Archive through March 25, 2002

The ClubHouse: Archives: Oscar Talk: Archive through March 25, 2002

Labmouse

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 10:30 am Click here to edit this post
Gwynneth Paltrow...very bad eye makeup...worst dress top I've ever seen. I was yelling at the TV..."change dresses Gynneth".

There should have been a warning on the screen:
Caution! Viewing This Dress Can Cause Permanent Impotence!

I am always amazed when people are given the gift of natural beauty and then go out of their way to look freaky and tasteless.

Fruitbat

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 10:34 am Click here to edit this post
AND......I didn't think Nicole Kidman (I don't think she is all that hot either) looked good. The dress was too pale with her skin and her gold hair is not becoming. I prefer her natural curls and it should be a tad shorter and shaped.

Renee Z's smile resembles a grimace. She is either extrememly uptight at these functions or her stylist has told her it looks good.

Halle was the best presenter too. Very comfortable and she memorized her lines.

They could cut out all the production numbers as far as I'm concerned. I watch for the clothes, hair, who is with who (don't worry Yuhuru, Sandra and Hugh are just in a movie together). The awards are secondary.

I do not find the Harry Winston jewelry attractive. Boring, in fact.

Honey51

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 10:55 am Click here to edit this post
Yuhuru,
I thought I was the only one who noticed that that Will wasn't "live' during the announcements for Best Actor. Wonder where he was?

Fruitbat

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 11:05 am Click here to edit this post
It was just on the news. They were called away. Will and Jadas 1 1/2 year old daughter had a 103 temp. Turned out to be an ear infection.

Yuhuru

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 11:06 am Click here to edit this post
o.k. Fruit,
Nicole didn't look that good, I tried.

Jenhavins

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 11:06 am Click here to edit this post
Did any one happen to notice Uma Thurman hanging WAY out of her dress in the audience? I fully understand that she is pregnant, but I thought she was going to fall out of it one time.

I loved the fact that Halle won, and I was crying right along with her. She deserved it. It is a long time overdue (although I thought her speech was good but long and started to feel uneasy like it was my fault for the last 74 years that a black woman hadn't won an Oscar). She looked stunning. I think she could look stunning in a old sock with some holes poked in them.

Gwyneth should fire her stylist. When was the french braid to the side back in style? She looked like she had a sport tube bra on and it was making a line straight across the top and smuushing them together.

I thought Sissy Spacek looked much much better than she did at the Golden Globes. So did Cameron Diaz, but anything would have been an improvement over her Golden Globe nightmare ensemble.

I love Julia Roberts, and I didn't have a problem with her outfit (didn't care too much for her hair), but she just seems so needy. It wasn't just the Denzel hug attack, but a few other things that struck me as odd.

Hated Jennifer Lopez's hair. Like she was back in the 50's going to a dance or something. She does look best with her hair pulled back.

I didn't much care for Nicole Kidman's dress. Her skin is so fair, it would seem that she would stay away from light pastels. She looked like a thin-lipped ghost with light auburn hair.

Just my little petty observations, because they are sooooo important and becuase I am a perfect goddess that always looks georgous and never has a bad hair day and always color coordinates!

Yuhuru

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 11:18 am Click here to edit this post
Uma had the baby already. Maybe she underestimated how much weight she would have lost by now. I actually didn't notice. I think Ethan is so much cuter than she is so I didn't see her.

Oregonfire

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 11:49 am Click here to edit this post
I know what you mean about the needy Julia Roberts thing. I didn't like how she said "I got to kiss Sidney Poitier. Sorry Honey." The "honey" that she is referring to is a man that she stole away from his wife. Maybe it happens all the time, but it was so public and blatant. His family hates her, from what I read. I think her image has been tarnished.

Mssilhouette

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 12:00 pm Click here to edit this post
Moon you're right!! LOL got Gywn and Cam mixed up. Both weren't exactly wearing the best dress.

Sorry for the mixup!

Okay I'll retract my Julia comment....I forgot about her previous speech about Denzel. Although he was saying (on the local radio station in LA) that he thought Julia was gonna pull his neck off, he was laughing naturally.

Even though I don't really like Julia Roberts. The neck pull was fine but she was doing a bit of spotlight hogging.

Guinevere

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 12:19 pm Click here to edit this post
I'm assuming that Uma is nursing, perhaps? There certainly seemed to be a lot going on...Yuhuru, I have the opposite reaction, I think Uma is just beautiful and way too good looking for Ethan Hawke, who is one of those guys (sort of like Ryan Phillippe) who looks like he's still in high school. He looks like a boy (an okay looking boy), not a man.

I think Jennifer Connelly is just gorgeous and Nicole Kidman is pretty fine herself, but they both looked too skinny to me last night. There's something about these underweight Hollywood chicks - it makes them look older, their skin doesn't look good. They just look kind of stringy and tired.

I thought Naomi Watts was beautiful.

Yuhuru

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 12:29 pm Click here to edit this post
I just thought Ethan Hawke was great in Training Day(I know it really wasn't him just acting, but...) He looked so cute in that movie and to have to deal with that big, bad Alonso (Denzel) made me like him even more. You're so right He and Phillip do look like teens. There's one other guy (one of the presenters) with dark hair that looks like a teen too.

Webkitty

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 12:39 pm Click here to edit this post
Ok, I agree about Jennifer Lopez's hair, PROM!

And Julia Robert's DID act "needy" (never liked her anyway, don't know why....maybe because she seems as if she's always "on")

Uma ia a beautiful woman but she really needed some more support in the bust area.

Ummm, who else....I thought Nichole Kidman looked just fine but that Jennifer Connolley has such a snotty attitude that its takes away from her beauty.

Robert Redford's mouth was so dry I thought he was going to gag, and I think Reese Witherspoon is so cute and has such a sweet and sincere personality that it makes her seem even prettier.

More of Webkitty's "catty" observations, MEOW!

Yuhuru

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 12:43 pm Click here to edit this post
Webkitty,
I noticed Robert Redford's dryness as well. Actually my mouth became dry just watching him.

Goatgirl

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 12:48 pm Click here to edit this post
I liked that they took some time to show more of what is involved in certain categories like editing. It seems like every year they show behind the scenes stuff like the makeup and costume transformations, etc. I had no idea what was involved in film editing and would always wonder how they decided that category. So it was kind of cool to see for each film the same scene shot from three different angles and how they switched back and forth from angle to angle for the finished product.

I think Jennifer Connelly is one of the coolest there is. In my opinion people (especially women) who are reserved and maybe aloof are often misread as being snotty. About her speech - so she's not a gusher like Julia Roberts, I think she had to have been excited but maybe was just nervous. They showed Ron Howard mouthing something and I wondered if he were saying something to that effect. As for her dress, I thought she looked beautiful outside on the red carpet but the colors of the dress and scarf didn't seem to do as well inside.

Loved Kirsten Dunst's dress but it also looked better outside in natural light.

Tom Cruise looked like he hadn't had any sleep.

Jennifer Lopez's hair - yikes! But at least she wasn't 3/4 naked like she usually is.

I thought Joan Rivers was less out and out catty this year. Whenever I see her and Melissa do the pre-awards show thing it strikes me that every time they show Melissa while Joan is talking to her, Melissa has this attitude and expression like she would rather be anywhere other than doing another show with Mom. Maybe that's just part of their act, I don't know.

Sharon Stone irritated me in the pre-show when they showed her doing this big swirly twirl thing to show off her dress. I mean it was totally crowded out there and it was like everybody had to make room for her or something.

Julia Roberts also sort of bugged me when she was talking to Joan and Joan was asking her what she does with her time when she's not working. Maybe I am just jealous from hearing her talk about how little she has had to work lately. Five days in January, a few in November, something like that. Makes me want to NOT go to her next movie, like I'm not giving her my $8 so she can sit around and read nice books and play with her nice friends for another whole year. Silly I know. I do like her anyway. As for her "stealing" her new boyfriend, that is the first I've heard of it but I can say I've never quite gotten how someone is able to be "stolen".

Jenhavins

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 01:16 pm Click here to edit this post
Love Reese Witherspoon. I have grown to appreciate Nicole Kidman more, but I never thought she was a raving beauty. She has looked better at past Oscars (in my opinion). Jennifer Connelly is very pretty naturally, but she looked a little washed out to me.

I love Julia Roberts movies. I like her acting, and she is probably a wonderful person, however sometimes I feel sorry for her. Don't know why, I just do.

I guess I like the actors and actresses who seperate work from their personal lives. They make movies, go to industry events, but their home life is just that, theirs.

Jody Foster did a great interview the other day about her work day and and for the life of me I cannot remember the it verbatim, but summed up her work is a vast distinction from her personal and private life. Not a big Jodie Foster fan either, but I like what she had to say. Kind of like the stance that Robert Redford has taken over his vast career. It seems like it would be a very hard thing to do in their profession.

Urgrace

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 01:20 pm Click here to edit this post
Okay, so I am out of the fast lane, but I want to know, who is Julia Roberts 'seeing'?

Jenhavins

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 01:40 pm Click here to edit this post
A camaraman from the Mexican. He was married at the time and is either now divorced or going through a divorce.

Dahli

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 02:03 pm Click here to edit this post
A couple of my thoughts for the mix... Julia Roberts looks like my daughter so I am a bit biased, but last nite I was struck by her oabvious self involvement. Not only the reference to kissing... and sorry honey, but before she announced the winner, her comment "I love my life" what's that about? and who cares - this is not 'your' moment girlfriend, it just struck me as odd.

Now regarding Gwyneth,I beg to differ here, my objection was just to her posture. I've noticed our culture only wants to acknowledge or accept breasts that are shaped and situated just 'so'
There is very little variety tolerated and unless they meet a certain criteria and engender male arousal they are devalued.
Women come in all shapes and sizes and to be 'exposed' to that fact and accept all the differences women have is important for not only our young girls as they grow but also for men to understand that women without silicone and enhancements can be beautiful too. I only wish she had stood up and been proud of how she looked instead of slouching and appearing so down

Julieboo

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 02:17 pm Click here to edit this post
Does Tom Cruise have braces now? (I always did think that his one front tooth was right in the center of his mouth.)

I like the color that Nicole K. wore, but she wore too much of the one color and looked washed out.

I thought Gwyneth looked smooshed and unflattering in her dress top. The bottom was fine. But those corset type strings were stretched out towards the bottom, and made her look bigger around the waist? Don't get me wrong about Gwyn, I don't even like bigger boobs, my problem wasn't that she looked small chested, it was that the top made her look kinda dumpy. I bet she had tons of dresses to choose from....

Moondance

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 02:36 pm Click here to edit this post
He got them to fix his bite... he said in the interview with Barbara Wawa

Julieboo

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 02:38 pm Click here to edit this post
Those braces are nice then, cuz you don't really notice them.

Oregonfire

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 02:42 pm Click here to edit this post
I know, I thought that "I love my life" comment was bizarre too! I didn't even get it in the context of what was going on. You know me--I read the tabloids all the time, so I know all about Julia's antics, even though they are none of my business.

I mentioned in another thread that she offered her boyfriend's wife $100,000 to speed up the divorce, just so crass. And with her track record with boyfriends...I'm sorry, is it really worth it to break up someone's marriage over that giddy "in love" feeling that is really just hormones anyway? And from what I read, she has really tried to shove herself on the boyfriend's family too, all of whom really like the wife and wish Julia would butt out. I know it's a two-way street, but Julia seems to pave it with a bulldozer.

I think Benjamin Bratt came out of that relationship looking like he had a lot more class. She just seems to abuse her power to me. One of these days, she's going to be the one hurt big time. Okay...I'm done with the Julia rant. I don't really dislike her THAT much, but I do wish she'd stop being such a narcissist.

Soeur

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 02:58 pm Click here to edit this post
Basically I watch for the clothes. It was interesting how there was no 'one' look this year. Halle really looked like a movie queen. That rich burgundy skirt was such a feast for the eyes and it was very unusual to have it matched to such a gossamer sheer top.

Oh! Did anyone see the preshow with Leeza where Kate Winslett said it would be hard to pee in her dress? My son thought that was in the TMI zone. Too much information.

My local paper named Cameron's do "heroin hair" and said that she was working on being a Courtney Love look-alike. That made me laugh.

Ali MacGraw looked very elegant and regal. At first I didn't recognize Ryan O'Neill. I understand that he is battling leukemia at the moment. It really seemed like a time warp to see the Love Story duo together again, that was sweet.

I dozed through huge chunks of the show, which seems to be becoming a tradition.

Whoopi was wearing a really tacky bright blue stone at one point and I don't think she had very good stylists working on her team. She should talk to whoever does Oprah.

We were wrong on almost all of our Oscar picks. Ack.

The new theater seems really nice although I read that it holds far fewer people and that lots of academy members were unable, for the first time, to get tickets. They probably had a better time watching it at home like the rest of us. Heh.

Fruitbat

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 03:00 pm Click here to edit this post
I must do a correction here. Gweneth Paltrow/Gwen is the correct spelling. It is my name too.

I like Julia Roberts. I am not sure all what is printed is correct. Her boyfriend is married and in the process of divorce, that is fact. But I am not sure I believe the rest. Or maybe I don't want to.

Fruitbat

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 03:05 pm Click here to edit this post
I stand corrected. Just checked the internet. Gwyneth spell her name wrong. It is not me, it's HER! .<slut >.