Showing posts with label Beverly Hilton Hotel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beverly Hilton Hotel. Show all posts

Saturday, March 12, 2016

AAFCA Awards in Los Angeles

Grammy week in LA is loaded with parties and events everywhere. However, I arrived at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Tuesday, February 9, 2016 to attend the AAFCA Awards the next evening.  This will be my third attendance at the AAFCA's. I am here to support my friend Writer/Director Deborah Riley Draper (her first documentary film was Versailles 73: American Runway Revolution) for which she was awarded the AAFCA Best Director Documentary Award in 2013) and is currently working on her second documentary, Olympic Pride, American Prejudice.  Deborah asked me to act as her publicist on the red carpet, as she will be presenting the Best Director Award for a documentary film along with Louis Gossett, Jr.  It was a full day starting with a visit to the taping of the The Talk at CBS Studios and lunch with Deborah, Lacy and Linda at the divine Asian fusion restaurant Rock Sugar.

Below are some AAFCA red carpet moments.

Actress Emayatzy Corinealdi
Comedian Tommy Lee Davidson

Actor Courtney Vance
Director Deborah Riley-Draper
Deborah Riley-Draper
Actress Sheryl Lee Ralph
Chaz Ebert and Deborah Riley-Draper
Singer/Actor Tyrese Gibson
Deborah Riley-Draper and Louis Gossett, Jr.
Stars of TV Sitcom "Blackish"
Miles Brown and Yara Shahidi from Blackish



Chaz Ebert
Deborah Riley-Draper

Sheryl Lee Ralph
Courtney Vance star of the OJ mini series as Johnny Cochran


Saturday, October 10, 2015

Grammy Awards, Clive Davis Pre-Grammy Party




Evelyn Bakon Wheeler

Music's hottest stars were out in LA on Saturday, February 17, 2015 for Clive Davis's annual Pre-Grammy Gala honoring the music industries Icons.  I watched from the sidelines as the top stars in the Industry filed into the Beverly Hilton Hotel for the party of the year.  Miley Cyrus and boyfriend Patrick Schwarzenegger were in attendance.  I was nearly run over in the lobby by Rita Ora as she made her way to the red carpet only to suffer another near miss by Jennifer Hudson a few minutes later. It was a parade of stars from Taylor Swift, John Legend (who also performed), Pharrell Williams, Ciara, Iggy Azalea, bad boy Chris Brown, Nikki Minaj, and Sam Smith (also a performer) stepped out for the fun night.

Sunday night February 8, 2015 was the 57th Annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The show was broadcast live by CBS and hosted for the fourth consecutive time by LL Cool J.

Sam Smith won four awards, including Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year for "Stay with Me" and Best Pop Vocal Album for In the Lonely Hour. Beck's album Morning Phase was named Album of the Year. This prompted Kanye West, who later said he thought Beyoncé should have won, to leap onstage to interrupt Beck, but West left the stage without saying anything. Both Pharrell Williams and Beyoncé took three awards, making Beyoncé the second-most-honored female musician in Grammy history following Alison Krauss. Lifetime Achievement awards were given to the Bee Gees, George Harrison, Pierre Boulez, Buddy Guy, and Flaco Jiménez.

In all, 83 Grammy Awards were presented.

The show aired simultaneously on Fox8 in Australia, Sky TV in New Zealand, and on Channel O in South Africa.

For more on the Grammy and to see more pictures follow the link below:





Linda O'Bannon, Miguel and Evelyn Bakon Wheeler at the Beverly Hilton

 Ariana Grande

 Beyonce

 Ciara

Gwen Stefani 

Jennifer Hudson


 Jessie J

 Kim and Kanye

Lady Gaga 

 Madonna

 Miley

Nikki Minaj

Rhianna