If not, a few Well-Known Faces will avoid the massive hoard of The Press From Everywhere that line The Red Carpet with Overly-Smiling people clutching microphones to shove in someone's $$$$-worthy face, and will slip through a back entrance or arrive too close to air-time to stop for a vapid chat or one strained posed moment in front of flashing cameras before dashing into the building to be seated, out of harm's way – safe at last!
How fluffy can we get from all of the Oscar Buzz, the pre-Oscar parties that have been going on for over a week, including nifty details of the usual Two Main VIP Oscar Parties one HAS to go to (which are Elton John and David Furnish's annual charity for AIDS blow-out, and the always, always MUST BE SEEN AT Vanity Fair soirée)? In answer to the question, it can become Very Fluffy, indeed!
Jennifer Lawrence this, Jennifer Lawrence that. She's tired, a bit physically ill and worn-down from all of the campaigning she has been "forced" to do for months for her wins and nominations by not acting too terribly blank, emotionless (or over-acting), in Silver Linings Playbook. Or so "they" say. From the pictures I've seen of her lately, the poor thing needs a year off for serious R&R. But, forget that she's reportedly been walking around with a form of Walking Pneumonia for several months, and let's focus on what she's going to wear tomorrow!
Actually, I'm planning to focus on how Hollywood's New "IT Girl" will keep her eyes open during most of the RC Interviews she'll have to do with those annoying bubbly interviewers who gush uncontrollably over fashion disasters when you know they are lying in the person's face. Why not ask more questions about their career rather than have TV audiences cringe at the obvious BS going on to fill air time until a Bigger Star waltzes by that the Field Producer is desperately trying to pull over to their show's host for a soundbite or ten, and the Interviewer rudely dismisses whomever they had been slobbering over to catch the bigger fish. Yes. Of course I know It's part of the "job" on everyone's end…but, aren't you more than over the Very Very Stale inevitability of those vapid questions and awkward moments?
I wonder if several of the men who will grace the stage and/or Red Carpet will still have an abundance of facial hair which has become a trend I'm not so keen about (on most of the guys), or if a few will follow Daniel Day-Lewis' example and show up sans stubble or a grisly-looking beard? But then, he had to grow quite a strange beard for his role as Abraham Lincoln, so I would think he was happy to shave when the film wrapped. In comparison to some of his male film counterparts of the moment, Day-Lewis looks dignified with a clean shave. He'll take a nice-looking Oscar Winner picture for Best Actor.
Rumours that Michael Douglas is staying home from attending the festivities because he doesn't really care to be there, while his wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, will be because she likes all of the glamour and excitement of The Big Night, are pointing in another direction of the true cause. And no, it's not a return of Douglas' cancer. But then, he's def "been there, done that" and if his wife wants to kick up her sometimes sparkly shoes and bat those famous eyes at photog's, then so be it, right? <quiet pause>
UPDATE: I guess Michael changed his mind. He WAS there. Wonder why reports indicated otherwise? Well, I'm sure it was easy to find a fitted tux in his wardrobe and just GO, G-Dammit!
And no, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will not be at this years' event. Too bad. She was so much fun last year with The Leg and everything - as you can see. Maybe it will show up on someone else... (Is JLo going, by chance?)
That's as fluffy as I can be today. I'll have more to say after tomorrow's Ego Fest is over and we hear about who was "tipsy" or "drunk" and who had a fight and went home alone after flirting with too many Other People, in addition to the Monday Morning Up-Clucking over "why in the world would (fill-in-the-blank) wear THAT dress" instead of another designer.
It's all part of the game called Showbiz. Remember – it's really all smoke and mirrors after the lights go out.
If you're planning to watch the show, enjoy yourself. I always tune in despite the extraordinary lack of magic that once filled the evening with what many of us considered to be authentic "Movie Stars."
Paging Cary Grant...Katherine Hepburn…and the one and only Elizabeth Taylor.
Image via: oscars.org
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