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Personally, I was aggravated with the muted tones of the dresses this year. While the shades of cream, champagne and gold were pleasant enough, they failed to live up to the Oscar glitz that so often makes me wet my pants. The blandness of the colors meant an added emphasis on texture and design, which luckily worked swimmingly with several gowns...
...Naomi Watts in a gorgeous strapless Versace gown. The beaded tan dress, in addition to her elegantly simplistic make-up and hairstyle, epitomized the essence of classical beauty with a form-fitting body and delicately flowing bottom. Another gem of a dress was Julia Robert’s gold Giorgio Armani which accentuated her curves with an innovative design. A large diamond broach in the center unified the flowing satin brilliantly. The look superbly paid tribute to the late Katherine Hepburn...
...looks and feels like a Disney movie, fraught with sentimentality and banality. Perhaps if a production company focused on an adult audience had financed the film, it would have been easier to recommend. As it stands, Hidalgo feels like it comes in third place when everyone was expecting the gold...
...think the fool’s-gold standard has to be Battlefield Earth. It’s like watching the world’s most expensively mounted high school dinner theater play. That one’s pretty hard...
...that great weapons are useless without careful maintenance; SNAFU ends the cartoon as, literally, a horse's ass in a German Prison Kampf. "The Goldbrick" (Tashlin, September 43) has SNAFU urging his fellow GIs, "I'm a goldbrick, be like me, use your head / With a heart of pure gold and a backside of lead," before singing a hymn to the lazy life to the tune of "Tit Willow" from "The Mikado." It ends with a bucktoothed Jap (they always had prominent dentures and were always called Jap) threatening, "Here lies a goldbrick, I must go find more...