Golden Globe Gals
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Lisa, once again you are right on target. Mellody Hobson was stunning! I don’t have enough energy to coment on the disasters. I didn’t know Mellody was with George Lucus - interesting couple I must say.
I obviously missed a lot of the dresses since I didn’t watch the program and relied on the web slideshows next morning. Will have to go look up pix of Helen Mirren, Anna Paquin, et. al., because people keep mentioning them to me. And Jane Krakowski was wearing the exact same dress as somebody else, I forget who now. Alfre Woodard also looked tremendous, even though she was sporting one of those Jason-Wu-inspired shoulder slashes.
As for Sandra Bullock, yes, I agree the COLOR was a knock-out, but the gown itself was boring and her hair awful.
And oh, yes, the bare legs. Aaargh!! I, too, think this look is horrible, on almost every woman—98% of us anyway, including movie stars—but it all started a few years ago with Alexandre McQueen suddenly decreeing that women should shun nude pantyhose in favor of bare legs. Not only is this ugly-making on a monumental scale, unless you’re wearing a breezy summer dress with casual sandals, but in cold weather, it doesn’t make any sense! Yet you see them all doing it, women of all ages—Anna Wintour, Carine Roitfeld, Julia Roberts. Very few knees are beautiful. The knee is a joint, not a secondary sex characteristic.
Glam Girl, I definitely agree with you on the idea that many of the long hairdos look too casual unless they are styled more a la Penelope Cruz.
With Drew Barrymore, Glenn Close, and Fergie, I have to disagree with you somewhat. What’s with the sequined ferrets climbing on Drew’s shoulder and hip??? Glenn Close looks very well put together for any age in that dress, but I agree that a bit of sheer over the shoulders would have helped soften the muscular look. (I’d trade for her bod any day, though!) Fergie’s dress is a bit tight up top, but it is a lovely color on her and an elegant style… much better than a plunging neckline revealing saggy boobs!
One of my personal gripes is that so many of the actresses attend these functions with bare shiny legs. (Note especially Julia Roberts on this!) Whatever happened to hose? They definitely soften and feminize the look of one’s legs.
I do think some mentions should go to the ladies in knockout purple dresses last night:
Sandra Bullock, Jane Kratkowski, and Rose Byrne. And, also, kudos go to Helen Mirren in her elegant black with the sprinkling of sequins.
On the negative side, Anna Paquin looked bad enough in her glitzy gold gown with the pointless plunging neckline and the skirt split to reveal a very unfinished looking unlined white underside… but the God-awful shoes and scraggly bleached hair really made things unbearable!
Oh, Lisa, you are spot on. Mariah is a mess. A big Daisy Duke slutty mess. Kate Hudson’s dress was gorgeous—it looks like she’s holding a big rosette, it’s actually the train. She looked amazing striding on stage.
Drew Barrymore’s dress is beautiful, but would look better against darker skin—like mine. 
Darn, I missed Mellody Hobson’s dress as I was fast forwarding through the GG awards show last night. It looks great in the picture but I like to see these things on the move before ruling on them. Yes, Rita Wilson’s dress was a disaster. January Jones didn’t even look like herself - her stylist should be shot. I love Sandra B. but what was with her hair? I wanted to tweek Sigourney’s dress a little—cut it in on the right shoulder a bit—before I could say I liked it and her hair was a bit matronly. Helen Mirren, I can’t really remember what she was wearing but her stage presence was so powerful (would we expect anything less from her?)that she could have pulled off a burlap sack. Definitely loved Drew’s & Jennifer G’s dresses. They both looked wonderful.
Who stole the show for me fashion-wise? Sophia Loren. God she looked AMAZING! The dress was so elegant and fit her perfectly.
Lisa, you’re better than Tivo. Thanks for the great run-down and the best photo picks. I agree with your assessment down the line, though I do think Kate Hudson pulls that last one off, despite the weird puffball train. I’m perhaps most shocked by January Jones, who is such a stunner. She had to work hard to look that washed-out and unsexy. As for Sigourney, Glenn, and Sophia: We should all be so lucky to look that put together in our 60s and 70s (with or without a bit of artificial help). BTW: Part 2 of Cranford was great. I cried.
YES! Mellody Hobson’s dress is an A+++ choice. My favorite, too. It flatters her skin tones, it fits perfectly, it’s sexy without being sleazy…all the things I’d want in an evening gown.
But oh, Rita Wilson, what on earth made you raid the attic and dig out what must be the most frou-frou 80’s-looking Laura Ashley dress ever? Florals are best served up in small, tasteful quantities: a short, full-skirted 50’s day dress, for example.
Speaking of vintage, I am heartbroken to see January Jones look so dour and unfashionable. If I looked like Grace Kelly, I’d be working it for all it was worth: bring on the bias-cut baby-blue slipper-satin, please.
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