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What Travel Goodies the Celebs Got in the $200,000-Plus Oscars Gift Bags

March 1, 2011 at 9:35 AM | by | Comments (0)

Now that the Academy Awards are over and the celebrities have fled to their vacation homes to bask in the glory of a owning a statuette or wallow in self-pity for losing, we can talk about what everybody at the Oscars got regardless: the swag bag. Winners, losers...everybody gets gifted with free stuff! Last year's gift bag was valued at $91,000; will this year's top it?

The answer to that is YES, and in only the first item! Natalie Portman, et al., were handed a chance to go to space with Virgin Galactic along with a scale model of the craft. The orbital space flight gift is worth $200,000. We wonder who'll redeem that voucher? Colin Firth in spaaaaccceee...

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Get One Final Oscars Fix with a Tour of the Kodak Theatre

February 28, 2011 at 10:58 AM | by | Comments (0)

Even though the Academy Awards have all been handed out and some celebrities are back to wearing their pajamas, you might still need a little more of an Oscar fix over the next few days. There’s no Oscar Museum yet—they’re working on one—but you can always visit the home of the award ceremony at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. There won’t be any famous faces or thankfully any hosts—was it just us, or were Franco and Hathaway just awful?—but there are plenty of the golden statues.

The theatre is still hard at work cleaning things up after all of the weekend’s festivities, so you have to wait to take your tour until this Saturday. Once the tours open back up, you can expect a 30-minute tour through the facility where you can stop to in the George Eastman VIP Room and other spots where the in-crowd hangs out before and after the show. If you’re lucky they might even let you walk out onto the stage, but just remember not to start in with your acceptance speech.

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AMC Theatres Gives You a Last Chance to See All Oscar Best Picture Nominees

February 18, 2011 at 1:00 PM | by | Comments (0)

If you missed any of the ten films nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, AMC Theatres is giving you one more chance to see them all on the big screen.

More than 100 AMC Theatres around the country will show all 10 movies, split between the next two Saturdays, February 19 & 26. Though you won't be able to bring in your own food, they will be giving everyone a gift card to use on concessions throughout the day and they will also being holding movie-related contests between movies.

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Charlize Theron Jet Sets Between Paris Fashion Week and the Oscars in LA

Where: Paris, France
March 8, 2010 at 1:30 PM | by | Comments (0)

You might have noticed last night that there were very few D-list actors and actresses peppering the front-most rows at the Academy Awards, and that the real stars took front and center. Happily, you have Paris Fashion Week to thanks for the absence of random people like Lindsay Lohan and P. Diddy, who were too busy schmoozing in the fashion show front rows than taking up valuable aisle seats at the Oscars.

Still, there is one girl who expertly makes the jetsetting jump from Paris Fashion Week to the Academy Awards in LA, and that's Charlize Theron. The South African beauty is one of the current faces of fashion house Christian Dior and thus was practically required to show up at the fashion show in Paris only a few days ago, and then follow it up with a red carpet and presenting appearance at the Oscars in Los Angeles donning a Dior dress (which subsequently landed her on the worst dressed lists).

But we've still a couple days yet to go with Paris Fashion Week, so to spot the Z-listers who weren't invited to the Oscars, you should head to these Five Paris Tourist Sites Affected by Fashion Week, and say hello to the likes of Chris Brown for us, okay?

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[Photo: Getty/FashionWeekDaily]

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What Travel Goodies the Celebs Got in the $91,000 Oscars Gift Bags

March 8, 2010 at 11:30 AM | by | Comments (0)

Don't feel too bad for Gabourey Sidibe, George Clooney or the other Oscar nominees who lost last night. Even though they're losers in the 2010 Academy Awards, they still get to take home a sweet "condolence" gift bag worth $91,000 to help ease their pain.

The gift bag includes lots of awesome getaways, like a $45,000 African safari trip complete with personal chef at the Lions Sands Game Preserve in South Africa, a $14,500 stay at the Monte Carlo Beach Hotel in Monaco and a rustic getaway at the Winvian Luxury Hotel in Connecticut worth $17,000.

Prepare to be super jealous (and a little angry at what the stars get handed to them), after the jump!

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Super World Travelers Look Bored At Oscar Fashions

February 23, 2009 at 9:58 AM | by | Comments (0)

We promised we wouldn't drop the r-word again, but something must have attacked Hollywood to end up with such a blah year for dresses. The color everyone seemingly decided on was white -- and its brothers off-white and cream -- which looks great on the red carpet (and the women who wore it!) but just didn't make us say "wow." Even the world's first couple, Super World Travelers Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, went for that other award-show standby -- black. (She was in Elie Saab.) There wasn't a swan gown in sight, and we feel kind of bad about that.

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Attend Oscar Events in Hollywood Without Becoming a Stalker

February 19, 2009 at 9:18 AM | by | Comments (2)

So, you wanna take part in the Oscars but don’t have a nominated film, fancy gown or any Hollywood connections? Don't worry, there are still plenty of Oscar-related events for you too. Lindsay Lohan, you might want to take note.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences traditionally sets up bleachers along the red carpet so fans can watch all the stars arrive. Every September, they hold a week long online lottery giving away tickets for the spots. Anyone can put their name in but you have to have pretty good luck to win considering last year over 20,000 people entered but only 300 seats were available.

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Benjamin Button's House is For Sale in New Orleans

Where: 2707 Coliseum St. [map], New Orleans, LA, United States, 70130
January 23, 2009 at 9:00 AM | by | Comment (1)

Most homeowners these day are fretting over whether or not their house is still worth anything but the owners of the house featured in the Oscar-nominated movie (several times over), "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" might not have much to worry about.

The house, located in the Garden district of New Orleans, is now on the market. According to the rental listing on Sotheby's, the 7,800-sq.ft. Victorian-era mansion has six bedrooms, six baths, central air and heat, a library, music room and reception hall. That's a far cry from the movie incarnation of the house which was a nursing home. And the listing price? $2.85 million.

The Sotheby's listing has a 30+ page slideshow of interiors photos of the house and you can practically see Brad Pitt as an old seven-year-old in his wheelchair on the porch. Or Oscar-nominated actress, Taraji P. Henson picking up an abandoned Benjamin Button on the home's back steps. However, if you are interested in buying the house, remember to put some money aside to furnish it.

Also, we're no real estate experts here but if we were the owners, we would hold out until after the Oscars is over. That way if the movie does win all 13 nominations, you could probably get at least your asking price. Of course, there's a chance the movie will only win one Oscar (and a lesser one like "Makeup.") Then you'll just have to use the "Brad Pitt was here" selling angle.

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· Movie Set Travel: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Jaunted]

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Oscar Nominations Announced

January 22, 2009 at 9:01 AM | by | Comments (2)

"We have a new camera focused on the press, so try not to fall asleep," joked Michael Seligman, longtime Academy Awards producer in the waning minutes before this year's Oscar nominations were announced at 8:30 this morning. We're not actually in the room, but we're as restless as a basket of kittens over here. (Go Team Winslet!)

Best Picture: "The Reader" (set in Berlin); "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (New Orleans, mostly); "Frost/Nixon" (London), "Milk" (San Francisco) and "Slumdog Millionaire" (India).

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Film Festival Travel: The Czechs' Cannes

July 2, 2008 at 4:00 PM | by | Comments (0)

The Czech Republic is a popular shooting location for directors looking to cut costs, as a back-drop to modern-day thrillers like "Wanted" and "Casino Royale," fantasy worlds like in "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe" or the past ("Amadeus," Roman Polanski's "Oliver Twist"). This weekend, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (running through July 12) celebrates the fruits of some of those labors, but also the exploding film markets of Central and Eastern Europe.

In addition to the fest's official selection, it presents a special "East of the West" award to a pool of films made in and by crews from Germany, Hungary, Austria and the Baltic states. German actor-director Armin Mueller-Stahl (you know him as the Russian Mafia godfather in "Eastern Promises") exhibits not a film, but a set of his paintings at the festival.

Just in time for "Swingtown," Ukrainian-American director Paul Mazursky is dusting off his bed-swapping classic "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice," and Czech-born Oscar winner Markéta Irglová will play a concert July 10 with her "Once" co-star, bandmate and beau Glen Hansard.

Don't forget: It's pronounced CAR-la-vee VAR-ee.

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· 43rd Annual Karlovy Vary International Film Festival [Official Site]
· Movie Set Travel: Casino Royale [Jaunted]
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[Photo of the Grandhotel Pupp, a Karlovy Vary landmark used in "Casino Royale": tofufah]

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Post-Oscars Travel: There Will Be Partying

February 26, 2008 at 9:00 AM | by | Comments (0)

You thought that because Vanity Fair canceled its Oscar bash, that all the stars would just go home? Ha! There was much merriment, starting backstage in the press room where Marion Cotillard sang a Piaf song for the waiting reporters.

George Clooney told everyone at the Governor's Ball that he was a loser (not true!) while James McAvoy stuck to "Atonement" costar Saoirse Ronan's side--but in a brotherly way, mind you!

And Viggo Mortensen was allowed to pat the pregnant belly of the great past winner Cate Blanchett. If she had seen "Eastern Promises," she might not be so loose with her favors!

Over at Elton John's party, the recently separated Sean Penn showed up with his new girlfriend--model and Boxing Day tsunami survivor Petra Nemcova. Seal took a million photos of wife Heidi Klum.

And at Prince's pad, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz watched some exotic dancers while Orlando Bloom took flack from Sean "Diddy" Combs. Partying for a living is hard! Don't miss newy minted Oscar winner Diablo Cody's sign-off.

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· Vanity Fair Cancels Its Keg Order [Jaunted]
· Oscar Movies Map [Jaunted]
· Celeb Travel coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo of Paul Thomas Anderson, Rebecca Miller and Daniel Day-Lewis: PageSix.com]

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Oscars Postmortem: "No Country" Cattle Guns the Competition

February 25, 2008 at 3:00 PM | by | Comments (0)

The 80th Annual Oscars began with a whimper but went out with a bang--specifically, the bang from Anton Chigurh's scary-ass weapon, as Joel and Ethan Coen picked up three statuettes for their Western thriller "No Country for Old Men."

Javier Bardem, who played Chigurh, grabbed Best Supporting Actor in a foreigners' sweep of the acting awards--only the second such occurrence in Oscar history. Bardem was joined in the winners' circle by Brits Daniel Day-Lewis (Best Actor, "There Will Be Blood") and Tilda Swinton (a surprise Best Supporting Actress winner for "Michael Clayton"), as well as French actress Marion Cotillard, who cried out "It is true there are some angels in this city!" after taking Best Actress for "La Vie En Rose."

Water-cooler trivia you need to know: Host Jon Stewart played Wii, mocked montages and ceded some of his time for Best Song winner Marketa Irglova to give her thanks. "The Bourne Ultimatum" clobbered "Transformers" in the editing awards. Gary Busey got all crazy on Jennifer Garner on the red carpet, and Best Original Screenplay winner Diablo Cody wore a very ugly leopard-print dress.

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· Into the Wild Old Country [Jaunted]
· Oscar Movies Map [Jaunted]

[Photo of 2007 Best Director winner Martin Scorsese handing the torch to the CoBro: clackamasreview.com]

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