Golden Globes Scene and Heard: Rachel McAdams Bringing ‘Spotlight’ Journalist Sacha Pfeiffer as Globes Date, by Mikey Glazer, Wrap (January 09, 2016)

Golden Globes Scene and Heard: Rachel McAdams Bringing ‘Spotlight’ Journalist Sacha Pfeiffer as Globes Date

A continually updating diary of the who, what, when, where, and why around Los Angeles over Golden Globes weekend, from The Party Report’s Mikey Glazer

“Spotlight” star Rachel McAdams is bringing Sacha Pfeiffer, the woman she portrayed in the film, to the Golden Globes on Sunday, TheWrap’s Party Report has learned.

McAdams played the Boston Globe investigative journalist on the team that broke the sex abuse scandal and coverup in the Catholic church. The investigation and reporting plays out in Tom McCarthy’s Oscar-nominated drama, which is nominated for a “Best Picture – Drama” Golden Globe.

McAdams had a good excuse for missing the film’s overpacked bash at Bouchon in Beverly Hills on Friday night: She’s off shooting the Marvel movie “Doctor Strange.”

With only 200 people initially slated at producers Open Road, Anonymous Content, and Participant Media’s dinner party, 500 showed up. About 510, actually, if you count the corps of celebrity fans and friends of the film who turned up unannounced: Sean Penn, Sharon Stone, “Orange is the New Black” duo Taylor Schilling and Natasha Lyonne, and “Doc Brown” Christopher Lloyd amongst others.

At one point, there may have been almost too many sex symbols to fit in one picture, but they did it: Bo Derek with John Corbett, Stone, and Christopher Noth, all making their way through the Boston-decorated French eatery.

Red Sox decals covered the mirrored walls and reprints of Boston Globe editions that contained the Pulitzer Prize winning coverage dressed the tables. Patriots fans, who are on pause over this awards weekend awaiting their NFL playoff appointment to come, got a fix for the itch as many of the 2002-era papers contained front page coverage of Tom Brady‘s run to the first Super Bowl win 14 years ago.

Christian Slater had a mini date-night on the balcony with wife Brittany Lopez in a table for two. James Woods proved to be a raconteur, entertaining a circle that included the OINTB ladies from the edge of a couch. Rami Malek continued his ubiquitous Globes week appearances, grabbing drinks for friends from the bar (where Ketel One lubricated the night with an appropriately named “Spotlight” cocktail) the night before he would present filmmaker grants at Film Independent’s Saturday morning brunch.All four Spotlight producers were in the room (Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, and Blye Pagon Faust) with Open Road CEO/”Spotlight” Exec Producer Tom Ortenberg. That was just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the strong industry turnout, which included quite a few Oscar voters (though nomination voting for the Academy Awards had ended two hours before the first of the guests starting arriving).Other filmmakers included “The Lion King” director Rob Minkoff with his wife Crystal on a night off from parent duty, producer David Permut (“Face/Off”, “Dragnet”), agency head Bob Gersh (who was the fur-coated Sharon Stone‘s first stop of the night) and Norby Walters, the veteran agent whose recent Facebook snap of his living room poker game with Jason Alexander, Mimi Rogers, Lou Diamond Phillips, Ed Asner, Kristianna Loken, and son/Bold Films president Gary Michael Walters induced heavy click fingers within industry circles.

Over in the kitchen – and everyone got a walk through Thomas Keller’s backroom kitchen of the fancy Bouchon – “Spotlight” writer Josh Singer and producer/Participant’s Jonathan King caught a word, as guests grabbed New England Clam Chowder, Boston Baked Beans on what could be Fenway Franks, and what one guest said were “the best fried clams.”

As far as best picture, win or lose on Sunday, they won Friday night’s Hollywood social scene.