills Hotel, a pink palace famous for having hosted the transatlantic loves of Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand. to a dumbfounded Simone Signoret.
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That evening the superchic Finch-Chanel pre-Oscar dinner took place and, around 7:30 p.m. – we dine early in California –, a cohort of stars and friends of the Chanel house, as long as a line of limos on Hollywood Boulevard.
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Kristen Stewart and her fiancée, Sofia Coppola with her illustrious parents, prominent directors, Ava DuVernay and Denis Villeneuve, but also old cult glories like Harvey Keitel or the unalterable Joan Collins.
The hosts ?
Charles Finch, producer and influential businessman in
entertainment
, son of actor Peter Finch (Oscar 1977 for
Network
) and Virginie Viard, artistic director of Chanel.
On the weekend of the Oscars, Hollywood exulted, all to the joy of regaining its luster post-Covid.
Dinners, pre-parties, after-parties, cocktails or viewing-parties followed one another for three days in a parade regulated by the clock by all-powerful publicists.
No one could have imagined that the following day, the now civilized ceremony of the Oscars would be disturbed by the slap of an American star milk soup inflicted on a clumsy comedian in front of hundreds of millions of spectators.
The dream machine will recover.
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