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Plenty of 'Allure' at this Hollywood event

By William Keck, USA TODAY

WEST HOLLYWOOD — For Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Richie, Ryan Seacrest and Jessica Biel, an invitation to hobnob at a chichi dinner party with some of Hollywood's other hottest stars was too alluring to turn down. They were among the guests who turned out for Allure magazine's annual Hollywood soiree at Dominick's restaurant Wednesday night.

Over a patio dinner of filet mignon and Alaskan halibut, Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo chatted up big-screen Dukes of Hazzard producer Billy Gerber, who broke news that he'll next be giving the movie-makeover treatment to the 1970's TV hit The Jeffersons. Gerber says he is envisioning Martin Lawrence and Queen Latifah in the roles of George and Weezy, though no offers have yet been made.

Pompeo mentioned having just read Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink, about trusting our instincts, and chatted about how things seem to be interconnected. For instance, when she first met her boyfriend of two years, music producer Christopher Ivery, at a grocery store, she was more focused on food than romance. But two days later, they met again, started dating, and discovered they grew up in Boston 10 miles from each other — and Ivery knew Pompeo's father.

And, the Hollywood home she and Ivery rent is just 10 doors down from her Anatomy TV love, Patrick Dempsey. Ivery and Dempsey race scooters together down their street. Said Pompeo, "It's a very small world."

Source: USA Today