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🎧 What Happened to Our Great Parties?

Hollywood still throws plenty. It just forgot how to have one

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Awards season is here, which means Hollywood is again awash in parties, cocktails and mocktails. And yet, somehow, none of it feels like much of a celebration. Rob Long remembers the best awards party he ever went to β€” the one no one planned β€” and traces how an industry that once knew how to have fun became serious, fragmented and anxious. His antidote to malaise? A really good, wide-open bash β€” that someone else pays for.

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