What Happened to Our Great Parties?
Podcast: Martini ShotPublished On: Wed Jan 21 2026
Description: Awards season is here, which means Hollywood is again awash in parties, cocktails and mocktails. And yet, somehow, none of it feels like much of a celebration. Rob Long remembers the best awards party he ever went to — the one no one planned — and traces how an industry that once knew how to have fun became serious, fragmented and anxious. His antidote to malaise? A really good, wide-open bash — that someone else pays for. Transcript here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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