"From fabulously decadent parties down to Santa Claus and an elf," she said.

Generally, storied film festivals mark the occasion with a lavish, decadent party at which the appearances of special celebrity guests are more a rumor than an actual sighting.

To fight boredom, Oliviero organizes decadent parties for local hippies and humiliates and abuses Irina in front of the guests.

McMahon, who is addicted to drugs and to endless decadent parties, hires his sometime security guard, a moonlighting cop named Youselli, to uncover the source of these unlikely letters.

The Belle Epoque décor make it easy to imagine that you're actually at one of F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's decadent parties.

It could survive and prosper even when led by some very dicey executives, the kind who regarded themselves as gods, choked on their own greed and gave decadent parties with carved-ice figures that urinated vodka.

"A couple weeks ago I took pictures of Pamela Anderson at this incredibly decadent party in the Hollywood Hills," he said.

Beyond publishing an Internet publication, www.GoDonnybrook.com, the group throws decadent parties and is known for their tennis and Ivy League-inspired photo shoots.

Leave it to the capitalists to throw a wonderful, decadent party.