I think the second most asked question was: what did Mira Sorvino do to her face? Because she doesn’t look like Mira Sorvino anymore. She should have gone to Jane Fonda’s doctor. And speaking of Jane Fonda, a woman that is 80ish who has had more than one facelift, if she wasn’t famous, you would never guess her age. And for once she wore a gorgeous dress. I mean, really, she looked amazing. Having said that, I got an email from one of you gorgeous women out there reading this, who had a very different take on how she looked. She thinks that Jane Fonda looked frozen and portrayed an anti feminist message that tells women if we are not young and beautiful and thin, we are not worthy. I have given that a lot of thought the last few days. On the one hand, at some point don’t we have to age gracefully and accept the fact we are not twenty anymore? On the other hand, when your job demands that you look a certain way, isn’t all that time and expense given to image part of doing your work? Discuss. It is a risk to have a facelift as many actresses have actually ruined their careers because of bad plastic surgery. Seen Melanie Griffith or Meg Ryan in a movie lately? Or Mira Sorvino? Some of that I am sure is the lack of roles for women of a certain age but there are some roles available and they are not going to them. And they are wonderful actresses.
Speaking of aging gracefully, wasn’t Eva Marie Saint fabulous?
My favorite black dress was worn by Leslie Bibb who is another actress I have never heard of, but she was there with her boyfriend Sam Rockwell. She is gorgeous and her dress was too. It was by J. Mendel and I know, the picture is terrible. (I cannot use pictures off the internet as they are copyrighted and I don’t want to go to jail for lifting a copyrighted picture! And I do not look that good in some oranges.
I am so glad Allison Janney won. I mean CJ!!!! And Frances McDormand won for best speech by far. She is a great actress. She always does an amazing job just like our bestie Meryl. I think Meryl should insist on sitting in the last row so that the Meryl jokes will stop. Her poor husband looked pained. Their children gave him an Oscar for going to the ceremony for 40 years which I thought was very funny. She looked very pretty but you know I set the bar for her so low because like everyone else, I love her so much. She just has to show up. So I can listen to people making her a running joke.
There were very few dresses I didn’t like. One was the Grecian dress Zendaya wore. She is only 21 and she managed to look about 91. And I didn’t like Emma Stone’s outfit. It wasn’t Oscar worthy but she is so pretty. And really talented.
Usually my favorite accessory is George Clooney but he wasn’t there this year, sadly. I loved Allison Janney’s diamond necklace, and Viola Davis’ earrings, but my favorite accessory didn’t become apparent until Thursday night when Kobe Bryant appeared on Jimmy Kimmel, and he was given a Laker’s jersey for his Oscar. That could be a whole new business: Oscar clothes for your Oscar. They could change it three times a day like the hosts do!
Well, that does it. Another year, another Oscar, another year of saying we WILL do our arm exercises even though we all know we won’t. Well some of you do. But not me. If only good intentions could firm them up I would be golden just like Oscar!
Ricki