Christina Hendricks, Carmelo Anthony, Michael Strahan, Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber, and Bethany Mota lead the top shots of the week
Eminem imported Jake Gyllenhaal to his hometown of Detroit to surprise fans at a “Southpaw” screening on Sunday night. Mr. Mathers is an EP on the film and has 2 songs on the soundtrack of the boxing drama that comes out this Friday, July 24.
HAIM closed down the Pitchfork Music Festival weekend in Chicago with a late set at Cerise, the rooftop lounge atop the buzzing Virgin Hotels Chicago.
E!’s Catt Sadler was in her on-air partner Giuliana Rancic’s city for the festivities. “Portlandia’s” Carrie Brownstein played in the space the night before.
The Virgin Hotel will be a scene again in a few days during Lollapalooza Weekend, July 30 – August 2.
After Chance the Rapper, Vic Mensa, Jamie XX, and CHVRCHES played the festival, Parquet Courts played an intimate set 25 floors above the city and a few floors below HAIM at the Virgin Hotel on Sunday night.
Boyz II Men’s current core fan base is “women with nostalgia”. McDonalds knows this, and hired them to act like “The Bachelor” while playing a party for the BlogHer conference. Nick Cannon DJ’d the Saturday night party at Pier 84 in NYC.
Allison Janney supported Phil Rosenthal (right) as he chaired the American Cancer Society’s “California Spirit 30” event on the Sony Lot on Sunday night. Thomas Keller (left) joined in the Rocco DiSpirito foodie-fronted fundraiser.
“She’s a power house, she’s fantastic,” Christina Hendricks said of category competitor Uzo Aduba (“Orange is the New Black”) hours after Emmy nominations at the Four Seasons on Thursday afternoon
Hendricks was the cover star for L.A. Confidential’s “Woman of Influence” issue, celebrating with a tea party with other women like Rachel Roy and Nancy Davis.
Bethany Mota had never met the “Mad Men” star before. “Whenever I am honored with something like this it is hard to believe. I am just a girl making videos for 6 years and doing what I love,” she told TheWrap.
L.A. Confidential publisher Allison Miller, Hendricks, “Mad Men” star Kiernan Shipka, and Editor-In-Chief Spencer Beck at the Four Seasons
At the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Sports Awards on Thursday night, the green room was a UCLA locker room, so sports stars Carmelo Anthony and Michael Strahan both felt at home
Abby Wambach and Erin Andrews backstage at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Sports Awards
Ann Coulter, what are you doing in Hollywood? She (and Evan Henzi) came to screen Amy Berg’s new doc “An Open Secret,” about “widespread sexual abuse” in Hollywood. The bummer pic, called “shocking” and “incendiary” in reviews opened at the Laemmle on Friday, July 17
Gary Mantoosh, Cleveland Indian Nick Swisher, and Fisher Pence in Bel Air for the Charlotte & Gwyneth Gray Foundation on Tuesday night
Mr. and Mrs. “Entourage,” Doug Ellin and Maddie Diehl also shopped for a cure at the Bel Air fundraiser
The “Irrational Man” premiere hit NYC on Wednesday night. Rational men and women from left: Tom Bernard, Parker Posey, Woody Allen, Jamie Blackley, Sophie Von Haselberg, and Michael Barker
Just before hauling in a mountain of Emmy nominations, FX celebrated 2 new series at the SVA Theater in NYC. From “Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll”: John Corbett, Elizabeth Gilles, John Ales, Elaine Hendrix, Robert Kelly, Denis Leary and Executive Producer Jim Serpico
But who would it be, Naomi? Ms. Watts cracks a joke at the backyard houseparty for “Ray Donovan’s” new season on July 12. EP Bryan Zuriff hosted
I smell a “Ray Donovan” charity auction opportunity with this cast house party
Odette Annable took the first chair in the first to open “InStyle” branded salons inside JCPenney stores. The “Astronaut Wives Club” star was joined at right by Amiee Thomas and JCPenney’s Siiri Dougherty
“Mom” creator/producer Gemma Baker and Chuck Lorre picked up a PRISM award at the Skirball Center at a Thursday luncheon for “authentic portrayal of mental health and substance abuse issues”
“Parenthood’s” Jason Katims and Max Burkholder were fellow PRISM honorees
A grab-bag of 21st century news icons gathered in NYC in advance of National Geographic’s miniseries “The 2000s.” The group included Enron whistleblower Sherron Watkins, original “Survivor” Richard Hatch, and Donato Dalrymple, the man who rescued Elian Gonzalez from the water
VH1 had 175 sets of twins race through Central Park to promote the new series “Twinning,” a reality competition similar to MTV’s “The Challenge.” “Dating Naked” producers Rob LaPlante and Lighthearted Entertainment are behind this as well
Christina Moore and Missy Pyle audition for a toothpaste commercial at the premiere of the serious “Wrong Side of Right” on Tuesday night. The drama follows an animal rights activist who becomes conflicted while going undercover to investigate a puppy mill
Back from shooting “Survivor: Second Chances” in Cambodia, Jeff Probst and wife Lisa Russell at the “Wrong Side of Right” at the TCL Chinese
The Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team brought it in to the clubhouse for a charity fundraiser on Saturday, July 18. “NCIS’s” Brian Dietzen made the gala’s starting lineup.
That new, lush, garden-patio hideaway restaurant inside the Sofitel is the relaunch of Esterel, which opened last week with a friends and family party. The chef came over from Scarpetta and there is a new direct entrance from the valet.
