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GENE SISKEL
FILM CENTER 2003 OSCAR NIGHT AMERICA |
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GENE SISKEL
FILM CENTER 2003 OSCAR NIGHT AMERICA |
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You don't have to live in Hollywood to experience the magic and excitement of Oscar Night. Join in the festivities by attending Chicago's only Academy sanctioned Oscar Night® America party at the Gene Siskel Film Center. |
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The Chicago party is one of 40 official parties that will be held across the country on Oscar Night. Beginning at 7:00 pm, the Film Center will welcome guests for the 75th Anniversary Academy Awards® Presentation with Klieg lights, a red carpet . . . and Joan Rivers impersonator Ellie Weingardt! Guests enjoy complementary beer, wine, champagne, a light buffet, raffle and spectacular silent auction packages. |
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Klieg lights in Chicago aren't likely to dazzle movie stars on Oscar night. But at the Gene Siskel Film Center, guests still took the opportunity to go a little glam for their walk across the red carpet before watching the ceremony on a big screen. About 250 people attended the benefit, which was co-hosted by the Film Center and the Chicago Academy for the Arts and was one of 28 official Oscar parties nationally. As people began to arrive, Joan Rivers, a.k.a. Ellie Weingardt, dressed in a red Escada gown, predicted that guests would come "in a mixture of things . . . this is an arty crowd. You might see anything from bobby socks and sneakers to studded toe shoes to Billy Bob looks. And lots of cleavage." With the glitz factor in L.A. turned down several notches, and suggested attire at the Chicago party as "business casual or Oscar chic," you could forgive a guest for being a little clothes confused. |
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