My favorite elderly female Brit is Dame Maggie Smith, who will always be Miss Jean Brodie in my head. Even when she is playing a nun in a Whoopi Goldberg vehicle.

Right there with you Nutty, though I've always been more aware of her as herself than any particular role.

Yes, his speech was all best bits.

Wow, I almost wish I hadn't skipped over it (I generally don't listen to the speeches of people I've never seen in anything).

"they smell like freshly mown grass"

My favorite elderly female Brit is Dame Maggie Smith, who will always be Miss Jean Brodie in my head.

So this. I was playing "Celebrity" at someone's house and drew her name. Prime was all I could think of. After people figured it out the next round, my team just started rattling movies she was in, starting with Harry Potter. I felt very stupid.

It's not on youtube (yet). If I find it, I'll post. It really is damn entertaining.

If anyone finds links for any of the best speeches, that would help soothe my jangled nerves. I am having a terribly fraught workday.

ETA: And Debetesse answers my question BEFORE I ask it. What kind of strange powers do you have, devil woman?

Here's some cute stuff for stressed people.

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I like this on J-Lo, even though she often goes to that well.

I like this dress, especially for a fresh choice of colour, but it makes me wonder--what is the tone of the event? That dress doesn't seem to be going to the same place as this one.

Ooh, intra-studio rivalry:

With wins for Dreamgirls and Babel, the Paramount party was a hot ticket. Genuine Supreme Mary Wilson turned up there, and how cool is that? Held in a cavernous space that long ago was a Robinsons-May department store, the bash offered enough space for everyone to breathe. That's just as well, because, despite the many hugs, there was a bit of tension in the room.

Paramount should perhaps be renamed Paramounts. The studio is like a collection of city-states. The DreamWorks camp, which has Dreamgirls in contention, doesn't trust the main-studio camp, with Babel in the race. And vice versa. The intrigue thickens if you consider that Paramount chief Brad Grey is also a producer of The Departed, released by Warner Bros. So, which movie is he voting for? To add even more spice to the soiree, ousted studio President Gail Berman, fired just last week, put in an appearance. Game girl.

ita, what did you think of Tina Fey's dress? (Which was even less formal than Reese's.)

I think that Tina's dress (hope that link keeps working) stands out less, because of the black, dramatic cleavage, and to some degree the lace. I mean, where can she wear that to? Coffee? It has to be evening.

Bam. It's the body that's the deal here. The dress is just arranged around it, to bring it out.