A Toast to Ridley

The event: A dinner celebrating helmer Ridley Scott and "American Gangster"

The details: Saturday at Ago in West Hollywood

The guest list: Denzel Washington, Ridley Scott, Ron Meyer, Marc Shmuger, David Linde and Brian Grazer

The menu: pizza, pasta and salmon

The talk: "It was very hard to get this movie going and it was a completely dead project," said Grazer. "Then Ridley Scott came aboard and caused are really dead project to become a really great and memorable film."