Charmaine Blake Hosted an Elegant Oscar Viewing Dinner — “A Night of Many Stars” — Honoring Legendary Actor Eric Roberts, Golden Brooks, Kathy Garver, and Miguel A. Núñez Jr.; Notable Guests Including Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Ruta Lee, Sofia Milos, Baywatch Co-Creator Michael Berk, Stanley Livingston, Manu Bennett, and Starletta DuPois, who appeared alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle After Another (Read below story segment, and see her interview on this show!) among many other notable guests in attendance. The evening concluded with a captivating fashion presentation by Beatta J Collection. Guests received luxury gift bags featuring the book I Curse You With Joy, written by Tiffany Haddish (Read below story segment), and on this show you can watch all the interviews with the stars from this amazing night!
It was a night to remember, as the biggest stars in showbiz came out for the 2026 VIP – Invite Only – Oscar Viewing Dinner Gala & After-Party at the luxurious and elegant Sofitel Hotel Beverly Hills, with “a night of many stars” Celebrity Red Carpet Arrivals, where the legendary Actor: Eric Roberts was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Legacy Award in person!
On this show our Entertainment Today TV Show Host: Margie Rey will bring you some great interviews with many of the Award Winners, and celebrities that walked down the red carpet at this fabulous Academy Awards Viewing Dinner Gala & After-Party Oscar event:
Entertainment Today TV Producer: Steve Taylor will bring this big event to you live, so that YOU will feel that YOU were there: walking down the red carpet with A-List Stars, watching the Oscars, and attending this invite only after -party: 
Our Entertainment Today Entertainment News Reporter: Jacqueline Murphy was also doing interviews for us on the red carpet. She is on the right of the below photo: 
For everyone the highlight of this red carpet and show was when our Entertainment Today TV Show Host: Margie Rey did a great in-depth interview with the Legendary Award Winning Actor Eric Roberts who talked about his amazing and long career, and his new book that he has coming out:
Entertainment Today’s TV Producer: Steve Taylor had met and interviewed Eric Roberts 31 Years ago in Dallas, Texas for the VSDA Convention, and as Eric did back then- he gave another great promo spot for our TV show this year! In the below photo is Eric Roberts, and Steve Taylor at this Year’s Oscar Viewing Dinner Gala, and After-party:
& by an incredible coincidence, at this same VSDA Convention in Dallas, Texas, 31 years ago: Steve Taylor also interviewed last year’s honoree of this same Oscar Viewing Dinner Gala: the late legendary film Director: Melvin Van Peebles, the father of Mario Van Peebles! So, Entertainment Today’s TV Producer: Steve Taylor had met and interviewed Mario Van Peebles, where Mario gave our viewers 31 years ago, (and again at last year’s Oscar viewing gala) his best advice: “Early to Bed, and Early to Rise, and it Pays to Advertise!” 
See the above photo from this same event from last year’s Oscar Viewing Dinner Gala: Mario Van Peebles (Center), and his 2 sons: on the left of the photo- Mandela on the extreme left, and Makaylo is 2nd from the left; Entertainment Today TV Show Host: Margie Rey (2nd from right of photo), and Entertainment Today TV Producer: Steve Taylor (on the extreme right of the photo above). 
As you can see in the above photo, our special guest for our Oscar Viewing Dinner Gala was the legendary actor: Eric Roberts, who is an American actor with a career spanning stage, television, film, and voice acting. He’s received two Golden Globe nominations and one Academy Award nomination. Roberts has amassed over 700 acting credits, including 74 films in 2017 alone. He’s had recurring roles in television shows like Suits, CSI, Code Black, and Heroes. We are so proud that Eric was at our Oscar Gala in person, and to be able to honor him with the Lifetime Achievement Legacy Award!
Roberts’s career began with a leading role in King of the Gypsies (1978) for which he received his first Golden Globe Award nomination. He also received a Golden Globe nomination for his role as Paul Snider in Bob Fosse’s Star 80 (1983). Roberts’s performance in Runaway Train (1985), as prison escapee Buck McGeehy, earned him a third Golden Globe nod and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Notable films Roberts has appeared in include Raggedy Man (1981), The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), The Coca-Cola Kid (1985), Best of the Best (1989), The Ambulance (1990), Final Analysis (1992), The Specialist (1994), The Cable Guy (1996), It’s My Party (1996), Cecil B. Demented (2000), National Security (2003), A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006), The Dark Knight (2008), The Expendables (2010), Lovelace (2013), Inherent Vice (2014), The Human Centipede 3 (2015), and Babylon (2022).
Eric was so nice to pose with us with his Lifetime Achievement Legacy Award Oscar, as you can see in the above and below photos:
On television, his performances in the drama miniseries In Cold Blood (1997) and the sitcom Less than Perfect (2002–2005) have earned him Satellite Award nominations, winning Best Supporting Actor for the latter. His other varied television work includes being the only non-British actor to play the Master in the 1996 Doctor Who television film, a role he reprised for the Big Finish audio range, as well as recurring roles on the NBC drama Heroes (2007–2010), the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless (2010–2011), the legal drama Suits (2014–2019), and the HBO series The Righteous Gemstones (2022). Eric Roberts was so kind to pose for photos with many of the guests that attended this amazing event, like our Guest at our table: Greg Griffith on the left of the below photo:
A NIGHT OF MANY STARS: Charmaine Blake’s star-studded red carpet Oscar Viewing Gala was a benefit for the Faber Ryan Youth Foundation, and you can see Margie’s interview with both of them on this show.
The Producer of this amazing Oscar Viewing Gala was Charmaine Blake, who again did an amazing job giving all of the Award Winners, Celebrities, and guests the VIP treatment, with a formal sit down gourmet 3 course dinner, exquisite dessert, wine, drinks, with a reserved seat at a table, live musical performances, a live viewing of The Oscar Telecast on a large HD viewing screen, fashion show, After-party, gifting lounge, VIP Gift Bags, and Charity Auction.
In the VIP Gift Bag was an award winning book by Tiffany Haddish, who attended the The 34th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards® Viewing Party in West Hollywood, that our Entertainment Today Host & Reporter: Bernie Hiller was reporting on for us, as you can see her in the middle of the below photo: 
This book “I Curse You with Joy” . . that . . “makes you feel good, so that you can feel like you can do anything” has been praised by Charlamagne Tha God and Kevin Hart, and is a good read: 
“I Curse You with Joy” is a 2024 essay collection by comedian Tiffany Haddish, featuring humorous and candid stories about her life, including her highs, lows, and personal struggles like endometriosis. Published on May 7, 2024, the book is a follow-up to her previous work, offering more personal and outrageous essays. In her New York Times bestselling debut The Last Black Unicorn. Since then, she has catapulted to A-list fame as the breakout star of Girls Trip. She’s walked the Oscars red carpet, released a hit stand-up special with Netflix, and made history as the first Black female comedian to host Saturday Night Live and Shark Week! If you like to buy this book now, and get started on your own road to making your life better, just go to Amazon, GoodReads.com, or premierecollectibles.com/haddish to buy Tiffany Haddish’s Personal Autograph on the Bookplate Inside This Book!
Another great product that was in the VIP Gift Bag was The Billion Dollar Marilyn Monroe high-end luxurious Lipstick, by Shelley Michelle – who is an American fitness model, actress and has been called “the most famous body double in Hollywood”. She is famous for her work in movies like Popeye (1980) and The Shining (1980). Other major work of Shelley includes Time Bandits (1981), Frankenweenie (1984), Roxanne (1987) and The Portrait of a Lady (1996). She was nominated at the Emmy Awards for her children’s anthological TV series Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre. If you like to buy Shelley Michelle’s Lipstick go to: BillionDollarMarilyn.com
She is most famous for when she Body-doubled Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman (1990), where her body is shown not only in the film Pretty Woman (1990), but appears on the movie poster! Our Entertainment Today TV Show Host: Margie Rey is friends with her, and did a great in-depth interview with her that you can see on this show!
In the After-Party Shelley gave a great musical performance tribute to Marilyn Monroe, as she sang “Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend” and in the below photo you can see here posing for a photo with our Guest- Greg Griffith: 
One Battle After Another took home six Oscars, including Best Picture, and as you can see in the below photo: writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson accepted the Best Picture Oscar on behalf of the film at the 98th Academy Awards ceremony: 
One Battle After Another stars Leonardo DiCaprio- who our Entertainment Today TV Show Host: Margie Rey had interviewed a few times earlier at other major events. Leonardo DiCaprio was nominated for this movie, for this year’s Oscar for Best Actor, and our Entertainment Today TV Producer: Steve Taylor met him at a past Oscar Event at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills: 
On this show our Entertainment Today TV Show Host: Margie Rey had a great in-depth interview with Starletta DuPois who played the role of “Grandma Minnie” on One Battle After Another, that won this year’s OSCAR for Best Picture, that you can watch on this episode, that was taken from the red carpet at this Oscar Viewing Dinner Gala. Starletta is in the below photo with Steve: 
Starletta DuPois (born July 18, 1941) is an American actress. She has appeared in more than 90 films and television shows during her 50+ year career. She received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in The Mighty Gents (1978). Starletta told Margie that she had the pleasure to act together with Leonardo DiCaprio, in a key scene in this Oscar winning Best movie: One Battle After Another!
Right after the Oscar Telecast, in the Beverly Hills Ballroom was a fabulous After-Party with a great Fashion Show by the Beatta J Collection, and an amazing special live performance by Reuben Cannon (Nick Cannon’s brother).
and guests at our table, and myself during the after-party:
This was a night that all of the guests and VIPs will always remember!
Both Margie & Jacqueline got some great in-depth interviews with the breathtaking beautiful Actress: Sofia Milos (above & below photos) who is a Swiss-born actress. 
She is best known for her role as Yelina Salas on CSI: Miami.
She has also had a role on The Sopranos as Camorra boss Annalisa Zucca, as well as roles in TV series such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, Mad About You, Friends and ER. She was so nice to pose for photos with all of us: 
along with talking and posing for a photo with our guest Greg Griffith:
On this show you can see our Entertainment Today TV Show Host: Margie Rey also got some great in-depth interviews with: Actress Golden Brooks who received the Humanitarian Award: 
Legendary Actress Kathy Garver who received the Golden Era of Hollywood Award; and the photo on the left:
The Legendary Producer, and Actor: Jeff Gum, who is known for Rambo: Last Blood (2019), Tesla (2020), Primal (2019), The Forgiven (2017) and The Vault (2017) who was given the Producer Excellence Award!
Actor Miguel Núñez Jr. who received the Artist of Distinction Award, Actress Barbara Luna Tank Battalion, Star Trek; and Shahla Dorriz, an International couture designer and textile artist who was presented with the Heritage Award. In the below photo you can see our Guest at our table: Greg Griffith with Producer Michael Berk on the right: 
Michael Berk and his wife Michele Berk – the Baywatch Creator and Executive Producers: As you can see in the below photo- the legendary Producer of Movies and TV, including the original hit TV Series- Baywatch, and the Baywatch movies: Michael Berk (3rd from the right of the photo), and his wife Michele (4th from the right of the photo), were both sitting right next to our table, and posed for photos with us, and then Michael joined us at our table for about half an hour to talk to us: 
Michael Berk is an American television screenwriter. He worked with Douglas Schwartz as a writer on the television series Manimal, and many made-for-television movies. He served as a co-creator, writer and executive producer on the series Baywatch, and is also known as the creator, co-producer, and writer of the television series The Wizard.
In the below photo at the Academy Awards, Jessie Buckley and Michael B. Jordan posed for photos with their Oscar statuettes on Oscar Sunday. Our Entertainment Today TV Show Host: Margie Rey briefly interviewed both of them at earlier events:
The Producer/Director: Ryan Coogler won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Sinners. We had earlier talked to Ryan at The Producer Guild Awards, as you can see in the photo below: all the “Sinners” Producers- L-R: Steve Taylor (Entertainment Today Producer), Sev Ohanian, Film Supporter, Zinzi Coogler, Ryan Coogler, & Margie Rey (Entertainment Today TV Show Host):
So, it ended up that Ryan Coogler’s vampire movie “Sinners”, has achieved a record as the most Oscar-nominated film of all time- earning the highest overall total Oscar nominations- with 16 ! It seemed that this year’s Oscar Winners, nominees, and celebrity guests were some of the greatest stars and current talent in our recent Oscar history!
At our table watching the Oscars- Left to Right: Belinda, Jacqueline, and Steve:
Margie Rey did another great job interviewing the celebrities on the red carpet:
and we all had a excellent dinner at our table, as we watched the Academy Awards, as you can see us in the above and below photos: 
With this fabulous Academy Awards Viewing Dinner Gala and after-party, being held at the elegant Sofitel Hotel Beverly Hills Ballroom, it drew out the beautiful people for an amazing experience that we will always remember: 
Finally, at this great event- after meeting the both of these men below- 2 times on 2 different days prior- at 2 different Oscar Gift Lounges, our TV Show Host: Margie Rey interviewed both them on the red carpet of this Oscar Viewing Dinner Gala: Pol’ Atteu and Patrik Simpson of Haute Couture Beverly hills, who has created Gowns for Carrie Underwood, Bella Thorne, and Peppa from Salt & Peppa; and the Emmy Award Winning Actor: Patrik Simpson- who is the star of the Hit Emmy Winning Show on Amazon and Prime Video: Gown & Out in Beverly Hills. You can see them both in the below photo with TV Producer Steve Taylor in the center, with Pol’ on the left of the below photo, and Patrik on the right of the below photo, during this amazing Oscar Viewing Dinner Gala:
Most important of all, our Lifetime Achievement Legacy Award Winner Eric Roberts:
was really moved by being chose to receive this award, and said he “will remember this award for the rest of my life!” – >
As everyone in the audience will always remember Eric Roberts, and this once-in-a-lifetime Oscar Event:
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