Partying, Oscar 2010 Edition
What better time to throw a party than Oscar Week? Venues all over town were booked with soirees—and if the bashes didn’t really have anything to do with the Academy Awards, that was fine, too. A lack of heat lamps didn’t put a damper on the QVC party in the “backyard” of the Four Seasons. Women’s heels sinking into the grass? Everyone dealt. The champagne-soaked, glitzy bash featured reams of bite-size appetizers and an extremely...
Locking Up the Oscars
An historic win, a sin of omission, a rude interruption, tears of joy and some killer one-liners—all part of the lengthy live telecast of the 82nd annual Academy Awards on ABC. Opening the show with Neil Patrick Harris doing a song and dance number was inspired and attention-grabbing right out of the gate, but the tune disappointed. Still, it won’t hurt his well-deserved new rep as the go-to guy for awards show hosting duties. The...
“I Just Can’t Stop Loving You”–Minus MJ
Judith Hill belts it out in Beverly HIlls The occasion: a glitzy luncheon at the Beverly Hills Hotel honoring the nominees of the 41st Annual NAACP Image Awards, to be broadcast live on FOX Friday Feb. 26 at 8 p.m.—but tape-delayed on the West Coast from the Shrine Auditorium. The highlight: singer Judith Hill, Michael Jackson’s duet partner on “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You” in “This is It,” gave a solo, gut-wrenching performance...
Cineastes Unite: Save Film at LACMA!
It’s looking more and more likely that the much-deserved outrage raining down upon LACMA’s Michael Govan for his decision to shut down the museum’s film program may result in its rebirth. That’s my optimistic take on this controversy at this moment–and my fervent hope. Between Martin Scorsese’s pointed editorial in today’s Los Angeles Times and the new and growing by the minute Facebook group,...
Christian Bale: What Don’t You Effin Understand?
So a diva movie star throws a hissy fit on set. Big news, right? Only this time, we get to hear the whole thing–months after the fact of Bale going ballistic on a DP who distracted him by walking around in the scene during the shot for “Terminator Salvation.” http://www.tmz.com/2009/02/02/bale-went-ballistic/ Yeah, it gets repetitive and the rant escalates because the DP didn’t really explain himself or...
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