By Gabrielle Pantera

The Fleet Street Murders, latest in the Charles Lennox Victorian detective series

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 9/1/2010 - “One inspiration for this whole series was the Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope which track the fate of several young politicians in Victorian London over six books,” says The Fleet Street Murders author Charles Finch. “I made a little time for politics in the first two book of the Lenox series, but in the third I decided I really wanted to delve deeply into it and portray a 19th Century election.”

Well plotted with strong details of the time, The Fleet Street Murders is for readers who enjoy Sherlock Holmes and Lord Peter Wimsey. Lenox is charming, suave, amiable and honorable. We get to know more about Lenox as a character who has more then one passion: detective work, politics and his fiancée Lady Jane Grey.  Hopefully, the supporting characters will get deeper as the series progresses. The women are secondary in this male-centric book. Maybe when Lenox marries Lady Jane Gray, as his wife she’ll play a more significant part in the mysteries.

The Fleet Street Murders tells the story of two Fleet street journalists, Daily Telegraph writer Winston Carruthers and Daily News editor Simon Pierce, who are murdered on Christmas night. Amateur detective Charles Lenox wants to solve the crime, but needs to focus on his budding political career and upcoming marriage to his fiancée Lady Jane Grey. Lenox gets the opportunity to run for seat in Parliament in distant Stirrington sooner then originally planned. But this takes him away from the case and his fiancée. How will he do everything at the same time?

“The Victorian period is a fascinating one, because it combined such broad social changes…new voting rights and land rights…with such a conservative tempo to daily life,” says Finch. “That’s why I like writing these mysteries. I get to live secondhand in a remarkable time.”

“I read a great deal about Parliament in the 19th Century, and also about the National Mint, which comes into the mystery, in histories of the period,” says Finch. “But I always think the most crucial research for this series was reading the great Victorian novelists…Gaskell, Eliot, Dickens, Collins, Trollope. What’s most important to me in an historical mystery is atmosphere and character.”

“I happen to have a tremendous research library, the Bodleian, at my disposal, which makes it much easier,” says Finch. “I didn’t look over historical documents for Fleet Street, because I relied on secondary histories for it, but for the book I’m currently writing, the fifth in the series, I’m looking at old nautical papers from the 19th century.”

Finch says he never has much memory of doing the day-to-day work of writing. “I remember the period of time across which I wrote it, but for all these books I never really remember the actual writing very vividly.  Perhaps because it’s very un-self-reflective in a way. It’s absorbing, so you don’t have time to stop and think about what you’re doing.  It’s the opposite of most people’s image of a writer, which is a sort of permanent state of Thoreau-style navel-gazing.”

“My agent picked my first manuscript out of the slush pile, which makes me one of the luckiest people in the publishing industry,” says Finch. “That never seems to happen.” Finch’s agent, Kate Lee at ICM, sold the book to St. Martins. Finch’s editor at St. Martins is Charles Spicer. The Fleet Street Murders hasn’t been optioned or adapted for film or television.

Finch says that a challenge writing his novels is that there’s less time than he would like because they come out once a year. That and his friends will complain that he didn’t use their names in the book.

Finch is currently writing his fifth Charles Lenox mystery. Finch is based in Oxford, UK, where he’s studying for a PhD in Renaissance Literature. He was born in Manhattan.

The Fleet Street Murders (Charles Lenox Mysteries) by Charles Finch

Paperback, 320 pages, Publisher: Minotaur Books, 1 edition (July 20, 2010), Language: English, # ISBN: 9780312650278

http://us.macmillan.com/thefleetstreetmurders

By Gabrielle Pantera

A Colourful Death, is the artist next door the murderer?

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 9/1/2010 – “The next-door neighbour of my protagonist, Eleanor Trewynn, is an artist,” says A Colourful Death author Carola Dunn. “Nick had a role in the first Cornish mystery, Manna from Hades. He’s a peaceable sort of chap, laid-back and easy-going. I just started wondering what would make him mad enough to resort to violence.”

Murder disrupts the quiet life of Eleanor Trewynn.  Widowed, works at the charity shop below her home in the village of Port Mabyn. Set in 1960s Cornwall. On returning from a train trip to London, Eleanor’s friend and neighbor Nick Gresham discovers that someone has slashed several of his paintings in his shop.

Without going to the police, Nick sets out to confront rival artist Geoffrey Monmouth, who Nick is sure is the culprit. Accompanied by an anxious Eleanor, Nick finds Geoff stabbed to death in his Padstow bungalow. The police detain Nick, while Eleanor sets out to track down the real killer.

“Apart from going to Cornwall, where my sister fortunately lives, and researching the specific places I used as settings for A Colourful Death, the most interesting research was into the dyes used by commercial artists,’ says Dunn. “A friend of mine who’s an artist bought three samples of red dye and we tried them all out on an old rag to see if any would give the effect I wanted. Luckily one did…and I still have the rag lying around in my office to prove it.”

“I was invited to be a guest speaker on a mystery authors’ panel in aid of the Friends of Anaheim Library,” says Dunn “We panelists were asked to let them auction off the name of a character in our next book. A long-time reader of my mysteries bid $800 to have me include her sister’s name in A Colourful Death. She gave me a lot of information about her sister, and I had fun working some of it into my story. I hope she likes the result!”

A Colourful Death has not yet being adapted for film or television. Dunn is currently working on  her twentieth Daisy Dalrymple mystery, Gone West. The nineteenth, Anthem for Doomed Youth, will be out in Feb/March 2011.

“I’m very happy to be able to announce that all of the Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries are being published in the UK and Commonwealth at last, by Constable & Robinson, a firm founded in 1795,” says Dunn. “Some of those UK editions already out have been spotted in the window of Hatchard’s bookstore, a firm founded in 1797.”

This is the second Aunt Nell Cornish amateur sleuth mystery. The dialog is great and Dunn’s descriptions of Cornwall are very vivid. Even though the characters where a bit one dimensional Dunns dialog is right on the mark for 1960.

Hardcover, 352 pages, Publisher: Minotaur Books, 1 edition (June 8, 2010), Language: English, ISBN, 9780312379469 $24.99

http://caroladunn.weebly.com/cornish-mysteries.html

By Gabrielle Pantera

Cleopatra and Antony, what if they'd won?

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 9/1/2010 - “I’m interested in people who despite an overwhelming obstacles achieve extraordinary things and also in people to whom history has been unfair,” says Cleopatra and Anthony author Diana Preston. “Cleopatra had a traumatic childhood and adolescence. One of her sisters was executed by her father, probably in front of her. As a young queen her half-brother ejected her from her throne and forced her to flee. She got back her throne by seducing Julius Caesar and kept it for the rest of her life until her suicide at thirty-nine.”

Know as history’s greatest lovers, Cleopatra and Anthony are more then that. Their lives had lots of political intrigue both in Egypt and Rome. Preston explains how Cleopatra was more political and Antony not a crazy war monger.

“She was the most powerful female ruler of the ancient world with a vision of a new world order,” says Preston. “If she and her Roman lover Mark Antony had succeeded in introducing that new order our own world might have been very different. I wanted to capture the importance of their story as well as its drama.”

“Also the picture of Cleopatra that has descended through history thanks to Roman propaganda, is not of a powerful, politically-astute, independent-minded woman but of some sort of sexy siren,” says Preston. “I wanted to set the record straight.”

“I spent a long time in Egypt, especially in Alexandria, Cleopatras’ capital,” says Preston. “It was intriguing to examine artifacts like stone sphinxes retrieved from beneath the harbor where marine archaeologists believe they have located the remains of her palace.”

“But one of the strangest experiences was driving in an armed convoy through sesame fields in Egypt to the temple at Dendera down the Nile near Luxor where one of the very few surviving images of Cleopatra is carved on the temple’s back wall,” says Preston. “Climbing the worn stone stairs up the darkened staircase inside the temple, lined with life-size freezes of Egyptian priests, gave me goosebumps. I could imagine Cleopatra taking the same walk.”

You get to learn more of who Cleopatra and Anthony were as people and how they became the people they did. Cleopatra greatest motivator was political. She knew she needed a man to help her win and the political ramifications behind her choices. Antony was loyal and viewed Cleopatra as an equal that they could rule the Roman Empire.

Preston worked with English academic Dr. Martin Weaver, an expert in archaeological facial reconstruction, to create a model showing how Cleopatra may have looked. “Martin brought Cleopatra’s finished head round to my house in the trunk of his car. We got some pretty funny looks as he carried it inside. Our model doesn’t look a bit like Liz Taylor. It’s imperious and characterful rather than drop-dead gorgeous. Martin keeps her on his windowsill and says he can feel her watching him.”

Preston read all the classical texts from the period and its aftermath that she could find, such as Cicero and Plutarch. She visited as many of the places associated with the story as possible, cruising down the Nile as Cleopatra did with Caesar, retracing the route of Antony’s army as it marched through Armenia on his Pathian campaign and exploring Alexandria. She read about Egyptian and Roman religion, culture and social life to try and understand the two societies and their very different outlooks.

Preston’s U.S. agent is Michael Carlisle of Inkwell Management. Preston’s agent in the UK is Bill Hamilton of A.M. Heath. Preston was  introduced to A.M. Heath at the start of her career by another writer.

“For the last 10 years I’ve had a highly enjoyable and rewarding relationship with Diana, debating ideas for her books that would suit the market and the tastes of her publishers, striking deals, and tracking them through the writing up to publication,” says agent Bill Hamilton. “It’s been an unusually productive collaboration, partly because we found from the start that we think along similar lines, and because of her infectious enthusiasm for the subjects she writes about.”

Preston’s U.S. editor is George Gibson of Walker Books and Bloomsbury. “George is a gifted editor with whom I’ve worked for a long time,” says Preston. “He has an infallible eye for spotting where I’ve glossed something over or dismissed something too lightly. Satisfying his rigorous questions can be a challenge but is always worthwhile.”

“George has been my editor since around 2000 after he saw a review of one of my books in the Times Literary Supplement,” says Preston. “I’m London based and George is in New York but we’re able to meet up sometimes when I’m in the US on a book tour or on holiday or when George comes over for the London Book Fair. We know each other well and  the editorial process works pretty smoothly. George reads the text, makes detailed comments - and asks those challenging questions. We discuss these and it becomes an iterative process until we both have something we feel happy with.”

Preston provides a more realistic portrait of Cleopatra and Anthony. The facts that Preston reveals have been heard before, yet she finds other compelling reasons why they did what they did. The descriptions of Roman and Egyptian life and politics are fascinating. Lovers of history will relish her portrait of life in Rome and Egypt.

Preston raises the question of what if? What if Cleopatra and Anthony had won? How would that have changed history?

Preston was born in London and still lives there. Preston won the L.A. Times Book Prize for Before the Fall Out: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima. She’s currently working on a quintet of historical novels about the Moghuls of India with her husband under the pseudonym Alex Rutherford. The first book, about the founder of the Moghul dynasty, was recently released in the U.S. It’s called Raiders from the North.

Preston has a Cleopatra page on Facebook.

Cleopatra and Antony: Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World by Diana Preson

Paperback, 352 pages, Publisher: Walker & Company; 1 edition (March 30, 2010), Language: English, ISBN: 9780802710598  $16.00

]]> http://www.goshtv.net/2010/09/01/books-cleopatra-and-anthony/feed 0 http://www.goshtv.net/2010/09/01/2010-emmys-gifts-distinctive-assets http://www.goshtv.net/2010/09/01/2010-emmys-gifts-distinctive-assets#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:51:16 +0000 rower http://www.goshtv.net/?p=1604 Everybody wins at the Emmys, nominee gift nags include fitness and spa packages

by Gabrielle Pantera

Chocolatines custom-made stiletto and purse made of chocolate

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 9/1/2010 – It was a great Emmys event for Modern Family and Mad Men, which won for best TV series. Non-winning nominees in the eight major acting categories got a pick-me-up the day after the Emmy telecast in the form of a gift basket from Distinctive Assets.

Distinctive Assets provides celebrity gifts at major award shows such as the GRAMMYS, Kids’ Choice, Latin GRAMMYS, the Country Music Awards, American Music Awards and other Hollywood events. Let’s take a look at the celebrity gifts, everything from chocolate to fitness and spa packages to get back into Emmys shape for next year.

Chocolatines by Sweet Endeavours. White Gold Diamond 4-piece collection is champagne ganache encased in 72% dark chocolate then hand-painted in white gold. A sugar diamond is a finishing touch. $25 Contempo Collection 9-piece collection has each chocolate crafted and designed by hand.  Includes almond, curry kieffer, cinnamon apple caramel, moka, port wine, macadamia, Chai Tea, Pistachio and Raspberry. $26

www.chocolatines.com

La Costa Resort and Spa two-night stay for two in a La Costa Suite including daily breakfast at Legends Bistro. $1,250

www.lacosta.com

Huntley Drive Fitness. Huntley Drive Fitness services range from nutrition counseling to physical therapy. Physical fitness regimen with both quality and discretion, an exclusively private training facility offers celebrities a premium training experience. Ten personal training sessions $750.

www.huntleydrivefitness.com

Live in Fitness Enterprise Fitness Retreat. Biggest Loser 4-week fitness challenge from November 16th to December 14th. Get fit during the holiday season. Dieters package $4,850. Fitness package $6,200.

www.liveinfitnessenterprise.com

The Sports Club/LA. Innovative Mind/Body programs, cutting-edge equipment, expert private trainers and an award winning group exercise program. One year membership $3,300.

www.thesportsclubla.com

24SEVEN Nutrition. Energy and Immunity Shot is a proprietary formulation of 24SEVEN 100% juices. Includes twenty-four of today’s top superfruits, botanicals, and vitamins.  Rejuvenate physical and mental vitality, mobilize immune defenses, and supercharge health. $48

www.24sevenenergy.com

Spornette International Zhu Bamboo Brushes. Three professional styling brushes made from natural bamboo and a bag made from jute. Recycled materials. $47

www.spornette.com

Lisa Ashley Beauty. The Ultimate Eyecream delivers immediate results while The Ultimate Moisturizer has a silicone moisture mist that hydrates, revitalizes, nourishes, and diminishes lines and pores. $105

www.lisaashleybeauty.com

Pre-Fenz Botanicals. 24-hour hand sanitizer is protection against bacteria and germs. It’s green, non-toxic, alcohol-free, smoothes and softens. $7

www.prefenzbotanicals.com

Slimware stylish portion-control plates are dinnerware used by body-conscious Hollywood stars such as Rene Russo and Kristin Chenoweth. The plate’s design patterns have spaces for veggies, carbs and protein. Available patterns are Central Park, Downtown Chic, Sunburst and Urban Safari. $37

www.slimware.com

Ful Load Luggage. Runner Duffel is a 30-inch split-level wheeled duffel with multi-compartment storage and retractable trolly-handle inline skate wheel system. $120

www.ful.com

Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company Altoids SMALLS are tiny breath mints to go where you go. Part of the original “Curiously Strong” Altoids family of mints. Now smaller and sugar-free. Altoids SMALLS mints come in four flavors: peppermint, wintergreen, cinnamon and simply mint. $82

http://www.altoids.com

]]> http://www.goshtv.net/2010/09/01/2010-emmys-gifts-distinctive-assets/feed 0 http://www.goshtv.net/2010/08/31/video-comedian-tom-arnold-interview http://www.goshtv.net/2010/08/31/video-comedian-tom-arnold-interview#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:05:43 +0000 rower http://www.goshtv.net/?p=1597 HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 8/31/2010 – “I’m getting ready to do a movie called Restitution, then I do a movie called THe Happy Time Murders, then a movie called Battleship,” says comedian Tom Arnold. “I’m doing comedy on weekends.” In an exclusive interview with Gosh!TV backstage at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood, Shelly Skandrani asks the star about his many upcoming films, his world comedy tour, his television appearance on the Sons of Anarchy, his work on the animated feature film Fire Dog with Lauren Becall and his early days working for Hormel Foods.

By Robin Rowe

Modern Family wins 2010 Emmy for Best Comedy

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 8/29/2010 – “We are so thrilled that families are sitting down together to watch a television show,” says ABC Modern Family executive producer Steven Levitan.

“I want to thank this amazing cast that helps us forget every day how much we hate writing,” says Levitan. “This is such an honor for us. I want to thank ABC and everybody at 20^th Century.”

2010 Emmy Nominees for Best Comedy

Modern Family – WINNER

ABC

Twentieth Century Fox Television

Steven Levitan, Executive Producer; Christopher Lloyd, Executive Producer; Jason Winer, Co-Executive Producer; Jeff Morton, Producer; Danny Zuker, Co-Executive Producer; Dan O’Shannon, Co-Executive Producer; Bill Wrubel, Co-Executive Producer; Paul Corrigan, Co-Executive Producer; Brad Walsh, Co-Executive Producer

Curb Your Enthusiasm HBO

HBO Entertainment

Larry David, Executive Producer; Jeff Garlin, Executive Producer; Gavin Polone, Executive Producer; Alec Berg, Executive Producer; David Mandel, Executive Producer; Jeff Schaffer, Executive Producer; Tim Gibbons, Executive Producer; Erin O’Malley, Executive Producer

The Office

The Office NBC

Deedle-Dee Productions and Reveille LLC in association with Universal Media Studios

Greg Daniels, Executive Producer; Ben Silverman, Executive Producer; Ricky Gervais, Executive Producer; Stephen Merchant, Executive Producer; Howard Klein, Executive Producer; Paul Lieberstein, Executive Producer; Mindy Kaling, Co-Executive Producer; Lee Eisenberg, Co-Executive Producer; B.J. Novak, Co-Executive Producer; Aaron Shure, Co-Executive Producer; Teri Weinberg, Co-Executive Producer; Steve Carell, Producer; Justin Spitzer, Producer; Charlie Grandy, Producer; Warren Lieberstein, Producer; Halsted Sullivan, Producer; Randy Cordray, Produced By; Daniel Chun, Supervising Producer

Nurse Jackie

Nurse Jackie Showtime

Showtime Presents, Lionsgate Television, Jackson Group Entertainment, Madison Grain Elevator, Inc. & Delong Lumber; A Caryn Mandabach Production

Linda Wallem, Executive Producer; Liz Brixius, Executive ProducerJohn Melfi, Executive Producer; Caryn Mandabach, Executive ProducerRichie Jackson, Executive Producer; Christine Zander, Executive Producer; Mark Hudis, Executive Producer; Rick Cleveland, Co-Executive Producer; Bari Halle, Produced By

30 Rock

30 Rock NBC

Broadway Video, Little Stranger, Inc. in association with Universal Media Studio

Lorne Michaels, Executive Producer; Tina Fey, Executive Producer; Marci Klein, Executive Producer; David Miner, Executive Producer; Robert Carlock, Executive Producer; John Riggi, Co-Executive Producer; Ron Weiner, Co-Executive Producer

Glee

Glee FOX

A Ryan Murphy TV Production in association with 20th Century Fox TV

Ryan Murphy, Executive Producer; Brad Falchuk, Executive Producer; Ian Brennan, Co-Executive Producer; Dante Di Loreto, Executive Producer; Brad Buecker, Supervising Producer; Alexis Martin Woodall, Producer; Kenneth Silverstein, Produced By

By Robin Rowe

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 8/29/2010 – “The power and emotional reach of television has never been more evident,” says 2010 Emmy presenter Tom Sellack as he awards the Emmy for Best Drama to Mad Men.

“I want to thank my lovely wife Linda, who weighs in on all the scripts,” stays Mad Men executive producer Matthew Weiner. “I want to thank the Academy for recognizing us again.”

This is the third consecutive Emmy win for Mad Men. “I want to thank AMC and Lionsgate for taking a huge risk with us,” says Weiner. ” We’re now in our fouth season. I didn’t think we’d even make it half a season.”

2010 Emmy Nominees for Best Drama

Mad Men – WINNER

AMC

Lionsgate Television

Vince Gilligan, Executive Producer; Mark Johnson, Executive ProducerMichelle MacLaren, Co-Executive Producer; Melissa Bernstein, ProducerSam Catlin, Supervising Producer; Peter Gould, Producer; George Mastras, Producer; Stewart A. Lyons, Producer

True Blood

True Blood HBO

Your Face Goes Here Entertainment in association with HBO Entertainment

Alan Ball, Executive Producer; Gregg Fienberg, Executive ProducerBrian Buckner, Co-Executive Producer; Nancy Oliver, Co-Executive Producer; Alexander Woo, Supervising ProducerRaelle Tucker, Producer; Mark McNair, Produced By

Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad AMC

Sony Pictures Television

Vince Gilligan, Executive Producer; Mark Johnson, Executive Producer; Michelle MacLaren, Co-Executive Producer; Melissa Bernstein, Producer; Sam Catlin, Supervising Producer; Peter Gould, Producer; George Mastras, Producer; Tom Schnauz, Producer; Stewart A. Lyons, Produced By

Dexter

Showtime

Showtime Presents, John Goldwyn Productions, The Colleton Company, Clyde Phillips Productions

John Goldwyn, Executive Producer; Sara Colleton, Executive Producer; Clyde Phillips, Executive Producer; Charles H. Eglee, Executive Producer; Melissa Rosenberg, Executive Producer; Scott Buck, Executive Producer; Robert Lloyd Lewis, Produced By; Tim Schlattmann, Supervising Producer; Wendy West, Supervising Producer; Lauren Gussis, Producer;

The Good Wife

The Good Wife CBS

CBS Productions

Robert King, Executive Producer; Michelle King, Executive Producer; Ridley Scott, Executive Producer; Tony Scott, Executive Producer; David W. Zucker, Executive Producer; Brooke Kennedy, Executive Producer; Todd Ellis Kessler, Co Executive Producer; Ted Humphrey, Co Executive Producer

Lost

Lost ABC

Grass Skirts Productions, LLC in association with ABC Network and Studios

Damon Lindelof, Executive Producer; J.J. Abrams, Executive Producer; Carlton Cuse, Executive Producer; Edward Kitsis, Executive Producer; Adam Horowitz, Executive Producer; Elizabeth Sarnoff, Executive Producer; Jack Bender, Executive Producer; Bryan Burk, Executive Producer; Jean Higgins, Executive Producer; Paul Zbyszewski, Co-Executive Producer; Melinda Hsu Taylor, Producer; Ra’uf Glasgow, Producer

By Robin Rowe

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 8/29/2010 – “I want to thank my parents on the south side of Chicago with raising us with musical theater and being so unintentionally hilarious,” says Fox Glee star Jane Lynch as she accepts the Emmy for her role as Sue Sylvester. “I thank my lord and creator Ryan Murphy for creating the role of a lifetime. I love you my wife Lauren and little girl Hayden.”

It’s Lynch’s first Emmy win. Glee is a Ryan Murphy TV Production in association with 20th Century Fox TV.

“What a pleasure,” says Modern Family star Eric Stonestreet as he accepts the award for his role as Cameron Tucker. “I’m just happy I haven’t got anything on my shirt yet.”

Stonestreet was referring to the opening number of the Emmys, a take off on Glee in which Emmy host Jimmy Fallon had a red soft drink thrown on him, followed by a drink thrown on guest star Tina Fey. Fallon changed into a tuxedo jacket on stage.

Modern Family is a production of ABC and Twentieth Century Fox Television.

http://www.emmys.com/backstage-live

By Robin Rowe

TW Steel oversized watches at the HBO Luxury Lounge

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 7/28/2010 – Emmys gift suites this weekend are everywhere, from hotel ballrooms to private mansions. If you’re a manufacturer of a new product, it’s a good way to get publicity and introduces celebrities to your products. Gift suites are a fascinating mix of media, celebrities and trendy technology.

Gift suites we covered on August 27th…

Bella Style Garden to benefit Children Uniting Nations on Aug. 27, 11-6pm, at the Beverly Hills mansion of  Children Uniting Nations founder Daphna Ziman. Honorary Ceremony at 1pm hosted by Lo Bosworth from MTV The Hills. The Beverly Hills Housewives and Nicole Scherzinger, headline performer of Pussycat Dolls and winner of this season’s Dancing with the Stars, Hill Harper from CSI NY signing copies of his book Letters to a Young Brother. Publicity by May Levy PR.

Debbie Durkin’s 4th Annual Eco Emmys Celebrity Chateau on Aug. 26-27, noon-6pm at Beverly Hills mansion north of Doheney and Sunset. Benefiting the American Red Cross and Green Wish with DelBondio Organic Wines, Derrick Sky Vegan Chocolates, Shop Green Bees Eco-Friendly Shoes and Celeste Brunel Art & Eco Bedding. Publicity by mPRm and Durkin Entertainment Group.

HBO Luxury Lounge at the Four Seasons Hotel on Aug. 27, 12pm-5pm. L’Oreal Paris Beauty Suite with professional makeup artists, hair stylists, nail technicians and men’s grooming experts. Publicity by Fox Greenberg PR.

Secret Room at Peterson Automotive Museum on Aug. 27, 10-8pm.

Gift suites we’re covering today, August 28th…

Alive! Expo and the Green Pavilion at the London Hotel on Aug. 27-28, noon-6pm. The Alive! Expo award suites feature the latest in eco-friendly, organic and all natural products. Sample organic snacks. ECO-Fashion show. Make your own natural body lotion. Proceeds from the event benefit Project Green. Publicity by Mix Media.

GBK and Tic Tac Luxury Gift Lounge at the SLS Hotel on Aug. 27-28, 11am-6pm. Apple iPad and custom-made watches from Invicta Watch Group.

Distinctive Assets Gift Basket, not a suite.

Gift suites we’re not covering…

Mark Kearney Group Emmy suite at the London Hotel on August 26th-27th, 11am-6pm. Publicity by fingerprintcom.net.

Kari Feinstein’s 2010 Style Lounge at a Beverly Hills mansion on Aug. 26-27, noon-6pm. In association with Mike McGuiness for  Creative Coalition raising funds and shooting a PSA on media literacy along with the Girl Scouts of America. Publicity by FMPR.

P.F. Chang’s Home Menu Frozen Moments Gift Lounge backstage at the Nokia Theatre on Aug. 28-29. Organized by On 3 Productions, the Academy and its programs receive donations for each star who cracks open a fortune cookie to reveal the favorite “frozen moment” of his or her  career.

DPA Gifting Lounge at Sunset Tower Hotel on Aug. 26-28, 10am-6pm. Marhcon Eyewear, Nina Skarra, the Argyle Salon and Spa, the Massage Express Co. and Millie’s Cheesecakes, Platinum Synergy PR.

Gift suites we can’t cover because they sent us no publicity or because they’re not hosting an Emmy suite this year:  Platinum, Lavish Gift Suite, Serenity Gift Suite, Silver Spoons and Celebrity Chitt.