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Re: Amal Clooney at the Golden Globes 2015
George made a joke waaaaaaaaaaaaay back when he took Celine to the GGs. When interviewed on the red carpet he said Celine made her dress, and Joan Rivers had a field day with the comment. Go figure. Haven't these people caught on to Clooney quips by now?Donnamarie wrote:annemarie, unfortunately some in the media are just too dim to realize George was making a joke.
It's incredible to me there has been all this chatter over Amal's gloves. When I saw her on the carpet wearing them I just said to myself that's interesting. I thought it gave her a retro look back to the Hepburn/Kelly era. That's it. You'd think the press who follow award shows from year to year had never seen women on the red carpet wear anything out of the ordinary. They should be used to seeing all kinds of styles and personal touches women add to their outfits for the night. That a pair of white elbow length gloves could stir up so much criticism and opinions is amazing to me. Is it because Amal Clooney was wearing them? If Emily Blunt had beening wearing gloves would there have been as much reaction?
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Bellalique wrote:I don't really get that 'whole new world' thing. I have gloves from the 20s onwards because I love gloves and I love glamour and I love style and I love vintage. I have a pair of white. elbow-length calf-skin gloves in my collection. I also have a pair of cherry red ones, and midnight blue ones. I also have beautiful shoes from every decade.Missa wrote:I don't have an opinion on the gloves themselves either way, but I can't tell you how much I love that George is now with a woman who just happened to have a pair of elbow length white gloves hanging around to throw on at the last minute. It's a whole new world.
Why would you see this as so special?
Your gloves sound lovely. I don't happen to run in circles in which elbow length gloves are often required, so the opportunity to wear them does, in fact, sound special to me. I'd just get french fry grease on them at McDonalds.
But my "whole new world" commentary was in reference to the fact that I don't imagine many of George's previous girlfriends own gloves like those. I believe the Venn diagram of "Women Who Own Vintage Elbow Length Gloves" and "Women Who Play Nuns in Porn Movies" is two completely separate circles.
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I don't have either white short or elbow length gloves. I don't know any of my friends who do either. It is a glamorous and elegant look and I dont get the opportunity to dress so formally that I could wear them if I wanted to. So if I did get a chance to wear them it would be very special to me.
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Is there a link for this interview?annemarie wrote:George said jokingly she made them herself she is very handy and the press ran with it.
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As far as the gloves I don't think they made her look glamorous or elegant.
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Doug Ross wrote:Is there a link for this interview?annemarie wrote:George said jokingly she made them herself she is very handy and the press ran with it.
Doug Ross, I'm pretty sure George made the glove comment during the Ryan Seacrest interview. It must be on the George Clooney at the Golden Globes thread.
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Missa's point being that George's exes are highly unlikely to have anything as elegant as long white gloves lying around the house. Crotchless panties, yes. Long gloves, unlikely.Bellalique wrote:I don't really get that 'whole new world' thing. I have gloves from the 20s onwards because I love gloves and I love glamour and I love style and I love vintage. I have a pair of white. elbow-length calf-skin gloves in my collection. I also have a pair of cherry red ones, and midnight blue ones. I also have beautiful shoes from every decade.Missa wrote:I don't have an opinion on the gloves themselves either way, but I can't tell you how much I love that George is now with a woman who just happened to have a pair of elbow length white gloves hanging around to throw on at the last minute. It's a whole new world.
Why would you see this as so special?
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Joan had nothing to do with the Fashion Police or even interviewing on the Red Carpets during the Celine days. You must be thinking of someone else.PigPen wrote:
George made a joke waaaaaaaaaaaaay back when he took Celine to the GGs. When interviewed on the red carpet he said Celine made her dress, and Joan Rivers had a field day with the comment. Go figure. Haven't these people caught on to Clooney quips by now?
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Katiedot wrote:Missa's point being that George's exes are highly unlikely to have anything as elegant as long white gloves lying around the house. Crotchless panties, yes. Long gloves, unlikely.Bellalique wrote:I don't really get that 'whole new world' thing. I have gloves from the 20s onwards because I love gloves and I love glamour and I love style and I love vintage. I have a pair of white. elbow-length calf-skin gloves in my collection. I also have a pair of cherry red ones, and midnight blue ones. I also have beautiful shoes from every decade.Missa wrote:I don't have an opinion on the gloves themselves either way, but I can't tell you how much I love that George is now with a woman who just happened to have a pair of elbow length white gloves hanging around to throw on at the last minute. It's a whole new world.
Why would you see this as so special?
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Personally I always preferred French Knickers in black,
to crotchless panties, for those special nights in.
Just saying.
to crotchless panties, for those special nights in.
Just saying.
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Joanna what exactly are French knickers? Are they just another name for frilly little panties?
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Missa's point being that George's exes are highly unlikely to have anything as elegant as long white gloves lying around the house. Crotchless panties, yes. Long gloves, unlikely.
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Actually, long gloves goes really well with sexy lingerie. All you need now is a whip . But long black or coloured gloves would be better then white gloves. Maybee Amal found them in the house left behind by one of the exes which could explain why they didn't fit very well.
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melbert wrote:Joan had nothing to do with the Fashion Police or even interviewing on the Red Carpets during the Celine days. You must be thinking of someone else.PigPen wrote:
George made a joke waaaaaaaaaaaaay back when he took Celine to the GGs. When interviewed on the red carpet he said Celine made her dress, and Joan Rivers had a field day with the comment. Go figure. Haven't these people caught on to Clooney quips by now?
It was definitely Joan. I could never stand her interviewing style on the red carpet, and cringed every time George walked up to her. According to Wikipedia, she started her E! red carpet show for the Golden Globes in 1994, which must have been where George and Celine ran into her.
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Donnamarie wrote:Joanna what exactly are French knickers? Are they just another name for frilly little panties?
They're styled rather like men's boxer shorts but usually have the feminine touch
added like lace down the front and at the bottom of the short legs.
They feel quite sexy......
"Memories.....in the corners of my mind" as Barbra sings.
DonnaMarie.....I found a YouTube which I've left on the kitchen
table....I never found any like this though ! LOL
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[ltr]Anne Hathaway Has The Best Response To Amal Clooney Comparisons[/ltr]
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The Huffington Post | By Stephanie Marcus[/ltr]
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Posted: 01/23/2015 3:22 pm EST Updated: 01/23/2015 3:59 pm EST[/ltr]
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Most celebrities are amused by their look-alikes, even though they can cause cases of mistaken identity. But Anne Hathaway's response to the news that she bears a "resemblance to the striking Amal Clooney" is a lesson in how to take a compliment.[/ltr]
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"I've never heard that! Thank you," Hathaway told "Extra" in a recent interview, while promoting her latest film, "Song One." "That's like so gonna be the best thing to happen to me today."
Hathaway continued, "I hope that I become half the woman she is. She's so accomplished and it's so thrilling to look at someone and be like, ‘Wow. You really are making the world a better place.'"[/ltr]
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For those unaware, Clooney (née Alamuddin) is an accomplished human rights attorney, employed by a London-based firm. She has been representing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his fight against extradition from Sweden since 2011. More recently, she was tasked with advising Greece in its fight to reclaim the Elgin Marbles, currently exhibited by the British Museum. Additionally, she has been appointed to several UN commissions and is an adviser to Special Envoy Kofi Annan.[/ltr]
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Of some significance, she married an actor named George in Italy, in September 2014, and took his last name.[/ltr]
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The Huffington Post | By Stephanie Marcus[/ltr]
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Posted: 01/23/2015 3:22 pm EST Updated: 01/23/2015 3:59 pm EST[/ltr]
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Most celebrities are amused by their look-alikes, even though they can cause cases of mistaken identity. But Anne Hathaway's response to the news that she bears a "resemblance to the striking Amal Clooney" is a lesson in how to take a compliment.[/ltr]
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"I've never heard that! Thank you," Hathaway told "Extra" in a recent interview, while promoting her latest film, "Song One." "That's like so gonna be the best thing to happen to me today."
Hathaway continued, "I hope that I become half the woman she is. She's so accomplished and it's so thrilling to look at someone and be like, ‘Wow. You really are making the world a better place.'"[/ltr]
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For those unaware, Clooney (née Alamuddin) is an accomplished human rights attorney, employed by a London-based firm. She has been representing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his fight against extradition from Sweden since 2011. More recently, she was tasked with advising Greece in its fight to reclaim the Elgin Marbles, currently exhibited by the British Museum. Additionally, she has been appointed to several UN commissions and is an adviser to Special Envoy Kofi Annan.[/ltr]
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Of some significance, she married an actor named George in Italy, in September 2014, and took his last name.[/ltr]
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Bit of a cheap shot, that.Katiedot wrote: Missa's point being that George's exes are highly unlikely to have anything as elegant as long white gloves lying around the house. Crotchless panties, yes. Long gloves, unlikely.
Lisa Snowden is very stylish, so was/is Elisabetta Canalis, so were a lot of his gfs over the years. They could have drawers-ful of evening gloves for all you know.
As I pointed out, I have a drawerful of all styles of gloves and so do lots of my friends so it's not as if a pair of white evening gloves is a particularly unusual or noteworthy accessory to own.
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^Missa wrote:Your gloves sound lovely. I don't happen to run in circles in which elbow length gloves are often required, so the opportunity to wear them does, in fact, sound special to me. I'd just get french fry grease on them at McDonalds.
But my "whole new world" commentary was in reference to the fact that I don't imagine many of George's previous girlfriends own gloves like those. I believe the Venn diagram of "Women Who Own Vintage Elbow Length Gloves" and "Women Who Play Nuns in Porn Movies" is two completely separate circles.
You don't need to run in any circles to slip on a pair of elbow-length evening gloves! You just go with the mood. To me, they're just another accessory in the same way that bags, scarves, shoes and jewellery are.
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try to be stylish wearing a pair of gloves and 'what' more 'trivial you can' do to try to be original.
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Bellalique wrote:^Missa wrote:Your gloves sound lovely. I don't happen to run in circles in which elbow length gloves are often required, so the opportunity to wear them does, in fact, sound special to me. I'd just get french fry grease on them at McDonalds.
But my "whole new world" commentary was in reference to the fact that I don't imagine many of George's previous girlfriends own gloves like those. I believe the Venn diagram of "Women Who Own Vintage Elbow Length Gloves" and "Women Who Play Nuns in Porn Movies" is two completely separate circles.
You don't need to run in any circles to slip on a pair of elbow-length evening gloves! You just go with the mood. To me, they're just another accessory in the same way that bags, scarves, shoes and jewellery are.
Good point Bellalique. I wrote earlier that I've never own or wore a pair of elbow length gloves and don't know that any of my friends have them either. But you're right.
If the mood suits you and you have the confidence why should't you. It's nice that you do add them for going out in the evening. I just dont think many women consider long gloves to accessorize with their outfits. Not like they used to many years ago. But they sure would make one feel really feminine and elegant.
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Here's an interesting article from today's NY Times. Amal is mentioned.
At this year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, Julianne Moore, Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston made headlines, of a sort, by taking the revolutionary step of refusing to stick their paws in E!’s Mani Cam.
For anyone who has tragically missed this gimmicky red carpet arriviste, the Mani Cam is a camera-mounted box lined with red on which actresses are exhorted to show off manicures and borrowed jewels. Already armed with a “Glam Cam,” showing 360-degree views of stars’ outfits, E! rolled out the Mani Cam in 2012. And the host Giuliana Rancic instructed actresses to walk their fingers through it “like a runway.”
Results have been mixed. Jena Malone stuck her tongue out at it. Elisabeth Moss gave it the finger. Then came the three A-listers’ snubs, which CBS News reported as a “sign of a growing gender-equality push in Hollywood.” Which goes to show just how low the bar can be for what passes as a gender-equality push in Tinseltown.
As anyone who’s watched a televised awards show can attest, the red carpet is part beauty contest, part catwalk (emphasis on catty) and all gaming range, where viewers, along with paid hitters like E!’s “Fashion Police,” can gleefully excoriate celebrities — usually actresses — for their sartorial choices. As Hadley Freeman of The Guardian put it, “This is a strange pocket of the Western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants.”
On the one hand, it may be hard to drum up much pity for gorgeous, highly paid famous women who are usually outfitted in peerless haute couture at no charge. On the other, women quickly age out of Hollywood, are paid less than their male counterparts, are more likely to have their phones hacked and remain role models for some youngsters, all while being expected to attain mannequin-like perfection, making the red carpet’s indignities seem a little worse.
At the Golden Globes in January, hosted with arch glee by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, the red carpet seemed especially out of step with the ceremony’s actual goings-on.
Inside the Beverly Hilton, Maggie Gyllenhaal, a Globe winner, drew thunderous applause for noting the new “wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film.” Outside, the gals at Go Fug Yourself, a comedy-fashion blog, criticized her dress for being “the color of my mom’s third wedding.” (Zap2it, meanwhile, likened Ms. Fey’s gown to “a Candies prom dress from 1998.”) Inside, Amal Clooney was rousingly praised for her global human rights work. Outside, on the red carpet, her opera gloves unleashed paroxysms of outrage.
Ms. Clooney had already been served the harsh lesson that the red carpet was a type of combat zone earlier in the night. Shortly after arriving at their first Hollywood event as newlyweds, Ms. Clooney, a noted barrister, and her famous husband, George Clooney, were foisted upon the E! host Ryan Seacrest, who held up a T-shirt emblazoned with a bride and groom and the words “Game Over” — a reference to Mr. Clooney’s playboy days. The disdain on Mr. Clooney’s face said it all.
Yet while red carpet inanity is nothing new, pushback has been gaining momentum, and not just from the anti-Mani Cam clan.
Last year, Cate Blanchett called out a camera operator who was scanning the length of her dress. Crouching down, she asked, “Do you do that to the guys?” A few weeks later, Ms. Freeman declared in The Guardian that we’d reached “peak red carpet,” saying “it’s all just got too stupid and too hysterical,” this surreal, curiously hostile place “with celebrities paraded on it like race horses while the public pulls up their lips and inspects their teeth and ridiculous entertainment journalists shout inane questions.”
Foremost among the inane questions, at least according to Upworthy, which recently put together a montage of such queries, is the evergreen “Who are you wearing?” The video exhorts journalists to “ask better questions,” echoing the #AskHerMore campaign first propounded by the Representation Project and then taken up by Ms. Poehler’s Smart Girls organization, which encourages youngsters to “cultivate their authentic selves.”
“We kept getting messages and tweets like, ‘God, why do they ask these questions on the red carpet?’ ” said Meredith Walker, Smart Girls’ executive director. “Our viewers and followers are interested in these women, interested in deeper questions that help us learn anything interesting. They don’t want that time wasted hearing them saying what they’re wearing and all this stuff that really doesn’t matter.”
At this year’s Globes and Critics’ Choice Awards, The Daily Share (“news, information, enlightenment”) took up the cause, asking actresses about the best advice they’d received and what they would tell their younger selves. While The Daily Share’s audience is a fraction of E!’s, the questions its host asked yielded infinitely more interesting replies.
Yet what these hashtag campaigns might not take into account is the amount of money celebrities stand to make from what, essentially, is self-promotional work.
“The red carpet has created a new economy for actors,” said Bronwyn Cosgrave, the author of “Made for Each Other: Fashion and the Academy Awards.”
If celebrities “do a series of good looks” on the red carpet, Ms. Cosgrave said, they are better poised to land lucrative contracts. “Over the shoulder of Middle America and Kathy Griffin” — one of the hosts of “Fashion Police” — “you have all of these luxury groups watching to see who is making it through the year, from Cannes all the way to the Oscars,” Ms. Cosgrave said.
She pointed to Lupita Nyong’o, who won an Oscar for her role as the tortured Patsey in “12 Years a Slave” after working the awards season carpets looking, as Ms. Cosgrave put it, like “the second coming of Audrey Hepburn.” Ms. Nyong’o was selected as the face of Miu Miu and went on to a prized contract with Lancôme.
“She landed the golden goose,” Ms. Cosgrave continued. “For actors, this means they don’t have to make B movies. They can fund their career. And do art-house pictures while still enjoying the kind of money they’d make while making a blockbuster.”
Indeed the money behind the promotional work has led some to speculate that Ms. Moore, Ms. Aniston and Ms. Witherspoon opted against the Mani Cam not in response to #AskHerMore, but instead out of an unwillingness to basically shill for a brand of nail polish or jeweler. Maybe answering dumb questions is a small price to pay in exchange for fattening one’s bank account and making up for Hollywood’s pay gap.
Then again, maybe they just didn’t feel like playing ball.
Still, the critique raises the question of whether there is complicity in the red carpet’s predictable shallowness.
“If the actresses are fed up with the questions,” Ms. Cosgrave said, “why are they obeying the publicists lining them up to answer them?”
Here's an interesting article from today's NY Times. Amal is mentioned.
At this year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, Julianne Moore, Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston made headlines, of a sort, by taking the revolutionary step of refusing to stick their paws in E!’s Mani Cam.
For anyone who has tragically missed this gimmicky red carpet arriviste, the Mani Cam is a camera-mounted box lined with red on which actresses are exhorted to show off manicures and borrowed jewels. Already armed with a “Glam Cam,” showing 360-degree views of stars’ outfits, E! rolled out the Mani Cam in 2012. And the host Giuliana Rancic instructed actresses to walk their fingers through it “like a runway.”
Results have been mixed. Jena Malone stuck her tongue out at it. Elisabeth Moss gave it the finger. Then came the three A-listers’ snubs, which CBS News reported as a “sign of a growing gender-equality push in Hollywood.” Which goes to show just how low the bar can be for what passes as a gender-equality push in Tinseltown.
As anyone who’s watched a televised awards show can attest, the red carpet is part beauty contest, part catwalk (emphasis on catty) and all gaming range, where viewers, along with paid hitters like E!’s “Fashion Police,” can gleefully excoriate celebrities — usually actresses — for their sartorial choices. As Hadley Freeman of The Guardian put it, “This is a strange pocket of the Western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants.”
On the one hand, it may be hard to drum up much pity for gorgeous, highly paid famous women who are usually outfitted in peerless haute couture at no charge. On the other, women quickly age out of Hollywood, are paid less than their male counterparts, are more likely to have their phones hacked and remain role models for some youngsters, all while being expected to attain mannequin-like perfection, making the red carpet’s indignities seem a little worse.
At the Golden Globes in January, hosted with arch glee by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, the red carpet seemed especially out of step with the ceremony’s actual goings-on.
Inside the Beverly Hilton, Maggie Gyllenhaal, a Globe winner, drew thunderous applause for noting the new “wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film.” Outside, the gals at Go Fug Yourself, a comedy-fashion blog, criticized her dress for being “the color of my mom’s third wedding.” (Zap2it, meanwhile, likened Ms. Fey’s gown to “a Candies prom dress from 1998.”) Inside, Amal Clooney was rousingly praised for her global human rights work. Outside, on the red carpet, her opera gloves unleashed paroxysms of outrage.
Ms. Clooney had already been served the harsh lesson that the red carpet was a type of combat zone earlier in the night. Shortly after arriving at their first Hollywood event as newlyweds, Ms. Clooney, a noted barrister, and her famous husband, George Clooney, were foisted upon the E! host Ryan Seacrest, who held up a T-shirt emblazoned with a bride and groom and the words “Game Over” — a reference to Mr. Clooney’s playboy days. The disdain on Mr. Clooney’s face said it all.
Yet while red carpet inanity is nothing new, pushback has been gaining momentum, and not just from the anti-Mani Cam clan.
Last year, Cate Blanchett called out a camera operator who was scanning the length of her dress. Crouching down, she asked, “Do you do that to the guys?” A few weeks later, Ms. Freeman declared in The Guardian that we’d reached “peak red carpet,” saying “it’s all just got too stupid and too hysterical,” this surreal, curiously hostile place “with celebrities paraded on it like race horses while the public pulls up their lips and inspects their teeth and ridiculous entertainment journalists shout inane questions.”
Foremost among the inane questions, at least according to Upworthy, which recently put together a montage of such queries, is the evergreen “Who are you wearing?” The video exhorts journalists to “ask better questions,” echoing the #AskHerMore campaign first propounded by the Representation Project and then taken up by Ms. Poehler’s Smart Girls organization, which encourages youngsters to “cultivate their authentic selves.”
“We kept getting messages and tweets like, ‘God, why do they ask these questions on the red carpet?’ ” said Meredith Walker, Smart Girls’ executive director. “Our viewers and followers are interested in these women, interested in deeper questions that help us learn anything interesting. They don’t want that time wasted hearing them saying what they’re wearing and all this stuff that really doesn’t matter.”
At this year’s Globes and Critics’ Choice Awards, The Daily Share (“news, information, enlightenment”) took up the cause, asking actresses about the best advice they’d received and what they would tell their younger selves. While The Daily Share’s audience is a fraction of E!’s, the questions its host asked yielded infinitely more interesting replies.
Yet what these hashtag campaigns might not take into account is the amount of money celebrities stand to make from what, essentially, is self-promotional work.
“The red carpet has created a new economy for actors,” said Bronwyn Cosgrave, the author of “Made for Each Other: Fashion and the Academy Awards.”
If celebrities “do a series of good looks” on the red carpet, Ms. Cosgrave said, they are better poised to land lucrative contracts. “Over the shoulder of Middle America and Kathy Griffin” — one of the hosts of “Fashion Police” — “you have all of these luxury groups watching to see who is making it through the year, from Cannes all the way to the Oscars,” Ms. Cosgrave said.
She pointed to Lupita Nyong’o, who won an Oscar for her role as the tortured Patsey in “12 Years a Slave” after working the awards season carpets looking, as Ms. Cosgrave put it, like “the second coming of Audrey Hepburn.” Ms. Nyong’o was selected as the face of Miu Miu and went on to a prized contract with Lancôme.
“She landed the golden goose,” Ms. Cosgrave continued. “For actors, this means they don’t have to make B movies. They can fund their career. And do art-house pictures while still enjoying the kind of money they’d make while making a blockbuster.”
Indeed the money behind the promotional work has led some to speculate that Ms. Moore, Ms. Aniston and Ms. Witherspoon opted against the Mani Cam not in response to #AskHerMore, but instead out of an unwillingness to basically shill for a brand of nail polish or jeweler. Maybe answering dumb questions is a small price to pay in exchange for fattening one’s bank account and making up for Hollywood’s pay gap.
Then again, maybe they just didn’t feel like playing ball.
Still, the critique raises the question of whether there is complicity in the red carpet’s predictable shallowness.
“If the actresses are fed up with the questions,” Ms. Cosgrave said, “why are they obeying the publicists lining them up to answer them?”
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NYTimes wrote:George Clooney, were foisted upon the E! host Ryan Seacrest, who held up a T-shirt emblazoned with a bride and groom and the words “Game Over” — a reference to Mr. Clooney’s playboy days. The disdain on Mr. Clooney’s face said it all.
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Re: Amal Clooney at the Golden Globes 2015
At the time I thought it was in vey taste
with all the camera crew wearing them too.
Maybe for a boys night out yes.....but on a red carpet
in front of his wife. No....IMO.
What with that and the big blonde woman in blue
saying "When are the babies coming"
I wouldn't be surprised if Amal decides
that she "doesn't do" red carpets in future.
with all the camera crew wearing them too.
Maybe for a boys night out yes.....but on a red carpet
in front of his wife. No....IMO.
What with that and the big blonde woman in blue
saying "When are the babies coming"
I wouldn't be surprised if Amal decides
that she "doesn't do" red carpets in future.
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Re: Amal Clooney at the Golden Globes 2015
The joke was tacky , I don't think she will stop attending these events I think she will want and continue to support George. If she didn't it would look really bad .
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Re: Amal Clooney at the Golden Globes 2015
Yep. But she will to support His Nibs. Did wonder if she was at the Art Directors Guild Awards the way he was smiling into the audience -no red carpet, no pix
At times she looked to me like a rabbit in the headlights.
Great responses from both to the E! team, avoided the stupid demeaning manicam, and Nancy was swiftly put down. Wish she would stop such invasive questioning of folk.
Best interviews? For me, Lopez and Bush
At times she looked to me like a rabbit in the headlights.
Great responses from both to the E! team, avoided the stupid demeaning manicam, and Nancy was swiftly put down. Wish she would stop such invasive questioning of folk.
Best interviews? For me, Lopez and Bush
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Re: Amal Clooney at the Golden Globes 2015
Jo
vey or vex?
or what?
vey or vex?
or what?
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Re: Amal Clooney at the Golden Globes 2015
Sorry my typo error....should be "very bad taste !"it's me wrote:Jo
vey or vex?
or what?
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Re: George Clooney at the Golden Globes January 2015
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In an interview (can't remember which one) she said that she'd researched it and found a photo (and I think pattern) of a vintage Dior haute couture dress, and they made it for her from that..........but don't quote me on that, Fava
According to this article, it's Dior haute couture...
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Mrs. Clooney made her red carpet debut at one of the biggest award shows of the year — and she fit right in with all the glam Hollywood stars in her custom-made Dior number! Do you agree?
Amal Clooney may be new to the glam Hollywood scene, but she fit in with ease when she arrived at the 72nd annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton on Jan. 11, where she stepped out in Dior Haute Couture — and her handsome hubby, George Clooney, was her best accessory!
Amal Clooney’s Golden Globes Dress & Gloves:
Amal decided to take the matter of styling into her own hands as she added white gloves to the look — and George revealed to Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet that his new wife actually sewed them together herself the morning of the glam show! She obviously wanted to make a statement and she left a lasting impression in the one-shoulder gown as she accompanied George on the red carpet.
With her brunette locks styled perfectly and a dark red berry lip, Amal fit right in with the leading ladies of Hollywood — and George looked smitten by his new wife, even admitting that he is on train duty!
The Globes marks the debut of the Clooney couple on the red carpet — and judging by their very well-dressed entrance we’re bound to see a whole lot more of them this awards season. It might have been overwhelming to step out on the red carpet for the first time, but she handled it with ease.
While everyone is bound to praise her gown, her white gloves will definitely be a major talking point — and they matched her white clutch. Did you think it was wise of her to add such a standout accessory or do you think they looked odd with the gown?
Let us know and be sure to check out all the stunning stars at this year’s show!
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