Perrey Reeves

Mrs. Ari, the smart, fearless wife of fictional Hollywood agent Ari Gold, doesn't even have an official first name. But Perrey Reeves, the actress who plays her on HBO's "Entourage," isn't complaining. The series, after all, is about four young guys trying to make it in the land of film and money. Her character, who comes on particularly strong in Season 3 (starting Sunday ), is an extension of her obnoxious, neurotic husband, Reeves says. "I love it. That's how the boys see me," she says.

Mrs. Ari, the smart, fearless wife of fictional Hollywood agent Ari Gold, doesn't even have an official first name. But Perrey Reeves, the actress who plays her on HBO's "Entourage," isn't complaining. The series, after all, is about four young guys trying to make it in the land of film and money. Her character, who comes on particularly strong in Season 3 (starting Sunday ), is an extension of her obnoxious, neurotic husband, Reeves says. "I love it. That's how the boys see me," she says.

L.A. is never short on gala movie events and last week proved no different, with virtually back-to-back fashion-centric film screenings that attracted glamorous crowds of socialites, celebrities and style setters. R.J. Cutler's documentary "The September Issue" was the center of attention Tuesday night at LACMA. The director spoke to a crowd including actresses Ginnifer Goodwin and Perrey Reeves, singer Kelly Rowland and boutique owner Cameron Silver, urging them to use Twitter or Facebook to spread their (positive)

With 225 designer handbags — all stuffed with Dior beauty products — for sale in a silent auction at Tuesday's annual P.S. Arts "Bag Lunch," guests didn't just arrive on time. They came early to Heather Thomas Brittenham's Santa Monica home to plan their bidding strategy. "This is such madness," said Emmy Rossum of "Shameless. " "You would think they were giving the bags away for free. " Sharon Stone said she was considering a classic orange purse, which she called "chic" and "old school," while Kristin Davis of "Sex and the City" said she was waiting for the frenzy to die down before making her choices.

"The Last Night of Ballyhoo" is, on one level, a soft-focus period piece, casting a gentle and good-humored glow on a curious slice of Americana in 1939. Yet Alfred Uhry's comedy also resonates beyond its time and place. It examines an ever-simmering feature of American culture--the assimilation of "the other." Uhry's play opened at the Can~on Theatre in Beverly Hills Sunday, in a sterling staging by Ron Lagomarsino, who also directed its much-lauded New York run.

Face scrunched into a maniacal leer, eyes glowing with homicidal frenzy, mouth spewing obscenities and vile threats, Chucky the killer doll is on the loose again in "Child's Play 3" (citywide). This overall-clad, carrot-headed mechanical tyke--a "Good Guy" talking doll possessed by the soul of a serial murderer--has been shot, decapitated and roasted to a revolting crisp for two "Child's Play" movies in a row.

Tom Hanks is Hollywood's go-to Mr. Nice Guy, and he has no bigger fans than the surviving veterans of Easy Company, America's most celebrated fighting unit of World War II. This past week Hanks, who helped immortalize historian Stephen Ambrose's account of the company's war in the HBO series "Band of Brothers," accompanied the surviving vets to Normandy for the 65th anniversary of D-day, attended by the presidents of the U.S. and France among others.

CAN we get a little "Remember When" background music, please? Just the right note for "A Celebration of Oscar Fashion," held Jan. 30 at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills. Fashion show producer Laura Ziskin enlisted 1. "Vogue" editor-at-large Andre Leon Talley to curate the first runway show of classic gowns worn by past Oscar winners and presenters. Talley, the voice of Oscar fashion for the "Road to the Oscar" pre-show Feb.

The celeb count for runway shows during L.A. Fashion Week at Smashbox is routinely high because (A) it's L.A. and (B) stars always turn out for designers they love. Front-row faces at the Bebe Collection Fall/Winter '07 show last Sunday: 1. Jerry O'Connell and his Amazonian squeeze, Rebecca Romijn. Hanging backstage, 2. Brenda Strong, left, the disembodied voice of Mary Alice on "Desperate Housewives," and Arielle Kebbel wore their best Bebe. 3. "DH" star Eva Longoria, the new face of Bebe Sport, locked fingers with designer David Cardona.

"If you have any brains, you pick your school by your teacher," said Elizabeth Pitcairn, a violin soloist who studied with Robert Lipsett at L.A.'s Colburn School. She said she started playing at age 3 and, at 16, her grandfather bought her the legendary Red Mendelssohn Stradivarius, which was handcrafted in 1720 and then disappeared for 200 years, inspiring the film "The Red Violin." She played that violin at "Conversations With Colburn," an intimate dinner earlier this month at Jennifer and Royce Diener's historic home on Santa Monica's "Gold Coast."

Chloe, the French luxury house, is devoted to casual separates with enough edge to appeal to young women. Its casual looks, what the French refer to as "day wear," are Los Angeles day-to-night wear. As a matter of fact, the line looks so right for an L.A. woman's closet -- sheer blouses paired with shorts, one-shoulder dresses -- that you wonder why Chloe, which just opened its first proper Los Angeles boutique on Melrose Place, took so long to get here. Founded by Gaby Aghion, Chloe introduced luxury pret-a-porter to the masses 57 years ago and was the springboard for designers Karl Lagerfeld in 1966, Stella McCartney in 1997 and Phoebe Philo in 2001.