VIPS

People who get backstage easily

• A-listers, for short

• Award ceremony invitees

• Big cheeses

• Big cheeses briefly

• Big guns, for short

• Big names

• Big shots

• Big shots, for short

• Big wheels

• Big-shot letters

• Bigwigs

• Bigwigs, briefly

• BMOCs, e.g.

• C.E.O.'s and B.M.O.C.'S

• C.E.O.'s, e.g.

• CEO and COO

• CEOs and CFOs

• CEOs and such

• D.C. is full of them

• Folks given red-carpet treatment

• Folks in limos, perhaps

• Fortune magazine subjects

• High muck-a-mucks

• Honchos

• Limo passengers, presumably

• Limo riders

• Limo riders, often

• Limo-riding sorts

• Lionized ones

• Nabobs, initially

• Notables

• Ones getting bottle service, say

• Ones who get to cut the line, say

• Prestigious people, for short

• Privileged folks

• Red-carpet walkers

• Somebodies

• Stars

• They get the royal treatment

• Those who might get preferred seating

• Wheels, honchos et al.