>And the only wack experience I had was when I attempted to do
>something very typically "Hollywood" that I didn't want to do
>in the first place (had a friend who was at a party at the W,
>said he could get us on the list, we waited outside for 2
>hours and never got in, blah).

Unless it's a absolutely sure thing that you'll get in. My wife used to do a lot of magazine writing and I'd go with her to events like that because it was part of her job and free booze, but I'd always end up like, "I would never put any effort at all to get into this."