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"   Photo: Getty Images  If you mention your love for her coming-of-age thriller Fear, Reese Witherspoon will give you a bemused look, shrug her narrow shoulders, and tease, &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re really gonna go there?&amp;quot; Then she&amp;#039;ll look directly at you, her saucer-wide blue eyes unflinching and say, &amp;quot;Let&amp;#039;s go there!&amp;quot; And though she won&amp;#039;t fess up to any cinematic predilections kinkier than, say, 1985&amp;#039;s The Sure Thing (with John Cusack), the risqu\u00E9 film chatter is merely a warm-up for the full-on roast she&amp;#039;ll later receive from her good pal and presenter Chelsea Handler. To the delight of the audience, which included Witherspoon&amp;#039;s husband, Jim Toth, Handler didn&amp;#039;t go easy on her friend. In one of the tamer jokes that can be reprinted here, she described what it&amp;#039;s like to be a guest at chez Witherspoon. &amp;quot;She makes you sing Christmas carols,&amp;quot; she said with deadpan delivery. &amp;quot;And I&amp;#039;m Jewish.&amp;quot;  As guests dug into their appetizers (and Glee&amp;#039;s Chord Overstreet ordered an off-menu Grey Goose and soda), Andy Samberg warned: &amp;quot;Do not pick up the bamboo centerpieces. They&amp;#039;re full of tiny ninjas. And that&amp;#039;s super dangerous.&amp;quot; Beat. &amp;quot;Or whatever.&amp;quot; His brand of PG-13 humor with a self-deprecating tilt kept the audience in stitches all night\u2014gamely touching on everything from &amp;quot;jacket-gate,&amp;quot; the kerfuffle surrounding honoree Melissa McCarthy&amp;#039;s November ELLE cover, to his penchant for using Lady Bic razors. &amp;quot;Only on my arms and legs,&amp;quot; he joked, &amp;quot;as I am completely incapable of growing facial hair.&amp;quot;   Photo: Getty Images When there was a pause in the program, Samberg\u2014whose wife, singer Joanna Newsom, was among the revelers\u2014would look around the star-studded room and offer up an approving, &amp;quot;You guyyyyyssss.&amp;quot; The gag never failed to amuse McCarthy, whose booming laughter filled the room all night long. &amp;quot;You are beautiful,&amp;quot; presenter Kathy Bates effused of The Heat star. &amp;quot;And with that guy beside you,&amp;quot; she said, gesturing to McCarthy&amp;#039;s husband and collaborator, Ben Falcone. &amp;quot;You will take over this town.&amp;quot;   Photo: Getty Images  Meanwhile, in the ladies&amp;#039; room, newfound friends Game of Thrones&amp;#039; Emilia Clarke and honoree Marion Cotillard found new ways to interact with vases of L&amp;#039;Or\u00E9al lip stains. As Mad Men&amp;#039;s Jessica Par\u00E9 looked on in delight, they tagged the mirror with &amp;quot;Viva Marion&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Kaleesi,&amp;quot; respectively. &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t have the heart to tell her she was missing an &amp;#039;h&amp;#039; [in Khaleesi],&amp;quot; joked ELLE.com editor, Leah Chernikoff. As the night came to a conclusion, the evening&amp;#039;s legend award recipient, 89-year-old Eva Marie Saint said, &amp;quot;You can never predict who&amp;#039;s going to be a legend. It&amp;#039;s more than their work\u2014it&amp;#039;s about the life around them.&amp;quot; She brought the room to tears as she ruminated on her life in cinema, which included on-screen romances with Cary Grant, Paul Newman, and Marlon Brando. She then took the opportunity to introduce her date that evening, her grandson, Eli, who had on a festive tie for the occasion. &amp;quot;Looking good, Eli!&amp;quot; Samberg joked before closing out the night. It was an easy, off-the-cuff joke\u2014and it totally killed.  Photo: Getty Images "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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