Oscar Photos

Gwyneth Paltrow (Best Actress) 

Dame Judi Dench (Best Supporting Actress)

James Coburn (Best Supporting Actor)

Roberto Benigni (Best Actor) 

1999

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Best Dressed - 2011 Emmy Awards

The trends of the evening were... stunning reds, elegant creams, and brilliant blues. It was so fourth of July up in here!

Best Overall Look:

Sofia Vergara (#1 best look of the night. Sexy Sofia was perfect in a flowing salmon-colored gown. Perfect hair, perfect dress, perfect jewels... or as she would say 'yewels'), Kerry Washington (loved this look. Her hair was sleek and the dress was gorgeous and slightly see-through in just the right places),

Kate Winslet (she's used to be on the best dressed list and this year was no different. The Emmy winner had the right color and cut for her slammin' body), Emily Blunt (looking very fabulous in this flapper-esq gown)

Best Dress:

Nina Dobrev (not sure exactly who this person is yet, but the dress boosts a beautiful silhouette and color), Sarah Hyland (the hair highlights are ughhh, but the dress is very goddess-like and sweet),

Evan Rachel Wood (love the black sequins and the cut of this gown), Christine Baranski (this looks a lot like Winslet's dress, but the deep blue is gorgeous. Definitely the best over-50 look of the night... hell, she even got best over-40)

Best Hair:

Julie Bowen (I like a good ponytail and Emmy winner Bowen is doing this one pretty well), Christina Hendricks (although she is still stuffing her body into too-small dresses, the hair always looks fierce), Gwyneth Paltrow (she was doing the white-blonde thing for awhile, but obviously someone told her it looked like shit. Love the simple, straight, down-do)

Worst Overall Look:

Heidi Klum and Seal (these two have been giving Tim Burton/Helena Bonham Carter a run for their money for years. It's cheap carnations meets Euro-trash), Taraji P. Henson (I'm very upset that she did this... she's usually on the best dressed list. Her hair looks as though it was done in the car and the dress is ill-fitting and see-through in the worst way)

Worst Dress:

Gwyneth Paltrow (critics seemed to love this look, but it makes the rail-thin Paltrow look like a muffin-top. She could have loosened it just a tad), Dianna Agron (it looks like she took a ton of ugly blue satin fabric and cut holes for her head and arms)

Worst Hair:

Heather Morris (this up-do is horrendous... this isn't prom 1999), Anna Paquin (this might have worked with jeans and a cute top, but for the Emmys? Me no likey), Elisabeth Moss (I thought I asked Moss to lay off the football helmets)

Honorable Mention:

Katie Holmes (I'm not in love with the fabric... or her hair, but the cut and color are doing her long, lean body good), Kristen Wiig (the cut is great on her and doing a brown dress with her beautiful chestnut hair is good, but I don't dig the two-toned look),

Claire Danes (a lot of critics didn't like this look. They think there's too much going on. I actually think it works), Lea Michele (she would have made best overall, but this dress is far better from the back... the front is too much)

Fun Shoots

Vanity Fair did a tribute spread

of the films of Alfred Hitchcock

Part 2

Tang Wei, Josh Brolin, Casey Affleck, Eva Marie Saint,

Ben Foster, Omar Metwally, and Julie Christie

try to survive in "Lifeboat"

Renee Zellweger channels Kim Novak in "Vertigo"

Scarlett Johansson and Javier Bardem play

Grace Kelly and James Stewart in "Rear Window"

Keira Knightley and Jennifer Jason Leigh look great

as Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson in "Rebecca"

Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert Downey, Jr. are

Grace Kelly and Cary Grant in "To Catch a Thief"

Fun Shoots

Playing Dress-up

Part III

Julianne Moore as 'Twiggy'

Amy Sedaris as 'Angie Dickinson'

Hilary Swank as 'Raquel Welch'

Gwyneth Paltrow as 'Faye Dunaway'

Julia Roberts as 'Julie Christie'

Fun Shoots

Playing Dress-up

Part II

Winona Ryder as 'Elizabeth Taylor'

Gina Gershon as 'Sophia Loren'

Gwyneth Paltrow as 'James Dean'

Gena Rowlands as 'Ava Gardner'

You Say It's Your Birthday!

Happy 65th Birthday, Danny Glover!!!!

a terrific actor

with Sally Field on the set of "Places in the Heart", 1984

with good friend and frequent costar Mel Gibson

on the set of "Lethal Weapon", 1987

on the set of "The Royal Tenenbaums" with Ben Stiller,

Gywneth Paltrow, and Anjelica Huston, 2001

filming "Predator 2", 1990

with Matt Damon on the set of "The Rainmaker", 1997

playing the President of the United States in "2012", 2009

filming "The Color Purple" (his best performance)

with Whoopi Goldberg, 1985

with Alfre Woodard in a publicity

shot for "Grand Canyon", 1991

Flick of the Day

Film: HUSH

Director: Jonathan Darby

Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Lange, Johnathan Schaech, Debi Mazar, Hal Holbrook, Nina Foch

Year: 1998

Synopsis: A woman tries to get rid of her new daughter-in-law.

This was an interesting little suspense film, which starred a crazed Jessica Lange and an unknown Gwyneth Paltrow. Despite some of the reviews, I actually enjoyed it. Jessica Lange is great, as always. It's worth a watch.

Family Ties

"The L Word" actor Katherine Moennig is first cousin to Gwyneth Paltrow (Moennig's father is Blythe Danner's half-bro).

*** Moennig has appeared in "The Lincoln Lawyer", "Everybody's Fine", and five seasons of "The L Word". Paltrow starred in "A View From the Top", "Hush", and won an Oscar for "Shakespeare in Love".

Flick of the Day

Film: THE ANNIVERSARY PARTY

Directors: Jennifer Jason Leigh & Alan Cumming

Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alan Cumming, Jennifer Beals, Kevin Kline, Phoebe Cates, Parker Posey, John Benjamin Hickey, Jane Adams, Mina Badie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Denis O'Hare, John C. Reilly

Year: 2001

Synopsis: An aging actor and her writer husband throw an all-night anniversary party with all of their closest friends.

Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming penned, directed, and starred in this great little film. They even cast their real-life friends (The Klines, Paltrow, etc). It's complex and deep, but also very funny and real. I highly recommend this, which costars birthday girl, Jennifer Beals.

Movie Mash-Up

*an aspiring flight attendant becomes a maverick in the sky*