After After the Sunset

Not the most witty of headlines, I agree, but too good to pass up. Went to the premiere and afterparty for the Brett Ratner Hackathon After the Sunset. I liked the film the first time, when it was called The Thomas Crown Affair. Actually, that film was heaps better. When you notice that Salma Hayek starts to take off her clothes seductively one too many times in the film that it becomes a tired "character trait", you know something's wrong.

The afterparty was at the Dizzy Jazz Center in "the most glamorous mall outside of Dubai", the Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle.

The party was full of free drinks, exotic Bahamian food, your typical slew of celebrities (Salma, Pierce, Woody Harrelson, Jeremy Piven, and the ubitquitous Russel Simmons), even a carnival-type procession of musicians and dancers in floral garb. But when I catch supermodel Karolina Kurkova poured over her blackberry in the middle of the revelry, emailing like a madwoman, I wonder how "cool" this whole thing is... I mean, how dull must a party be to drive a model to write?