Starry Night

V.F.'s Oscar-night party was the ultimate convening of celestial bodies

L.A.'s palmy streets go still on Oscar night, but at Mortons, the exclusive cradle of the Hollywood crowd, fans roared behind barricades, paparazzi bumped shoulders at the stanchions, and the limos lined up to deliver the movie stars and luminaries from Washington and New York as Vanity Fair and producer Steve Tisch hosted the biggest Monday night at Mortons anyone's ever seen. Among those who mingled until the early morning were Geena Davis, Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, Joan Collins, Julian Sands, Dolly Parton, Michael Stipe, Gene Hackman, Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, Christian Slater, Raquel Welch, Candice Bergen, George Michael, Robert Evans and Ali MacGraw, Carolina Herrera, Laura Dern, Donald Sutherland, Faye Dunaway, Val Kilmer, Stockard Channing, and Dee Dee Myers, who was one among an ad hoc contingent of Washington worthies, including Clinton advisers Paul Begala and James Carville, with his wife, Mary Matalin.