A Jennifer Aniston Cameo, and Several Other Surprises, at The 24 Hour Plays

"It was kind of crazy!" actress Leslie Bibb said, breathlessly, as she entered the after-party for The 24 Hour Plays last night. "It was so much fun, though, to get to rap and dance like a crazy person."

Bibb joined an impressive cast of stars—Jennifer Aniston (in a surprise performance), Rachel Dratch, Elijah Wood, Sarah Silverman, Julia Stiles, Tracie Thoms, Julie White, Gloria Estefan, and Bibb's beau, Sam Rockwell, among them—in performing a series of six 10-minute plays that were written, rehearsed, and produced in the space of just a day. The event, held at the American Airlines Theater (and the afterparty, next door at B.B. King's), was sponosored by Montblanc and benefited The Urban Arts Partnership, a nonprofit that works to bring arts education to underserved youth. LEFT: TRACIE THOMS AND ANTHONY MACKIE AT THE AFTERPARTY

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The final play, which starred Bibb and America Ferrera as funhouse versions of themselves who are desperate to land a gig on 30 Rock (and encounter actual 30 Rock stars Cheyenne Jackson and Elizabeth Banks along the way), ended with an inside joke: "I may be able to get you on Glee!," Bibb and Ferrera's guardian angel (Rosie Perez) declares. Bibb, though, may already have an in if it's Glee she wants: she starred in Ryan Murphy's first show, Popular, a decade ago. "I haven't seen Glee, but I hear it's a great, great show, and I'm always so happy for him. He's such a brilliant man," Bibb said of Murphy.

Hurt Locker
star Anthony Mackie appeared on the American Airlines stage for the second time this month—he presented at the Artios Awards two weeks ago, and memorably had some trouble with the names on his cue cards. "[I got] the worst names of all time! And everybody's like, ‘it's such an easy name, it's Raechleriskerowsen!'" Mackie exclaimed, remembering the event. "Because the thing about it is, if it's a word, it's a word, but names—you have silent Q's, and a lot of these dudes are from Europe, where they just spell stuff different. So it's like, what do you do?"

Mackie's character in The 24 Hour Plays was a superhero whose power was the ability to change fashion just by thinking about it: straw boater hats are in, white belts are out. "I consider myself to be a fashionisto," Mackie said when we asked whether he follows fashion. "Oh, snap! I don't cruise control, I control the cruise. Ohhh, I went real black real fast, and now she's scared! So I'ma bring it back." (We weren't scared, just a little confused.)

"I'm real simple when it comes to fashion. I grew up on Brooks Brothers, and I love Thom Browne's line, I love Rag & Bone," Mackie continued. "As far as a suit, my favorite suit is either CK or Hugo Boss, because they make athletic cuts. A lot of people are cutting for narrow guys, but I have broad shoulders, I played football. You know what I mean, so, if you don't have an athletic cut, I can't fit, what do you do with that, you know what I mean?," he said, miming a struggle with a pair of trousers. "I can't get it in there."

We can confirm that Mackie does, in fact, have a broad set of shoulders.

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