| TOP 100 EVENTS 02.29.08 7:29 PM |
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Southern California's Top Entertainment Industry Events 2008
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 | The Environmental Media Awards
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1. Academy Awards
The most ballyhooed shindig of the entertainment year, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences’ Oscars take place at the Kodak Theatre. Vanity Fair generally has a lock on the most coveted after-party, but the magazine canceled its 2008 event in the wake of the Writers Guild strike, leaving Elton John's AIDS fund-raiser as this year's most high-profile Oscar bash. Sequoia Productions is the longtime producer of the academy’s official Governors Ball. The 80th annual show was held on February 24.
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| EVENT REPORT 01.17.08 3:20 PM |
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Starz Pool Party Reinvents Classic Skybar Space
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 | Starz's all-red look
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At Starz’s party to celebrate the premiere of two new original series, Head Case and Hollywood Residential, the Mondrian hotel’s Skybar went from a neutral space to a bright, not-seen-before look with the use of an all-red palette and a plexiglass dance floor lit from below that organizers built over the property’s pool.
Working with Starz’s Allyson Taylor, Joe Moller and his team produced the event. Red lighting lent a warm look to an enormous ficus-tree canopy, and other red decor touches included square lounges covered in red silk and white linen pillows. Low arrangements of red roses from Elizabeth Bailey Designs dressed up bar areas and bistro tables.
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| EVENT REPORT 10.25.07 6:01 PM |
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Starz Party Features "Stratospheric, Suffocating" Designs
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 | Starz's colorful after-party.
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There are those understated events that get attention for the flawless execution of invisible-to-guests nuances. Starz's after-party for the Hollywood Film Festival awards was not one of those events. Indeed, the event at the Beverly Hilton got attention for the density and flashiness of its offerings, from over-the-top furnishings to an almost oppressive number of food stations and choices.
Working with Starz's Allyson Taylor (who was inspired by the hues of blue and green in the Hilton's poolside lighting scheme), Joe Moller produced the event with his team, keeping in mind the lavish lifestyles of the party's target guests: 1,200 high-level entertainment-industry execs. Moller brought in designer Bobby Trendy—best known for his days on The Anna Nicole Show—to infuse his particular brand of style in the poolside V.I.P. suites, which included faux fur, feathers from imported water fowl, and 24-karat detailing on candlesticks.
"My designs are dazzling, eclipsing, stratospheric, suffocating," said Trendy, who declared himself the most famous interior designer in the world and placed the value of the 50-percent-down sofas he created for the party at $20,000 apiece. "It's a whole Liberace look with a modern feel to it," he added.
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