Wine is all about the journey. Any wine lover would have to agree. The discovery of new wines, new regions and new vintages is what keeps wine exciting to novices and enthusiasts alike.

For Drew Barrymore, it was the journey that propelled her to delve into the world of wine and with an eponymously named Pinot Grigio. A fan of crisp, fruity white wines, Barrymore has created a wine that reflects her style and personality: fresh, dynamic and fun.

The wine’s label, designed by street artist Shepard Fairey, contains the Barrymore family crest,

The 2011 Pinot Grigio retails for $19.99 per bottle. It will be available starting spring 2012.

HuffPost Food hasn’t sampled this wine, but we have tried many celeb wines. Verdict? Sometimes celebs should stick to their day jobs.

“It’s been tremendous, it’s really fun,” Bernard told the panel, which included “Community” star Yvette Nicole Brown. “We didn’t know who was gonna step into that role until a few weeks before the season started. It’s just a testament to the friendship of the whole cast that everyone was kinda like, ‘Whoever it is, we’ll be psyched!’”

Reflecting on the current season, which has featured several less traditional episodes, like the raucous pool party at Robert California’s mansion and half the cast on a month-long work field trip to Florida, Helms said, “I think this year the show has sort of had more of an ensemble celebration feel anyway, so it’s just a joy.”

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The turgid domestic drama, about life-altering, mistaken choices that slowly crush a family’s dreams, is currently in a smart, touching, if expectedly depressing off-Broadway revival at The Irish Repertory Theatre.

In rural 1907 eastern Massachusetts, two close brothers in their early 20s are both in love with Ruth, the farm girl next door. Younger Mayo brother Robert, a bookish dreamer following a sickly childhood, is about to embark on his life’s ambition, heading on a round-the-world sea voyage for three years with his uncle. Brother Andrew has no curiosity about the greater world, and is looking forward to helping their father run the farm, while secretly hoping to marry Ruth.

But when Robert reveals his feelings to Ruth, the brothers rashly switch roles in one explosive evening that fractures the family. In true O’Neill fashion, one hasty decision leads to others that will eventually ruin nearly everyone’s lives. Under Ciaran O’Reilly’s thoughtful direction, the play covers nine increasingly tragic years fairly quickly, presenting a heartrending picture of people trapped in a downward-spiraling, hard life where even small hopes are dashed.

The play incorporates O’Neill’s own love of the sea and his personal experience with tuberculosis, as well as his romantic, idealistic nature, all embodied by Lucas Hall. Affectingly conveying Robert’s decency, naive sincerity and longing for the promise and mystery that lie “beyond the horizon,” Hall remains convincing even when the plot eventually requires him to collapse melodramatically and literally crawl to the scene of the denouement.

Rod Brogan as Andy is stoic at first, while nicely showing the true love and loyalty Andy feels for his younger brother even when his life is turned upside down. Andy makes the best of his life at sea, but ironically, his ambitions and long absences unintentionally further harm the family. Brogan is strong in the second act, as a now-successful Andy fails to realize the true sad state of his brother’s life until it’s too late.

Wrenn Schmidt as Ruth is lively and animated at first, but all signs of life gradually disappear from her. Ground down by five years of poverty despite hard work, an increasingly snappish Ruth has come to despise her husband, as Robert isn’t successful at managing the farm. Ruth even resents Robert’s loving approach to their willful toddler daughter, Mary (Aimee Laurence, quite charming in her off-Broadway debut,) and Robert tiredly points out that she’s become “mean and small.”

Ruth deteriorates from sullen to coldly emotionless, and Schmidt is especially shut down in the final scenes, tersely speaking in a hard, flat voice. O’Neill has made Ruth the villain, and with Schmidt so withdrawn, it’s difficult to relate to her or care about her suffering.

O’Reilly and the cast do try to leaven O’Neill’s doleful dialogue with some humorous interpretations. Patricia Conolly is adept at comically representing Ruth’s wheelchair-bound, querulous, harping mother, and Johanna Leister provides subtle wit as the boys’ loving mother. Their uncle Dick, a ship’s captain, is deployed for comedy by a ruddy-faced, hearty John Thomas Waite. David Sitler is sternly unyielding in his pivotal appearance as James Mayo, the boys’ father.

The simple, elevated set, backed by two walls that colorfully project changing skies and moods, nicely evokes a “road not taken” and a wider world that is uncaring toward the unhappy Mayo household.

Robert wistfully says, “If I’d had the courage to live my dream…” as his disappointing life draws to a close. This well-done production of “Beyond the Horizon” provides a fascinating look at O’Neill’s early presentation of themes that recur throughout his award-winning body of work.

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At Vanity Fair’s always compact, A-list soiree at West Hollywood’s Sunset Tower Hotel, one of several parties following the 84th annual Academy Awards at the Hollywood & Highland Center, starlets and Oscar nominees and winners chatted, ate, roared with laughter and giggled to each other.

The scene played out like one of the charmingly glam moments depicted in soundless best picture Oscar winner “The Artist,” set in Los Angeles during the late 1920s transition from silent movies to talking pictures, yet filled with lively noise.

Jonah Hill, nominated for a best supporting actor award for best picture nominee “Moneyball,” smiled and shouted out a sassy expletive decrying his and the film’s loss, surrounded by a pack of friends, including Seth Rogen.

Rogen, who hosted Saturday’s Film Independent Spirit Awards, also laughed and drank with fellow funny guy Jason Segel, star of “The Muppets” movie, and comic-musician Bret McKenzie, who pumped his Oscar for best original song, for “The Muppets,” into the air.

“I think there was a list of people I had to apologize to,” acknowledged Rogen, to Hill, about his pointed barbs at the Spirit Awards aimed at a number of people, including director Brett Ratner, who dropped out of producing this year’s Oscars after making a gay slur.

The party, hosted by Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter, served up wine and champagne as well as comfort food, from fried macaroni and cheese balls to hamburgers from In-N-Out. A live stand-up bassist and drummer played jazz tunes.

In one corner booth tucked to the side of the party’s outdoor patio, Gwyneth Paltrow held court with her Coldplay husband Chris Martin and silver screen vet Jane Fonda, while talking with Cameron Diaz.

Across the room, Jennifer Lopez lovingly fiddled with the collar of her boyfriend Casper Smart’s shirt. Lopez, wearing a maroon-brown sequined Zuhair Murad gown with a plunging front and back, later gabbed with her ex Sean “P. Diddy” Combs. The hip-hop mogul warmly rubbed her arm as Smart stood nearby.

Tom Cruise, standing next to his wife Katie Holmes, became downright excited talking to “Star Wars” director George Lucas. “You gotta do that, you gotta do that, you gotta direct!” Cruise loudly told Lucas.

Other attendees included Steve Martin, Kate Hudson, Sandra Bullock, Tina Fey, best actress Oscar nominee Rooney Mara and best actor Oscar nominee Demian Bichir.

A dapper David Beckham chomped on a burger while keeping close to his wife, Victoria Beckham. Sacha Baron Cohen pulled a complete 180 from his controversial Oscar red carpet stint dressed as a Moammar Gadhafi type figure to promote his upcoming film, “The Dictator.” Hanging out in a normal black tux, Cohen looked nothing like the bearded military character who poured ashes all over E! host Ryan Seacrest before the Oscar telecast.

Just south of the bash, at the Elton John AIDS Foundation’s Oscar viewing dinner and after-party, actors and musicians co-mingled for an especially vibrant, grand fete for the event’s 20th anniversary.

Previously held at West Hollywood’s Pacific Design Center, the party shifted for the first time to a larger space across the street, at West Hollywood Park, with 200 more dinner guests than usual, bringing the tally to 910.

More than 80 tables decorated with grey, blue and white cloths filled the massive blue and white tented dinner ballroom. Celebrities walked down a pristine white carpet into multiple tents serving cocktails, wine and upscale carbonated juice drinks. One outdoor tent was decorated with hanging blue mirrors.

Only 14 months old, Sir Elton John’s son, Zachary, made a brief appearance during a cocktail hour just before the dinner, as John and his civil partner David Furnish took turns showing him off to well-wishers. The blonde toddler wore a black jacket with his name stitched on it, and chewed on a cloth napkin. John sported a black embellished jacket with his glittering initials spelled out on the back.

Guests such as Neil Patrick Harris, a blue-bobbed Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and her boyfriend Liam Hemsworth, Anna Paquin and her husband Stephen Moyer, John Waters, Kim Kardashian and her pregnant sister Kourtney feasted on a five course meal that included sauteed sea bass with pepper saffron sauce, beef tenderloin with leek bread pudding and apple-pear tart for dessert.

Steven Tyler talked about balancing recording the new Aerosmith album in L.A., being a judge on “American Idol” and attending an Oscar party such as John’s.

“It’s crazy, it’s crazy,” said Tyler, decked out in rock `n’ chic tight black brocade pants. “After all this, tonight, I’ll go back to the studio and record a song. I’ll probably get to bed around 2 a.m.”

Perry sat at a middle table with John, Furnish and “American Idol” alum Adam Lambert. Newly single Heidi Klum, a regular at the bash, sat at a nearby table next to Kyle MacLachlan and the Kardashians.

“Tonight we’ve raised more money at this event than we ever have before,” John told the crowd after a feisty post-dinner auction that netted $5.25 million for the foundation’s fight against HIV and AIDS.

Things became a bit rowdy when celebrity chef Cat Cora, who created the night’s menu, egged on would-be bidders to snatch up an in-home cooking class for up to ten people she would host. Perry and Steve Tisch, owner of NFL champs the New York Giants, then started a bidding war, with Tisch the winner, for $100,000, but Perry named a co-winner. Cora joked about kissing Perry, in a nod to Perry’s hit “I Kissed a Girl,” then came over and pecked her on the cheek.

Just before indie rock band Foster the People came out onstage to pound out hits such as “Pumped Up Kicks,” a DJ spun songs catching the ear of friends Kelly Osbourne and Cyrus, who made mock kissing faces for photos and danced to a remix of Adele, mouthing the words. Gwen Stefani sauntered into the post party with a full entourage.

The Governors Ball, the Academy Awards’ official after-party, at the Hollywood & Highland Center, was re-tooled this year from a formal sit-down affair to a cocktail bash, which served the guests just fine. Viola Davis sat with Octavia Spencer, and Spencer’s best supporting actress Oscar, for nibbles and drinks while best actress nominee Michelle Williams and pal Busy Phillips roamed the venue hand in hand.

Honorary Oscar winner James Earl Jones presented the event’s headlining performer, Tony Bennett, whom he referred to as “an American classic” and “Frank Sinatra’s favorite singer.”

At John’s shindig, first-time attendee “Glee” star Darren Criss, himself musically inclined, noted the irony of “The Artist” juxtaposed against the party’s backdrop of booming music and screamed conversation.

“When people allegedly schmooze, they shout at each other. I like to sit down and have a conversation,” he said.

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AP Entertainment Writer Sandy Cohen contributed to this report.

At Vanity Fair’s always compact, A-list soiree at West Hollywood’s Sunset Tower Hotel, one of several parties following the 84th annual Academy Awards at the Hollywood & Highland Center, starlets and Oscar nominees and winners chatted, ate, roared with laughter and giggled to each other.

The scene played out like one of the charmingly glam moments depicted in soundless best picture Oscar winner “The Artist,” set in Los Angeles during the late 1920s transition from silent movies to talking pictures, yet filled with lively noise.

Jonah Hill, nominated for a best supporting actor award for best picture nominee “Moneyball,” smiled and shouted out a sassy expletive decrying his and the film’s loss, surrounded by a pack of friends, including Seth Rogen.

Rogen, who hosted Saturday’s Film Independent Spirit Awards, also laughed and drank with fellow funny guy Jason Segel, star of “The Muppets” movie, and comic-musician Bret McKenzie, who pumped his Oscar for best original song, for “The Muppets,” into the air.

“I think there was a list of people I had to apologize to,” acknowledged Rogen, to Hill, about his pointed barbs at the Spirit Awards aimed at a number of people, including director Brett Ratner, who dropped out of producing this year’s Oscars after making a gay slur.

The party, hosted by Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter, served up wine and champagne as well as comfort food, from fried macaroni and cheese balls to hamburgers from In-N-Out. A live stand-up bassist and drummer played jazz tunes.

In one corner booth tucked to the side of the party’s outdoor patio, Gwyneth Paltrow held court with her Coldplay husband Chris Martin and silver screen vet Jane Fonda, while talking with Cameron Diaz.

Across the room, Jennifer Lopez lovingly fiddled with the collar of her boyfriend Casper Smart’s shirt. Lopez, wearing a maroon-brown sequined Zuhair Murad gown with a plunging front and back, later gabbed with her ex Sean “P. Diddy” Combs. The hip-hop mogul warmly rubbed her arm as Smart stood nearby.

Tom Cruise, standing next to his wife Katie Holmes, became downright excited talking to “Star Wars” director George Lucas. “You gotta do that, you gotta do that, you gotta direct!” Cruise loudly told Lucas.

Other attendees included Steve Martin, Kate Hudson, Sandra Bullock, Tina Fey, best actress Oscar nominee Rooney Mara and best actor Oscar nominee Demian Bichir.

A dapper David Beckham chomped on a burger while keeping close to his wife, Victoria Beckham. Sacha Baron Cohen pulled a complete 180 from his controversial Oscar red carpet stint dressed as a Moammar Gadhafi type figure to promote his upcoming film, “The Dictator.” Hanging out in a normal black tux, Cohen looked nothing like the bearded military character who poured ashes all over E! host Ryan Seacrest before the Oscar telecast.

Just south of the bash, at the Elton John AIDS Foundation’s Oscar viewing dinner and after-party, actors and musicians co-mingled for an especially vibrant, grand fete for the event’s 20th anniversary.

Previously held at West Hollywood’s Pacific Design Center, the party shifted for the first time to a larger space across the street, at West Hollywood Park, with 200 more dinner guests than usual, bringing the tally to 910.

More than 80 tables decorated with grey, blue and white cloths filled the massive blue and white tented dinner ballroom. Celebrities walked down a pristine white carpet into multiple tents serving cocktails, wine and upscale carbonated juice drinks. One outdoor tent was decorated with hanging blue mirrors.

Only 14 months old, Sir Elton John’s son, Zachary, made a brief appearance during a cocktail hour just before the dinner, as John and his civil partner David Furnish took turns showing him off to well-wishers. The blonde toddler wore a black jacket with his name stitched on it, and chewed on a cloth napkin. John sported a black embellished jacket with his glittering initials spelled out on the back.

Guests such as Neil Patrick Harris, a blue-bobbed Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and her boyfriend Liam Hemsworth, Anna Paquin and her husband Stephen Moyer, John Waters, Kim Kardashian and her pregnant sister Kourtney feasted on a five course meal that included sauteed sea bass with pepper saffron sauce, beef tenderloin with leek bread pudding and apple-pear tart for dessert.

Steven Tyler talked about balancing recording the new Aerosmith album in L.A., being a judge on “American Idol” and attending an Oscar party such as John’s.

“It’s crazy, it’s crazy,” said Tyler, decked out in rock `n’ chic tight black brocade pants. “After all this, tonight, I’ll go back to the studio and record a song. I’ll probably get to bed around 2 a.m.”

Perry sat at a middle table with John, Furnish and “American Idol” alum Adam Lambert. Newly single Heidi Klum, a regular at the bash, sat at a nearby table next to Kyle MacLachlan and the Kardashians.

“Tonight we’ve raised more money at this event than we ever have before,” John told the crowd after a feisty post-dinner auction that netted $5.25 million for the foundation’s fight against HIV and AIDS.

Things became a bit rowdy when celebrity chef Cat Cora, who created the night’s menu, egged on would-be bidders to snatch up an in-home cooking class for up to ten people she would host. Perry and Steve Tisch, owner of NFL champs the New York Giants, then started a bidding war, with Tisch the winner, for $100,000, but Perry named a co-winner. Cora joked about kissing Perry, in a nod to Perry’s hit “I Kissed a Girl,” then came over and pecked her on the cheek.

Just before indie rock band Foster the People came out onstage to pound out hits such as “Pumped Up Kicks,” a DJ spun songs catching the ear of friends Kelly Osbourne and Cyrus, who made mock kissing faces for photos and danced to a remix of Adele, mouthing the words. Gwen Stefani sauntered into the post party with a full entourage.

The Governors Ball, the Academy Awards’ official after-party, at the Hollywood & Highland Center, was re-tooled this year from a formal sit-down affair to a cocktail bash, which served the guests just fine. Viola Davis sat with Octavia Spencer, and Spencer’s best supporting actress Oscar, for nibbles and drinks while best actress nominee Michelle Williams and pal Busy Phillips roamed the venue hand in hand.

Honorary Oscar winner James Earl Jones presented the event’s headlining performer, Tony Bennett, whom he referred to as “an American classic” and “Frank Sinatra’s favorite singer.”

At John’s shindig, first-time attendee “Glee” star Darren Criss, himself musically inclined, noted the irony of “The Artist” juxtaposed against the party’s backdrop of booming music and screamed conversation.

“When people allegedly schmooze, they shout at each other. I like to sit down and have a conversation,” he said.

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AP Entertainment Writer Sandy Cohen contributed to this report.

At Vanity Fair’s always compact, A-list soiree at West Hollywood’s Sunset Tower Hotel, one of several parties following the 84th annual Academy Awards at the Hollywood & Highland Center, starlets and Oscar nominees and winners chatted, ate, roared with laughter and giggled to each other.

The scene played out like one of the charmingly glam moments depicted in soundless best picture Oscar winner “The Artist,” set in Los Angeles during the late 1920s transition from silent movies to talking pictures, yet filled with lively noise.

Jonah Hill, nominated for a best supporting actor award for best picture nominee “Moneyball,” smiled and shouted out a sassy expletive decrying his and the film’s loss, surrounded by a pack of friends, including Seth Rogen.

Rogen, who hosted Saturday’s Film Independent Spirit Awards, also laughed and drank with fellow funny guy Jason Segel, star of “The Muppets” movie, and comic-musician Bret McKenzie, who pumped his Oscar for best original song, for “The Muppets,” into the air.

“I think there was a list of people I had to apologize to,” acknowledged Rogen, to Hill, about his pointed barbs at the Spirit Awards aimed at a number of people, including director Brett Ratner, who dropped out of producing this year’s Oscars after making a gay slur.

The party, hosted by Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter, served up wine and champagne as well as comfort food, from fried macaroni and cheese balls to hamburgers from In-N-Out. A live stand-up bassist and drummer played jazz tunes.

In one corner booth tucked to the side of the party’s outdoor patio, Gwyneth Paltrow held court with her Coldplay husband Chris Martin and silver screen vet Jane Fonda, while talking with Cameron Diaz.

Across the room, Jennifer Lopez lovingly fiddled with the collar of her boyfriend Casper Smart’s shirt. Lopez, wearing a maroon-brown sequined Zuhair Murad gown with a plunging front and back, later gabbed with her ex Sean “P. Diddy” Combs. The hip-hop mogul warmly rubbed her arm as Smart stood nearby.

Tom Cruise, standing next to his wife Katie Holmes, became downright excited talking to “Star Wars” director George Lucas. “You gotta do that, you gotta do that, you gotta direct!” Cruise loudly told Lucas.

Other attendees included Steve Martin, Kate Hudson, Sandra Bullock, Tina Fey, best actress Oscar nominee Rooney Mara and best actor Oscar nominee Demian Bichir.

A dapper David Beckham chomped on a burger while keeping close to his wife, Victoria Beckham. Sacha Baron Cohen pulled a complete 180 from his controversial Oscar red carpet stint dressed as a Moammar Gadhafi type figure to promote his upcoming film, “The Dictator.” Hanging out in a normal black tux, Cohen looked nothing like the bearded military character who poured ashes all over E! host Ryan Seacrest before the Oscar telecast.

Just south of the bash, at the Elton John AIDS Foundation’s Oscar viewing dinner and after-party, actors and musicians co-mingled for an especially vibrant, grand fete for the event’s 20th anniversary.

Previously held at West Hollywood’s Pacific Design Center, the party shifted for the first time to a larger space across the street, at West Hollywood Park, with 200 more dinner guests than usual, bringing the tally to 910.

More than 80 tables decorated with grey, blue and white cloths filled the massive blue and white tented dinner ballroom. Celebrities walked down a pristine white carpet into multiple tents serving cocktails, wine and upscale carbonated juice drinks. One outdoor tent was decorated with hanging blue mirrors.

Only 14 months old, Sir Elton John’s son, Zachary, made a brief appearance during a cocktail hour just before the dinner, as John and his civil partner David Furnish took turns showing him off to well-wishers. The blonde toddler wore a black jacket with his name stitched on it, and chewed on a cloth napkin. John sported a black embellished jacket with his glittering initials spelled out on the back.

Guests such as Neil Patrick Harris, a blue-bobbed Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and her boyfriend Liam Hemsworth, Anna Paquin and her husband Stephen Moyer, John Waters, Kim Kardashian and her pregnant sister Kourtney feasted on a five course meal that included sauteed sea bass with pepper saffron sauce, beef tenderloin with leek bread pudding and apple-pear tart for dessert.

Steven Tyler talked about balancing recording the new Aerosmith album in L.A., being a judge on “American Idol” and attending an Oscar party such as John’s.

“It’s crazy, it’s crazy,” said Tyler, decked out in rock `n’ chic tight black brocade pants. “After all this, tonight, I’ll go back to the studio and record a song. I’ll probably get to bed around 2 a.m.”

Perry sat at a middle table with John, Furnish and “American Idol” alum Adam Lambert. Newly single Heidi Klum, a regular at the bash, sat at a nearby table next to Kyle MacLachlan and the Kardashians.

“Tonight we’ve raised more money at this event than we ever have before,” John told the crowd after a feisty post-dinner auction that netted $5.25 million for the foundation’s fight against HIV and AIDS.

Things became a bit rowdy when celebrity chef Cat Cora, who created the night’s menu, egged on would-be bidders to snatch up an in-home cooking class for up to ten people she would host. Perry and Steve Tisch, owner of NFL champs the New York Giants, then started a bidding war, with Tisch the winner, for $100,000, but Perry named a co-winner. Cora joked about kissing Perry, in a nod to Perry’s hit “I Kissed a Girl,” then came over and pecked her on the cheek.

Just before indie rock band Foster the People came out onstage to pound out hits such as “Pumped Up Kicks,” a DJ spun songs catching the ear of friends Kelly Osbourne and Cyrus, who made mock kissing faces for photos and danced to a remix of Adele, mouthing the words. Gwen Stefani sauntered into the post party with a full entourage.

The Governors Ball, the Academy Awards’ official after-party, at the Hollywood & Highland Center, was re-tooled this year from a formal sit-down affair to a cocktail bash, which served the guests just fine. Viola Davis sat with Octavia Spencer, and Spencer’s best supporting actress Oscar, for nibbles and drinks while best actress nominee Michelle Williams and pal Busy Phillips roamed the venue hand in hand.

Honorary Oscar winner James Earl Jones presented the event’s headlining performer, Tony Bennett, whom he referred to as “an American classic” and “Frank Sinatra’s favorite singer.”

At John’s shindig, first-time attendee “Glee” star Darren Criss, himself musically inclined, noted the irony of “The Artist” juxtaposed against the party’s backdrop of booming music and screamed conversation.

“When people allegedly schmooze, they shout at each other. I like to sit down and have a conversation,” he said.

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AP Entertainment Writer Sandy Cohen contributed to this report.

At Vanity Fair’s always compact, A-list soiree at West Hollywood’s Sunset Tower Hotel, one of several parties following the 84th annual Academy Awards at the Hollywood & Highland Center, starlets and Oscar nominees and winners chatted, ate, roared with laughter and giggled to each other.

The scene played out like one of the charmingly glam moments depicted in soundless best picture Oscar winner “The Artist,” set in Los Angeles during the late 1920s transition from silent movies to talking pictures, yet filled with lively noise.

Jonah Hill, nominated for a best supporting actor award for best picture nominee “Moneyball,” smiled and shouted out a sassy expletive decrying his and the film’s loss, surrounded by a pack of friends, including Seth Rogen.

Rogen, who hosted Saturday’s Film Independent Spirit Awards, also laughed and drank with fellow funny guy Jason Segel, star of “The Muppets” movie, and comic-musician Bret McKenzie, who pumped his Oscar for best original song, for “The Muppets,” into the air.

“I think there was a list of people I had to apologize to,” acknowledged Rogen, to Hill, about his pointed barbs at the Spirit Awards aimed at a number of people, including director Brett Ratner, who dropped out of producing this year’s Oscars after making a gay slur.

The party, hosted by Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter, served up wine and champagne as well as comfort food, from fried macaroni and cheese balls to hamburgers from In-N-Out. A live stand-up bassist and drummer played jazz tunes.

In one corner booth tucked to the side of the party’s outdoor patio, Gwyneth Paltrow held court with her Coldplay husband Chris Martin and silver screen vet Jane Fonda, while talking with Cameron Diaz.

Across the room, Jennifer Lopez lovingly fiddled with the collar of her boyfriend Casper Smart’s shirt. Lopez, wearing a maroon-brown sequined Zuhair Murad gown with a plunging front and back, later gabbed with her ex Sean “P. Diddy” Combs. The hip-hop mogul warmly rubbed her arm as Smart stood nearby.

Tom Cruise, standing next to his wife Katie Holmes, became downright excited talking to “Star Wars” director George Lucas. “You gotta do that, you gotta do that, you gotta direct!” Cruise loudly told Lucas.

Other attendees included Steve Martin, Kate Hudson, Sandra Bullock, Tina Fey, best actress Oscar nominee Rooney Mara and best actor Oscar nominee Demian Bichir.

A dapper David Beckham chomped on a burger while keeping close to his wife, Victoria Beckham. Sacha Baron Cohen pulled a complete 180 from his controversial Oscar red carpet stint dressed as a Moammar Gadhafi type figure to promote his upcoming film, “The Dictator.” Hanging out in a normal black tux, Cohen looked nothing like the bearded military character who poured ashes all over E! host Ryan Seacrest before the Oscar telecast.

Just south of the bash, at the Elton John AIDS Foundation’s Oscar viewing dinner and after-party, actors and musicians co-mingled for an especially vibrant, grand fete for the event’s 20th anniversary.

Previously held at West Hollywood’s Pacific Design Center, the party shifted for the first time to a larger space across the street, at West Hollywood Park, with 200 more dinner guests than usual, bringing the tally to 910.

More than 80 tables decorated with grey, blue and white cloths filled the massive blue and white tented dinner ballroom. Celebrities walked down a pristine white carpet into multiple tents serving cocktails, wine and upscale carbonated juice drinks. One outdoor tent was decorated with hanging blue mirrors.

Only 14 months old, Sir Elton John’s son, Zachary, made a brief appearance during a cocktail hour just before the dinner, as John and his civil partner David Furnish took turns showing him off to well-wishers. The blonde toddler wore a black jacket with his name stitched on it, and chewed on a cloth napkin. John sported a black embellished jacket with his glittering initials spelled out on the back.

Guests such as Neil Patrick Harris, a blue-bobbed Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and her boyfriend Liam Hemsworth, Anna Paquin and her husband Stephen Moyer, John Waters, Kim Kardashian and her pregnant sister Kourtney feasted on a five course meal that included sauteed sea bass with pepper saffron sauce, beef tenderloin with leek bread pudding and apple-pear tart for dessert.

Steven Tyler talked about balancing recording the new Aerosmith album in L.A., being a judge on “American Idol” and attending an Oscar party such as John’s.

“It’s crazy, it’s crazy,” said Tyler, decked out in rock `n’ chic tight black brocade pants. “After all this, tonight, I’ll go back to the studio and record a song. I’ll probably get to bed around 2 a.m.”

Perry sat at a middle table with John, Furnish and “American Idol” alum Adam Lambert. Newly single Heidi Klum, a regular at the bash, sat at a nearby table next to Kyle MacLachlan and the Kardashians.

“Tonight we’ve raised more money at this event than we ever have before,” John told the crowd after a feisty post-dinner auction that netted $5.25 million for the foundation’s fight against HIV and AIDS.

Things became a bit rowdy when celebrity chef Cat Cora, who created the night’s menu, egged on would-be bidders to snatch up an in-home cooking class for up to ten people she would host. Perry and Steve Tisch, owner of NFL champs the New York Giants, then started a bidding war, with Tisch the winner, for $100,000, but Perry named a co-winner. Cora joked about kissing Perry, in a nod to Perry’s hit “I Kissed a Girl,” then came over and pecked her on the cheek.

Just before indie rock band Foster the People came out onstage to pound out hits such as “Pumped Up Kicks,” a DJ spun songs catching the ear of friends Kelly Osbourne and Cyrus, who made mock kissing faces for photos and danced to a remix of Adele, mouthing the words. Gwen Stefani sauntered into the post party with a full entourage.

The Governors Ball, the Academy Awards’ official after-party, at the Hollywood & Highland Center, was re-tooled this year from a formal sit-down affair to a cocktail bash, which served the guests just fine. Viola Davis sat with Octavia Spencer, and Spencer’s best supporting actress Oscar, for nibbles and drinks while best actress nominee Michelle Williams and pal Busy Phillips roamed the venue hand in hand.

Honorary Oscar winner James Earl Jones presented the event’s headlining performer, Tony Bennett, whom he referred to as “an American classic” and “Frank Sinatra’s favorite singer.”

At John’s shindig, first-time attendee “Glee” star Darren Criss, himself musically inclined, noted the irony of “The Artist” juxtaposed against the party’s backdrop of booming music and screamed conversation.

“When people allegedly schmooze, they shout at each other. I like to sit down and have a conversation,” he said.

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AP Entertainment Writer Sandy Cohen contributed to this report.

Bridges TV General Manager Hunaid Baliwala (hoo-NAYD’ bah-lee-WAH’-lah) says Verizon informed him the station’s viewership is too low. Baliwala says he hasn’t been told what the numbers are.

Verizon confirms Bridges will be out of the lineup March 15.

Bridges TV was founded in 2004 by Muzzammil Hassan (moo-ZAHM’-mel HAH’-sahn) and his wife, Aasiya (AH’-see-ya) in suburban Buffalo. It managed to stay on the air after Hassan was convicted of beheading his wife in 2009.

But without Verizon as a major carrier, Baliwala says important advertising revenue and the ability to reach a mainstream audience will be diminished.

British singer Estelle prefers to take her time. It took her four years to produce her 2008 album, “Shine,” which included her breakthrough Grammy-winning single, “American Boy,” featuring Kanye West.

Now, after nearly another four years, Estelle releases her latest album, “All of Me” – and once again, it’s well worth the wait.

Estelle sings with her Brit-accented delivery mixed with uptempo dancehall tracks and heartfelt ballads that touch the soul. She bounces back-and-forth from rapping and singing on “Speak Ya Mind” and “The Life,” informing listeners that she hasn’t missed a step since her last album a few years ago.

The track names might indicate that “All of Me” is all about the somber state of breakups. But that is not the case with Estelle, who focuses on the positive aspects of departing from her mate.

On the Akon-written “Thank You,” Estelle shows gratitude toward her cheating mate for their inevitable split. She pours her heart out on the chorus: “These tears I cry sure won’t be the last/They will not be the last … no/This pain inside which never seems to pass/It never seems to pass me by/So I thank you/Said I thank you/Yes I thank you/For making me a woman.”

“Wonderful Life” has an easy-going feel, as Estelle sings about trying to find the simple pleasures of life during a rocky day. On the album’s single, “Break My Heart,” featuring Rick Ross, the singer struggles with her trust issues on the midtempo, radio-friendly track.

In total, Estelle’s album is a solid piece of work, and she proves that her “all” is more than enough.

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CHECK OUT THIS TRACK: Estelle boasts about the high life on “International (Serious),” featuring Chris Brown and Trey Songz, who takes a stab at rapping.

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Follow Jonathan Landrum Jr. on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/mrlandrum31

British singer Estelle prefers to take her time. It took her four years to produce her 2008 album, “Shine,” which included her breakthrough Grammy-winning single, “American Boy,” featuring Kanye West.

Now, after nearly another four years, Estelle releases her latest album, “All of Me” – and once again, it’s well worth the wait.

Estelle sings with her Brit-accented delivery mixed with uptempo dancehall tracks and heartfelt ballads that touch the soul. She bounces back-and-forth from rapping and singing on “Speak Ya Mind” and “The Life,” informing listeners that she hasn’t missed a step since her last album a few years ago.

The track names might indicate that “All of Me” is all about the somber state of breakups. But that is not the case with Estelle, who focuses on the positive aspects of departing from her mate.

On the Akon-written “Thank You,” Estelle shows gratitude toward her cheating mate for their inevitable split. She pours her heart out on the chorus: “These tears I cry sure won’t be the last/They will not be the last … no/This pain inside which never seems to pass/It never seems to pass me by/So I thank you/Said I thank you/Yes I thank you/For making me a woman.”

“Wonderful Life” has an easy-going feel, as Estelle sings about trying to find the simple pleasures of life during a rocky day. On the album’s single, “Break My Heart,” featuring Rick Ross, the singer struggles with her trust issues on the midtempo, radio-friendly track.

In total, Estelle’s album is a solid piece of work, and she proves that her “all” is more than enough.

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CHECK OUT THIS TRACK: Estelle boasts about the high life on “International (Serious),” featuring Chris Brown and Trey Songz, who takes a stab at rapping.

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Follow Jonathan Landrum Jr. on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/mrlandrum31