Is this what it might be about?

The Associated Press State & Local Wire
March 25, 2002, Monday, BC cycle
HEADLINE: Next to winning, the parties may be the best thing about the Oscars
BYLINE: By CHELSEA J. CARTER, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif.

BODY: When singer Rufus Wainwright saw where he was sitting for dinner at the Elton John Aids Foundation Oscar party he thought he'd been banished to a bad table.

"We sat down and nobody was there," he said. "Then Bob Dylan sat down." The two, both smokers, quickly drew the attention of security in the trendy but smoke-free Moomba's restaurant.

"We made a pact to light up and then we were whisked away," Wainwright said.

The pair ended up in an enclosed private smoking area.