Emmy Awards Governors Ball to be in red

A table setting is seen inside the Emmy Awards Governors Ball preview at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Sept. 19, 2012, in Los Angeles.

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(CBS/AP) The official after-party for the 64th annual Primetime Emmy Awards will be a vision in red. The party, attended by winners and losers, will be almost entirely decked out in rosy colors.

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The behemoth 57,600-square-foot space inside the West Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center has been transformed into a rose-themed haven for the ceremony's "rhapsody in red" dinner party.

A giant rose-shaped sculpture will hang above the 3,800 invitees while a staff of about 1,200 supply drinks and hors d'oeuvres to 380 guest tables draped with red linens. The massive room will be cocooned by 36-foot-tall curtains featuring 2,400 twinkling starlit-inspired bulbs.

"This year's event is going to be such a luscious treat for attendees," said Shelia Manning, a casting director and co-chairwoman of the Governors Ball. "For the first time, we'll have an Emmy winners' circle at the Governors Ball, where the night's honorees can have their statuettes personalized."

The ceremony across the street at the Nokia Theatre will be broadcast on a  tubular red curtain hovering over the space.

For dinner, attendees will feast on smoked salmon; avocado spheres accompanied by a crisp salad of hearts of palm, cucumbers, apples and red radishes; roasted tenderloin with mushroom risotto fries; and parsnip creamed spinach. For dessert, there is white chocolate raspberry cake, raspberry macaroon lollipops and flavored chocolate truffles.

[cattiej]

I will never understand why actors get such publicity and money. They are just doing a job of pretending to be someone else. Why anyone who does this for money and then gets paid big money is almost like being a prostitute. What has this world come to? Cops, firefighters, nurses, etc. all work to save your life and actors do nothing but make sure you are charged big money to see their films. Something is upside down with our world..After seeing this red room, the rest of us poor folks will just have to pretend that we are rich and sitting and one of the tables...Nahhhhhhhhhh