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We caught a whiff of Halle Berry, a sniff of Paz de la Huerta and a deep breath of Padma Lakshmi. At the Fragrance Foundation’s FiFi Awards, billed as the Oscars of the perfume industry, our correspondent came face to face with a sea of celebrity wrists on Wednesday night. All around us, scented arms, flung into the faces of others, were sniffed with the solemnity of a sommelier.
The celebrities in the audience sat out of smelling distance from one another at the awards show, which was held in a tent at Lincoln Center. A good thing, we learned. Ms. de la Huerta hates rose scents, while Ms. Lakshmi was doused in the flower; Ms. Berry finds vanilla scents too cloying, but Ms. de la Huerta smelled like a cupcake; and Ms. Lakshmi, it seemed, wouldn’t have worn either aroma — she doesn’t do commercial scents.
Desirée Rogers, the former White House social secretary, presented the awards for Media Campaign of the Year.  Nominees like Mary J. Blige and Fergie took home perfume bottle-shaped trophies. Fergie won an award for her fragrance “Outspoken” (appropriately, since her speech included some unprintable language

Zach Galifianakis works very hard to appear disinterested. As one of the breakout leads from The Hangover, Galifianakis behaves as though he doesn’t want the fact that he starred in the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time to go to his head.  

Soft-spoken and pleasant, he doodles during interviews. He considers his answers. He deadpans his responses. Some of that is playing the role of a happy stand-up comic enjoying his unlikely rise to movie-star success. Or some of it might be the delayed after-effects of the considerable amount of drugs he claims to have used over the course of his career.  

AskMen spoke to Zach during a press event for The Hangover Part II.

Have you ever -- or would you ever -- find yourself mixed up in the sort of debauchery Alan stumbles into in both Hangover movies?

Zach Galifianakis : I’ve been happily dedicated to the same woman for a number of years. I never even look at other women. I think I was probably the most boring guy on this shoot.

Congratulations, Twinkle Toes! In the season 12 finale of Dancing With the Stars, NFL superstar Hines Ward was able to achieve what Tom Bergeron's voiceover hauntingly called "success in an environment where the odds are heavily in favor of failure." I love how the writers have gradually turned this pleasant slab of American cheese into a dark and stormy torture chamber over the course of 12 seasons. Gotta keep 'em on their toes.
Chelsea Kane took third place despite her technical prowess, and Kirstie Alley wedged her way into second. Makes sense to me. Hines may not have been the best dancer, but he got the most votes. Same sparkle, different season. No need to dwell on the outcome. I love Hines and Kym and they deserved the COVETED MIRRORBALL TROPHY as much as anyone. Throwing Kym's spinal cord on the line during rehearsals for their semifinal lifts? Totally worth it. Check out the heft of that gem. So many facets!
The Black Eyed Peas beamed over from whatever planet they live on to treat us to the network TV premiere (ugh, this is a thing) of "Don't Stop the Party." Now we know what all those stray lasers have been rehearsing for all season in our beloved ballroom. This was it! This was their time to shine.