Little Golden day: TMG pens a new chapter on pre-Oscar fun
Elyse Glickman Main photo: Real housewife of Beverly Hills Eden Sassoon and Random House publicist Jillian Vandall. Above: Displays for Y2K Jewellers and Eufora. Many movie buffs could equate the Academy Awards as a golden door that opens once a year to “classic” status for the nominated films, screenplays, actors, and technical achievement. And while […]
A 2017 Academy Awards suite that’s all heart
Above, from top: Dancing with the Stars (the US version) Karina Smirnoff with Footmate. Title sponsor Buywine.com with Allen Maldanado (Black-ish, 2017 Golden Globe-nominated series). Jewellery from Twisted Silver. Who says you need Valentine’s Day to show a little love? As event planner Doris Bergman sees it, every day should be Valentine’s Day—with the flair […]
Video: La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz on the 2017 Oscars Best Picture flub
In a move echoing that of Miss Universe host Steve Harvey in 2015, actor Warren Beatty read out the wrong name for Best Picture at the 89th Academy Awards. La La Land was announced as the winner at the 2017 Oscars on Sunday night, but the actual winner was Moonlight. La La Land’s […]
Dimitrios Kambouris, Kevin Mazur, Christopher Polk, Stefanie Keenan, John Sciulli, Emma McIntyre, Matt Winkelmeyer, Frazer Harrison The 23rd annual Screen Actors’ Guild Awards, held at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center on Sunday, honoured outstanding performances from 2016 in film and television. From the moment the ceremony began, the stars wasted no time diving […]
La La Land gets 14 nominations for 2017 Oscars, including leads Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling
The lists of nominees for the 89th Academy Awards were announced on the morning of January 24 in a live stream that took place in six cities around the world, rather than at its traditional home of the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. La La Land surprised with 14 nominations including Best Picture, Best […]
Sonam Kapoor, Naomie Harris, Zhang Zi Lin, Rosamund Pike among celebs at IWC Schaffhausen launch
On the night of January 17 at a private gala event, IWC Schaffhausen and a thousand VIP guests visited Genève to celebrate the arrival of the new Da Vinci collection. ‘The new collection is a modern interpretation of the iconic Da Vinci design from the 1980s. Along with its haute horlogerie innovations, the collection […]
GBK puts the ‘lounge’ back into its Golden Globe Century Lounge
Elyse Glickman For GBK’s last several award show-outings, Gavin Keilly and his troupe went high volume and high production, complete with backdrops at such larger-than-life places as the W Hollywood. The sampling, gifting and revelry went on for days at these things (well, two, to be exact, but you get the idea, based on our […]
Celebrity Connected: a platform for the “green party”
Elyse Glickman After an intense, divisive US presidential season, and its controversial aftermath, Californians were ready to kick off award show season. Celebrity Connected not only got the party started, but provided some much needed pre-Christmas comfort and joy to greet the Hollywood creative community. The W Hollywood became a Garden of Eden, filled with […]
Turned on, tuned in: Doris Bergman’s seventh annual Emmy Style Lounge & Party
Elyse Glickman Above, from top: Art Lewin works the room with celebrities on hand. Fibrum’s revolutionary virtual reality technology. We fell in love with True Love Skincare. It just goes to show that you can’t stop progress. A decade ago, everybody in Hollywood was marvelling about how cable television was drawing some of the spotlight […]
Taste of the Emmys: Celebrity Connected’s crafty suite
Elyse Glickman Imagine being immersed into the Food Network world for a day—that’s what VIPs and select press experienced when they entered the Great Room of the W Hotel Hollywood when Celebrity Connected took it over and transformed it into an unusually crafty Emmy suite. The space was awash with samples, sips, and all […]
