BOCA RATON, FL: OFFICIAL OSCAR NIGHT ® PARTY AT BOCADORO on Sunday, February 29, 2004 at the Bocadoro Restaurant, 5250
Town Center Circle, The Shops at Boca Center, Military Trail
BOCA RATON, FL - You don’t have to live in Hollywood to experience the excitement of Oscar Night. Residents of South
Florida can join in the festivities when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences stages its 76th Academy
Awards® Presentation on Sunday, February 29, 2004, by attending the Take Charge! Cure Parkinson's, Inc. Academy-
sanctioned Oscar Night® America party, at Bocadoro, one of 46 official parties being held across the country on Oscar
Night.
Honorary Chairs: Mayors Steven L. Abrams/City of Boca Raton, Jeff Perlman/City of Delray Beach, Lois Frankel/City of
West Palm Beach and Jim Naugle/City of Fort Lauderdale. Emcee: Rose Lee Archer of the Rose Lee Archer Show.
“We are thrilled to be holding our first annual Oscar Night® America party at Boca Raton’s hot new restaurant,
Bocadoro,” said Alison Landes, founderand president of TCCP. “We’re ready to roll out the red carpet.” Landes’ sister,
Fran Landes, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s 5 years ago in her mid-forties. Bocadoro, http://www.bocadoro-
restaurant.com is located in the Shops at Boca Center at 5250 Town Center Circle on Military Trail, one mile north of
Palmetto Park Road in Boca Raton.
The Palm Beach County audience will watch the Academy Awards telecast on large screens via WPBF-TV-25, the West Palm
Beach affiliate of the ABC Television Network, which broadcasts the Academy Awards® presentation. ABC and the Academy
are cooperating for the eleventh year with local charities to create these official Oscar Night viewing parties.
“Watching the Academy Awards Show is one of the great American traditions,” said Academy Executive Director Bruce
Davis. “Since the public can’t come to Los Angeles to attend the Awards Presentation, we created Oscar Night® America,
which allows these local parties to tie into the excitement of Oscar Night and to support some very worthy causes.”
Official Oscar Night parties last year raised over $1.7 million for local charities in 37 cities. All money raised
stays in the community; none of it goes to the Academy.
The Academy will make available to party guests the same official program distributed to guests seated at the Kodak
Theatre at Hollywood & Highland in Hollywood, California. Copies of the 76th Academy Awards show commemorative poster,
designed by Burton Morris, will also be available.
Guests may feel like stars themselves as they walk down the red carpet amidst an Oscar Night atmosphere with glamour
and fanfare. The event will be produced by TMG Entertainment, http://www.tmg-intl.com , producer of the Oscar Night®
America event in Miami, now in its 5th year. “We are thrilled to set the stage for our community to participate in the
Oscar® experience,” said Ian Berkowitz, a principal in Fifth Taste Concepts, the parent company for Bocadoro. “It will
be an evening that will be unforgettable for all those who attend.”
The cocktail reception begins at 7:30 p.m., dinner at 8:30 p.m. Bocadoro is creating a special Oscar Menu, emphasizing
cuisines of southern Europe, including Greece, Turkey, Spain, France, and Morocco with an emphasis on “clean cooking.”
Guests can also join in a silent and live auction vying for boxing gloves signed by Muhammad Ali, a signed limited
edition lithograph by Ferdie Pacheco, Ali’s fight doctor, a week at Chris Evert Tennis Academy with room, board and
lessons, a ride for two on the Goodyear Blimp, a Mediterranean Village Feast for 8 at Bocadoro, and much more.
WHEN: Sunday, February 29, 2004
cocktail reception 7:30 p.m.,
lavish buffet dinner 8:30 p.m. till finish
WHERE: Bocadoro Restaurant, 5250 Town Center Circle at The Shops at Boca Center, Military Trail,
1 mile N of Palmetto Pk Rd
WHY: To share in the excitement of Oscar Night locally and to support a worthy cause.
HOW: Tickets are $150.
or Advance - $120 by February 14
Limited availability.
To order tickets call 561.620.1970
Alison Landes
Founder/ President
Take Charge! Cure Parkinson's, Inc.
1489 W. Palmetto Park Road Suite 442
Boca Raton, Florida 33486
Tel: 561.620.1970
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Web site: http://www.cureparkinsons.org
SOURCE: Take Charge! Cure Parkinson's
http://www.cureparkinsons.org/oscar.htm
OFFICIAL OSCAR NIGHT ® Downloadable Postcard
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http://www.cureparkinsons.org/counterboca.pdf
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