Mobbing the Mondrian

If you’re having trouble getting cleared for landing at the Sky Bar, the tony new poolside club at the Mondrian, you’re in good company. Those who decided to taxi on over to the Table--the hotel’s easy access lobby bar--this past weekend read like a who’s who in film and music: Hanging out with the little people were Oliver Stone, Aaron Spelling, Rod Stewart, Elle Macpherson, Peter Morton, Russell Simmons, Quincy Jones and Gabriel Byrne.

Entertainers who have publicists doing their jobs (i.e., getting their names on the Sky Bar’s VIP guest list) and who opted for the sublime experience include John Waters, Leonardo DiCaprio (that kid gets around), Herbie Hancock (an actual Mondrian guest), Dodger Mike Piazza, Chris Rock, Stephen Dorff (he gets around, too), Adam Duritz (this ex-Viper Room bartender and current Counting Crow really gets around), Barry Diller, George Clooney, Denzel Washington and Slash (we’re not referring to a punctuation mark). . . .

Leaving the highbrow for the lowlands of Hollywood’s wild, wild west, the lovely Yucca and Wilcox district, we turn to Goldfingers, which attracted Elizabeth Perkins and Diane Lang on Sunday. The actresses turned out in support of veteran performer Hadda Brooks, whose swinging, jazzy blues will be playing Sundays indefinitely at the new lounge club. . . .

Dragonfly torched its short-lived Sunday night club Molotov--a Gothic attempt at attracting the dressed in dark crowd--but don’t fear. The newly expanded Hollywood club is replacing the night with a rock en espan~ol club, slated to kick off with live local Latin rock on March 2. The club’s weekend dance parties, Plush on Fridays, and Club D-Fly on Saturdays, still weigh in with heavy doses of disco, hip-hop and funk.

In more live Dragonfly news, New York industrial-core band Sister Machine Gun comes to the club on Feb. 18 and Gene Loves Jezebel decided to kick off its reunion tour (the first in 10 years) at the Fly on March 18. . . .

Those of us who weren’t invited to Lenny Kravitz’s unannounced show last Friday at the Viper Room missed rubbing shoulders with Iggy Pop, Woody Harrelson and Rage Against the Machine.