This is exciting! I’m live-blogging the red carpet. Colin Firth is right this second talking to Ryan Seacrest. With his lovely wife. Awww. Meanwhile, George Clooney is running around looking impish. His hair is doing a not-quite-Clooney thing tonight. Interesting.
But here we are with more fashion:
Miley Cyrus looks tarty and too grown up. But Miley, babe, if you’re going to tart it up, own it. Stop slouching. Shoulders back and smile. (Speaking of tarts, vavoom, who is that in the background with Morgan Freeman?).
Here’s Sandra! What do you think? Is she ready for her little gold man accessory or what? Nice, sleek hair. Pretty, classic gown. Although… Meryl just showed up and she looks ready to win, too. It could be a red carpet rumble! Meryl, I have to caution, doesn’t look bad, but has looked better. She’s in a white gown that looks very 1980s to me– and her hair is doing a weird, structured curl thing. Maybe later we’ll get a glimpse. (Jay Manuel and Giuliana at E! think Meryl looks “sexy and age appropriate” which is like saying she looks good for an old lady, isn’t it? Hmm. They wouldn’t say that about Helen Mirren!)
On to my second Worst Dressed nominee. Diane Kruger is never boring, I’ll give her that. She’s almost Seussian in this. Maybe that was her goal, to do a grown-up Cindy Lou Who tribute to Dr. Seuss. In that case, bravo. Otherwise, not.
Carey Mulligan is currently in the lead to play Jane in my dream film version of Jane Slayre. But she might have dropped down a notch. Jane would wear black, check. But she wouldn’t have spangled it up like an 80s prom gown, minus. I would have gone with a more understated shoe, too. Something delicate. But that’s just me. (Actually, I would have gone with something in a New Balance or Nike, but that’s why they don’t allow me on the red carpet, haha). 
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgard. Maggie is looking kind of paint-splashed. I don’t know why her dress makes me think of Manga, but it does.
In other news: Woody Harrelson is in a tux made of hemp. Robert Downey Jr is rocking the hot nerd look.
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I thought Miley Cyrus could have straightened her back and unhunched her shoulders a bit. Sandra Bullock look fantastic, except for her lipstick color, I thought it made her look too pale.
I’m afraid that if Miley straightened up, she might have popped out. She needed a little more fabric perhaps. That, or maybe not wearing her skirt right over her Spanx.
My mom didn’t like Sandra’s hair.
That’s what I thought, too. When she was on stage with other chick, I thought she had that stuffed sausage look — never good on Oscar night. I would have opted for a bigger dress size.
I did like Sandra’s hair, but didn’t loooovvve it. She was grooving some classical beauty thing, and it was blocking her whole girl-next-girl vibe, which I find more appealing.