Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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For the most awaited award seasons of the year, the Oscar Awards, Doris Bergman was once again the sponsor for the highly anticipated 2019 Pre-Awards gift suite. This year the premiere Media company set out to treat the stars to an array of exciting and cutting edge brands and products. Doris Bergman Suites, a leader in celebrity gifting was founded by Doris Bergman, whose vision was to show her genuine appreciation to well deserved TV and Film artists who have inspired and...
The awards season has just ended and undoubtedly one of the most exciting aspects is the award gifting bags and event. In honor of the academy awards, leading event management company Distinctive Assets is presenting the nominees with the "Everyone wins" nominee gift bag. Distinctive Assets have been independently producing these bags for almost 20 years and this year they bring the standard to a whole new level. Lash Fary, the founder of Distinctive Assets states: "Our goal...
Los Angeles- February 15, 2019 -- This Award season, GBK, the veteran Luxury Lifestyle Gifting and special events company honored the 2019 GRAMMY Award Nominees and Presenters by hosting a Nominees and presents Luxury Oscar gifting lounge. GBK partnered with STK and the W Hotel for a private two-day luxury celebrity gifting lounge party. STK is a unique concept that artfully blends the modern steakhouse and chic lounge into one – offering a dynamic vibe dining experience w...
LONG BEACH, CA (02/04/19) Marie-Claire Follett was a teenager in London looking for a singing job when she auditioned for a spot in an ABBA tribute band. She got the gig all right, and something else - a career. "I was just a singer looking for a job, and it's kind of become my life's work," Follett says. She isn't complaining. That's because she and her husband Andy Marshall, who's also her partner in the ensemble known as The ABBA Show, now have three casts of the show. Two...
Los Angeles, Sunday, 4th January 2019.--For one of the most awaited award seasons of the year, HBO network was once again the place to be. Nominated stars and celebrities from hit TV shows and films gather at The HBO Luxury Lounge® presented by Obliphica Professional Hair care. HBO hosted its LUXURY LOUNGE® presented by Obliphica Professional this weekend at The Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. The event, which throughout the years has become a haven for the...
Los Angeles, January 16-This Award season, GBK, the veteran Luxury Lifestyle Gifting and special events company honored the 2019 Golden Globe Nominees and Presenters on January 4th and 5th by hosting its Annual Nominees and presenters Luxury gifting lounge. Held at gorgeous L'Ermitage Hotel nestled in Beverly Hills, appropriately so, this year the guests were treated to a lavish array of gifts and services. This Awards season saw luxury lifestyle brands being showcased. Many...
In this sad, dark episode, pretty much everything Ray has built in New York City seems to come apart. Samantha (Susan Sarandon) hires someone to beat up Ray. Sam has 2 demands of Ray: Return the money and leave town. He returns the $3,000,000, to the fixer who beats him up in scene 1. (How did Sam find a new fixer anyway? In the yellow pages, under "F" no doubt). The new guy, Vinny, seems to be a Texan. He's 6 foot 4, and much bigger than Ray, who gets badly beaten up in...
Los Angeles, California- September 16h, 2018- For one of the most awaited award seasons of the year, the EMMY Awards, DPA was once again the sponsor for the 2018 Pre-Awards gifting Suite. This year the premiere Media company set out to treat the stars to an array of exciting and cutting edge brands and products at the LUXE Sunset Boulevard Hotel in West wood DPA, a leader in celebrity gifting was founded by Nathalie Dubois- Sissoko, whose vision was to show her genuine...
"Making Montgomery Clift" is a feature-length documentary focusing on the life and death of critically-acclaimed American film actor, Montgomery Clift, who had a major feature film and stage career spanning more than two decades. Clift was known for his diverse film personas, method acting, and striking good looks. Clift was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Actor in "The Search" (1948), "A Place in the Sun" (1951), and "From Here To Eternity" (1953), and Best Supporting...
Regarding the concept of cultural appropriation, Black Funk legend George Clinton told Rolling Stone, "We need to get over this shit." Clinton compares the aversion felt by some White artists against creating music inspired by Black music to the much greater divide between intelligent species from different planets: "We gonna be dealing with aliens. You think black and white gonna be a problem? Wait till you start running into motherfuckers with three or four dicks! Bug-eyed...
'Mother F**ker With the Hat' a review Let's just begin with the title to this show. It is perhaps one of the weirdest and possibly most provocative I have ever seen. Yet as the story unfolds it makes sense and it was after all written by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis. It is also directed by multiple award winning Gloria Gifford and staged at her new Gloria Gifford Conservatory in Hollywood. Oh and what a tale is told. Though billed as a dark comedy I...
Lights, Camera, Action!!! Usher in the most prestigious film festival in the world- the 71st Cannes Film Festival. Except that this year something was very different. There was no Hollywood in attendance. No stars, no glamour, no Weinstein Company. Possibly in the 71 years of the festival, never has there been a quieter festival and market. Journalists, cinema lovers and industry folks would agree that this was a very bizarre year indeed. Something was missing. The reasons...
Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum is back with an exciting summer line-up of socially conscious theater, music and performance. The Summer 2018 Season, including five plays set to open in rapid succession and perform in repertory throughout the summer together with a host of satellite events, will open June 2 and continue through mid-October in the company's breathtakingly beautiful outdoor Topanga setting. Kicking off the season on June 2 will be William Shakespeare's Coriolan...
"Welcome to the Men's Group" is a dramady chronicling one day in a monthly Sunday morning meeting of an all-male support group. The film is co-written, co-produced, directed, and co-stars Joseph Culp, the son of actor Robert Culp (who co-starred with Bill Cosby in the hit 1960s TV series, "I, Spy"). "Welcome to the Men's Group" also stars Timothy Bottoms, Stephen Tobolowsky, David Clennon, Mackenzie Astin, Terence Rotolo, Ali Saam, and Phil Abrams. The premise of the film is...
The TCM Classic Film Festival celebrated its ninth consecutive year in Hollywood. This year, the festival’s theme was “Powerful Words: The Page Onscreen”, showcasing a wide variety of classic films in a multitude of genres. The festival featured original screenplays, unique adaptations, and portrayals of writers, real and imagined. TCM Primetime host, Ben Mankiewicz, served as the official host of the festival; other hosts included Illeana Douglas, Alicia Malone, and Dave...
"Welcome to the Men's Group" takes us inside the intimate dynamic of an all- male support group when they gather one morning for a ritual breakfast and their unique form of male bonding. One Sunday a month, these eight men refrain from beer and football to sit in a circle where they share their personal issues, in the noble hope of becoming a bit more evolved than their fathers. On this particular Sunday things do not go as planned when one member appears headed for a...
Local resident Producer Judi Levine has been in LA for almost 25 years and has experienced first-hand the challenges of maintaining a career in the Hollywood entertainment business. After watching too many people struggle with the unexpected and make the same mistakes time and again, Judi developed the JumpStart Hollywood seminars to help newcomers navigate and adapt, both culturally and in business. Since bringing her seminars to Australia and presenting at events in LA, Judi...
"Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami" is a fascinating documentary that provides an intimate glimpse into the life of iconic singer, actress, and model Grace Jones; the film lifts the veil and showcases the superstar as both a woman and artist. Grace Jones has a vast discography spanning over four decades, including the hits, "La Vie en Rose", "Slave to the Rhythm", "Nipple to the Bottle", and "My Jamaican Guy". She is a headliner at music festivals and, to this day, sells out...
Oscar, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Grammy award-winning super star, Cher, whose career in music, theater, television, and films has spanned well over fifty years, purportedly retired in 2005 after her three-year world-wide tour, "Living Proof: The Farewell Tour". During that time, she appeared in three hundred and twenty-five shows before an estimated three million fans. In 2008, Cher came out of retirement, first to perform a concert residency at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas...
It's not Russia's interference with the 2016 elections that tilted the vote Trump's way, but rather a dark force hiding in the shadows of his campaign, which is the subject of the French journalist and documentarian, Thomas Huchon's film, Trumping Democracy: Real$ "Fake News" "Your Data," that was released last December. As we take our "mystery tour," through Huchon's film, we travel down paths of dark money, algorithms, sharp tools of the digital trade, and psychometrics, as...
West Hollywood, California- February 24th, 2018-For the most awaited award seasons of the year, the Oscar Awards, Doris Bergman was once again the sponsor for the highly anticipated 2018 Pre-Awards gift suite. This year the premiere Media company set out to treat the stars to an array of exciting and cutting edge brands and products. Doris Bergman Suites, a leader in celebrity gifting was founded by Doris Bergman, whose vision was to show her genuine appreciation to well deser...
Los Angeles- January 2018, The Golden Globes marks the beginning of the Award season, and this year is proving to be a remarkable, highly contested award season in the world of entertainment. GBK, the veteran Luxury Lifestyle Gifting and special events company honored the 2018 Golden Globe Nominees and Presenters by hosting its Annual Nominees and presents Luxury gifting lounge. Held at a luxurious 5- star hotel, The Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills, appropriately so. This year...
Beverly Hills, November 2017- The "Pre-AMA" American Music Awards recently honored the best and brightest in the Music industry. Among the fanfare and festivities, nominees and performers and celebrities alike were treated to a luxurious Hollywood Style Gifting lounge at a private residence in Beverly Hills. GBK is a premiere special events company that is renowned for giving their clients maximum exposure with top Hollywood celebrities. But their events are so much more than...
In September 2016, Jan-Christopher Horak, director of UCLA Film & Television Archive, was searching for material germane to the Archive's research project, Recuerdos de un cine en español: Latin American Cinema in Los Angeles, 1930-1960, and noticed a promising film title: Romance Tropical. A single 35 mm nitrate print had screened in New York City in 1934 and then been placed in a vault belonging to the Krypton Corporation, the contents of which the Packard Humanities...
Jason Aldean told the whole world he and they need not back down in the face of inscrutable evil. Appearing on Saturday Night Live, the country music performer sang Tom Petty's hit song about defiance and courage. He preceded this with a brief but brave monologue on the importance of facing evil. Petty died this week also, of cardiac arrest after a brief hospitalization. He died on October 2, the day after the shooting, at age 66. Aldean cancelled several appearances following...
