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How They Roll: Celebrity Travel Tales. By Lisa Bernhard

Since we're in the midst of awards season, let's talk about how you can plan to attend next year's giddiest, gushiest gateway to them all, The Golden Globes. Method One: Arrive looking like a star and hope for the best. Simply nip/tuck, spray tan, squeeze yourself into a gown or tux and stuff a falsely modest acceptance speech in your bag or pocket. Voila! You could be sipping Cognac with George Clooney. (You could also find yourself in the slammer—or, more likely, the star of your own reality show.) Method Two: Book a room at the Beverly Hilton, longtime home to the glitzy ceremony, in the heart of L.A.'s luxurious Beverly Hills. The hotel's Golden Globe package typically includes a spot for your bum on bleachers set up along the Globes' red carpet. As a reporter, I've walked miles of red carpet, and can tell you that the thrill of doing so is often offset by swollen, achy toes. So anyone who can kick back on the carpet and still be within earshot of Drew Barrymore gets my applause. Methods Three and Four: Contact the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, bestower of the Globes, to inquire about tickets. Or, search for online sellers. (As for the latter, beware of hucksters peddling fakes!)


Award season culminates with The Oscars, which take place at The Kodak Theatre in Hollywood—the same venue the American Idol finale is held. The Oscars are grander and stuffier than the Globes—less booze!—but as they're not until March 7, I don't want to get too cozy with those neutered little men just yet. However, I will share one of my “looser” Oscar moments: A few years back, while reporting for Fox News, I stood up to ask Clint Eastwood a question in front of a room full of journalists. “Mr. Eastwood—Lisa Bernhard, Fox News,” I said to the stalwart icon, who was fresh off the stage after winning a Best Director Oscar for Letters From Iwo Jima. “Fox News?” he grumbled, eyes narrowing to that Eastwood squint. “Well, you're a lot better-looking than Bill O'Reilly.” The room broke out in laughter. After hours of pouf-ing my hair, painting my face and pouring myself into a tight gown (I nixed the nip/tuck and spray tan), Eastwood tells me I've got a leg up in the looks department when compared to my slightly pasty, balding, 60something-year-old curmudgeonly male colleague. Yes, it's a glamorous life.

Lisa Bernhard writes for The New York Times, TV Guide, Self magazine, and others, appears on CNN and is cohost of the Web's stupidcancershow.com. She is former Entertainment Correspondent for The Fox News Channel, Deputy Editor of TV Guide and has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, The View, Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood and many others. In her next life she'd like to travel to every country of the world—if it didn't sound so exhausting.

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