The glitz and glam of The Oscars have just started to drizzle down as noon approaches on the day after and what are we all talking about? The performances? Not really. The upsets? Sure, like The Artist seriously won?!?!?! That French dude in it beat out Cloney? Really? Well… actually can any of us say we saw The Artist? Nope. Can any of us say we are gonna watch The Artist? Nope. So really who are we to say it wasn’t the best film and hey, maybe not saying anything at all is more difficult than being super dreamy. I think we all felt it was George’s time, guess it wasn’t. For those upset at Meryl Streep for taking home her third Oscar, think of this, she’s been nominated 17 times and only won 3. That’s a terrible record and horrible odds.
But really what us women, and some men, are talking about today and for days to come is the fashion. What the stars were wearing, who looked stunning and who looked what the f*ck was she thinking, the surprisingly beautiful and the surprisingly fugly. About a week before the awards I caught an interview with Reese Witherspoon. She was on one of the daytime talk shows promoting her new movie, and was complimented on her always stunning red carpet attire. Reese being the polite southern girl, of course sad thank you but went on to say (and I’m paraphrasing) that she thought it was sad that there are so many talented and intelligent actresses in Hollywood, yet we seem to only focus on what they are wearing, not on their performance. They make the red carpet entrances as big, if not a bigger deal than the actual awards. Sometimes those red carpet shows last longer than the actual awards. She said it was a shame because we almost take away from the actresses’ talent by focuses on their hair, make-up and dresses. So why is it when we have so many wonderful female performances we choose to talk about what they were wearing?
The answer is the big green monster that lives in all of us, jealousy. We want to bring the actress who has everything, who has the perfect life, with all the fame, fortune, 20 orphan kids, and a hottie McHottie husband on her arm, down a notch or two. Her hair usually so perfect, today she shows up looking like Johnny Depp styled her hair with big scissors as hands (that would make a great movie). Her dress highlights all her curves, in all the wrong ways or maybe she took some advice from Cher and came with a huge headdress on her head. Whatever the misstep was, we love it! We eat it up! And can’t wait till the next day when the Best & Worst Dressed lists hit the internet so we can see if all the critics agree with our choices. We can snicker a little that we would never leave our house like that, that we’d fire our stylist on the spot. In fact, we wouldn’t get ourselves in that mess in the first place. Nope we are waaaayyyy smarter than that vapid actress. If that were us, we wouldn’t need a stylist. We could totally dress ourselves better than her. Cuz we are just that much better than her and that outfit just proves it.
Now imagine if someone judged your performance at work on your outer appearance. I brought this up before here. Maybe we should try a little harder to celebrate the woman in Hollywood for their performances instead of trying to bring them down for their fashion. Don’t get me wrong I hate the cape Gwyneth Paltrow was wearing, (really they’re bringing capes cc. 1812 Sherlock Holmes back? Why???) but that should be second to her latest performance, not overshadowing it.
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