A-listers flocked to the Paris Theatre for the premiere of Sony Pictures Classics' Being Julia, then to hot spot Show for a chic after-party. Seen taking in the flick and later sip-ping cocktails: star Annette Bening (who left hunky hubby Warren Beatty at home in L.A. with their four kids), Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, director István Szabó, producer Robert Lantos, Glenn Close, Michael Nouri, and Andrew Stein.

The film, set in London in the late 30s, is based on W. Somerset Maugham's 1978 novel Theatre, and is a perfect star vehicle for Bening as the poised and talented diva Julia Lambert. On the surface, her life seems perfect-a thriving stage career and marriage to the handsome Michael Gosselyn, played by Jeremy Irons. Look further, though, and it's just a façade. Julia's looks are fading, her husband is cheating, and her son is estranged. When a younger man starts to pursue her, Julia embarks on a torrid affair, trying to ease her mid-life crisis. She then discovers the lad is also seeing a young starlet, and finds she is just being used to advance his own theatrical career. What's a woman to do? Plot revenge, of course…. Sweet victory, great film!