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March 16, 2000 Viper Room, Part 2
This email chain was in response to Allyson's email about our star-studded evening at the Viper Room's secret Cult show...

-----Original Message-----
From: Jess Barron [mailto:jessb@poprocks.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 3:14 AM
To: "Allyson"
Subject: Viper Room Cult show reported about on Alloy.com

Hey Allyson,

I just noticed a report about our Viper Room/Guinness Toast party on Alloy.com. Go to:
http://www.alloy.com/a2k/todayinalloy/newsandgossip/
and scroll down to the entry for March 6 where you'll see:

THE GUINNESS WORLD RECORD
Looks like all you need to do to get stars to participate in a publicity stunt for free is serve them beer - lots and lots of beer. At least, that worked for Guinness, the Irish beer company that organized a 60-city, 300,000 person toast to (what else?) the wonders of Guinness in order to make it into the 2001 Guinness Book of World Records in the category of "Largest Simultaneous Toast." Joining the L.A. toast party at the Viper Room were such celebs as Johnny Depp, Tori Spelling, David Boreanaz, Alyssa Milano, Edward Furlong, Donovan Leitch, Rose McGowan, Matthew McConaughey, Vince Vaughn, Steven Dorff, and Paul Rudd. Sounds like quite a kegger!

If you scroll further down to February 11, you'll see a report mentioning Monica L's boyfriend Jeff (Boggs) who writes for the Tom Green show. I coulda scooped them on *that* story. He convinced her to go on the show, the night they were out at Lava Lounge with me...

MONICA LEWINSKY TO BE ON THE TOM GREEN SHOW
Think that the Tom Green episode where he gave his parents lawn, er, art was funny? Well, that's nothing compared to what he's got planned next: Tom, Monica Lewinsky, and a camera crew, all in Tom's hometown together. Check this itinerary: First night in town, make a late-night visit to Tom's parent's bedroom. Next day, have Monica pose for a an Ottawa Sun feature on local beauties. Stop for coffee. Steal coffee filters to wear as hats. Toy with reporters by promising to make "a major announcement" about Monica and Tom's status as a couple soon, even though Monica is already seeing Jeff Boggs, one of Tom Green's producers. (So THAT'S how she ended up on the show.) We can't wait for this episode to air!

-----Original Message-----
From: Allyson
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 9:53 AM
To: 'Jess Barron'
Subject: RE: Viper Room Cult show reported about on Alloy.com

WE MISSED TORI SPELLING?!?! Ooops, I mean... WE MISSED JOHNNY DEPP?!?!

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posted by Jess Barron @ 2:14 PM