Golden Globes follies 2006

Halle Berry - Their Eyes Were Watching Me
Kelly MacDonald - The Girl in the Cafe
S Epatha Merkerson - Lackawanna Blues
Cynthia Nixon - Warm Springs
Mira Sorvino - Human Trafficking

Kung Fu Hustle, hatas.

oh yay felicity huffman!!!!

Why was Phillippe yelling at Phoenix?

Who knew Desperate Housewives was a comedy? I thought it was just Bad Intentional Camp, i.e. comedy for Chelsea boys.

exactly. although ive never watched a whole episode. they just arent pretty enough.

also, im still confused over 'walk the line' being classed as a musical. isn't 'musicals' the genre where people break into song for no apparent reason? It did cross my mind that perhaps the producers/publicists whatever struck a deal to have it classed as a musical because it would more likely win in that category rather than a drama category against brokeback mountain.

Damn, how did Jonathan Elvis Myers look when he won, or was he even there?

fashion - I liked Gwyneth's dress (Balenciaga) despite.. uh, it being her wearing it. Same for Sarah Jessica Parker (Rochas!!) Natalie Portman's dress was fantastic (didn't like the shoes though).

Vanessa Paradis is so cool. Adrian Brody = WTF, but kind of neat.

Oh, here we go! this guy is awesome!
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Did no one but me notice that there were huge boobs everywhere! I was in shock! I loved that Harrison Ford was so flummoxed by Virgina Madsen's boobs that not only could he not talk at the beginning of his presentation but when he was finished speaking he immediately turned and stared at her chest. Did anyone else notice that? Too funny. I guess he is not used to seeing breasts like that given that he dates Calista Flockhart with her 14 year old boy body. Even Emma Thompson, who is not huge breasted, was JUST verging on showing us her nipples. FANTASTIC. And Drew Barrymore with her see-through green dress with no bra? Such a shame too, because those things are FALLING and were hanging almost around her waist. You can't even find a photo of her from last night, it was so obscene. Her headlights were looking right at me and then she turned on the highbeams! I was blinded! Melanie Griffth, Rachel Weisz, Scarlett Johanssen, Geena Davis, Camryn Manheim, Queen Latifah, Michelle Williams, the list goes on and on. Seriously though, that was like watching a Russ Meyer movie, as Seinfeld once said. I know I am acting like a 14 year old boy myself, but it overwhelmed me.

I kept watching solely out of interest as to whose tetas were going to come straight at me next! Though sadly as the evening wore on, the huge boob ratio seem to dwindle into little skinny minny waifs (Renee, Nicolette, Emmy (whoever the hell she is), the aforementioned Vanessa, Jessica Alba etc.) that I would like to force feed lard too. Yeah you like that don't you? Again with the 14 year old boy antics.....

who me? i think it's possible i'd like her a lot if i met her, but until such time she doesn't much pique my interest

She looks like the Joker in that picture! And I think she's pretty otherwise, so that is really bad makeup.

Yeah, I have. That was great.

that blonde hair, it just aint right.

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actually she almost looks like jessica biel until she smiles.

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oh macaulay is alright

that was funny, that part.

The new E! team of Ryan Seacrest, Giuliana DePandi and Isaac Mizrahi was dumber, uglier and rattlesnake meaner than the last red carpet team... Rather than simply make small talk with the arrivals, [they] seemed to be trying to bring everybody down a peg, or several pegs.

You may find this unbelievable, you might even find it absurd, but there was in fact a time when Americans expected celebrities to represent our best aspirations. Even though, deep down, everyone knew that was an unrealistic and even unfair expectation, they clung to it anyway because was a necessary social myth, part of the fabric of 20th century life, and an illustration of what the word “etiquette” actually means: not a manifestation of naivete, not a lampshade drape that gives Blanche DuBois permission to feel pretty, not an indicator of insincerity or phoniness, but the glue that holds daily life together; the thing that makes it possible to get through 24 hours without wanting to kill somebody; the thing that separates us from, say, jackals...

When [my stepmother] says there was a better time than this, all she’s asking for is a bare minimum of decency. The minimum being exemplified by, say, engaging with, but not reflexively insulting, the celebrities you’ve been assigned to cover; making charming, smart, perhaps obliquely racy small talk with them (for a master class in the latter, see Johnny Carson) rather than putting them on sexual display and habitually mocking and diminishing them and generally acting like snotnosed American children in London trying to get a reaction from the palace guard by making fart noises. That sort of thing.

My stepmother, a jazz musician, isn’t interested in contemporary pop culture because she thinks it does not respect itself and we don’t respect it, and that those two mutually reinforcing realities contribute, in some small but tangible way, to the degradation, the emptiness, the rampant materialism, the sheer animal crudeness of so-called modern life. And you know what? She's right. This telecast was proof. Our celebrities represent us; most of them are mediocrities, and we hate ourselves for filling our minds with their plasticine images, and that that's why we encourage our media proxies to abuse them...

I’m not saying that certain celebrities aren’t trivial or stupid. I’m not saying that the rich and famous don’t deserve to have their bubbles punctured. I’m not saying this country, indeed the world, isn’t better off for the sexual and philosophical revolutions of the postwar era. And I’m not saying that E!’s Golden Globes arrival coverage is what’s wrong with America.

But I am saying that if you want to know why you feel disgusted when you think about what passes for The Culture, Monday night's red carpet walk isn't a bad place to look.

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Reese Witherspoon's gown wasn't vintage - though it had been worn by another actress three years ago.

Photos published this week showed the Golden Globe winner wearing the same glittery Chanel cocktail dress that Kirsten Dunst had worn to the awards in 2003.

Witherspoon, the best actress in a musical or comedy winner for "Walk the Line," was seen asking Chanel President Maureen Chiquet at an after-party why she wasn't told the gown already had a public outing, Women's Wear Daily reported.

Gretchen Fenton, publicist for Chanel, told The Associated Press the fashion house was "unaware" that Dunst, star of the "Spider-Man" movies, had worn the dress.

The fashion house apologized for "the oversight."

"We are honored that Reese chose to wear Chanel and thought she looked beautiful," the company said in a statement. "We congratulate her on her well-deserved win."

Witherspoon believed the gown - in a champagne color with metallic trim on the bust - was vintage, her publicist, Nanci Ryder, was reported as telling the New York Post in Wednesday's editions.

"Reese was told the dress was vintage," Ryder was quoted as saying. "It was not. I'm not angry - just a little disappointed, but the big deal is Reese won the Golden Globe."

A press release from the company on celebrities wearing Chanel gowns to the Golden Globes had described the dress as vintage. Fenton said the gown is from the 2002 couture collection and isn't considered vintage.

Still, Fenton said, the term vintage, long used to classify dresses from bygone eras, has become "very vague" and is a "new way" to define apparel not available in recent designer collections.

The snafu is "embarrassing for both Reese and Chanel," celebrity stylist Phillip Bloch told the AP, calling Witherspoon "a victim of people just not doing their job correctly."

"She was a victim of fashion powers that be," he said.

Ryder and her designer-loving clients, who include Jennifer Lopez and Renee Zellweger, will continue to support Chanel, said publicist Leslie Sloan, who works with Ryder at the Baker Winokur Ryder publicity firm.

The Golden Globe Awards were presented Monday in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.