RSVP : This Party’s No Bomb; It’s a Booming Success

The Scene: Tuesday’s premiere of MGM’s pyrotechnical thriller “Blown Away” at Mann National in Westwood. An elaborate party came afterward. “You get lots of boom,” said star Jeff Bridges about the story of a Boston bomb squad dealing with an Irish bomber.

Who Was There: Bridges; co-stars Lloyd Bridges and Suzy Amis; director Stephen Hopkins; plus 1,600 guests, including Ellen Barkin, Emilio Estevez, Malcolm McDowell, Jon Bon Jovi, Morgan Freeman, Mick Fleetwood, Diane Lane and Gary Busey (who wore stretch pants with a kimono jacket, “the Joey Buttafuoco look,” in one guest’s words), plus MGM and UA execs Frank Mancuso, Michael Marcus and John Calley.

Subject of Conversation: That the actors’ Irish brogues seemed to breeze in and out from scene to scene. More than one guest referred to this as the Kevin Costner school of accents.

The Party: A parking lot done by Ambrosia as “a post-industrial funky warehouse” to match the film’s detonated landscape--car carcasses, twisted scaffolding, metal hulks spewing smoke and enough Irish themed food to cater Peter O’Toole’s wake.

The Don’t-You-Know-Who-I-Am? Moment: When the main theater ran out of seats, hundreds of guests were sent to an overflow screening. Some acted as if they were being dragged off for mandatory root canals.

Dress Mode: Warm weather after-work clothes--summer-weight black dresses, linens and sufficient rayon for a bowling shirt factory.

Trend Accessory: Small leather backpacks. One woman wanted to know, “is there such a thing as an evening-wear backpack?”

Quoted: Discussing the dramatic qualities of the O.J. Simpson saga, entertainment attorney David Colden said, “I always tell my clients to go back to the classics. This is ‘Othello’ meets ‘Speed.’ ”