The cold streets of Park City are heating up with all the star power and the hot parties. Last night we headed out to our Hollyscoop headquarters, at the Green house where Justin Timberlake was having a private dinner party for his mother Lynn Harless. It was Lynn’s birthday and Chef J had prepared a really special feast. We caught up with Chef J in the kitchen to get the scoop on what he was preparing for Justin and his Mom. Some items on the menu included salmon, filet mignon, hummus, butternut squash soup and the most amazing desert. Although we were in the same room as JT we weren’t allowed to take any pictures so sorry guys maybe next time.

After Greenhouse our second stop was club Tao where we checked out the American Rejects perform on stage. We spotted P. Diddy in the VIP room upstairs along with Eddie Murphy and Matisyahu who later took on the stage to perform.


After Tao we headed next door for the Genetic Denim party at Marquee. The exclusive bash was going off with Sopranos star Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Matt Leinart, Nelly, Jamie Kennedy, Tara Reid, Mario Vasquez, rapper Nelly, Rick Fox, Lance Bass and his beau Reichen Lehmkuhl. Speaking of Lance Bass, he’s still very much with Reichen, despite all those breakup rumors on the internet. We got the chance to meet Jamie Lynn Sigler, who is not only beautiful but also extremely sweet. Nelly must be on some heavy security protection cause the rap star walked in with an entourage of seven bodyguards who surrounded him in the VIP area. I honestly think Bush has less security than Nelly.

While at Marquee, we got a chance to chat with the creators of Genetic denim Scott Sartiano and Ali Fatourechi. Scott is known as the nightlife guru in NYC and the creator of NYC hot spot Butter. Scott and his partners Ali and Shaun Hurley are causing a buzz with their denim line as its the "it" jeans to wear in Hollywood. Stars such as Lindsay Lohan, Mary Kate Olsen, Eva Mendez, Penelope Cruz, Ashlee Simpson, and Jeremy Piven are big fans of the line. Due to their success with their denim collection, the line is now expanding into skirts, capris, leggings and an array of new washes for their men’s and women’s basic jeans. Check out their official website at http://geneticdenim.com/. We’ll be bringing an exclusive coverage about the Fall 07 line as we kick off NY Fashion week in February so stay tuned. To check out more Sundance scoop log on to HOLLYSCOOP.COM. Shout out to Ethan and Carol from Imeem!

Posted 01.21.07
words and images by Raymond Leon Roker

On the seventh day . . .
Sunday is the Lord's day, or so they say. I hid from God’s bright, glistening, snow-reflected glow and under my covers until 11am. Shortly after that I headed out the door with my friends Scott and Liz from Lost Film Festival (http://www.lostfilmfest.com/) and went to pick up my Sundance press badge. After that we headed to Main Street to partake in the daytime gift suites and VIP lounges. Films? What films?

I am not Wilmer Valderrama!
Made our way to a pair of "Eco" gift houses - first to Project Green House and then to the Ultimate Green House. Both locales had myriad environmentally-friendly items to peruse, consume and touch. Celebrity sightings included the legendary Timothy Hutton and Napoleon Dynamite's Efran Ramirez (who teased the Ultimate Green House guests that he was actually Fez from That '70s Show). We also ran in Screech and his entourage (am I the last person to be hearing about his new sex-tape?!). All of these celebs indulged numerous posed PR shots with making me marvel at what an actor will go through for some free swag!

Tonight: Taking my hard-to-score comp ticket to the midnight screening of Finishing The Game, the dark new spoof by Justin Lin (Better Luck Tomorrow) about the search for the "new" Bruce Lee's after his death in 1973. We'll forgive Lin for his The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (dude, i saw not one single drifter in Tokyo when i went last October, btw) and cross our fingers for this one.

OK, tomorrow I'm watching films, dammit!

Posted 01.22.07

Attitude sickness
OK, i messed up tonight (Sunday). Instead of going to the screening of Justin Lin's Finishing the Game, i was wooed to yet another party. I know, i can hear you getting the world's smallest violin out of its case. As we rolled up to the party in the hills above Deer Valley (next door to Park City), I had a feeling I would regret my choice. First, the guy guiding cars up the hill told us we'd be towed if we parked on the street. We parked anyway and found our way to the door of the "exclusive" party at a private residence, waiting patiently at the door with our special wristbands at the ready. It was at that point that some jerk came pushing past me without as much as an "excuse me." He then yelled for his beautiful persons crew and they started winding their way past me and Ethan from Imeem as if we were a set of turnstyles. After that, another asshole came pushing past me, only to turn to the crowd at the door and yell "Get out of the doorway and go!" (Apparently this jerk-off had something to do with the party.) Proving he was the alpha jerk, he unapologetically told everybody to beat it. I don't expect to be pampered, but people could be mildly respectful. I mean, who the f*ck are you to not even say excuse me to another fellow human? To be yelling at people braving the zero degree weather to come to your bitch-ass party - a sponsored event at a film festival, not some chic club (although rudeness there isn't warranted either). Ugh!

Pinche gringos
The next stop of our Sunday night, the Premier Lounge, was a welcome relief. A total contrast to what we experienced up the hill, props to this spot for taking my edge off with their respectful door staff, bartenders and even bouncers. On the way out, I chatted with a few cats from the kitchen staff. I asked them what they thought of Sundance and the crowds. They said it was cool, probably assuming that's what I wanted to hear. But the earlier grumbling I overhead from them (pinche this and pinche that) hinted at otherwise. Hell, I wouldn't blame them at all.

Day 2 had all the makings of being better than Day 1…and it lived up to the hype. Woke up at high noon and started on a mission to get as much SWAG as possible from the suites (we’ll give a full recap of all the gifting suites in another blog).

After picking up some nice SWAG we headed to the Snow Angels movie dinner at the Windy Ridge Café. Dinner was set up by the good folks at Full Picture and Sarah Raimo (who did a great job hosting I might add) ...Chris Klein was there and the kid from 24...we got absolutely crushed on tequilla... We were seated at a good table with an interesting crew that included people from Ocean Drive, Glamour (Alyssa who has her own blog on glamour.com) , MTV, New Line Cinema, and Lion’s Gate…we got them to all try the VeeV and they all seemed to love it (no bias on our end of course)…I think we’re going to get some VeeV in each of their respective hands very soon.

After dinner my bro and I rolled over to the American Eagle / UTA agency party at The Village at the Lift. Our friend Jessica Meisels from Fingerprint PR was one of the people to pull the party together and she did a great job ...all kinds of UTA people and celebs like Tara Reid and Chris Klein..

After throwing down a couple of non-VeeV made cocktails we rolled over to one of the most anticipated events of the week: Motorola Late Night Lounge. Vic Harvie from PMK is the Queen that presides over the event…not exactly sure why, but they were able to serve well beyond the 1 am limit that we were forced to observe the night before so everyone from every party rolled over to Motorola…we met up with our buddies AJ DiScala, Barry Zito, Kyle Boller, Jonny, and a couple of others guys and just got rowdy…nice mix of cute girls, fun peops, and good drinks…only thing missing was the VeeV. About 4-something we made moves and after that, as they say, “what happens in Sundance stays in Sundance…”

I wanna begin to tell you guys that this “business” trip has been the most amazing trip we have ever been on. We have been meeting the most amazing people. The coolest thing that happened to us so far was meeting Tom from Myspace. So why was that so cool? Well, the guy knew us as hollyscoop.com. That was the most exciting moment!

Ok we did a lot of things yesterday so keep up….

We began our day at the ET/Getty Style lounge where Screech Powers made an appearance with two camera crews. Really funny to see him!

After that we walked over to the Exclusive Fred Segal Style lounge where we sawAdam Brody, Tara Reid, Cheryl Hines, Bijou Philips and Tom from Myspace. That’s where we got the chance to talk to Tom J

Later we headed over to the Kari Feinstein style lounge where we picked up some cool goodies from several vendors and saw the hottest thing in the world; James Franco. We definitely got the butterfly in the stomach feeling when we ran into him.

After all those lounges we headed back to the condo and got ready for the night. Our first stop for the night was the Green House where we met up with our good friend Melissa from SpinShoppe PR and Mikey from Thechimp.net. Gotta tell you Mikey makes some amazing drinksJ Sienna Miller came to the Green House for a private dinner and she obviously looked AMAZING! The chef for the night was Chef Jay who gave us some insight on what he had cooked up for Miss Sienna Miller.


After the Green House we headed over to the Myspace party over at TAO. Some peeps at the party were Pharell Williams, P.Diddy, Nick Cannon, and many more. Sienna Miller made a stop there after the dinner as well.

Tao was great but we had to visit our friends next door at the Sideways lounge. Sideways actually just opened in LA as well. That was the place where Britney and Isaac Cohen made their first appearance. Our good friends Steven Harlow and Michael Bellasario were actually the two hotties throwing the Airborne party at the Sideways lounge. After some shots and partying we decided to call it a night and get back to our room. However , we managed to bump into our new friends outside and they told us that Nick Cannon was having another one of his crazy parties. We couldn’t refuse so we sat in the car which happened to have 25 people and headed over to Nick’s house. There were cops outside of the house trying to keep the party under control because there were so many people. Once we went inside the first person we spotted was Diddy getting down. The party was off the hook, every single person was dancing in the house and just having a great time. Also at the house Josh Hartnett who was just having a great time just like the rest of us. Finally over 4:30 we decided to call it a night and headed back to our room for some snoozing before another crazy day.

Enjoy some of the pics we got of the day. You can read more about our trip on Hollyscoop.com

Started off the day having breakfast/lunch/whateveritwas at a place called Davanza's, recommended by the rad girls at Bad Ass Coffee. We had burgers, fries, Bad Ass coffee and soda. Good stuff. The decor was totally rad! Cans of soda and beer everywhere all the way to the ceiling! If Richard would let me, I'd do our house like that!



Then it started snowing - and didn't stop. Cold cheeks and slushy streets, I tell ya!

Red carpet for Chris Bowman's film American Fork came later in the evening. Rae Ritke was an absolute doll and Kathleen Quinlan had on the cutest little jacket in Park City. Be sure to keep your eye on Vincent Caso. Not only does he have hair that I would KILL for, he's a dollface for sure. And I happen to like the name Vincent, so bonus.

I liked Billy Baldwin's tie and Chris Bowman's scarf. A lot.

After the red carpet (I wish I could have stayed for the screening) I went over to the myspace party. The house photographer, whose name I forgot and I feel pretty bad about that, was just the sweetest guy ever. Other than him, I don't have much nice to say about that party.

Screech was there. This guy is everywhere!

Carol brought me presents and then I fell asleep to some murder forensic case on court tv.

Until tomorrow... toodle-oo.

Ok so we arrived in Salt Lake City around 1:30PM today after the longest and most complicated flight ever. Basically, the three of us realllly overpacked....and there are new rules about liquids and carryons we didnt know about. Moving on to a more interesting topic SUNDANCE!

We are uploading a bunch of pics from today. Just us goofing off whether it was in the plane or playing in the snow with a lot of scenery pics. Starting tomorrow we are going to head over to the Green House to blog from there which is gonna be reallllllyyyyy exciting because the Green House is definitely the "place to be" during this week. The Green House is gonna be Hollyscoop headquarters so if you're in the hood hollllaaaaa!!!!!!

Hey Everybody!! Toni Trucks here. It’s less than 24 hours until I step foot on my very first SUNDANCE experience. I'm happy to report that IMEEM is making it possible for you to be with me every step of the way. It should be pretty great. My loving posse has filled every moment of everyday while I am there, so it will not be dull. Warning! I will be sporting, the hat and scarf that my Aunt Shirley from Michigan so sweetly knitted for me, most of the time. Also, you will see pictures of me eating chocolate in some form EVERYDAY...its so good. Even better at SUNDANCE I'm told...we shall see. This will be my own personal SUNDANCE challenge. Let the Games, Good Films, and Gifting Begin!! See you soon!! -Beep

I leave for Park City tomorrow morning. My flight leaves Philadelphia at 7AM and I get into Salt Lake around lunch time. I have yet to start packing I'm finishing up work at my office since I'll be going mobile for the next 10 days. My last minute preparations include creating a daily schedule for films, parties, and gifting suites and send off any last minute emails.

I got an email today from a friend who is already in Park City... the update was "I made it to Park City, It's cold as shit". Luckily the east coast got a bit of a cool down the last couple days so it won't be such a big weather shock.

See you in Park City!

I think I'm still hung over from St. Barts for New Years...i can't believe I have to get the game face on and go at it again for a week at Sundance...i know life is rough...I went last year but I think this year is going to be bigger and better...nothing like getting free stuff, partying with celebs, and even getting to ski all week long...

My brother and I will be hitting Sundance hard with small vials of our new alcohol b/c we just started to let people sample it..i'll keep everyone posted on what people think about our new product...we've basically created an alcohol filled with "good for you things" like acai (brazilian superfood), prickly pear (natural hangover remedy), and B and C Vitamins (first alcohol with them)...it also tastes better but more than anything it's "a better way to drink"...everyday in St. Barts you could find hundreds of vials scattered at the tables of the beach clubs...

...get ready for a good week...i'll show all the action in pictures

Hey Everyone!

Hollyscoop girls here and we couldnt be more excited to be on Imeem giving you first hand coverage of Sundance. We are not in any way prepared but Ani did give us some good news this morning telling us that it's actually positive 8 degrees there in contrast to -6 from the weekend. Note that we are Los Angeles natives and dont know what cold feels like and UTAH definitely seems cold to us.

So what is it we are gonna do at Sundance?

In the afternoon we are gonna go around to all the cool gifting suites that celebrities get to go to and pick up some cool stuff. We will take some cool pics so be prepared. At Nights, there are sooooo many parties going on, we are just gonna go around to as many as we can. Finally, we are gonna hit the slopes if we get a chance. It's always amusing to watch Diana attempt to snowboard. Stay tuned for some photos of that

Heres some pics off Diana and I picking up some warm goodies at the Think Pr's Pre- Sundance gifting suite at the House of Blues. Stay tuned for a full write up on that! Everyone from Sienna Miller to Taryn Manning came in and got goodies and we have the breakdown.