The most well liked ticket in Hollywood this week wasn’t Tuesday’s Golden Globes — however Monday night time’s Faculty Soccer Playoff national championship game.
At lunch on the Beverly Hills Resort’s famed Polo Lounge on Monday, followers in crimson Georgia Bulldogs and purple TCU Horned Frogs gear — who descended on Los Angeles for the sport at SoFi Stadium — vastly outnumbered the standard slew of brokers and leisure execs in stylish black.
Both method, among the many soccer jerseys, Jeffrey Katzenberg dined at a nook banquette with a pal, and “SNL” guru Lorne Michaels arrived in a light baseball cap to the venue (whose gown code requires civilians to “chorus from sporting informal hats, ripped denim, crop tops, nightwear, swimwear and males’s sleeveless shirts.”)
Michaels was overheard telling buddies that he scored a ticket to the faculty sport.
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Additionally noticed lunching amid the ocean of soccer followers had been WME co-chairmen Richard Weitz and Christian Muirhead, producer John Davis and Apple TV+ boss Zack Van Amburg.
Capping off the surreal scene of faculty soccer boosters on the upscale LA hang-out, the hotspot’s resident lunchtime piano participant launched into the theme from “Succession” as a younger lady dined close by with a French bulldog by her aspect.
When one other diner approached the desk, the gremlin-like pooch sank its enamel into the person’s umbrella and wouldn’t let go.
Often, the Globes could be the city’s principal attraction, however the Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation is on shaky ground after the telecast was pulled final 12 months amid accusations of a scarcity of range and unethical voting practices.
An exec was heard saying this week that his firm is taking a cautious method to the Globes, as some execs keep residence though their tasks have nominations.
The present is making an attempt to mount a comeback on NBC this 12 months, together with with the honorary Cecil B. DeMille Award going to Eddie Murphy.
