Paul Allen opened his Beverly Hills home to the Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games on Wednesday night. Event was part of Los Angeles’ bid to host the 2016 Olympics. The U.S. Olympic Committee will decide next month between L.A. and Chicago, while the International Olympic Committee won’t make its final decision until the summer of 2009.
Approximately 150 guests took a ride in Allen’s sideways elevator to his state-of-the-art recording studio for a private screening of “Battle Olympia,” a kinetic short film created to attract a younger audience to the Olympic games. Directed by Jesse Davey and edited in his Oakwood apartment in Burbank, the film was produced by Grammy-winner Dave Stewart (The Eurythmics). Peter Facinelli (“Can’t Hardly Wait”) and former Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale star in the short, which utilizes various LA neighborhoods to showcase a series of Olympic feats, from a rooftop long jump to a high dive into a kiddie pool of shallow water.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa took the stage to thank Allen and introduce the film. “People have tried to pit this city against Chicago but that’s not what this is about. Los Angeles is the city of America’s hope, the city of its promise. It is the creative capital of not just America but the world."
In line with an admission from an Allen staffer that “things have been changing all day,” it was indeed, a wild night by all accounts, especially after On the Town was asked to leave following the screening. Nikka Costa performed a short set and witness reports confirm Allen played a spectacular cover of Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze.” Rocker Mick Jagger was also rumored to be in attendance. Surely he would’ve been impressed with Allen’s recording studio’s soundboard, which featured so many knobs and buttons that only an astronaut (or a veteran sound engineer) could make it work. “Up is louder,” the engineer said, confirming On the Town’s suspicions. (J. Sneider)
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