Basically, Vanity Fair’s annual Oscar party was rocking when I arrived at 11:30pm from the Oscar show and Elton John’s amazing $6.2 million fundraiser. And the Vanity Fair party was still rocking when I left at 2:30am. For all I know, every A list star in Hollywood is still inside the gi-normous single room tent on Santa Monica Boulevard next to the Annenberg Center, dressed in formal wear, eating In and Out Burgers, vaping, gossiping, and hooking up.

The first people I saw had arrived almost simultaneously and I was sucked into their vortex: show host Chris Rock, who looked he had PTSD, and Leonardo Di Caprio, who was very Gatsby as everyone in the room rushed over (you could feel it tilting) toward him to see his long awaited Oscar. His mother and her husband were with him. You can see them (sitting) in the photo I took of Chris and Leo meeting after leaving the Rome Colosseum– er, Dolby Theater.

After a bit of mugging (male hugging), Chris sat down on one of the modular white sofas in our area, eyes wide shut and hollow. He’d just come from the Governors Ball and looked shell shocked. Are you alright, I asked? He nodded. I assured him the night had gone well, and that the reviews would be good. (They were but the ratings were terrible– but that had to with the movies, not the Oscars show.)

What was his favorite part, I asked? He said, “Once I made it past the monologue, nothing else mattered. It was all a blur.” Indeed, he handled the whole massively complicated enterprise with aplomb and still came off very funny. I said, “Jada [Pinkett] can take it,” referring to his joke about her. Chris said, “Well, it’s true he got $20 million for Wild Wild West!”

I like Leo’s style when juggling his long ago divorced parents, by the way. He parked his mom at the Vanity Fair party, and gave his dad and his wife tickets to the Oscars. I walked the red carpet with George DiCaprio, who told me: “I think Leo will take a break now and focus n environmental issues. He deserves a break.”

Just to give you an idea of how bizarre it is to see 500 famous people at the same time: into this little Leo scrum came someone I recognized but hadn’t seen in some time: magician David Copperfield. And then the famed director of “The Insider” and “Heat” Michael Mann.

The Vanity Fair party is the only place where you will see Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, who are divorcing, as well as Matt Damon (and his wife Lucy) all talking together like nothing is amiss. I ran into Justin Timberlake (who put me in headlock) and Jessica Biel, Anthony Mackie and his super manager Jason Spire, and then sort of a flood of people from all corners of show biz including Sean Puffy Combs, turned out in a tuxedo (he is the David Dinkins of hip hop) to the very pregnant friends Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt, who became famous as co-stars in “The Devil Wears Prada” and are still best pals.

“Look at us!” exclaimed Anne, who is ready to go in May. “You didn’t know what strong women we are!” The two gals cracked up laughing. Oh boy!

Back in the main room there were plenty of reunions, celebrating and some grieving. The latter came as Lady Gaga, fiance Taylor Kinney, and songwriter Diane Warren rolled in after inexplicably losing Best Song to the watery James Bond theme sung  by Sam Smith. Gaga was philosophical– her performance, with Veep Joe Biden and fifty rape survivors sent a powerful message. But after 8 nominations, Diane Warren would like her statue already.

Then  there was Sylvester Stallone, who everyone, including me, thought was going to win his Oscar after 40 years. He lost instead to Mark Rylance, Britain’s most famous theater actor. There I was consoling Rocky Balboa. “I have my theories,” he said. We agreed, on to bigger and better things. But I’m told Stallone didn’t feel he had the financial support from MGM in ads or screeners, and that he paid for a lot of his Oscar campaign himself.

Yes, I did listen in while Roger Federer and Serena Williams talked tennis. And I did sit and chat with 87 year old Martin Landau about all the movies he’s making now. Nick Jonas told me he’s starting to plan his new album. So did Mr. Timberlake. I ran into a crush of New York types (Paul Dano, Jon Hamm, Hamish Linklater) and hung out with Sissy Spacek and her legendary production designer husband Jack Fisk. I asked Fisk if he really knew Terence Malick, who he’s worked with since the 70s. “Do you ever actually see him?” I asked. He laughed. “Oh yes! He just doesn’t like the press.” No kidding.

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Is Sylvester Stallone going to bring home the Oscar tonight for his poignant performance in ‘Creed?” His loyal brother seems to think so. I caught up with actor Frank Stallone at Doris Bergman’s Eighth annual Valentine Romance Oscar Style Lounge & Party at Fig & Olive. Frank told me: “I think my brother has good fighting chance. He sure deserves it.”

Ernie Hudson, and Eva La Rue, Marilu Henner, were among the celebs perusing disnapback.com’s hip hats and clothing line, Samiah Hinton’s Fine Clothing, Sue Wong. Spongelle, Purador hair care, Fit For A Belle fun stylish gym wear, Mahankirn Yogi, Author, Hillel Rzepka’s handmade wearable glass art. Single fashions are always uber popular. Other highlights were Art Lewin’s bowties, socks and pocket squares. Art is the go to guy for custom suits, shirts, anything for Hollywood’s elite well dressed men. My Saint My Hero, Gift of Blessing Bracelets, Marisa Marshall is the talented designer to come up with these affordable, meaningful bracelets. Twisted Silver is hands down the coolest jewelry ever. Described as distinct, chic and timeless, Twisted Silver hits on all counts. Frank and George Chakiris, from “West Side Story,” hung out together in the presenting sponsor Maserati car that was on display. Doris Bergman’s suites are always so plugged in and oh so Hollywood!

The Irish Film Board and IDA celebrating the Irish showbiz peeps at Laurel Hardware. Colin Farrell and Chris O’Dowd, along with Oscar nominated director Lenny Abrahamson all confabed. A shout out as well to The Artisan Group, an elite collective of way talented artists of handcrafted products, including a unique and lovely assortment of jewelry, hair accessories, clutches, candles, photographs, cards, stuff even for your pets and way more. They are a truly talented bunch of gifted artists. Check them out at: issuu.com.

Patricia Arquette for Prez and Jennifer Lawrence as her VP?

That’s a showbiz likely scenario from the looks of it Friday night at the Ninth Annual Women In Film pre-Oscar Cocktail Party at Hyde Sunset Kitchen + Cocktails.

WIF’s President Cathy Schulman hosted the soiree attended by more than thirty Oscar nominees including songwriter Diane Warren, who wrote “Til It Happens To You,” plus Best Actress nominee Charlotte Rampling. ’The Danish Girl” star Alicia Vikander (a surprise guest), and “Joy” Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence.

Schulman, addressing the lack of women in the industry, told the A list crowd that, “Women have been leading this movement with courage that it takes to stay, stop it.”

The great Patricia Arquette– Oscar winner last year for “Boyhood”–  gave an impassioned speech and told the crowd, “Pay inequality affects 98% of women in this industry and women all over the country. Karma is coming home to roost. Black lives matter, the environment matters and ending pay inequality matters. We need to clean up our roost. “

Arquette described the other inequalities that affect women and gave a dig to the recently departed Supreme court Justice Antonin Scalia. “Scalia said that women do not have equal rights under the constitution. So just talking about pay inequality is bullshit. Millions of women need it to stop. “ Patricia urged the room to sign the petition she is sponsoring on Change.org, supporting the resurrection of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Schulman  called up surprise guest Jennifer Lawrence, who wrote an essay for Lena Dunham’s newsletter talking about her own experience with pay inequality that garnered worldwide attention. Jennifer first paid homage to Arquette. “I’m a huge fan of Patricia Arquette. I actually played a younger version of her once, and I love that she stood up. We’re starting a conversation; we’re getting a dialogue going. I didn’t know I was going to be speaking. “ Jennifer ended with a fist bump to the air, exclaiming, “equal pay for women!”

The room cheered– and that included everyone from Michelle Monaghan to Mickey Sumner, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Lake Bell, Maria Bello, Adepero Oduye, and even Oscar winning director Tom Hooper.

Lady Gaga is a professional so she absolutely went to Oscar rehearsals yesterday. Her performance tonight will be amazing, introduced by Vice President Joe Biden and featuring 50 women who are rape survivors.

But when Gaga appeared at Harvey Weinstein’s star studded private dinner at the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills last night, she had a lot to say about the situation with Kesha and Sony Music. She said, “I got so upset thinking about Kesha I almost didn’t go to rehearsals. But of course I did, because I had to.”

Gaga, looking like a million bucks in a black and white couture outfit, showed up at the party just as it was winding down. She brought fiance Taylor Kinney and her manager Bobby Campbell, and they were all pretty excited about what they’d seen down at the Dolby Theatre.

Still, Gaga says she is in constant touch with Kesha. “I know a lot more than I can say in public right now,” she told me. “Every female artist has some kind of story of being held back by a man. And I’m thinking of all the female artists now who are trying to make it.”

Gaga did join Elton John on Saturday afternoon for live show in the Tower Records parking lot that was live streamed on aol.com. They performed Elton’s great hit “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me.”

At the Weinstein party she and Taylor were immediately joined by her Oscar nominated co-writer Diane Warren, who had earlier performed “Til it Happens to You” on stage to huge applause. Her audience included Bryan Cranston, director Simon Curtis, John Legend and Chrissy Teigen, Jared Leto, Kelsey Grammer, Rooney Mara, Christoph Waltz, Andie McDowell, Kathy Narducci of “Sopranos” fame, Ron Burkle, tennis great Roger Federer, Naomi Campbell, composer Ennio Morricone, Matthew Morrison, New York Post famed gossipeuse Cindy Adams, and Derek Hough.

New hit singer Zendaya performed a smashing version of the title song from Harvey’s Broadway hit “Finding Neverland” with about a dozen back up singers. The show is about to welcome opera star and “Les Miz” vet Alfie Boe as J.M. Barrie– so here’s a scoop– Kelsey Grammer told me he’s extending his run to overlap with Boe at the end of March. Very cool.

Also part of last night’s entertainment: some selections from Weinstein’s upcoming Broadway revival of “Singin’ in the Rain.” The show was a hit in Paris last year and will arrive in New York in January 2017.

PS Chrissy Teigen is so lovely. She wore a red gown, but she is due to give birth in April to a baby girl. “Don’t you know that already?” she joked. I guess the tabloids know all this stuff. They do not have a name. John told me he’s starting to think about a new album. He and Common will present Best Song tonight — they won last year for “Glory.” John told me that when he was at rehearsals, “I felt nostalgic.” John Legend is celebrating his 12th anniversary this year as a music star. Is that possible? Time flies. And he only gets better and better!