The Suite Part of Oscar Week in LA
Part of the annual rite of awards season is the suites that set up shop at hotels and venues around town before the Academy Awards. For invited guests, they are places to get beauty services like manicures, spray tans and hairstyling. But the biggest attraction is the variety of vendors– from jewelry to clothing, handbags, shoes and cosmetics, artisanal chocolates and fine liquors that take part and gift their products. The rain...
Enter Our Oscar Contest and Win Terry’s Toffee Academy Awards Mix
The Atkin Report congratulates Terry’s Toffee, one of Chicago’s finest confectioners, on its 10th year backstage at the Academy Awards, supplying nominees, performers and presenters with a delicious selection of artisanal toffee created from a recipe by Terry’s grandmother. Enter our contest to win a one-pound box of Terry’s Academy Awards mix featuring four award-winning flavors: McCall’s Classic, Hazelicious, Chai-cago Spice, Lemon...
Oscar Countdown: Original Song
U2, one of the world’s greatest bands, is rarely if ever on the losing end of any proposition. But even Bono admitted– on the first night of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” that an animated character was likely to take the Oscar in the category of Original Song. That would be one big golden trophy for the ultra-catchy “Let it Go” from Disney’s “Frozen,” with music and lyrics by Kristin Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez...
And the Oscar Goes To….TCM’s New Documentary About the Academy Awards
It’s a documentary about the Academy Awards that could potentially be a nominee for best documentary next year –if it has a theatrical run. “And the Oscar Goes To…” will have its world premiere on Turner Classic Movies, kicking off the cable network’s annual 31 Days of Oscar, a celebration of the Academy Awards that runs from February 1 through March 3. “And the Oscar Goes To…,” produced by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman with...
Academy Awards Governors Ball Showcases Wolfgang Puck’s Winning Cuisine
As soon as the last envelope for best picture is ripped open, it’s showtime at the Ray Dolby Ballroom for 1,600 guests who will make their way over from the theater at the Oscars for some high class sustenance after the lengthy ceremony. A much smaller number got an exclusive preview of the 2013 Governors Ball the night before in what’s become an annual tradition—a full dress rehearsal of the food, drink and design overseen by...
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