The Oscars! The Ray Harris Show! And Anarkh!

Before I begin my ranting and raving about the Oscars, here is the information on the upcoming Ray Harris and Anarkh shows.

Ray will be here on Thursday at noonish and then we need a little bit of time to set up so I would say if you get here after one we will be all ready to go. Anyone that wants a beautiful dress, jacket, skirt or pant for a special occasion, this is the designer to see. He is also bringing clothes for day and his beautiful crepe pieces too.  Available in lots of colors, his clothes are just fabulous.  There is one new dress in particular that is so beautiful I probably will get one to wear to a family wedding in the fall myself.

We will be open until 7 on Thursday so if you want to come over after work please do. Of course we will be serving champagne.  Friday we will be here from 11-6 or until the last person leaves and Saturday we are going to start early. Mimosas at ten and Ray will be here until 2.  So plan to come if you have never had the opportunity to meet the nicest guy ever with the most beautiful clothes. You can choose the length of the dress, the kind of sleeve, the neckline, etc. And the 30 available colors are gorgeous.  And best of all, you can actually EAT in his clothes!

On Tuesday, March 3rd the girls from Anarkh will be in the store all day to show you their fall line.  I just saw it and I think you will love it.  They do make gorgeous clothes!

And now for the Oscars.

How many of you called your parent (if you are lucky to have one) after J.K Simmons won?  I did although now that I think about it, MY kids did NOT call me! What the heck?  Ok, Katy and Kenny you are both grounded for a week!

Here are some other parts I liked:

I loved John Legend and Common singing Glory.  So beautiful. Here is something I found out about John Legend recently.  He was accepted to Harvard and Penn when he was only 16 years old.  He went to Penn because it had a better music department.  What a voice.  I thought he and his wife looked great.

I also loved Lady Gaga singing the songs from The Sound of Music, a movie I have seen about a million times and Julie Andrews looked so beautiful. Lady Gaga’s dress had the most gorgeous fabric.  The one she wore on the red carpet, not the one she kept tossing around as she sang. Her voice is so beautiful.

Admit it, if those weird red cleaning gloves were not there, you would love this dress.

There were some amazing speeches this year.  I loved the

speech by Patricia Arquette as did Meryl Streep and every woman in the room. She talked about equal pay for women and you couldn’t help but think that many women in that room including our most celebrated actor, Meryl Streep, have been paid less than the men doing the same work in the same movie.

The speech by Graham Moore about being different was very touching as was the speech by the woman who won for best documentary short when she spoke about her son’s suicide when he was 15 years old. We sure need mental health help in this country.

And I loved how thrilled Eddie Redmayne was.  I loved The Theory of Everything and he was wonderful in it. The dress that Felicity Jones wore was very pretty I think.  The color was beautiful and her eyes looked great too.

Oh, how mad was Oprah Winfrey at Neil Patrick Harris when he was talking to David Oyelowo?  If looks could kill.  And how fantastic was the magic trick that NHP did at the end with his predictions?  I forgot that he does magic.  Talk about talented. And gutsy walking out in his underwear.

It was terrible that they left Joan Rivers off the In Memoriam segment because even though she was only in a few movies she made the Red Carpet an entertainment program so much so that ABC did an hour and a half red carpet show instead of their usual one hour this year.  They sell a lot of commercials for that.  And make a lot of money.

Ok, more clothes. One of my favorites is the same one every year: Cate Blanchette.  The necklace was amazing.  And her skin just kills me it is so gorgeous.  Doesn’t it look like a necklace from U7?

I thought Emma Stone looked fantastic.  The color was great on her and she looked like she was going to the Oscars.

Unlike Anna Kendrick who thought she was going to the prom.

I loved Viola Davis’ dress and no, I am STILL not over her not winning an Oscar for The Help.

I thought Lupita knocked it out of the park again with that gorgeous gown made of 6,000 pearls.  She is so stunning.

I loved Naomi Watts in this dress and also the yellow dress she wore to the Golden Gloves BUT Rita Ora wore the Bulgari necklace that Naomi wore to the Golden Globes.  Somewhere there is a stylist in trouble.

I was not that crazy about Julianne Moore’s dress.  It looked like little bugs were the trim.  But I am so glad she won after being nominated five times.  And she really doesn’t look that good in white.  She should have worn the green dress from the Golden Globes or a gold dress to match her statuette.

I did like Jennifer Lopez’s dress but really she is so stunning that I do not think she has to wear such low cut clothes all the time.  It is really getting old. Jennifer Aniston wore a beige dress also but it wasn’t nearly as pretty and she was too pale.

Speaking of PALE, memo to Reese Witherspoon: remember how pretty you looked with LIPSTICK on at the Golden Globes?  Seriously your natural look was so natural that your skin didn’t look as pretty.  Very very dull I thought.  Here she is talking to Robin Roberts who looked phenomenal.

And my fave Kerry Washington loved her dress because she said it was comfortable but I thought it was really blah and also she wears white every week on Scandal so I think she should wear a different color in real life.

LOVED Nicole Kidman.

But Scarlett not so much.

And do you know why Gynneth Paltrow looks like she is about to cry?  She noticed herself in the tv monitor and got scared when she saw that GIGANTIC pink flower on her shoulder!  What on earth was that about?

Jared Leto.  OMG.  Nothing more to say about that!

I am so glad that Patricia Arquette won but her dress looked like she was wearing a big bandage.  I would add that she probably should have known that the director of Boyhood is Richard LinkLATER not LinkLETTER.  She was nervous I think.  I wish he would have won for best director because what he did was interesting.  And it was a really good movie.  12 years is real dedication.

Did  you see the dress that Robert Duvall’s wife was wearing?  It looked like Jlo’s but a coral and gold color.  Beautiful.  Jennifer Hudson was sitting in the front row in a yellow dress that was really good.  And ok, I hate to get into trouble with Oprah because well she is Oprah, but her dress was too tight and not a great color.  Let’s just all agree that the only movie star that looks good in that pale beige is Nicole Kidman.  Everyone else, trust me, don’t get that color.

If Zoe Zaldana had taken the spaghetti straps off her dress it would have made the difference between great and not so great.

Another dress I LOVED was Margot Robbie’s.  She looked amazing.  The jewelry and her hair and makeup.  Everything.  She may be my winner for the night.

See Jennifer A and Reese, doesn’t lipstick look good?

This is Rosamund Pike and I think I looked just like that right after I had a baby too.  NOT.  Stunning.  Very Oscar worthy dress.  Again, not like Anna Kendrick’s.

And last but not least is Dakota Johnson.  I thought she looked just the way she should: young and very pretty.  If you look you will see her mother Melanie Griffith in the background who came as her date.  There is a picture of them on the internet if you want to see it when Melanie took Dakota to the Oscars when she was a little girl.  Full circle.

As you can see the pictures are from my television screen so that is why they are not as good as usual.  But I just found out that even if it is on the internet I am not allowed to use the pictures.  So any that you want to see go to E News as they have everyone.  Feel free to email me with all your opinions.

Another award season is over and it has been really fun sending you all the news.  I am just glad I don’t have to go on television in front of people from over 100 countries and be criticized by people like me.   All in fun people, all in fun.  And really, sorry Oprah.

See you at the Ray and Anarkh shows!

Ricki