Industry holiday parties get passed down to assistants while stars vacation elsewhere.

Evidence

I hadn’t spotted as much as a D-list celebrity in the crowd. It appeared that this was the kind of event where the stars pass their invites on to their personal assistants; swag, assistants earned for a year of service while the stars themselves went off to Aspen or Switzerland to do what stars do on the holidays: ski, not ice skate on an empty stomach in Culver City. — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs, 98

Categorization

• CANDY: A relatable image of Hollywood’s holiday-party trickle-down that would amuse friends.