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Reese Witherspoon brought her 20-year-old son, Deacon Phillippe, as her date to the Golden Globes. On one hand there’s a real effort to nepotize Deacon but on the other I see how it would be fun to have your son with you at an event like that. If my college-aged son would go with me to a work event I would be thrilled. Reese wore a black off the shoulder Monique Lhuillier gown with a pale pink across the front. As I’ve been saying this morning I dig the bow trend as it’s a subtle nod to Christmas. It was over too soon this year! This is very preppy and very Reese.

Her hair and makeup are great!
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As Kaiser often says, yell at me if you want but I think Emily Blunt’s bronze and white tulle Sarah Burton for McQueen gown was a disaster. It’s two different gowns put together, both of them bad. I do like to see Emily and John Krasinski together on the red carpet though and I hope they stay together forever. Also I did not like Oppenheimer and could not get into it, but the only Nolan film I’ve liked is Dunkirk.

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Jodie Foster was also nominated in the Supporting Actress category for Nyad. She was in a very goth Alberta Ferretti gown with a silver sequin collar. Nyad is out now on Netflix I am putting it in my queue!

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Nominee Abby Elliott (The Bear) was a bombshell in this off the shoulder black gown with a sheer waist. She just had a baby boy last summer, her second child with husband Billy Kennedy. They also have a three and a half-year-old daughter.

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Slay.
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Jennifer Lopez actually attended the Golden Globes as the “wife of” a nominee, Ben Affleck. Affleck’s Air was nominated for Best Comedy. While Ben was on the Globes carpet for a moment – long enough for a handful of arrival photos – Jennifer basically had to walk the rest of the carpet solo. Ben went inside and sat with Matt Damon and Matt’s wife Luciana. The two couples were seated next to each other for the whole show!

It’s a shame Ben didn’t stick around the carpet because this would have been Bennifer’s first Globes carpet in something like 21 years, right? Maybe that’s why Ben avoided it. Jennifer wore this pretty pink Nicole Felicia Couture – it’s very girly and Barbie, so it sort of suited the night. In any case, I think Ben and Jen are fine and she understands that Ben doesn’t want to schmooze on the red carpet.

One amazing thing happened on the carpet – Brie Larson completely freaked out when she met J.Lo. Brie told her, live on Entertainment Tonight, that she became an actress because of Jennifer’s performance in Selena. J.Lo was gracious.

Brie Larson meeting Jennifer Lopez for the first time is our golden moment. #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/uUlIaos2mb

— Entertainment Tonight (@etnow) January 8, 2024

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck at the #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/utJk30zWOp

— Bennifer Updates (@BenniferUpdates) January 8, 2024

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I’m so happy to see Fantasia Barrino getting her flowers for The Color Purple, especially after everything she’s been through. Her Dolce & Gabbana gown was not one of my favorites, but that’s mostly due to the weird lilac chiffon skirt. Look at the second slide in her Instagram above. With just the velvet bodice and a white sequin skirt that dress would have been excellent but they added a lower skirt layer and it just looks silly. Fantasia was nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy for The Color Purple. That category went to Emma Stone for Poor Things. I hope Fantasia is nominated for an Oscar.

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Her styling is gorgeous.
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Presenter Angela Bassett was also in Dolce & Gabbana, in a bombshell off the shoulder black velvet mermaid gown with full sleeve gloves. I wish she didn’t have to present with Jared Leto, their bit was so weird and poorly written, but I loved to see her on stage. 9-1-1 is coming to ABC on March 14 I can’t wait! Birthday present for me.

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Elizabeth Banks was in a slinky black corseted Dolce & Gabanna with crystal embellishments. It looks super tight but it’s a great dress. I just wish she didn’t go with a wet look for her hair. That trend should have died out long ago.

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Nominee Helen Mirren was in a two tone purple D&G. If you told me this was Valentino I would believe you, but Valentino does giant gowns better than this – it doesn’t need all that ruching or that overlay. She looks like she’s having fun at least.

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Going into the full Oscar season, I have to admit that I’m quietly rooting for Sandra Huller for Best Actress, just because I loved Anatomy of a Fall so much. But it’s going to be another situation like last year, with Cate Blanchett and Michelle Yeoh – choosing between two outstanding performances, the awards shows will absolutely want to give the Best Actress awards to “the first.” Last year, Oscar voters wanted Michelle to be the first Asian woman to win Best Actress. This year, they’ll want Lily Gladstone to be the first Native American/Indigenous woman to win Best Actress. Even though… Lily’s role really is more of a supporting part and even though Killers of the Flower Moon is kind of a slog and a bad script. Anyway, Lily won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama. She wore a black-and-white Valentino ensemble and walked the carpet with Leo DiCaprio. In her speech, she spoke in the Blackfeet language and then English. This is all very moving.

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Florence Pugh and Meryl Streep also wore Valentino – I loved both of these looks? They’re both solid and they suit Flo and Meryl. This was Meryl’s first big event since she split with Don Gummer. Her agent (Kevin Huvane) was her date, but there’s a rumor going around that she’s dating Martin Short. LMAO. I hope that’s true.

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Since I don’t watch The Morning Show, I always forget that A) Jennifer Aniston has a reason to attend awards shows and B) that TMS is pretty well-received within the industry and the show is consistently nominated for things. So, Aniston didn’t just show up at the Golden Globes out of nowhere – The Morning Show was nominated, but Aniston was not nominated as an actress (she’s a producer on the show though). Jen decided to go retro, only this is just her style, forever and always. Black column dress by Dolce & Gabbana, with a retro “Rachel” hairstyle. Jen debuted the new/old haircut and people were excited to see The Rachel again. I saw video of Aniston’s arrival and her hair looked awful in motion. It looked thin and greasy.

#JenniferAniston stepped out on the 2024 #GoldenGlobes red carpet in a layered chop that paid homage to her beauty roots. See how she updated “The Rachel” cut for tonight’s show: https://t.co/P4AE7QNwUx pic.twitter.com/3yVgDEEYO3

— Vogue Magazine (@voguemagazine) January 8, 2024

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Hannah Waddingham’s lace gown was kind of spectacular – looked gorgeous and sexy, which is kind of tough (in my opinion) to do in a fully lace dress. It was the right amount of sheer and lining and the neckline helped.

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Allison Williams’ Giambattista Valli was the worst of the black dresses on this page. While Aniston’s gown was just boring, this Valli gown was overworked and it had too many elements. The peplum should have been edited out.

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The 2024 Golden Globes fashion wasn’t terrible, honestly. There weren’t many people wearing completely bizarre or terrible looks. Mostly, people played it very safe and there were a lot of very clean, streamlined styles. Speaking of, the ladies in Prada looked very good. Ayo Edebiri – who is currently ubiquitous – wore a great and simple red Prada look and she picked up her first Golden Globe for her supporting role on The Bear. People in the room were so happy for her and everyone loved her shout-out to her managers’ and agents’ assistants. Also: her bob is SO CUTE!

I liked Brie Larson’s dress a lot and I usually don’t like what she wears. She looked ladylike and sort of vintage, which goes along with what she was nominated for (Lessons in Chemistry).

Hailee Steinfeld did a very Audrey Hepburn look and it worked, although everyone does this Holly Golightly-inspired look at least once.

Bella Ramsey kept it simple. I enjoy their commitment to wearing pants to big events.

Hunter Schafer looked lovely in her Prada gown. This probably didn’t photograph as well as it looked in motion.

Photos courtesy of Prada’s promotional email.

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Naomi Watts is one of my favorites on the red carpets and at this year’s Globes she did not disappoint. She walked the carpet with her new husband, Billy Crudup, and I am rooting for them. She was in a phenomenal one shoulder sequin metallic Fendi gown. Naomi was a presenter this year and Billy was nominated for Best Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Series for his work on The Morning Show, which went to Matthew Macfadyen.

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Look how cute these two are together.
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Christina Ricci was also in Fendi, in a netted nude gown with smattered sequins. I think this washes her out and that she would look so much better in a darker jewel tone. Christina was nominated for Best Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Series, for her work in Yellowjackets, which went to Elizabeth Debicki for The Crown. I’m all caught up on Yellowjackets and Christina really embodies that character. She can act! I am kind of mad the last season though and I don’t think I’ll keep watching when it comes back later this year.

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Presenter Amanda Seyfried was in a black Armani gown with a purple sequin bow across the bustline. This dress is fine and very holiday adjacent, but I noticed during the ceremony that her makeup was pretty bad. At least it photographs better than it looks on camera. How do you take a beautiful woman and do this to her makeup? It’s like they tried to match it too much to her outfit and need to tone it down. Some of the best makeup looks last night were understated. Sometimes I wonder whether I would have the nerve, as a celebrity, to tell makeup artists and stylists “no, this looks awful” or if I would just make the best of it.

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Dior dressed several of their favorite ladies at last night’s Golden Globes, and weirdly… I liked all of these looks. Usually there’s at least one big “miss” with Dior, but not at this awards show. Rosamund Pike was there as a nominee for Saltburn, and she wore this old-school vintage Dior, complete with a headpiece. The dress itself is a gorgeous archival piece, but the headpiece takes it to the next level. Rosamund also wants to cover her face a little bit because she had a skiing accident over the Christmas holiday and she was apparently quite banged up, although she looked healed in time for the Globes.

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Natalie Portman’s Dior was absolutely gorgeous. The beading was next-level. I wish her hair & makeup were less severe.

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Jennifer Lawrence wore a simple velvet gown which reads as black but I think it was a midnight blue. Her hair is crazy long right now! Anyway, she looked good – like a nominee who knew she wasn’t winning. She seemed happy that Emma Stone won.

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Elizabeth Debicki also wore Dior and she picked up a Globe for The Crown. I’m glad she finally won something for her work as Princess Diana – she really was acting her ass off in the role. The construction on her dress was gorgeous too.

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Jodie Foster is 61 years old and she’s spent more than fifty years in the industry. She’s won two Oscars and she’s raised two sons. She’s currently promoting True Detective: Night Country, where she plays an Alaska cop. People who have gotten early screeners of this True Detective season say that it’s brilliant and Jodie is great in it. She’s also promoting Nyad a little bit – that’s the Netflix movie where she plays the coach of Diana Nyad. I’ve always liked Jodie and it feels like she’s more relaxed these days, less guarded and chattier in general. She recently spoke to the Guardian about True Detective, motherhood, working with so many young artists and her informal mentorship of young actors. Some highlights:

What it was like to work with so many younger people on ‘True Detective’: “Well, I’m pretty fun. I mean – I don’t take anything seriously. I make jokes all the time. And, you know, I’m not an expert… I just know me, I don’t really know anybody else, and even as a director – I’m not really an actor’s director, interestingly.”

Working with ‘True Detective’ director Issa Lopez: “She has directed four movies, and I’ve been in so many films, and I think that part is sometimes daunting. But we bonded immediately and laughed through everything. I like it when directors tell me what they want and say things like faster, slower. I’m not interested in directors who are like” – she puts on a whispery, luvvie-ish voice – “‘Here, let me shake you!’ She might have to do that with other people, because they’re young or they’ve never acted before. And I would watch her do that with them and … You’d better not do that with me.”

Her advice to younger people in the industry: “They need to learn how to relax, how to not think about it so much, how to come up with something that’s theirs. I can help them find that, which is so much more fun than being, with all the pressure behind it, the protagonist of the story.”

She’s trying to mentor Bella Ramsey & other young actors: “I do a lot of reaching out to young actresses. I’m compelled. Because it was hard growing up.” When she looks at Ramsey, who told British Vogue earlier this year that “I’m not 100% straight”, does she feel a pang of sympathy for her younger self? “Yes.” It was so bleak. “But I had my mom, you know.”

She admires the way Bella Ramsey exists in the world: “We weren’t free. Because we didn’t have freedom. And hopefully that’s what the vector of authenticity that’s happening offers – the possibility of real freedom. We had other things that were good. And I would say: I did the best I could for my generation. I was very busy understanding where I fitted in and where I wanted to be in terms of feminism. But my lens wasn’t wide enough. I lived in an incredibly segregated world.”

For all her cheerleading of Gen Z, Foster isn’t above being irritated by them. “They’re really annoying, especially in the workplace. They’re like, ‘Nah, I’m not feeling it today, I’m gonna come in at 10.30am.’ Or, like, in emails, I’ll tell them this is all grammatically incorrect, did you not check your spelling? And they’re like, ‘Why would I do that, isn’t that kind of limiting?’”

Her two sons, who were raised by three women: “My two don’t like sports. They like to watch movies and sit at home, and they’re really into their female friends. They’re super feminist. And there was a moment with my older one when he was in high school, when, because he was raised by two women – three women – it was like he was trying to figure out what it was to be a boy. And he watched television and came to the conclusion, oh, I just need to be an a–hole. I understand! I need to be sh-tty to women, and act like I’m a f–ker. And I was like, no! That’s not what it is to be a man! That’s what our culture has been selling you for all this time.” The phase went on for six months, she says. Did she let it play out? “Yes, and no. I was like, you won’t be talking to me like that.”

[From The Guardian]

I like this answer: “I did the best I could for my generation.” I think that’s very true – there was a time when the LGBTQ community wanted Jodie to be more public, more vocal about her sexuality and her life and she just refused. It was a generational thing but it was also just about Jodie needing to keep things a certain way to feel safe, which is partly generational and partly about her own experiences. As for what she says about Gen Z… lmao. That’s going to upset some people. She’s not wrong though, just my opinion!

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Hannah Waddingham’s career has been going gangbusters since Ted Lasso, and she has her pick of projects and offers. It feels like she’s saying “yes” to almost everything. Which is fine with me – she’s not an ingénue, she’s a 49 year old working actress who got her biggest break three years ago. All of which to say, she has a small role in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two, which comes out in May. She apparently enjoyed her time working with Tom Cruise (I imagine she towered over him).

Hannah Waddingham appeared on the Christmas episode of ITV’s “James Martin’s Saturday Morning” (via The Independent) and revealed she’s ready to defend Tom Cruise against his critics after working with the Oscar nominee on the upcoming “Mission: Impossible 8.” It was announced in March that the “Ted Lasso” Emmy winner was joining Cruise and the “Mission: Impossible” gang in the eighth installment, which was originally designed as the second part to “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.”

Waddingham’s “Mission: Impossible 8” character has not yet been revealed, but she said she spent five intense days with Cruise filming the action tentpole on the USS George H.W. Bush fighter carrier. She revealed she still has “another kind of main scene” to shoot with Cruise once production restarts.

“I have to say, I have a real problem with anybody that goes at [Tom Cruise] now,” Waddingham said. “Having met him and having spent five days intensely…He is without doubt one of the loveliest and encouraging, positive and inspiring human beings I have ever met. Isn’t he gorgeous? I have no time for anyone saying anything about him.”

Waddingham told SiriusXM earlier this month that she grew up on boats because her father was in the river police her entire life, so she was more than eager to film her “Mission: Impossible 8” scenes while on an actual fighter carrier. “I know this world so much,” she remembered saying to Cruise and the film’s director, Christopher McQuarrie. “I’ve got this down. Don’t worry. I’m used to brushing my teeth in a tiny little cabin.”

[From Variety]

People are mad that she’s defending a guy in a cult, and I get that. But let me also say that while Tom Cruise is absolutely in a cult (and he’s an important, privileged person in that cult), he’s also super-respected within the industry because of his professionalism and generosity towards his fellow actors. Like, Emily Blunt adores Tom. Timothee Chalamet adores Tom. Kirstin Dunst adores Tom. SAG-AFTRA adores Tom too, they used him as an intermediary with the studios during the strike. Plus, I always get the feeling that British people just don’t “get” why Scientology is so f–king weird and how it’s such a big thing in LA.

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