Roger Neal & Maryanne Lai Oscar Viewing Dinner
2020 AWARD-WINNING Oscar Viewing Dinner, Gift Suites and After-Party Info
“Where Academy Members Love to Watch The Oscars Over Dinner then Join The Nominees After-Party”
THE 5TH ANNUAL ROGER NEAL & Maryanne Lai OSCAR VIEWING DINNER-ICON AWARDS GIFT SUITE &
AFTER-PARTY
PRESENTED BY The World Famous Hollywood Museum and Sponsor SINO TV NETWORK for the benefit of
the Jose Iturbi Foundation.
ABC 7’s TV On The Red Carpet Official Oscar Party Coverage with George Pennacchio and KABC 790am Sunday
Night Live with Susan Olsen & Frank Sheftel will be broadcasting live from the Hollywood Museum.
George & Simona Papadopolous - Candidate for California Congress to attend
2020 Oscar Nominees Are BOOKED to attend the After-Party.
*(Special Media Arrangements Required for Access)
Hollywood, CA – Roger and Lynn Neal, Founder and Chairman of the Annual Oscar night event, announces along with their
partners Maryanne and Thomas Lai, the 5th Annual AWARD-WINNING ROGER NEAL OSCAR VIEWING DINNER, GIFTING
SUITE AND AFTER-PARTY which will take place on Oscar Sunday Feb. 9th, 2020 at the World Famous Hollywood Museum,
the former Max Factor Building across the street from the Oscar Ceremony at Dolby Theater.
2020 ICON AWARDS
The Roger Neal & Maryanne Lai Oscar Viewing Dinner will once again honor stars with the ICON AWARD during the pre-show
to the Academy awards. This year’s honorees include: Nancy O’Dell for Television, Mamie Van Doren for Motion Picture
Female in a rare public appearance, Obba Babatunde for Television (Emmy winner), Andy Madadian for Music (multi-million
seller Icon), Joel Diamond for Music-Grammy winner, Lee Meriwether for Television, Donelle Dadigan for The Woman in
Philanthropy Award and owner of The Hollywood Museum. All Awardees will accept in person.
The 2019 Icon Awardees and Presenters
Photo: William Kidston,
(Back row)-Joe Cortese (The Green Book), Marla Gibbs, Bernie
Koppel, Dawn Wells, Michael Learned (Waltons), Loretta Swit, Lainie
Kazan, (Front row)-Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters), Kira Reed Lorsch
(The Bay), Jamie Farr (MASH)
The Academy Awards Viewing Dinner will be a sit down, black-tie white-glove service experience for the stars, their guests,
sponsors and ticket buyers.
During the Oscar Viewing Dinner party, tradition has our charities spotlighted receiving a donation check from Roger & Lynn
Neal and partners Maryanne and Thomas Lai, that will benefit them from funds raised. The 2020 non-profits this year are: The
Jose Iturbi Foundation and others TBA.
Roger Neal, Dinner Chair said, “Our 5TH ANNUAL Oscar VIEWING Dinner, Suite and After-Party will be our best yet and we are
looking forward to a spectacular night.”
Eileen Bradley, from ‘The Real’, ‘E-Entertainment Television’ and 25 years in talent bookings for networks, serves as the Talent
Executive and Edward Lozzi of Edward Lozzi & Associates (who was publicity and media red carpet coordinator for the now
ended Night of 100 Stars), has been brought in for the Roger Neal Oscar Viewing Dinner and After-Party for 2020 . Over 100+
Stars are expected. 400 Guests in total are expected for dinner. “We are expecting over 200 media worldwide to cover our very
long step & repeat Red Carpet”, said Edward Lozzi, Event Media Coordinator for the Roger Neal & Maryanne Lai Oscar Viewing
Dinner and After Party.
Roger Neal & Maryanne Lai Oscar Viewing Dinner and After-Party is by invitation only. Limited available dinner seats. Call the
ticket office at 323-366-2796.
Celebrity Stars confirmed attending and expected from last year include: Tom Sizemore (Saving Private
Ryan), Nancy O’Dell (TV-ET-Icon Award), Eric Roberts, Ilya Salkind (Superman), Mamie Van Doren (High School Confidential Icon
Award+Star Walk of Fame), Sheree J. Wilson (Walker Texas Ranger), Dita Von Teese, Joe Cortese (The Green Book), BarBara Luna
(Star Trek), Andy Madadian (Star singer-Icon Award-Star Walk of Fame), Petri Byrd (Judge Judy), Pat Negri (Good Witch), Gloria
Garayua (How to Get Away with Murder), Stacia Gates (Influencer), Frank Sheftel (Host KABCRadio), Rex Smith (Broadway Star),
Lou Ferrigno II (SWAT 2020), Cory Oliver, Lydia Cornell (Too Close for Comfort), Bridgette Nielson (Red Sonya), Sofia Milos (CSI
Miami), Lou Ferrigno (The Hulk, Instant Death), Dawn Wells (Gilligan’s Island), Lee Meriwether (Barnaby Jones + Catwoman),
Lorenzo Lamas (Falcon Crest/Renegade), Kira Reed Lorsch (2 x Emmy Winner)Dee Wallace (ET), Lainie Kazan (My Favorite Year),
Bernie Kopell (Love Boat), Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters), Cory Feldman (Stand By Me), George Papadopoulous (fmr Trump’s
Foreign Policy Advisor), Courtney Stodden (Celebrity Big Brother), Nic Novicki (Sopranos), Teale Sperling (Toy Box), Kate Linder
(Young & Restless), Judy Tenuta (HBO Specials), Ieva Georges (Criminal Minds), Katherine Pacino, James Jurdi (Reaper), Noreen
Taylor (The Bay), Patrika Darbo (Days Our Lives), Meredith Thomas, Miles Tagtmeyer (Emmy nom Broken), Stanley Livingston (My
3 Sons), Suzanne Marques (Enlightened HBO), Donna Spangler (Beverly Hills Christmas), Patty McCormack (The Bad Seed Oscar
nom), Gabrielle Stone (Speak No Evil), Tanya Banks (Little Women), Ivan Modei, Rebecca Holden (Knightrider), Joel Diamond
(Grammy Record Producer Engelbert Humperdinck-Icon Award), Robert Mack (Host Good Morning LaLa Land), Autum, and Todd
McGinley, Dr. Paul Nassif (E!’s Botched), Brenda Dickson (Young & Restless), Kathy Garver (Family Affair), Joann Worley (Laugh In),
Ava Cantrell (Nickelodeons Haunted Hathaways), Melody Anderson (Flash Gordon/Firewalker), Carrie Schroder (I Am Frankie-
Nickelodeon), Petri Byrd (Judge Judy), Renee Lawless (Tyler Perry’s Have and Have Nots), Sonika Vaid, James Dumont (Law &
Order: True Crime), Lucille Soong (Fresh Off the Boat), Sheryl Lee Ralph (Instant Mom), Yi Zhou (Runaway Pistol), Keith Carlos
(Bold & The Beautiful, America’s Top Model), Emmanuel Kabongo (21 Thunder), Carl Crawford (LA Dodgers), Francesca Fanti
(American Crime Story: Versacae), Frank Pesce (29th Street), Peter Mark Richman (Naked Gun, ’Star Trek), Erin Haskell (Good
Morning La La Land), Richard Brooks (Emmy winner), Ron Moss (Emmy winner star of The Bay), Devin Devasquez (TV & film
producer, Emmy winner & former Playmate), Marla Gibbs (The Jeffersons-Icon Award TV), Freyda Payne (singing legend), Ernest
Harden Jr., (White Men Can’t Jump), Art Evans (Die Hard 2), Janet Dubois (Good Times), Roger E. Mosley (Magnum PI), Ella Joyce
(ROC), Cisco Reyes (Amazon’s Chosen Kin), Joe Fria (Guardians of the Galaxy) Kevin Seymour (NFL Carolina Panthers), Adoree
Jackson (NFL Tennessee Titans), Vincent Spano (Alive), Willard Pugh (Air Force 1), Mother Love, William McNamara (Nun), Jaclyn
Lopez (The Lucky Man), Roger Neal Jr. (recording Artist), Tanya Roberts (Charlie’s Angels & Sheena), Stephanie Szostak (ABC’s A
Million Little Things & Iron Man 3), Farah Abraham (star of Teen Mom), Carrie Mitchum (James Dean Live Fast Die Young), Vincent
DePaul (The Bay), Shadoe Stevens (Hosts Top of The World), Beverly Stevens (Shadoevision), Amber Stevens West (ABC’s Greek),
Laurene Landon (All the Marbles/Maniac Cop), Jeremy Miller (Growing Pains), Jeannie Kasem (Cheers/The Tortellis), Lou Ferrigno
(The Hulk), Burt Ward (Batman), Susan Olson (The Brady Bunch), Buzz Aldrin, Chris McDonald (Thelma & Louise-Happy Gilmore),
Donovan Carter (HBO’s Ballers) Jamie Kennedy (Scream), Johnny Roastbeef Williams (Good Fellas & Green Book), Katherine
Kramer, Karen Kramer, Gloria Allred (Netflix-Seeing AllRed), Celeste Thorson (How I Met Your Mother,), Lee Purcell-JL Ranch
+Murder She Wrote), Sean Kanan (Bold Beat ), Camila Banus (Days of Our Lives), Richard Halpern, Terry Moore (Oscar Nominee
Come Back Little Sheba), Sally Kirkland (Oscar Nominee-Golden Globe winner), Roslynd Kind (singer Streisand sister), Nancy
O’Brian- Playboy Playmate, Vince Lazano (Pirates of the Caribbean),Wes Geer, Jeri Jewel (Facts of Life), Kirk Bovill (starred as
Henry Kissinger-Oscar nominated movie Vice) Emma Eliza Regan (Oscar Nominated “Detainment” 2019), Maria Conchita Alonso
(Moscow on The Hudson), John Ratzenberger (Cheers/Toy Story), Bryce Nielson (Special Effects Roma), David Permut (Producer
Hacksaw Ridge), Ms. Tan Kheng Hua (star of Crazy Rich Asians), Joyce Bulifant (Mary Tyler Moore Show regular), The Pointer
Sisters (Anita & Bonnie-Grammy, AMA winners), George Lazenby (James Bond- On Her Majesty’s Secret Service), Shiggy (pop
culture comedian), Tommy Wiseau (The Room/Disaster Artist), Alice Amter (Big Bang Theory), Barry Bostwick)-Rocky
Horror/Spin City), Ray Parker Jr. (Ghostbusters Theme – R&B star), Fernando Allende (Flamingo Road), Jezlan Moyet (host of Good
Morning La La Land), John Whitaker (Family Affair), Anthony Michael Hall, Martin Kove (Karate Kid+Cagney & Lacey), Dan Lauria
(Wonder Years), Obba Babatunde (Madam Secretary and Icon award), Richard Grieco (21 Jump Street+ Gargoyles), Margaret
O’Brian (Oscar winner), Randal Malone (Mansion of Blood), Robert Carradine (Revenge of the Nerds), Frank DiFrancia (Green
Book), Tristan Rogers Drew (General Hospital), Rachell Royale (music artist), Serena Laurel (“Lucy”), Tonya Renee (Star of Little
Women LA), Caryn Richman (Gidget), Jamie Brewer (American Horror Stories, Carrie Schroder (Nickelodeon’s I Am Frankie), and
many more. New RSVP’s added daily.
Caterer/Chef TBA. Emerald Hare Winery will be among the wineries supplying exceptional wines for dinner and afterwards.
Menu for the stars TBA. Entertainment for After-Party TBA. Special Appearances by various 2020 Oscar nominees at the After-
Party TBA.
OSCAR GIFT SUITE Part of The Evening:
We are proud to announce that our 25th annual Oscar Suite will be held also on Oscar Day in the Hollywood Museum. The stars
will be gifted with a gift bag filled with couture, and service brands worth $20k. From the Suite, the stars will go to the Oscar
Viewing Dinner press line to walk the red carpet and then on to the ballroom for the Oscar Viewing Dinner. The Oscar Suite will
go from 12pm to 3:30pm.
OTHER STARS THAT HAVE ATTENDED OUR GIFT SUITE AND PRE-OSCAR RELATED EVENTS INCLUDE: Mel Gibson, Natalie
Portman, Bryce Dallas Howard, Hilary Swank, Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith, Dakota Johnson, Lou Ferrigno and Lou Ferrigno II
(SWAT 2020), Renee Lawless (Tyler Perry’s The Have and Have Nots), Kevin Sorbo, Burt Ward (Robin from TV’S Batman), Fred
Willard, Michelle Johnson (Blame It On Rio), Lee Purcell, Suzanne Sena, Don Most (Happy Days), Fernando Allende, Ruta Lee
(Seven Brides For Seven Brothers), Hank Garrett, Nikki Leigh (Lifetime Movie), Jen Lilley (Days Of Our Lives), Phil Morris (Seinfeld),
Matty Cardarople (Netflix Series - A Series Of Unfortuante Events), Oscar Winner George Chakiris, Mayf Nutter (The Waltons),
Lindsey Bloom (Mike Hammer), Jayne Kennedy, Lee Benton (Nocturnal Animals), Marla Gibbs, Kymberly Hefner, Anne Marie
Johnson, Marci Miller (Days Of Our Lives), Khandi Alexander, Maria Conchita Alonso, Renee Taylor (The Nanny), Alice Amter, Geri
Jewel, Jeremy Miller (Growing Pains), Rex Smith, Benjamin Onyango, Fred Willard, Isidora Goreshter (star of Shameless). All have
been invited to attend again.
About the Hollywood Museum:
10,000 Authentic Show Business Treasures spotlighting more than 100 years of Hollywood history - from the Silents to Talkies, to
Hollywood's Golden Era, Film Noir, Television and its Pioneer Years, through the rebellious 60s, special effects 70s, evolving 80s,
involved 90s, technological 2000s, and beyond to current day heartthrobs! The Hollywood Museum's exhibits showcase the best
in film, network and cable television, and new digital platforms featuring iconic and fan favorites! Named one of the top tourist
attractions by LA Weekly, voted one of the Top 10 Museums in LA by the Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board, and annually
receives the Certificate of Excellence from Trip Advisor. Located in the heart of Hollywood, at the corner of Hollywood Blvd and
Highland Ave - The Hollywood Museum in the Historic Max Factor Building is the “Official Museum of Hollywood” and offers
visitors the most extensive collection of Hollywood memorabilia in the world featuring the glamour of Hollywood legends and
stars - past, present and in the making. See one-of-a-kind costumes, props, photographs, scripts, stars' car collections, personal
artifacts, posters, and memorabilia from favorite stars, films and TV shows.
We invite Your Coverage~
Contact: Edward Lozzi, Edward Lozzi & Associates PR for media credentials and interviews. Please E-Mail with your names,
camera equipment red carpet requirements for your Placement—and include Media Name/logo outlet and demographics to
epl@lozzipr.com
Event Talent Coordinator: Eileen Bradley (talent executive for E-Entertainment Television and The Reel (Nat. syndicated Fox TV
Talk Show). E-Mail: eileenstar1955@sbcglobal.net