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Nancy Pelosi and Bill Clinton were among the VIPs astatine Hollywood scion Casey Wasserman’s large 50th day bash, we hear, wherever Imagine Dragons played successful a 35,000-square-foot venue and guests noshed connected Nobu.
But immoderate felt the bash was a spot implicit the apical astatine a clip erstwhile Tinseltown wide is struggling.
The day lad — the grandson of legendary amusement concern powerbroker Lew Wasserman, arsenic good arsenic the president of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee — hosted the enactment astatine Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar connected Friday.
(Sources said Wasserman met his girlfriend, creator Jenny Chandler, erstwhile she was erstwhile a backstage aviation formation attendant.)
Wasserman hired planner J. Ben Bourgeois for the event, and we’re told 600 to 800 guests packed the venue.
Many were anticipating a repetition of the Hollywood insider’s 40th day bash — wherever powerfulness players including euphony moguls Irving Azoff and Michael Rapino mixed, and Jon Bon Jovi performed.
For his 50th, Imagine Dragons deed the stage, we hear.
Chandler’s gal pals — who we perceive arrived connected a enactment autobus — fawned implicit chap impermanent Jessica Alba and Alice + Olivia designer, Stacey Bendet, was besides connected the scene.
There was adjacent a replica of the celebrated Beverly Hills deli, Nate ‘n Al’s, which Wasserman dubbed Lew ‘n Casey’s.
Guests were allowed to instrumentality photos with his precocious grandfather’s Oscar, spies said.
But immoderate connected the impermanent database recovered the full happening to beryllium a spot garish up of the large celebration.
Griped a source: “Everybody’s talking astir however showy it is… It’s successful mediocre taste.”
Hollywood is experiencing an exodus, according to the LA Times, arsenic the amusement manufacture inactive struggles to bounce backmost from the pandemic arsenic good arsenic the caller actors and writers labor strikes.
“Production has not resumed to pre-strike level, and everyone who is working, is simply a name. Actors and unit can’t get work. The metropolis inactive feels frozen, and determination are cuts and layoffs everywhere,” different Hollywood insider said. “People wouldn’t deliberation [his party] was truthful garish if the full municipality wasn’t successful strife,” the root sniffed.
Then again, who successful Hollywood doesn’t similar a nighttime retired astatine a flashy enactment with unfastened bars and a backstage performance by A-list talent?
Wasserman — who heads Wasserman Media Group — is besides connected the committee of the Motion Picture & Television Fund, which gives showbiz pros entree to wellness and societal services.
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