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The shuttering of Morton's, the longtime home of the post-Oscar orgy where Vanity Fair invites a few hundred of its closest Hollywood friends over to enjoy a second round of congratulatory fellatio, has necessitated a change of venue for the most eagerly anticipated bash of the awards season. Variety reports that editor Graydon Carter has chosen Craft's new Century City outpost for this year's event, a location nestled so close to the CAA Death Star that the restaurant's management often has to ask the evil agency to change the position of the enormous laser cannon on its roof to minimize the shadows it casts across its dining area. Say Var:

"When Mortons announced it was closing, we thought it was time for a change," said Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter.

"Craft is the ideal place for the party: great food — which we will not be serving family-style, by the way — great location with a dramatic entrance and a big, sweeping space."Craft is so close to CAA's new headquarters and so frequently used by its agents that it's jokingly been referred to as the tenpercentery's commissary.

On Oscar night, Vanity Fair will be building out beyond Craft's terrace to make more space. But a Vanity Fair spokesman said the party's guest list will "definitely" not be larger than it had been at Mortons. Traffic and parking, which frustrated guests in the past, should also improve with the change of venue.

While organizers will probably take pains to make sure that the event isn't completely dominated by CAA, Vanity Fair did have to make one key concession in exchange for the use of its commissary: the party's centerpiece will be a huge table at which agency overlords Bryan Lourd, Kevin Huvane, and Richard Lovett will hold court for the duration of the affair, occasionally summoning celebrity chef/owner Tom Colicchio to personally prepare sumptuous snacks from the tender flesh of infants freshly stolen from the families of unsuspecting Oscar nominees, who naively believed their children to be safe at home with babysitters on their big night.