Early Emmy Celebration at Café La Bohème Sets a Golden Tone
What better way to set yourself apart from the Emmy fray than by having your event a full week before the awards craziness rolls into full swing? That’s what Doris Bergman did for her Third Annual Primetime Emmys Style Lounge held on September 12 at West Hollywood’s Café La Bohème. The beautiful venue was filled with pre-awards buzz as about 100 celebrity guests, Emmy nominees and former winners, presenters,...
The Taste Sates Appetites For Fine Food, Drink and Frivolity
The backlot of Paramount Pictures—including its famed New York Street—is a popular location for charity and fashion events, but it may never have seen as much concentrated revelry as it did for the three-day Taste food festival, sponsored by the Los Angeles Times over Labor Day weekend. The culinary extravaganza encompassed five separate events: Field to Ford, Cocktail Confidential, Flavors of L.A., Dinner & Drinks and the grand...
Project Angel Food Delivers Its Angel Awards Under the Stars
Nobody does a parking lot party better than Project Angel Food, which dressed the rear of its Hollywood headquarters for the organization’s 17th annual Angel Awards. After cocktails and dinner under the stars on a warm summer’s night, the organization honored the philanthropic accomplishments of Pauley Perrette, board member and star of the CBS hit “NCIS,” and Chris Salgardo, President of Kiehl’s Since 1851, both of whom hold a...
Practitioners of TV Past and Present Mingle at Summer Soiree
What do you get when you mix and mingle talent from CBS, Showtime and the CW? Everyone from Charlie Rose to Nancy O’Dell to Matt LeBlanc and Lisa Kudrow and Kyle McLachlan, that’s who. They were among the luminaries at the annual summer press tour held by the networks, all owned by the same parent company, which made for a very interesting mix on the guest list that also included Mamie Gummer, Jaime King, Shenae Grimes, Kat...
The ABCs of Summer Network Celebrations
Just a few days after Crystal the monkey, Sarah Palin and Matthew Perry partied at the pool for NBC with a raft of admirers, it was the Disney-ABC television group’s turn to celebrate its new and returning shows. Pamela Anderson was there, but the cast of “Modern Family” wasn’t (due to their since resolved contract dispute), leaving it to showrunner Steve Levitan to work the crowd at the All-Star cocktail...