In Which We Are Subtle
"Oh, I think if you meet someone you like, it's great, but I think getting married to get married, well, it's never the answer," VINCE VAUGHN said to us on Wednesday night at the after-party for the "Wedding Crashers" premiere at the Ziegfeld.
The party was at Cipriani 42nd Street, and our correspondent was merrily prancing down the well-trod path from Relevant Movie Questions to Scurrilous Gossip.
Mr. Vaughn, as readers of the gossip journals know, has been denying reports that he is romantically consoling JENNIFER ANISTON after the demise of her marriage to BRAD PITT.
"Wedding Crashers" is a movie about marriage, which, we casually pointed out to Mr. Vaughn, sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.
Oh, say, have you ever tried to, you know, console a friend whose marriage hasn't worked?
"I don't know. I have never been in that position." He smiled.
"Thank you, sweetheart," he said. "It was nice talking to you."
The movie stars Mr. Vaughn and OWEN WILSON as a couple of swinging bachelors who go to weddings to pick up women, for very short-term-commitment relationships.
Floral bouquets festooned the white carpet, where we saw JANE SEYMOUR, CHRISTOPHER WALKEN, BRADLEY COOPER, ANDREW FIRESTONE and DIORA BAIRD, whose appearance on the carpet was about 45 minutes longer than her appearance in the movie.
Women in pastel bridesmaids' dresses stood around, doing, well, standing around; white yarmulkes and garters were passed out at the after-party.
It was all so nice that we will bring back the rarest of rare Boldface features, just for your decoding pleasure.
After-Party Blind Item!
Which comedian - who has a television show where he dupes otherwise trusting, good-natured people into making fools of themselves on camera - angrily grabbed a Daily News photographer by the neck after the photographer had the audacity to snap a picture of the comedian and his girlfriend, a star in the movie?
Hint: his real name is SACHA BARON COHEN, but he is known in some circles as ALI G.
Good Luck With That!
We were preparing to speak with CHRIS TUCKER, who was hovering around Mr. Wilson's table when we approached. But suddenly Mr. Wilson, who is known as "The Butterscotch Stallion" in blind items and on the Los Angeles-based gossip blog "Defamer," stood up.
"Heeeeyyy," the stallion said in his butterscotch twang. "Nice ta meet yooouuu."
Mr. Wilson's character is quite the Lothario in the movie, we observed. We asked him what sort of songs he would pick to get women in the mood.
"Some people say BARRY WHITE," he said ... very ... slowly, "but that really isn't my style."
What's your style?
"I like BOB DYLAN, but I'm not sure how romantic the lyrics are," he said. "I was dating a girl who really liked Bob Dylan. That was nice."
But Sadly, We Have
No Photographic Proof
We spotted the reclusive MOBY at a benefit dinner for Friends of the High Line at Cipriani Wall Street.
Yes, the Moby.
He was talking with some people when we approached, whereupon he scrambled up a drainpipe, crawled through an air duct and disappeared over the rooftops.
But we did get a chance to chat with EDWARD NORTON, AL SHARPTON, DIANE VON FURSTENBERG and ANDERSON COOPER, host of the event.
Mr. Norton stayed on message about the High Line, and Mr. Sharpton told us that KARL ROVE would not be in his cabinet were he elected president.
After Ms. von Furstenberg posed with Mr. Cooper in front of a giant picture of the High Line, they got into a conversation about how often their paths converge.
"I just left him somewhere, and now he's here," Ms. von Furstenberg said. "He's everywhere, like parsley."