I can't get past one of her [edit: Cate's] breasts looking like a triffid. Nice colour, and much of the cut (the matching hip triffid is also not my friend). I found JG's extra foof easier to get past.

I think mariska's dress might have been a stratch satin. Also, they probably have people with steamers stream them after they get out of the limo and before walking down the carpet

I am not sure mariska was wearing undergarments, as the had a lot of nipple show through.

Hi Nilly! Yay for your friend's engagement.

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Only those with brains.

is that good?

Zombies like you too, Suela.

But I stand corrected.

Or amended, or something.

Coffee. Coffee would be good here.

Also, IIRC, satin is a weave, and can be made out of any sort of fiber. So I imagine some Satin's are more wrinkly than others!

Undergarment evidence. Nipple evidence.

I am not sure mariska was wearing undergarments, as the had a lot of nipple show through.

I think she had to have something from the bust, down. Even a person in fabulous shape (and she probably is) just isn't as smoothed out as she looks in those photos. I'd expect bones, or a little puppy fat, or muscles to show through. She looked like her body was made of satin, too.

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I think no one else hates Natalie Portman's dress enough.

I can't stand it. For one thing, it's not flattering -- she looks as flat-chested as a little boy. (So does Rachel Bilson, which is totally wrong like the wrongest thing in Wrongtown on National Wrong Day.)

However, I think the dress I dislike most, in terms of it making its wearer look like shit is -- and I think I'm a minority opinion here -- Hillary Swank's. That color is so so SO very wrong on her. The cut was great -- she has a killer body -- but the color was awful on her.

You know who looked FAB? Angelica Huston, after she took the coat off.

Bad hair: Charlotte Johanssen's hair is WAY too blonde. Unflattering. Renee Zellwiger's hair is WAY too dark. Also unflattering. (And, please -- her whole ensemble, including a ponytail, made her look like a 16-year-old waiting for her prom date.)

Good hair: Charlize Theron's color is really striking, and on almost anyone else I'd think it was too dark, and yet she pulls it off. It looks damn good.

A few times, Teppy has linked photos of herself where she is convinced she looks like a total dork, and I *love* them, because she looks so happy, and like she's just having a great time.

Ah, my Dork Pictures. I miss the good old days at WX, with user pics, so that I could occasionally post a really bad picture of me, generally for Rio's amusement.

I think Hilary Swank loves that color on herself. Am I misremembering, or is that a similar color to the gown she wore when she won the Oscar, and forgot to mention her cute, cute hubby?

I thought the color was fine on her (I couldn't wear it). Susan Sarandon has worn that color too, I think. I hated her hairstyle on her. Her face looked tiny and too tight, or angular or something, and her mouth overly large. She's really a striking woman (imo) so it seems sort of a shame.

Was it Charlize I was thinking should have had darker/brighter lips? I thought her dark hair looked great, but I remember not being impressed by something.

Timelies!

I am so burned out on politics since the election, and as a result I haven't posted much political stuff since then. But here's a little exception - a New Yorker article on what the foreign policy of the Bush administration will be for Bush's second term. In a nutshell - we will be attacking Iran militarily.

George W. Bush’s reëlection was not his only victory last fall. The President and his national-security advisers have consolidated control over the military and intelligence communities’ strategic analyses and covert operations to a degree unmatched since the rise of the post-Second World War national-security state. Bush has an aggressive and ambitious agenda for using that control—against the mullahs in Iran and against targets in the ongoing war on terrorism—during his second term. The C.I.A. will continue to be downgraded, and the agency will increasingly serve, as one government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon put it, as “facilitators” of policy emanating from President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney. This process is well under way.

....

In my interviews, I was repeatedly told that the next strategic target was Iran. “Everyone is saying, ‘You can’t be serious about targeting Iran. Look at Iraq,’” the former intelligence official told me. “But they say, ‘We’ve got some lessons learned—not militarily, but how we did it politically. We’re not going to rely on agency pissants.’ No loose ends, and that’s why the C.I.A. is out of there.”

When I was in college I protested against C.I.A. recruitment on campus. Now I feel sorry for them, as they are a beacon of sanity that's being shut out of US policy decisions.