His taste isn't worth 50 Cent!
Posted by pinrobot123 on January 31, 2008
Saturday’s ChefDance invitation-only dinner, held below Harry O’s on Park City’s Main Street, was a feast for rapper 50 Cent, who was performing that night. And as usual, 50 did his own thing. First, he couldn’t move around the dining room unless he was surrounded by an entourage of about 20 cohorts, according to our source. Then, when celebrity chef Todd Mark Miller of New York’s SDK (and formerly of Utah) offered a menu of bay scallops, winter vegetables with goat cheese, lobster risotto and pot roast with red wine, the rapper and his crew instead demanded macaroni & cheese and hamburgers. Uh, McDonalds is just up the street, Fiddy. – Vince Horiuchi Lisa: You’ve always been my best friend Lisa Harrine should be getting plenty of calls this week from long-lost friends. The Park City resident was the highest bidder at a fundraiser hosted by Grammy-winning R&B vocalist John Legend earlier this week. Harrine’s winning $80,000 bid gets her – and 100 of her closest friends – a concert with Legend later this year. Legend, in Park City for the Sundance Film Festival, decided to take advantage of the Hollywood star power to benefit his favorite cause: “The Show Me Campaign,” which helps fight poverty in some of the poorest communities in Africa.The event raised $250,000.
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– Kathy Stephenson Wheeling, dealing After a rather tepid start, film deals are starting to close with a cha-ching! in Park City. You’ve likely heard about the $10 million deal for “Hamlet 2,” the biggest bid in Sundance history. Now, Variety is reporting that Overture Films paid $3.5 million for U.S. distribution rights to Mark Pellington’s (“U2 3D,” “Arlington Road”) “Henry Poole is Here.” The tragic comedy stars Luke Wilson as a man who flees his perfect life after bad news from his doctor. Meanwhile, Variety also reports that Fox Searchlight spent $5 million for worldwide rights to “Choke,” based on Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk’s book. The movie stars Sam Rockwell as a med-school dropout who also is a Civil War re-enactor. – Vince Horiuchi.
