
Monica Haynes is off. Compiled from wire reports.
Think everyone was partying after the 60th annual Primetime Emmy Awards Sunday night? Not really.
Accepting hugs left and right and clutching his best miniseries trophy for HBO's "John Adams," Tom Hanks made one thing clear at the premium cable network's packed Emmy after-party: He's not a partier.
"It's a school night. This is all a bit of a chore, honestly," Hanks said, grinning and waving his arms while music pumped loudly overhead.
"I'm shouting at everyone I meet, I'm taking pictures with everyone who wants to. ... We're really glad the series won. Great cast, killer crew. ... But I gotta be at work at 6 a.m. tomorrow," he said. "I've got about 15 minutes left in me."
HBO, of course, had a lot to celebrate with a leading 26 trophies. The after-party was aptly stylish, defining cool elegance with a clear tent covering guests, a huge torch burning above the festivities and swirling paintings projected onto nearby walls.
A blue-green Brazilian theme lent an airy, sophisticated vibe, with chairs covered in turquoise blue dotted cloth and carpeting decorated with green leaf shapes.
Oversized mesh metal vases and platformed areas lined with full-length mirrors completed the party's lavish look.
Guests, including Jon Voight, Kevin Spacey, Laura Dern, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, feasted on a menu of more than 15 dishes, including heirloom tomatoes with heart of palm, paella with Portuguese sausage and Brazilian-style ratatouille. Dessert included mango pudding.
Don Rickles chomped on potatoes and slivers of beef, his Emmy trophy just a few inches away on his table. The 82-year-old comic won for best individual performance in a variety or music program for "Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project."
"The food is excellent, the party is excellent," he said. "After this, I'm going to go home and have a drink. Vodka on the rocks."
Across town at TV Guide's bash at the Kress in Hollywood, rock band The Bravery played a thunderous set at midnight, setting the Japanese-themed party's more irreverent rock 'n' roll tone.
Waitresses in red geisha costumes served cocktails and trays of chocolates. Revelers crowded around a huge saki bar in the middle of the space. Paper cranes hung from the ceiling.
Guests included Sandra Oh and John Krasinski. DJ Samantha Ronson spun rock tunes early in the evening and then after The Bravery's set. She didn't take kindly to a female fan who tried to photograph Ronson's gal pal, Lindsay Lohan.
Isn't it just like Tina Fey to have something go haywire on the night she's recognized for her many talents?
"If anyone's seen my purse," Fey announced to reporters backstage after winning three Emmys, "I left it under my seat."
It might have been the first thing the "30 Rock" mastermind did wrong all night after picking up trophies for outstanding comedy writing, comedy series and lead actress in a comedy.
To reporters she shrugged off her resemblance to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whom she won raves for portraying on the season premiere of NBC's "Saturday Night Live" earlier this month.
"But then my kid saw her on TV and said, 'That's Mommy!'" she said.
In other celeb news, Jacqueline Kennedy's years as a book editor, many of them at Doubleday, will be the subject of a Doubleday book coming out in 2011.
Historian William Kuhn, who has written about British royalty and politics, is writing a biography, currently untitled, about the years Kennedy worked in the publishing business, starting in 1975 with a brief time at Viking Press and then her 16 years at Doubleday, right up to her death in 1994.
Kennedy's authors ranged from celebrities Michael Jackson and Carly Simon to Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, the Egyptian novelist.
Isaac Hayes has left his estate to his wife, Adjowa, his children and the Isaac Hayes Foundation, which promotes literacy, music and nutrition, according to his will.
The will was filed last week in Probate Court. The Commercial Appeal in Memphis reported the value and contents of Hayes' estate haven't been filed.
Part of Hayes' humanitarian work included building a school in Ghana.
The deep-voiced soul singer, 65, died Aug. 10 in Memphis.