Parties You Will Never Get Into

Imagine yourself in a room packed to the rafters with genuine Hollywood idols and celebrity types. Imagine yourself only a star-struck breath away from legendary women like Shirley MacLaine and Joan Collins.

That’s exactly what happened to invited guests at The New York Times’ T Magazine party on Jan. 15, 2010. Thrown inside a cramped space in West Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont, the celebration unofficially set off a series of shindigs leading to Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards.

Hosted by Peggy Siegal, the T Magazine party was a veritable magnet to celestial beings, among them Scientology clerics Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. It likewise lured Quentin Tarantino, Jared Leto, Ashley Olsen, Ben Stiller, and Adam Lambert.

Legendary peahens Shirley MacLaine and Joan Collins were among the party’s early birds. They were spotted conversing early in the evening, before MacLaine moved on to chitchat with Julianne Moore.

Only days away from winning a Golden Globe for TV’s Big Love, Chloe Sevigny attended the get-together with filmmaker Liz Goldwyn. Another TV thespian in the crowd was Kim Raver, who stuck close to her Lipstick Jungle co-worker Lindsay Price. Academy Award nominee Carey Mulligan also came, but without boyfriend Shia LaBeouf in tow. She was seen close with The Office actor B.J. Novak.

Gossip Girl’s Chace Crawford could also be sighted here, puffing a fag with an unidentified boy friend. At the outdoor smoking area, Eli Roth could be seen cozying up to an unknown blond.

Around 9 pm, the party almost hit overcapacity. Yet guests were mostly eager to fill two less breathing spaces with the grand entrance of Cruise and Holmes. Before long, Holmes hit a conversation with Glee actress Dianna Agron, while Cruise cracked some jokes with Woody Harrelson. All the while, Holmes’ ex Chris Klein kept his distance.

TomKat exited the party after 10 pm, probably in a rush to get home to their daughter Suri. But directress Sofia Coppola chose to tag her 4-year-old daughter Romy along to the party.

Dina Lohan and her starlet daughters Lindsay and Ali burst in the doors fabulously late. However, everybody was preparing to vacate the penthouse just then.