Hollywood creates big movies like “Harry Potter” and “The Hunger Games.” Tinseltown is the great American movie and TV dream factory which also provides great ideas for your own house party. Clueless as to how to get started? Simply invite the brightest stars around! Call up those Hollywood heavyweights – or lightweights – and hours of happy Hollywood heaven will delight your friends.
Costume parties can be pricey or cramp one’s style. However, by telling friends to show up as a Hollywood heavyweight or hasbeen, their need for a trip to a costume shop for expensive clothes or make-up fades away like Joan River’s laugh lines on Botox. Showing up as Charlie Sheen or Sylvester Stallone can be easier than donning a cape as Darth Vader or biting into vampire teeth as Count Dracula or Anne Rice’s Lestat.
Lindsey Lohan Or Charlie Sheen?
Chances are you’ll have single and married friends. No matter if they come as a single or couple, they’ll want to shine limelight on them – just as would any big, egotistical movie or TV star. Question is: What’s the best costume/persona for your friends?
Lindsey Lohan and Charlie Sheen may have stumbled, but they’re definitely not out of the game. On the contrary, Sheen will star in “Anger Management” on FX – a sitcom based on the Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson movie. Lohan recently hosted Saturday Night Live, and her other Hollywood gigs are still going strong. I’d not limit how many ‘losers’ (affectionate term for stumblers, of course) can appear at your party. A gang of Charlie Sheens mixing it up by screaming ‘Winning!’ and ‘Tiger’s blood!’ will tickle your funny bone as much as your guests.
Perhaps the only rules they must observe is coming up with as many original lines as to where their career is going and why. Rehab isn’t an option!
Reality Star Or Silver Screen Star?
These days stars aren’t exactly as bright as they once were. Snooki, The Situation and Dog The Bounty Hunter may entertain, but it’s hard to see them competing with Clark Gable, Dustin Hoffman or Brad Pitt. Nevertheless, some of us would rather throw on a ripped t-shirt and up our Snooki factor, than taking the time to become the real diva or divo we were meant to be.
Have someone follow around the ‘reality stars’ with a camer, and keep shouting, “Reality stars in the house!” After awhile, the chaos and clash of the filming will be enough to keep any party lively – or at least wacky and weird.
Hollywood Walk Of Fame or Cake of Fame?
Red velvet cupcakes from The Cake Boss and other gourmet bakeries are still all the rage. Hollywood is known for its legendary ‘Walk of Fame’, and while that’s fun, it’s not edible! Whip up a few stars that you can eat!
Baking star shaped cakes or cupcakes won’t be hard, and the ‘glitter’ can come from colored sugars you use for Christmas cookies. Spelling out guest names in the icing and stars will top off the festivities nicely, and some may even pose for the papparazzi that’s sure to show up with so much starlight in one place at one time. Buy chocolate candy coins wrapped in gold foil and give them out as grab bags for those who capture the Hollywood spirit best.
Throwing a fun Hollywood theme party is easy and should intrigue everyone who makes it to your big premiere – no matter what designer dud or kind of car they roll up in to bash.
