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Hollywood
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By
Elizabeth Snead
Fashion
Wire Daily LA December 5, 2002 - Two big events in one Hollywood
night! Well, sort of.
There was a low-luster star turnout for the LA premiere of Roman
Polanski's new film "The Pianist" at the Loews Cineplex
in Century City benefiting the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony and the
National Foundation for Jewish Culture.
The film, based on a true story of a talented Jewish pianist who
survived WWII in a Warsaw ghetto, was feted with a huge bash in
Cannes last May and even took home the film festival's coveted Palme
d'Or award.
But at Wednesday night's event, only the film's stars Adrien Brody
and Thomas Kretschmann -- along with Simon Rex, Fran Drescher, Martin
Landeau and Bruce Vilanch -- walked the red carpet.
Jack Nicholson and his sometime love, Lara Flynn Boyle, wearing
a chic white wool coat with black heels, literally ran into the
theatre without talking to anyone. Boyle later came outside for
a smoke but was barely able to hold the cigarette in her huge collagen-injected
lips. She took a few pained puffs and then ducked back inside.
But across town, the stars turned out in droves for the VH1 "Big
in 2002" awards show at the Grand Olympic Stadium...
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