Seth MacFarlane just got a little more awesome. The "Family Guy" creator was majorly dissed outside Crown Bar last week by a cocky doorman. But instead of whining about his experience, he took the classy route and sent three bouquets totaling $5,000 to the bar last night.
Seth signed a $100 mil deal with Fox earlier this year, and can pretty much buy Crown Bar -- and all the lame employees in it.
Filed under: Wacky & Weird, Denied!
How the hell does the guy who created "Family Guy" not get right into a bar in Hollywood?!
Seth MacFarlane was initially turned away from Crown Bar last night by that same 93-pound door guy who turned away Chuck Liddell and Barack Obama's lookalike -- but then, the glorified clip-board holder heard Seth do one of the voices from his show...
After droppin' a "Giggidy, giggidy" while entertaining the paparazzi, Seth finally got approval to get past the velvet rope -- but when the doormen gave him the O.K., Seth actually told them to wait ... the way it should be.
Filed under: Wacky & Weird, Denied!
If there's no room for Chuck Liddell inside a club, you make room -- because denying the guy and getting on the UFC fighter's bad side can't be a smart idea.
It looked like the Crown Bar doorman was about to get an ass whoopin' last night, but one of Chuck's buds held him back.
Filed under: Denied!
Maybe Golden Brooks should have popped her boob out again -- because the doorman at Crown Bar virtually ignored last night.
Using her canceled show "Girlfriends" as leverage to enter probably didn't help her cause.
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Rock stars deserve a modicum of respect in the Thirty Mile Zone. So we humbly apologize that our papper didn't recognize sometimes-Scorpions bassist Ralph Rieckermann.
The Foxtail door guy didn't know (or care) who he was either -- he got rejected.
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After the shellacking the Lakers got in the NBA finals, we understand why an L.A. bouncer would tell Boston Celtics star Ray Allen to get lost from his bar. But did you ever expect -- in your entire lifetime -- to see a 5'5" goofball in a cheap suit tell the baddest, meanest linebacker in the NFL to kick rocks?!
Note to One Sunset: Ray Lewis doesn't take kindly to rejection.
BTW, Jerome Bettis got in -- no problem. So did porn star Mary Carey.
Filed under: Talk Sports, Denied!
Someone at Crown Bar is gonna get fired -- because last night they dissed one of the most powerful men in H-Wood.
Nigel Lythgoe, the guy who produces "American Idol" and judges on "So You Think You Can Dance," was out enjoying his birthday, planning on a festive night at Crown. His boy Ryan Seacrest even arranged a table for him. Unfortunately the Josh-Hartnett-look-alike doorman apparently didn't get the memo, and Nigel was denied. The nerve!
And in the insult-to-injury department, Alli Sims made it through.
Filed under: American Idol, Denied!
Not only did Tara Reid need to set up a fake scene for a phony reality show to get into Hyde last night, but TWO members of the D-lister's crew dropped racially-charged remarks to our cameraman on her way in.
BTW -- after we stopped rolling, the blonde guy apologized to our cameraman, and insisted, "I'm not a racist."
Filed under: Wacky & Weird, Denied!
"Bold and the Beautiful" star Heather Tom and her borefriend partied it up at a charity auction in L.A. this weekend. Small problem: our photog had no clue who she was.
What does a girl have to do to get noticed -- win an Emmy? Oh riiiight ... she already has. Twice.
"American Idol" clone "Nashville Star" wanted Pussycat Dolls to perform on Monday's show, but instead wound up with their lingerie-clad, gyrating, girl group clone Danity Kane!
Sources tell TMZ that, as of last Thursday, the Pussycats confirmed they would perform on the show as part of that night's "Pop Goes Country" theme and their appearance started to get promoted. But, on Friday, we're told, Interscope tried to get PCD's tween label mates, Clique Girlz, booked on the show.
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Coolio may have lost $10,030 last night. 10 grand for bail, and 30 bucks for parking.
Before getting popped for driving on a suspended license, Mr. "I Used To Be Cool-io" was unceremoniously rejected from a Hollywood club -- One Sunset. Ever the Fruglio, the rapper tried to recoup his loss by pleading for a refund from the valet. 30 bucks can buy you.....like 100 gangsta Ziplocs.
He got $10 bucks back, and ten minutes later he was being chauffeured by L.A.'s finest.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Denied!
Not everyone can fit into Chanel -- especially Nicollette Sheridan and Michelle Trachtenberg!
Last week, Chanel threw a big red carpet bash for the opening of its new Robertson Blvd. shop and invited the likes of Angie Harmon, Rachel Bilson, Sheridan and Trachtenberg -- but not Z-lister Phoebe Price! Afterwards, we're told several photo agencies were contacted by reps for the design house asking them to not posts pics of Nic and Mic at the event. Sources tell us they didn't feel the "Desperate Housewife" and "Gossip Girl" were high end enough for the label. Interesting, since they were arguably some of the more famous actresses at the event. Ever Carradine and Tracee Ellis Ross, anyone?!
We're told none of the agencies obliged the couture house's messed up request, but you can probably guess who these ladies won't be wearing to the Emmys.
TMZ contacted a rep for Chanel, but did not hear back.
Filed under: Style Insider, Denied!
One played the fat kid in "Old School" and the other played the fat kid in "The Nutty Professor" -- but last night, both Jerod and Jamal Mixon played the fat kid who got rejected at Mood.
Filed under: Denied!
An obliterated Andy Dick and his friend got denied from Hyde last night hardcore -- and his friend took it out on any and everyone nearby.
Though Dick stumbled away from the scene and hopped into a stranger's truck at Chevron, his bud came looking for him and got into it with a random girl in the parking lot -- but it didn't end there.
Andy eventually returned and told his friend to "take the camera!" from our photog. That's when things got real messy.
Filed under: Wacky & Weird, Drunks, Fights, Denied!
A bank is claiming Liz Taylor's longtime photographer (anyone who's anyone has one!) took out a loan for $500k and is refusing to pay up.
In a suit filed Tuesday, Kleos Capital claims Gianni Bozzacchi borrowed the bucks from them and offered pics and negatives of Taylor as collateral - estimating them at, get this, over $4.8 million!
Lawyers claim the photog hasn't paid a single cent on his loan (which after interest is now up to $1.2 million) and now they're going after the collateral.
Those pics of Liz better be compromising - we're just sayin'.
Filed under: Denied!
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