I found most of the dresses meh. Besides Jessica's apt point about the horrid sash epidemic, I was also left pondering the question of who sent out the memo that everyone was supposed to wear a strapless prom dress to the Oscars. Lame. I mean, I don't have a problem with strapless gowns, but a room full of the same ol' dress over and over again is room full of boring.
I am a bit surprised at the frequent comment (not here, but on NPR and elsewhere) that there was too many song and dance numbers. I mean, apart from the happy that is Hugh Jackman singing, isn't there usually between 2 and 3 dance numbers per show? I guess one could argue that there should be less, but that would be a criticism against every Oscar broadcast, not this one in particular. For me, I think just for efficiency the show should lose one song and 3 or 4 of the video montages.
People who can do and/or wear whatever they want, as far as I'm concerned:
- Hugh Jackman
- Tilda Swinton
- Kate Winslet
- Sophia Loren
I like the NYT slideshow. They put multiple people in the same colors side by side, so it is good for comparisons. I like the Marisa dress more and more.
Link please, I'm not finding this.
I am a bit surprised at the frequent comment (not here, but on NPR and elsewhere) that there was too many song and dance numbers. I mean, apart from the happy that is Hugh Jackman singing, isn't there usually between 2 and 3 dance numbers per show?
Yes, but they are usually the song nominees. I thought both the opening one and the "salute to musicals" were too long and just kind of pointless. Again, it's the Oscars, not the Tonys--show us clips dammit!
Yes, but they are usually the song nominees.
Those too, but there have been many years of one or two dance numbers in addition to the song nominees.
Oh, and link
I didn't see the red carpet so this was the first time I saw Heidi Klum's dress. She looks like an unwrapped Christmas present.
I concur with Dana's list. Tilda Swinton's dress on the rack probably didn't look too different from the table cloth Jessical Biel was wearing, but on Tilda, it WORKED.
More fashion thoughts:
Taraji P. Henson looked fabulous.
Most of the people wearing red, were wearing the wrong red.
I'm really tired of the fishtail.
I didn't like Melissa Leo dress shape, but I think the color was good for her.
Tina Fey and Robin Wright Penn both looked fabulous. Phoebe Cates looked good, but her dress was too old for her.
The fug girls put up 3 more.
In their pic of Heidi, I really like the dress on the woman behind her - brownish-red and dark yellow.
