Insider: The Oscars
Last one from this year’s Oscars (I promise)…here’s a little story I did that was picked up nationally… Leo wins the big one. The Oscars take an awards ceremony and elevates it to a level that all other events can only dream of; at least on television. More people watch television than go to movies, […]
OSCAR WEEK 2016: Bathrooms and Chickens
“Oh yes barkeep, one vodka tonic, dirty with three olives and chase it with an Oscar…” About a year ago, I spent an afternoon with an Oscar winner who took out their shiny new 8.5 pound, 24 carat statuette everywhere we went. Talk about attention…Uncle Oscar was best attention grabber this side of a Bugatti in […]
OSCAR WEEK 2016: My Picks
Behind the Scenes – Rehearsals continue at the Dolby Theatre. If there’s anything you can bank on, it’s my Oscars picks. Since I started covering the Academy Awards five years ago, my picks have been scorchingly accurate in the major categories with 29 out of 35 correct selections. Last year I banked a little heavy […]
OSCAR WEEK 2016: Yes, We All Dream in Gold!
Yeah, well, I’m an Oscars nerd. I picked up my Oscars credential (sorry, no pictures allowed of the priceless, laminated pass to the biggest awards show on the planet) and was dazzled with the new Oscars print and web media campaign art. I’ve been part of many creative teams that produced some classics for television […]
OSCAR WEEK 2016: Day One
It’s Oscar® Week and who’s more excited than me? No one, that’s who! Between hockey games at Staples Center I’ll be spending a whole lotta time at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater participating in the overview symposiums. Take a look at this lineup: February 23rd – OSCAR WEEK: SHORTS / Hosted by director Jennifer Yuh. February […]
In Search of Coffee and Art
Okay, so where am I? I’m at the LA Art Show rubbing elbows with Oscar-winner Anne Hathaway and Natasha Henstridge, the alien goddess from Species. Getting here was another story. The traffic from Hollywood to the dilapidated convention center in Downtown Los Angeles was nothing short of terrifying frustration. I mean, really? 58 minutes to […]
Fined
“I’m here so I won’t get fined…” With a $500,000 fine looming, Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch made a bizarre appearance at Super Bowl Media Day. The famously tight-lipped running back gave a big eff you to reporters and the NFL who forced him in front of a microphone for the leaque minimum five […]
Robin Williams R.I.P.
It’s been a rough year – Casey Kasem, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Lauren Bacall and Robin Williams… He was a brilliant actor and comedian who could go from light to dark in the blink of an eye. It’s the kind of thing that you wish you could do in meetings or at networking parties. Apparently the […]
OSCAR WEEK 2014: Magically Wet
Mother Nature must be mad at the Oscars. Perhaps her invitation came late. Or not at all. From the looks of it, she got impatient and decided to crash the party. And such, rain crushed Hollywood over the past few days. So there I was, searching the red carpet for stories, rain pelting me and […]
OSCAR WEEK 2014: Dreaming in Gold
Once upon a time, a boy dreamed of winning an Oscar. He wrote and wrote and wrote. Fingers numb and calloused as he searched for the perfect combination of words that created the scenes that would ultimately build a story that could be made into movie that would move the soul. This movie would go […]
