After chattering into a phone, like a regular master of the universe, Mr. Oscar begins busily transforming himself in the back of his now improbably spacious limo crammed with boxes, bric-a-brac and a dressing room mirror.
The Palladium Ballroom lies just beyond the endlessly chattering slot machines, and after picking up my credential I make my way inside.
That is partly because the chattering classes remember what he did after they started chattering about the end of his era.
On this day, a Monday, he sat at the head of a conference table as his writers gathered for work after the weekend, chattering about the heat.
After all, Hollywood's chattering class — agents, producers — has to have something to chew over at lunch.
The chatter after dinner was surprisingly upbeat.
His handling of the moment turned the audience against the production, as far as I could tell; the chatter after the first intermission had been mostly positive, though not enthusiastically so.
Mr. Terekhov said the year's third peak of political chatter, after the winter protests and the Pussy Riot trial, came last month, when the lower house of Parliament voted to ban adoption of Russian children by Americans.
Match report: Germany 2-0 Ukraine There was much chatter after the late win over Czech Republic – thanks to an unlikely source in Gerard Piqué – that Vicente del Bosque's team are short on goals.
On Monday, that murmuring was upgraded to chatter after Rondo posted a cryptic tweet that just said "29,233,380 secs" which suggested two things: 1. we had forgotten how weird Rondo can be and (perhaps a tad more relevant) 2. those seconds added up implied that he would be returning to the Celtics lineup in time for Friday night's game against the Los Angeles Lakers.
