Warming Up for the Emmy Awards with Nominated Performers
If you’re one of the nominees for Emmy’s highest-profile categories, it’s hard to relax 48 hours before the big night. That doesn’t mean you can’t let your hair down, tip a glass or two and have a good old time. After all, that’s the tradition at the Television Academy’s Performer Nominees reception held on Friday night before the Primetime Emmy Awards – again this year at Wolfgang...
Early Emmy Award Winners Set Trends for Television’s Biggest Night
Here’s some advice that might seem odd to give to both male and female awards show nominees: wear running shoes on the night of the ceremony. That’s right. Fast footwear is optimal for all of those nominated in 75 categories handed out during the 65th Creative Arts Emmy Awards at the Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE, for which an abbreviated version of the ceremonies held Sept. 15 will air on cable network FXX Sept. 21 at 9...
Pre-Emmy Pampering and Partying at Fig & Olive
It’s Emmy Week, but more than a hundred invited guests got a jumpstart on the all the awards festivities last week at West Hollywood’s Fig & Olive for Doris Bergman’s 4th Annual Emmy Style Lounge and Party. The private event, honoring the upcoming 65th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, lasted all day and featured the restaurant’s specialties from the French and Italian Rivieras in a festive atmosphere inside the spacious...
It’s Bad. It’s All in the Family. It’s Louie. TCA Awards Call Out Television’s Best
Even as the best in current television programming was honored in a dozen categories, it was the recognition for a show of yore that brought down the house at the 29th Annual Television Critics Association Awards at the Beverly Hilton’s International Ballroom Saturday night. Norman Lear, the creator of “All in the Family” and Rob Reiner, its beloved meathead, got a sustained standing ovation as they accepted...
A Hamm-y Host it Will Be as Former Letterman and Leading Man Jon Hamm Emcees the ESPYs
Many just know him as the enigmatic Don Draper on “Mad Men.” But those who have followed Jon Hamm’s career closely over the past few years will realize that in addition to the tall, dark, handsome, brilliant, broody and deceptive Draper character that he plays so convincingly, Hamm has a light, goofy and quick-witted side as well. Those qualities will come to the fore as Hamm takes on a new gig, hosting the 2013 ESPY Awards on...