Tribeca 2005: Invasion of the Stars - More Vanity Fair Dinner Party Photos

I don't know how many of you have ever spent time squeezed in between professional photostalkers, index finger batting wildly at your point-and-click digital camera whilst everyone around employs all aspects of guerilla warfare in order to get a salable shot - but it's a pretty surreal experience. After the jump, catch our gallery of photos from last night's Vanity Fair party - including shots of Claudia Schiffer, Nicole Kidman, Jay-Z and tons more - and some captioned with fragments overheard in the paparazzi pen. Minor disclaimer - they don't always get the shot by playing nice...

Vanity Fair figurehead Graydon Carter, host of the evening's festivities.

Photographer #1: Is that Phil Donahue?
Photographer #2: Where'd they dig him up?
[with wife Marlo Thomas]


Sheryl Crow


"Jay! Jay! Jay! Jay! Jay-Z! Where's Beyonce? Where's Beyonce? Where's Beyonce? Jay! No Beyonce? Where's Beyonce?"


Claudia Schiffer and husband Matthew Vaughn.
Photographer: Who's the dude?
Snotty PR lady: Claudia's husband is very important director. He has a film showing at the festival!
Photographer: [makes noise that approximates the verbal equivalent of a shrug]


Kevin Bacon, doing his best impersonation of Keith Richards.


Iman and David Bowie


Alan Cumming
Photographer: What's with the hair, Alan? What's with the hair?


Nightclub impressario Amy Sacco.


Kelly Lynch


Rachel Weisz - by far, the female paparazzo's choice for Best Dressed.


Damon Dash and girlfriend Rachel Roy


Robert DeNiro refused to pose for pictures.
Photographers in unison: [stream of invectives]


Nicole Kidman was also hard to pin down.
Photographer: Nic ... NicNicNicNicNic. You might as well stop, because I know where you live...