Faye Dunaway having a hangover at the Beverly Hills Hotel
THE ANGELS. The city of ** Los Angeles goes wild in the week leading up to the Oscars **. Imagine the parties in your town, add the best New Year's Eve and fill it with expensive dresses and very beautiful people. every night in the city there are an average of three parties in public places . That, as far as we know, because we cannot count all those that will be held in private mansions of producers, publicists and other characters in the industry (for example: Madonna).
It is impossible or at least very difficult to enter any of these pre and post Oscars parties , but sign them up to go any other day of the year. If Uncle Óscar goes there, it will be for a reason, and we are writing down his recommendations. For Your Consideration.
1) DISCOTHEQUES
The famous superficiality of Los Angeles in its purest form. They are worth a visit to make a quick and total immersion in the city. Uncle Oscar recommends: **Avalon Hollywood**, where the pre-Oscar Global Green Party was held. It is the most historic club in Hollywood, which was a theater in the 1930s, a studio for TV shows in the 1940s with Judy Garland or Jerry Lewis and the first venue in the United States where the Beatles performed in 1964 . This Studio 54 on the West Coast is now a techno music club, but also the preferred venue for major events in the entertainment industry (premiers, the Grammys...). It is much newer lure , where on Sunday, after the Oscars, 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight will host a party for their nominees (Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Sessions, Hitchcock...) .
The lure nightclub
2)RESTAURANTS
They are restaurants and something else. Almost all of them have an area for drinks or DJs, a lounge … Multi-purpose venues that open at any time of the day are a great success in the city. Uncle Óscar loves them, especially those with Italian or Mediterranean food (not Spanish, eh?) And he recommends a few: the Cecconi's in West Hollywood, where Vanity Fair gave its first cocktail party; the ** Fig & Olive **, the place chosen for the Women in Film dinner, probably for its truffle and mushroom croquettes. Chanel will host her usual pre-Oscar dinner at an Italian classic, Madeo.
The Fig & Olive Restaurant
But there are also good American restaurants that Oscar and his friends love. , like the **BOA Steakhouse**, where guests from the InStyle afterparty will go to eat some good meat; the Lucques , the restaurant in which to be seen and above all not to stop looking in Melrose, chosen by Universal to celebrate his nominees; either The Abbey , the “best gay bar and restaurant in the city”, according to Zagat, chosen for the party of an organization against AIDS.
3)HOTELS
These are the favorite places for movie parties in the city . Because many of the actors are even staying in them while they celebrate. A plan for mythomaniacs and film geeks is to show up in their best clothes, any day of the year, in the lobby of any of these hotels. Of course, Uncle Oscar has his favorites: the Château Marmont , which this year hosts one of Elton John's parties. Although the best parties are always in their rooms (ask Lindsay Lohan, already a persona non grata due to accumulated debt and partying), although it would be wonderful to live there, enjoying nothingness like Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning in _ Somewhere ._
The Chateau Marmont will host one of Elton John's parties
The Sunset Tower almost opposite It is the hotel of the great post-Oscar party, the Vanity Fair party. Before, in the mythical Beverly Hills Hotel , Hollywood's favorite for 100 years now, a viewing party is held. Although the best thing is to go to the hotel with the pink walls, the day after, to pass the hangover in the pool like Faye Dunaway did in that great photo. Well and of course, very close is the beverly hilton , where the Golden Globes are held, the prizes of the union of costume designers, directors of photography...
the beverly hilton hotel
4)DESIGN
Óscar is delighted that Elton John has chosen this year the Pacific Design Center for his post-ceremony party of thousands of dollars a ticket. This multicolored design complex deserves at least one visit from the outside . It is a kind of glamorous trade fair that always has something going on. Elton has a very good eye.
The Pacific Design Center will host the Elton John party
5)SUPER EXCLUSIVE
Not as much as breaking into Madonna's manager's mansion, with Madonna as hostess, but close. In the soho-house the Weinsteins will celebrate Tarantino's success and his Django Unchained and Warners will do the same with Argo and The Hobbit. Of course, here neither at the Oscars nor any day of the year, if you are not a member of the club or invited, forget to enter . If you make it, you can play pool or enter the women's bathroom with the best views in Los Angeles.
*You may also be interested...
- Los Angeles Guide
- All the information about the Oscars
- All information about travel and cinema
- Guide to get around Hollywood during the Oscars - Sleeping with a golden statuette: the Oscar hotels