GBK at the W Caters to Oscar Nominees with Gifts Galore
Before Jim Rash captured attention from a massive worldwide audience for winning an Oscar and sending up presenter Angelina Jolie’s leg-baring pose, he was at GBK’s annual gift lounge honoring the 2012 Academy Awards nominees and presenters, held at the W Hollywood. When he made the scene, Nat Faxon could only dream that he would be also taking the stage with Rash to win that Oscar, and that excitement was all part of the...
Green is Golden at an Oscar Week Soiree
Indoors, outdoors, at the hotel suites and venues all over town, the annual events known as Oscar suites revved up as participants counted down to the big night. The weather was perfect for the Alive Expo Green Pavilion/Mix Media Luxury Lounge held on the rooftop of the Petersen Automotive Museum, with a breathtaking view of the glistening gold Streamline Moderne May Co. building now part of LACMA– and the Hollywood...
LA Hotels Transform into Awards Show Style Lounges
The Mondrian Hotel on Sunset Boulevard was Oscar prep central for the always first-rate Kari Feinstein Academy Awards Style Lounge, which took over part of the property for two days leading up to the big show. The celebrity-heavy guest list enjoyed gifts and services from a select group of vendors participating in the high-energy bash. Okay, perhaps some of that was fueled by generous servings of a new energy drink called Body...
Enough Angelina and J. Lo: It’s All About the Oscar Parties
Oscar Week is an opportunity for people in Los Angeles to put on their party shoes, mix, mingle, eat and drink for literally five nights in a row, culminating in the granddaddy of celebrations for the big night on Oscar Sunday, the vaunted Vanity Fair post-party at the Sunset Tower Hotel. Here’s a look at some of the select bashes that went on around town: Wednesday night, Global Green at the Avalon: we were not...
Oscar Leading Ladies: The Competition, The Comraderie
For the first time in nearly 25 years, the Academy Awards will feature a leading lady smackdown between Meryl Streep and Glenn Close. The last time the two blonde, East Coast born and well-bred actresses went head to head was in 1989, with Streep for the baby-killing drama “A Cry in the Dark” and Close for her delicious role in “Dangerous Liaisons.” Neither won. That honor went to Jodie Foster for playing the victim of a gang rape in...
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