This holiday season, however, brought an untraditional blight. Ever since Aspen became Hollywood on ice, an u written “No gawking” code has been decorously observed by locals and visitors alike. But last week the stargazing reached a rude peak. Apparently, a record blitz of glitterati attracted a blizzard of out-of town paparazzi (even some of the tabloid TV shows popped up), triggering an avalanche of frenzied fans.
At the trendy mountainside Little Nell Hotel, where real estate tycoon Marvin Davis holed up with his entourage (including Sean Connery, Harry Hamlin and wife Nicollette Sheridan), a concierge had to constantly tell the camera-toting, autograph-seeking “looky-loos” camped outside to take a powder. And at a Walden Woods benefit given by rocker Don Henley at the Tatou club, hundreds lined up to glom a glimpse of a patched-up Cher, Jack Nicholson and Ivana Trump (whose marriage went downhill here two years ago) attended by boyfriend Riccardo Mazzucchelli. This season also saw the emergence of a new status symbol-the bodyguard. So many people had so many that the exclusive Caribou Club instituted a “one-bodyguard only” rule. Vail, anyone?
