Britain's Got Talent: Gin the Dog

This is so cute. Enjoy:

NYMAG: Lady Gaga

image from nymag

Here are my favorite quotes:

"In those days, I’d wake up at noon in my apartment with my boyfriend and his loud Nikki Sixx hair, jeans on the floor, his stinky sneakers. He’d have his T-shirt on, no boxers. Then he would go do the books at St. Jerome’s. I’d spin vinyl of David Bowie and New York Dolls in my kitchen, then write music with Lady Starlight. Eventually, I’d hear a honk outside my window: his old green Camino with a black hood. I’d run down the stairs yelling, ‘Baby, baby, rev the engine,’ and we’d drive over the Brooklyn Bridge, dress up, meet friends, play more music.” She leans forward. “The Lower East Side has an arrogance, a stench. We walk and talk and live and breathe who we are with such an incredible stench that eventually the stench becomes a reality. Our vanity is a positive thing. It’s made me the woman I am today."

“It’s as if I’ve been shouting at everyone, and now I’m whispering and everybody’s leaning in to hear me,” she says. “I’ve had to shout for so long because I was only given five minutes, but now I’ve got fifteen. Andy said you only needed fifteen minutes.”
"At five-two and 100 pounds, with her hair styled into a mod blonde bob, she looked flush from a strict diet of starvation: 'Pop stars should not eat,' she pronounced"

She always landed the lead: Adelaide in Guys and Dolls, Philia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Jealous older girls stuck in the chorus began calling her “the Germ.” “They always talked behind her back, like, ‘Gross, she’s the Germ! She’s dirty!’ ” says a classmate. Gaga has often mentioned that she was an outcast in high school, but other than adolescent shenanigans like these, her friends from this Pudding-like crowd do not share this recollection. “She was always popular,” says Julia Lindenthal, Marymount ’04. “I don’t remember her experiencing any social problems or awkwardness.”

“I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend,” she explained recently.

“I can have hit records all day, but who fucking cares?” she explained. “A year from now, I could go away, and people might say, ‘Gosh, what ever happened to that girl who never wore pants?’ But how wonderfully memorable 30 years from now, when they say, ‘Do you remember Gaga and her bubbles?’ Because, for a minute, everybody in that room will forget every sad, painful thing in their lives, and they’ll just live in my bubble world.”

see the article here.

PS: Happy 500th post!

FENCES coming to Broadway

August Wilson's Fences, a play of great resonance (I blogged about it back on Sunday, May 10, 2009), is coming to Broadway on April 14th, starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis.

Playblog writes:

A Cover Story: Fences

March 28th, 2010
Denzel Washington stars in the first Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Fences, beginning April 14 at the Cort Theatre.

According to production notes, “As he faces off against the racial barrier at work and his own disappointments, Troy also grapples with his son, Cory, over the teenager’s hope for a football scholarship and with his wife, Rose, who confronts Troy over a child he has fathered with another woman.”

The production also features Viola Davis, Chris Chalk, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Russell Hornsby and Mykelti Williamson.

How exciting! 13 weeks only! I wonder if and when (how soon) student rush tickets will be offered. I hope I get to see this one.

P.S. This one is not a musical.

MEMPHIS on Broadway

The cast of Memphis / photo by Kevin Berne

I saw the show Memphis starring Chad Kimball and Montego Glover today with my family and ... what can I say? In select words: An explosive, emotional, alive, and referential period musical. We sat in the front row (my first time for a Broadway show) and it was an entirely different experience -- seeing and hearing the performers' chests rise and fall thunderously from exertion, being close enough to touch each other (and definitely close enough to be inadvertently spit on) forms a whole other level of connection with the characters and devotion to the storyline. The show delivered all the razzle dazzle promised by a 44th Street address. Memphis reacquainted me with the magic of Broadway, and reminded me how much I love live shows. I want to see more shows now!

J. Bernard Calloway as Delray Jones and Montego Glover as Felicia Farrell in Memphis.

I can confidently say it's my favorite musical-type show I've seen on Broadway up until now. It made me wish I were a performer like them. Highly recommended, see Memphis if you can!

 Chad Kimball as Huey Calhoun and Montego Glover as Felicia Farrell in Memphis

 

Chad Kimball as Huey Calhoun in Memphis.

 James Monroe Iglehart as Bobby and cast in Memphis.

Garden Collection Spring 2010

H&M's eco-friendly spring Garden Collection is now in stores, and judging by the press release, the entire collection is softer than the hard-edged, big-city collections I've seen in the past, but still very on trend. Recipe for success??

Wow, I've never before wanted to go to the mall specifically to check out H&M clothes in person... I'll go look tomorrow and I'll report back as to if I buy anything.

Some pre-view faves, in order of most favorite-est to least favorite-est of favorites:

The red one is also available in paper white. I love white/cream/pale colored dresses, if you haven't already guessed.

Dartmouth on 30 Rock

yeeeea....scrub to 4:20...

MIA/Diplo

So I guess this stuff is old, but my friend, we'll call him, J, just exposed me to these MIA/Diplo tracks from "Piracy Funds Terrorism":







Recognize anything?

Looking forward to the new album.

(There Can Be Miracles) When You Believe

This must have been straight bananas to see in person. Ahh could you imagine??

Fantasy

Mariah live with ODB. Ahh her voice was so special. And ODB is scary.

No Doubt

I'm going through a neo-90's phase. While I'm not listening to Biggie Smalls, I'm listening to No Doubt. Whaaaaat?

This is super random (but foreshadowing for all that Harajuku stuff?):



This one is almost good but kinda literal...esp. with the part with the reference to silent film...But I love Gwen and this song and the 8 1/2 references. I'd give the video a B.

Plastic Bag

Saw this at Telluride during an evening of Werner Herzog just before "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call: New Orleans" and "My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?". Herzog is the plastic bag in this film. Amazing.

Moore Graphic Novels

After having taken two courses in college about comics, cartoons, animation, etc. (go liberal arts!), I figured it was about time I read a few graphic novels. I'd read excerpts, and also a copy of David Small's new book, "Stitches", but never anything that had anything to do really with DC or Marvel or manga.

But this spring break, I plunged in: finding the graphic novels section of B&N (which was squeezed in the back by the teen books and sci-fi...eeek...), I decided to reach for something that had been recommended to me several times: "Watchmen" by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons and colored by John Higgins. AMAZING. I hear the movie was terrible (even though the trailer with that Muse song was sooo goood), which I can totally understand because the plot was so non-linear and, obviously, played with time.

The juxtapositions of text and image, including multiple layers of media, like the pirate comic that boy reads, or the inclusion of different articles and pieces written about the characters, gave the book so much depth that I'll definitely need to read it again to get everything I can out of it. But I do have to say...what was up with that ending??? I wasn't a big fan. Though the dialogue got a little self-serving in its existentialism at times, it was an engrossing read. And c'mon, who wouldn't want to be able to go to Mars?

The other book I read was the first volume of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" which was definitely entertaining and another book written by Moore that plays with iconic superheroes except in this book, those characters are from various literature, like Nemo, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, the Invisible Man, Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty, among others. Not as deep, but certainly a fun read. I'm definitely going to buy the other segments and I recommend the first, if not for its intricate illustrations and fun references to London settings (there's even a reference to Oliver! at one point. So funny). Haven't seen the movie version of the book, but probably won't.

I'm so so so afraid to go into manga now that I've taken a class about manga and I've seen people in B&N engrossed in these scary backwards books with cutesy imagery but I'm kinda curious...have any of you read any manga and can recommend something so I don't make a mistake?? plz? ^_^

Crossing the Street in Hanoi

I'm also traveling to Vietnam by way of Singapore right after graduation (it makes the prospect of leaving Hanover a tiny less terrifying), so I've been doing some internet research, and I found this gem... crossing in Hanoi is even worse (much, much worse) than crossing the street in Beijing. So much so that this blogger wrote an entire article on how to do so.

"The trick is to remember that the traffic flows like water and so will move around you, provided you don’t make any sudden moves. (That includes panicking)."

(A)typical Chinese tourist(s)

I love this photo from a NYT slideshow about Hainan, an island that I'm traveling to this summer. It's called the "Hawaii of China" I'm so excited! 

"Look around and you'll encounter weekend warriors from Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, all seeking to escape the crush of big-city life for a stretch of beach."

Photo: Christie Johnston for The New York Times

Haha an all-Hawaiian t-shirt print outfit with pink Crocs and an umbrella to shade from the sun... and the grandma taking a photo of the photographer! I love it.

View the slideshow here.

Thank God for Rejection

Before They Were Titans, Moguls and Newsmakers, These People Were...Rejected

At College Admission Time, Lessons in Thin Envelopes 

read the WSJ article

Okara Earth Muffins and more

I made some homemade soy milk yesterday. The method isn't too difficult -- you just soak/grind/boil/strain soy beans -- but it's rather time-consuming without a soymilk machine, which I did not have. It's worth it though, if you have some time. The resulting fresh, homemade soy milk is delicious.

The mushy ground-up soybeans you strain out of the soymilk is called okara. I had a ton and I didn't want to waste it, so I looked up some okara recipes and made delicious carrot-raisin muffins from a recipe I found on an okara blog -- they are SO GOOD! They taste exactly like Lou's Earth Muffins (delicious, amazing muffins from a local bakery in Hanover, NH) and they're really healthy! (Here's the recipe.)

Then I made granola with the leftover okara.

I'm soaking soy beans now to make more soy milk tomorrow and I'm going to try making okara crab cakes and okara 'potato' salad, which I hope tastes like the tofu salad they have in Collis kitchen at Dartmouth. I love soy!!

Just chronicling my adventures in baking a bit... I've never really baked before, so this is new for me. Cooking is fun! I've begun to see the joy in cooking this year.

Something wicked this way comes

Universal's Harry Potter Theme Park in Orlando, FL is underway!! I love HP, just saw the first movie on cable TV the other night with my younger sister and we both marveled at how young the actors used to look -- their faces were so round! Adorable.

Check out the coming attractions.

Action

"Action is the antidote to despair."

- Joan Baez, folk singer and activist

NPR Music

Spoon, Fall 2009 in Boston @ the Orpheum

While I love downloading albums, I hate paying money! So I've recently discovered that NPR has a free SXSW sampler, which is pretty great...I'm in the process of downloading it now, and am finding that NPR music is a pretty sweet site. Why I haven't browsed it sooner for music news, I have no clue (maybe because I'm too busy with school and reliant on the very Williamsburg-limited NYMag?), but I'm happy to have found it now.

Visit here:

http://www.npr.org/music/

Now I'm about to listen to Spoon & Broken Bells (who played their entire new album) live at SXSW.

Apparently, the coverage for SXSW on NPR is sponsored by PBR. Hah.

BROKEN BELLS LIVE:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124040906

SPOON LIVE:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124199848

Here's Spoon's set list:
* Written In Reverse
* Someone Something
* Don't Make Me A Target
* The Ghost Of You Lingers
* Trouble Comes Running
* Nobody Gets Me But You
* Don't You Evah
* Love Song [The Damned cover]
* Out Go The Lights
* The Underdog
* Vittorio E.
* Got Nuffin'
* I Turn My Camera On
* My Mathematical Mind
* I Summon You
* Black Like Me
* Is Love Forever?
* Rhthm & Soul
* Finer Feelings
Interesting...when I saw them they also played Jonathon Fisk and didn't play a lot of these. Always great. I haven't really listened to Transference yet, but I will...tonight...

And now I'm going to dig into some of the new albums they have streaming online, including The White Stripes. This is so addicting...

Halp

Indecision: I don't know how to deal with it. (ha.)

How do you make decisions (both on a daily basis and re more long-term choices)? It seems like sometimes there are too many choices. I just want someone to tell me exactly what to do to make me most happy and effective, haha.

EASTER (Love this)

[Melbourne, March 14. Image via Getty]

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 14: Models wearing Collette Dinnigan (L) and Akira pose at the Opening Night Party for the 2010 L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival at Government House on March 14, 2010 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Stefan Gosatti/Getty Images)

(found by Jezebel blog)

Oi

BCBGMAXAZRIA RUNWAY One-Shoulder Shirred Dress

PRICE: $380.00

That's hot. I want a one-shouldered dress. My friend "M" (she made that broccoli dish for the dinner Fay blogged about last time ... let's call her "Em" instead of "M") visited me at home these past few days over the first week of spring break and we did some serious shopping in NYC. I found this great one-shouldered, similarly printed (slightly more ethnic, less floral) casual spring dress (which is what I'm currently looking for) in a store in Williamsburg, but it was a tad too short to wear modestly, so I didn't buy it. Sigh. So I'm still in the market.

I did find that striped shirt I'd been wanting, though! At H&M. And in the men's department! I hardly ever buy anything from H&M, much less the men's department. It's so soft and perfect for casual wear. It has roll-up sleeves, which I'm currently obsessed with, given the fact that I bought three button-up shirts last week to wear with sleeves rolled up.

Shopping shopping shopping.

New GE GeoSpring Hybrid Water Heater

My family and I love everything and anything with monkeys. Unfortunately, the embedding has been disabled for this video, but follow the link and enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrGr8-g1cik

Broken Bells

Mad good. Reminds me of high school music (maybe because of The Shins frontman James Mercer). The duo of Mercer and Danger Mouse (Brian Burton)=gold. Love the combination of electronic/experimental with classic beats and melodies. Cool "pastiche" as it were. Here are my faves so far:

Album was just released on the 9th, I DEFINITELY recommend it. Can't find any other good videos of the music, but it's all over the blogosphere so hop onto elbo.ws or hypem to find it.

South Park Season Premiere

If you didn't catch it tonight, try and see the season premiere of South Park. They tackled the Tiger Woods debacle by rendering it a video game and crafting an entire story about how the CDC was claiming that sex addiction was a virus present in youth that proliferated with wealth and success. South Park does such a good job at satirizing pop culture, throwing out any balance of judgment of taste and saying whatever the hell they want (which sometimes is overwhelmingly crude, but at other times just spot on).

I'm watching Ugly Americans and can't tell if I like it or not...a version of Manhattan where monsters and demons populate the streets is somewhat hard to process, but I'm trying to give it a chance. Despite its exaggerated characters, it's almost too literal in its stereotypes. The drawings are pretty interesting, though. I could maybe see it working more like a comic book than an animated show, though. But whatever.
...
Now that the episode is over, I think it lacks depth and humor. We'll see how many episodes it lasts for (though there were ads all over Gawker just now).

I'm just looking forward to watching this new ep of Jon Stewart with Snoop Dogg. Yessss.

Coraline

I watched this movie expecting hauntingly beautiful animation and some sort of nightmarish, but ultimately well-resolved plot. And it had all of that. I didn't expect my favorite part of the film to be its score. It was beautifully done and I recommend it with all my heart. It, of course, had a predictable general story (the neglected child who seeks love from her over-worked parents and when she discovers it in another way, is ultimately dissatisfied and misses her parents), but that was beside the point. The world was just so fascinating and intricate that it was almost overwhelming. And like I said, the score was gorgeous and by Bruno Coulais who did the music for Les Choristes as well.

Child Abuse

I suppose by writing about this, I'm perpetuating this problem, but why the hell does anybody care what Suri Cruise wears/how much her parents spend on her handbags? This girl needs to be strong as she grows up. She's adorable and therefore very susceptible to criticism and jealousy.

http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2010/03/suri_cruise_said_to_carry_an_8.html

Did You Hear About the Morgans?

Typical Hugh Grant fare, nothing special (at all). But it's Hugh Grant! That's really all I need to know to watch the movie. Ugh I hate that I'm a typical demographic, haha. But I noticed in this movie that he is getting old. What kind of movies will he do next if he can't play the adorable, caddish, witty, self-deprecating British-accented love interest anymore? I mean, he must be one of the most type-cast actors I've ever seen, but it's because we (the captive audience) love it. Have you ever even seen him in a movie where he doesn't have a British accent? Maybe he'll go the way of Pierce Brosnan, if he's lucky. We'll see. Meanwhile I hope he acts in more dumb movies like this while he's still being cast in his go-to role.

Cooking by the Book feat. Lil Jon - A Lil' Bigger Mix by Mastgrr

Yeah yeah I know I'm two years late on this one but I was just introduced to this in the past month and it took me a few introductions to get over my initial lip-curl reaction. But once you do... oh ho ho. The song is addictive -- it's happy and bright and shiny and dirty typical Lil Jon all in one! Enjoy.

PROM

So Bloomingdales sends me e-mails to entice me to purchase things about every... day. And while at first I resented their self-satisfied pun-heavy subject lines, I've now come to welcome the distraction. And I'm not subscribed to e-mails from those online sample sale sites so I forgive myself this one. Not to mention Bloomingdales's website layouts are easy on the eyes.

Anyway, the one I got today reads:

_________________________________________________

From: "Bloomingdale's"
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:48:22 -0000
Subject: Prom Is Here! Dresses, Shoes & More!
To: Georgina

PROM IS IN THE AIR
From sweet and flowy to edgy and structural, find an array of options in
our prom shop.

etc.

_________________________________________________

So I took a look, and the dresses, well, some are divine, but a little out of reach... 

My favorite short option:

Sue Wong Strapless Feather Dress

PRICE: $528.00

A stunning strapless dress is styled with sparkling rhinestones and bugle beads at the midriff and hem and finished with a fine flurry of ostrich feathers. The fitted style is pleated at the bodice and has a flattering empire waist. 

This is beautiful. But what happens if you spill on ostrich feathers? ... No, seriously??

My favorite long option:

Tadashi Shoji Strapless "Feathery" Gown

PRICE: $808.00

For the most special event of your life... the "feathery" gown by Tadashi Shoji. Stunning design with strapless styling and pleated chiffon detail on bodice. Full-cut skirt flows to the floor. 

I mean, this dress is more than lovely (my own prom dress was a pale gold color similar to this 'champagne'.... sigh oh prom), but $808 for a prom dress? Really? 

Anyway, I guess this Adventureland movie and Bloomingdales email has put me in a nostalgic mood, haha

Adventureland

Ooh, this movie was surprisingly good. I didn't have such high expectations but it was... pretty great, actually. The actors each made me fall in love with their characters. Simple premise, but it made a great movie... romantic, angsty, wistful. And it made me remember summer romances and makes me feel young(er) again, since the characters are just a little bit older then I am. I like that it's a 'period piece' set in the 80s -- it adds more to the movie -- but it also still feels modern-day in every other aspect. The music is good too. Two thumbs up. 

SNL (as usual for me)

OK there were two parts of this episode that made me laugh:

Kristin Wiig, as usual, being amazing in one of my favorite characters of hers, the Broadway star (Jude Law has a funny Russian accent, too):



And then there was a collaboration between Andy Samberg and JULIAN CASABLANCAS??? I die. Bananas.

Kristen Stewart: First time on the blog

I love this dress! The color is bomb and it's very, very sexy but it looks less sexy than it actually is... does that make sense?

Telephone by Lady Gaga and Beyonce

I feel obliged to write a little somethin' about it. When I heard they were collaborating in a video together, my first thought was "Isn't Beyonce worried she'll be overshadowed by Lady Gaga?" But in actuality the parts that were the most fun to watch all involved Beyonce -- when she does the Lady Gaga dance moves, when she wears the infamous Gaga sunglasses (where can I get a pair??), when she flashes the camera that doe-eyed look...

While I (mostly) love what Lady Gaga has been doing to push the envelope and ah... redefine (music as) art, I wonder if this is the point from where she will shortly jump the shark. Well, probably not, considering all of the powerhaus producers she has behind her now, but there are some things that irritated me (and perhaps everyone else) about this video. 1. Seemingly gratuitous nudity and sex: Why so many crotch shots? Why was she the only one of the prison dancers wearing a thong? 2. Blatant product placement, although this has historically annoyed me about music videos.

Ah also Beyonce looks astonishingly like Tyra in some of these shots, especially in the stop-motion shots. Beyonce's hair was so spot-on throughout the video... the bangs! The volume and flawless curls! Perfect. She looked amazing in every shot. And: Telephone hair on Lady Gaga! Haha hilarious. Ironically in the Americana post-poisoning scene where Gaga is dancing with B, the eye is drawn to Beyonce while Gaga sort of fades to the side... I think it might be because Beyonce is wearing more clothes (relatively). Or, she's a stronger performer in this sense, when pitted head-to-head dancing side-to-side.

Overall, the video made me like the song a LOT more. And I realized that the song is very relate-able, haha. Aside from these gripes, it's typical Gaga genius. So I'll say it was a success!

Video embedded below, but you should watch it on Youtube for the wide-screen:

Some Poetry

camel's hump, vt

JABBERWOCKY
by Lewis Carroll

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Chanel

I'm losing faith in the fashion industry, namely Chanel. Lagerfeld decided to stage the show around/through a giant iceberg. Next they'll be saying that the jungle is in and have women running around in loincloths with Tarzan. Fashion works on oppositions, non? DERELICTE!

http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2010/03/karl_lagerfeld_sends_beast_mod.html
FROM STYLE.COM:
"Freja Beha Erichsen and three bears on an ice floe. This was the arctic scene at Chanel, where giant chunks of bona fide iceberg, specially transported from Scandinavia, formed the frozen landscape around which models solemnly splashed through a sea of 'berg-melt in shaggy snow boots with ice-block heels."
...
"Nevertheless, putting global warming and the melting of ice caps both center stage and on the back burner (as it were), this show swept the audience along as they were treated to such amusements as seeing Karl Lagerfeld's favorite, Baptiste Giabiconi, swagger out of an ice cave in a full-length polar bear coat."

left: I loved Star Wars as a kid. This isn't what I had in mind when I thought maybe some day I could be in it. right: blue steel

I actually like this leather motorcycle jacket. The rest is heinous, though.

This cut, the fur starting above/at the elbow, seems popular this season. I hate this, though.

EW ARM!! EAT FOOD!! Unfortunate buttons on the front, ugly trim on the skirt. Gross in general.

Speechless.

Ughhhhh

Pants/turtleneck are pretty sweet, but the coat is absurd. I could see someone wearing it to an event, though...? Cruella DeVille or glam? Pimp, maybe?

Ok, now this guy just looks sad that he's wearing this Muppet costume.

Now, this I don't mind too much. I would like to see what the shirt with the bows looks like underneath.

I'd wear this angora sweaterdress. Love that icy blue color. The ring looks pretty, too.

LOVE LOVE LOVE this.

Sasha is just like, yep, I know, this show is absurd, but I'll do anything for Karl, since he basically got me my career by making me the face of Chanel cosmetics last year and now having me walk in all of his shows always because I'm so striking. Wish I could take these boots off now...

I actually love everything about this final look except for the boots.

Oscar Party

Because I disliked most of the looks from the Oscars this year, I will list only a select few outfits I condone. But I shall also delve into the after party attire, which provides some laughs. Thanks, Style.com, for documenting parties of the rich and famous oh so well.

BEAUTY (for both):

CLASSY

ELEGANT/APPROPRIATE/TIMELESS

LIKE EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE SHOES

PRETTY/GORGEOUS COLOR/BAD SHOES

TOO SOOOOOOOOOOOON
wtf shawn white you suck

And there you have it. The Oscars 2010. The year of the Tom Ford suit (and RDJ's Lanvin one, obviously).

Oscar Favorites

 

 Zoe! Look how happy she looks to be wearing this confection. The colors, the sparkles, the textures... GORGEOUS! This was probably my favorite dress.

  

There's so much dress! I like that the dress extends way beyond her own body. (Armani Prive)

 

 Simple and elegant but a little bit unexpected. The velvet is both contemporaneous and old school Hollywood. Well played.

Just a dreamy dress by Armani Prive -- floaty while still structured.

Predictable/expected, but she looks fabulous and well-styled, if a bit mature.

Diane Kruger does this style so well. She pulls it off.

 Long sleeved. Jersey. Still looking good.

 Washed out print.

A column of color! Good to see some COLOR! Plus I love Dries Van Noten, he is the master of prints.

This dress complements her body. She looks happy, comfortable, glamorous.

The color is meh but Victoria Beckham always works it. Her own design.

SJP, sparkle, pale gold, winner.