This is Super Bowl weekend on South Beach, the ultimate party paradise, where flesh and flash are on display for all to see inside the clubs and outside on the beach. With party hosts like Jamie Foxx, Paris and Nicky Hilton, and the self-proclaimed king of South Beach, Shaquille O'Neal, you've got to be somebody or know somebody to have a shot at getting in during the Super Bowl. The bash to be at was the Maxim party Friday.
Scalpers paid up to $4,000 on the street for tickets and spectators stood 10 deep outside the Sagamore Hotel to get a glimpse of the red carpet, which was graced by the likes of Spike Lee, K-Fed, Ludacris and top-name athletes including former heavyweight champ Lennox Lewis, tennis star Andy Roddick and NFL standouts Reggie Bush, LaDainian Tomlinson and Donovan McNabb. The celebrities and athletes rolled through the lobby every few minutes, some of them heading out back where people stood chest-to-chest among the hedges, others ushering off to private rooms _ all with that you-know-my-name confidence. Of course, everyone looked like they were someone, which is probably how they got in.
The guys came ready for action, breaking out their best striped button-ups and black jeans, moussing their hair up in 157 different directions and sporting big-rimmed, low-tint sunglasses that would make Brad Pitt proud. The women moved in beautiful packs, wearing low-cut tops and high-rising skirts. The music stopped at 2 a.
m., but the action didn't, with countless revelers hanging out on the back deck or the red carpet, not wanting the night to ever end. This group included the cliche Florida retiree set with their multicolored golf shirts and saggy slacks, and the trying-way-too-hard-to-still-be-hip former CEOs with the blazers and mock turtlenecks.
But with women dancing in giant boxes, swinging from the moon and soaking in a bathtub, they were easy to overlook. MMVII The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
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