I'M ITCHING TO GET BACK TO MY PAPARAZZI LIFE

but I am just a wuss with this weather. Next week there's an event in the Big Apple that I would like to cover, I even wrote out the letter for my credentials, but the temperature that day is only 32F and rain/snow. I just can't do it!! Look what I am passing up:

It's probably one of the few award shows going this year: THE 2007 NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW OF MOTION PICTURES AWARDS GALA PRESENTED BY BVLGARI

Guests expected to attend include winners: George Clooney (Best Actor, Michael Clayton), Julie Christie (Best Actress, Away From Her), Ben Affleck (Best Directorial Debut, Gone Baby Gone), Casey Affleck (Best Supporting Actor, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford), Amy Ryan (Best Supporting Actress, Gone Baby Gone), Ellen Page (Breakthrough Performance by an actress, Juno), Emile Hirsch (Breakthrough Performance by an actor, Into The Wild), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, No Country For Old Men), Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin and Tommy Lee Jones (Best Ensemble Cast, No Country For Old Men), Tim Burton (Best Director, Sweeney Todd), Michael Douglas, Robert Osborne and Roger Deakins (Career Achievement Honorees). Additional award winners and presenters include: Lauren Bacall, Nicola Bulgari, Patricia Clarkson, Diablo Cody, Danny Devito, Andrew Dominik, Phil Donahue, Jessica Lange, Michael Murphy, Nancy Oliver, Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi, Julian Schnabel, Tilda Swinton, Marlo Thomas, Kathleen Turner and Mike Wallace.