Those who abandoned the Snuggie to shimmy into their black tie best Sunday night didn’t catch much of the awards ceremony at the Red Cross Oscar party.
Flat screens that hung around the National Museum of Women in the Arts lost signal intermittently, causing some of the evening’s best televised moments of the awards ceremony to be lost in a signal fog.
“The dirty little secret about this event is that no one is here to watch the Oscars, they are just here to get lucky,” said WJLA entertainment reporter and emcee Arch Campbell.
Well, let’s hope so, because attendees missed the award for best supporting actress and other long stretches of airtime around 10 p.m. and again before the major awards.
“For a party about a TV show, that’s the one thing they couldn’t get right,” Brendan Kownacki of Spectrum Communications, who attended the bash, griped to Yeas & Nays.
And then there was the champagne: By 9 p.m. the VIP bar was tapped of the bubbly, and the lines for the swag bag piled up around 9:45 p.m.
Even the guest emcee, WJLA reporter Pamela Brown, was spotted leaving around 10:15 p.m.
When Yeas & Nays called the Red Cross for comment, spokeswoman Cheryl Kravitz said it was desperately working throughout the night to maintain the feed, mentioning it was able to save the programming for the final awards.
“I think they cut out to play the slide of their sponsors, and they started playing with fire because every time they cut in and cut out, they jiggled with the feed,” one older reveler guessed.
