Live blog: Oscars red carpet
7 p.m.: So I’m in the recliner, snacks at the ready, and here’s my thought: “Regis Philbin? Hosting the Oscars red carpet? Yeah, he’s a fashion icon.” But he just said he invented red carpet coverage. I guess that’s who we get to thank for that brilliant idea.
7:03: OK, it’s going to be tough to top George Clooney for line of the night. Reeg commented that people used to want to be Cary Grant and now they want to be George Clooney. George’s response: “That’s because he’s dead, and they don’t want to be dead.” Nice delivery. And he looks fabulous in a tux.
7:05: Wow, Marion Cotillard is so much more gorgeous when she isn’t being Edith Piaf. (Yeah, George, Edith is dead, so of course, Marion looks better than that.) That cream-colored Gaultier dress with the scallop design and gold trim is just beautiful.
7:06: As Reeg just noted, John Travolta isn’t wearing a dress on the red carpet. That’s because there’s a difference between movies and real life. The red carpet is real life. Well, OK, not really.
7:08: Also in the looks-better-when-not-acting category: Javier Bardem. The tux, the closely cropped, slightly touseled hair, the sexy stubble. Very nice. And he just confirmed that his Moe Howard haircut from “No Country” was Joel and Ethan Coen’s idea. No joke. It’s hard to imagine how any person would volunteer to wear such a moronic, scary ‘do.
7:10: Miley Cyrus is at the Oscars. She really gets around. No wonder she needs a body double.
7:13: Red seems to be the it color this year. Miley Cyrus, Helen Mirren and Anne Hathaway are all wearing it. But Jennifer Garner looks amazingly elegant in basic black. She also got in a good line. When asked why she thought “Juno” was such a phenomenom, her answer was she didn’t think you could really explain a phenomenom. I guess that’s sort of the point of calling it a phenomenom.
7:15: The list keeps getting longer. Daniel Day-Lewis looks so much better as a tuxedoed actor than as an unhinged oil baron drilling in the desert.
7:16: Is Cameron Diaz wearing a pale pink bedsheet?
7:18: So the other red carpet reporter, Shaun Robinson, just reminded Amy Adams that she will be performing in front of millions of people when she sings one of the nominated songs from “Enchanted.” I’m sure she appreciates the psych-out, Shaun.
7:22: Ellen Page just looks radiant in that layered black gown and her hair in a casual updo. She looks lovely but not overdone. When Shaun asked why she thought people have connected to “Juno,” she said she thought it was because the movie is very sincere and geniune. Good call, Ellen.
7:23: Hilary Swank is wearing black Versace. Can’t go wrong with Versace. And basic black, as usual, is proving very popular among the ladies.
7:27: Reeg just called the best supporting actor fave Xavier Bardem. I guess he also invented the dumb reporter who doesn’t know who the newsmakers are concept.
7:29: Does Jack Nicholson ever NOT wear sunglasses? He’s sitting in the front row of the Kodak Theater, it’s not like it’s sunny, unless you count the glare from all the egos.
-BAM
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Never underestimate the glare from Hollywood egos. It is the only light source on Earth capable of giving the sun a run for its money.