Going Green at the Environmental Media Awards
What made a sultry summer night even hotter for the 22nd Annual Environmental Media Awards? Actress Malin Akerman, taking the stage on the backlot of Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank in an AC/DC T-shirt to perform with her band, host the festivities and announce that she is expecting her first child with husband Roberto Zincone. The EMAs (pronounced like “Emmas”), first presented in 1991, are awarded to television shows,...
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...
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...
Now Playing. Sundance Sunset Cinemas: New Indie Film Mecca
The bar for screening independent films in Los Angeles has just been raised by Robert Redford and his Sundance Cinemas. With a $2 million renovation, the five-screen complex at Crescent Heights and Sunset Boulevard – long known simply as the Sunset 5 and formerly operated by Laemmle Theatres–has been transformed into a mini-Arclight of sorts. But you won’t see any studio films here, just independent cinema in the...
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...