October 20, 2008

Zac Efron Turns 21!

Zac Efron

Zac Efron

Zac Efron, of High School Musical 3: Senior Year, celebrated his 21st birthday Saturday with an intimate two-hour dinner party at L.A.’s Pace restaurant with a group of friends and family that included his parents and brother, girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens, HSM3 costars Monique Coleman and Ashley Tisdale, her boyfriend Jared Murillo and pals Michelle Trachtenberg, Amanda Bynes, Brittany Snow and singing sisters Aly and AJ Michalka.

Ali Larter’s Engagement Party

Hayes MacArthur and Ali Larter

Hayes MacArthur and Ali Larter

Ali Larter and her fiancé celebrated their engagement in style Saturday night with a party at L.A.’s Sunset Tower Hotel.

The Heroes star and actor Hayes MacArthur were joined by about 100 friends, who sipped drinks from a private bar and sat on comfortable leather couches inside the hotel or mingled by the pool and terrace area with its stunning views of the city.

Fashion’s Mr. Blackwell Dies

Richard Blackwell

Richard Blackwell

Richard Blackwell – the self-important bad boy of fashion whose nearly five decades’ worth of annual Worst-Dressed Lists could be counted upon to provide some of the meanest laughs of every new year – died Sunday of complications from an intestinal infection, said publicist Harlan Boll. Blackwell was 86.