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The Nine Biggest Oscar Party Whores [Celebrity Science]

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February 22, 2008

The Nine Biggest Oscar Party Whores [Celebrity Science]
The cancellation of this year’s Vanity Fair party, the social highlight of Oscars night, is a tragedy. Not so much because it deprives gatecrashers of their most significant challenge of the year; but because Graydon Carter’s annual party invites represent a definitive list of celebrity. Nevertheless, we how important? Social scientist Elizabeth Currid and her colleague analyzed photographs of guests at last year’s gathering, to calculate the most socially connected and socially promiscuous…

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