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.

Even though Yahoo had Evagaline Lilly's dress in their Worst category I liked it [link] .

I LOVED Helen Mirren's dress, it was sexy and sophisticated and goregous color on her.

Some more speechiness for Robin, including the extended version of Laurie's crew riff:

"I know that everyone says they have a wonderful crew but logically that can't be the case, they can't all be wonderful. Somebody somewhere is working with a crew of drunken thieves, but it's not me. They are truly a wonderful collection of people, and I am privileged to spend my days in their company, and they smell of newly mown grass."

Then there was Bill Nighy, who, after winning best actor in a TV miniseries or movie, remarked, "I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive until I got one. And now they seem sort of meaningful and real."

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

Day-um. Salma is just sex personified, isn't she? (Although I feel some residual dislike towards her thanks to her character on Ugly Betty.)

I don't like Lilly's dress, and I don't like her hair with it either.

Beyonce looked wrong. All sorts of it.

Beyonce thought she was at the Grammy's.

Oh, ha. You know what's surreal? Having your supervisor's daughter bring you a picture she colored for you while you're in the middle of reading about the dude who goatse'd MySpace.

That article has no images, thank goodness, so I did not forever scar a young child today. Yet.

Even though Yahoo had Evagaline Lilly's dress in their Worst category I liked it [link] .

I think it's the colors. If the whole dress had been of the deeper mauve color, it would have been stunning on her.

I LOVED Helen Mirren's dress, it was sexy and sophisticated and goregous color on her.

I agree, although every time I saw her, the dress seemed a different color, from deep green to a very blue teal.

More Hugh for Scrappy:

"I am speechless. I'm literally without a speech. It seems odd to me that in the weeks leading up to this event, when people are falling over themselves to send you free shoes and free cufflinks and free colonic irrigations for two, nobody offers you a free acceptance speech. It just seems to me to be a gap in the market. I would love to be able to pull out a speech by Dolce & Gabbana."