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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...
Leave it to Sofia Coppola to defy the fashion trends of the evening and still come out on top. Predictably wearing a Marc Jacobs gown (the two are nearly inseparable), the dramatic black silk dress flirted with feminine frills but boldly maintained the elegance of Oscar splendor. But the glory of Sofia lies in her nonchalant and sometimes downright bitchy persona—an elaborate hairstyle or gown would be utterly superfluous. Her look for the evening perfectly typified her class and sass...
Yeah, I certainly do. I thought that Raising Victor Vargas was one of my favorite movies of last year. That definitely deserved some real attention, and I thought for sure, had it made enough money, which meant, had it been promoted right, it would have gotten an Oscar Nomination for best Original Screenplay, because it’s a great screenplay. It’s a really beautifully realized and lived in piece of filmmaking...
McNamara’s visit to the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum came just days after The Fog of War, a documentary about his life, won this year’s Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. His presentation began with his responses to six short clips from the film, on topics ranging from the Cuban missile crisis and Vietnam to weapons of mass destruction...
...swelled to some 5,500 letters and manuscripts; 5,000 prints, drawings and objects; and 4,000 volumes. Although Johnson’s writing are at its center, the collection also includes a multitude of other works, such as a Hamlet quarto and an extensive body of Oscar Wilde materials...