Hollywood Film Awards an Early Harbinger of Oscar Season
Coming several months before even the earliest film critics awards, the 16th Annual Hollywood Film Awards billed itself as the first big event and official launch of awards season. Not only that, it spotlighted talent and films that are likely to be frontrunners as the season progresses this coming winter. In a real art imitates life moment, “Argo” director and star Ben Affleck took the stage with his castmates to pick up the...
Everyone’s a Winner at the Emmy Performers Party
They say it’s an honor just to be nominated, and until those envelopes were opened at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards, everyone was a winner during a weekend of festivities celebrating the best of television. It was gridlock on the red carpet Friday night at the Pacific Design Center as dozens of boldface names made their way up to the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Performer Nominees Reception. The annual...
You’re Kinda Making Me Look Like a Dick + Other Emmy Writers’ Observations
Television writers may not have the glitz and glam of actors, but they definitely have the wittiness and self-effacing factors down pat. That’s why it’s always such a pleasure to attend the annual Sublime Primetime event, honoring Emmy-nominated writers, sponsored by the Writers Guild of America, West, the Writers Guild Foundation and Variety. This year’s edition, held September 19 at the packed Writers Guild Theater...
GoT and HBO the Big Winners, KGrif the Sore Loser at Creative Arts Emmys
There are many things viewers will not see when ReelzChannel airs a cut-down version of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards that took place Saturday, September 15 at the Nokia Theater in downtown Los Angeles. It should not diminish any of the winners, but half of the nearly three and a half hour long ceremony (yes, it went from 4 p.m. until 7:30 p.m.) will need to be edited out for the two-hour timeslot on Saturday September 22nd...
Stars Stand Up to Cancer, Ask Viewers to Join the Fight
You would need to have a heart of stone not to be moved by the stories of strength and survival that peppered the one-hour telecast of “Stand up to Cancer.” But that was exactly the point– to motivate viewers to donate to the organization, which funds research for new treatments for the deadly disease. It’s a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF). It was the third bi-annual edition of a...
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