Angelina Jolie successfully hides behind a microphone stand while dressed as a Red Cross worker who escaped from a 1960s sci-fi movie, but managed to grab a lipstick.
George Clooney won for Best Actor in “The Descendants,” and proved that adorable has a shelf life.
Meryl Streep was, surprise, Best Actress for “Iron Lady.” Ironworkers apparently welded this Harvey Girl in mourning dress for her. Viola Davis is “her girl.”
Madonna. No time to do her roots. Too busy doing flexes.
Sarah Michelle Gellar revealed on the red carpet that her toddler daughter picked out this dress for mommy… from the Jerry Garcia Memorial Collection at SEARS. Piper Perabo washed out in the “before” version of the same frock.
Sofia Vergara was Deco perfection in Vera Wang, revealing that she made two trips to the gym a day to fit into this spectacular number.
“Bridesmaids” star Melissa McCarthy revealed that she made two trips to the fridge a night to fit into her green sheath. Work! Paula Patton as Chiquita Banana without hair, makeup and fruit turban.
Gerard Butler proves comedy is hard by completely blowing a joke in his flopped intro with Mila Kunis.
Best Foreign Language film winner for “The Separation,” Asghar Farhadi proves that comedy is easy when he says that Iranians are “loving.”
Reese Witherspoon with her roots. You can take the girl out of Santa Barbara, but you can’t put her in this dress without a hairdo and makeup.
Queen Latifah… there may be a sequin shortage for the Oscars. She looks good in drag, but desperately needs a big ass wig. Sorry, no other big ass joke.
Kate Winslet, simple but elegant “Mildred Pierce” daywear. Too bad this wasn’t lost in the fire at Richard Branson’s house.
Ricky Gervais managed to get all the Scientologists not to show up. Thanks! He clearly spent more time promoting the show than writing it. I predict he won’t be back.
If a piece of New York cheesecake could talk, it would sound like Thelma Ritter, today’s Friday Face, born in Brooklyn on Valentine’s Day 1902. She would become the most beloved character actress of her day.
At age 8, Ritter was performing recitals and monologues at Brooklyn’s PS 77. After acting in high school plays and stock companies, she enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She married actor Joseph Moran in 1927, and they had two children.
She resumed her career performing in radio in 1940. In 1946, her old friend, director George Seaton, offered her a bit part in the now classic “Miracle on 34th Street,” in which Thelma would play a tired holiday shopper. Fox’s Darryl F. Zanuck was so moved by her performance, he had her role expanded — and it launched an unparalleled film career that would see 6 Oscar nominations as Best Supporting Actress. She never won.
Her first nomination was for her absolutely delicious role as the acerbic maid Birdie, opposite Bette Davis in 1950′s “All About Eve.” There isn’t a scene she’s in that she doesn’t steal.
She would earn four consecutive nominations — a feat equaled only by Jennifer Jones, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, and Al Pacino. Greer Garson had five consecutive nominations.
In the original “Titanic” made in 1953, she portrayed the cardplaying wisecracker, Maude Young. One of her lines is delivered wistfully and has always stayed with me.
Maude: [after Richard has rejected his son Norman and refused to play in the shuffleboard match with him]
“It certainly clouded up. Well, word’ll do it faster than a hickory stick any time.”
Hitchcock fans know her from 1954′s “Rear Window,” where she plays Stella, the visiting nurse for Jimmy Stewart. She played opposite Frank Sinatra and Edward G. Robinson in “A Hole in the Head.” She got drunk with Rock Hudson in “Pillow Talk.”
Ritter played serious roles too… she was perfect as Burt Lancaster’s mother in “Birdman of Alcatraz.”
She had the gift of being able to say everything with a look.
Thelma worked steadily in television. Her daughter, Monica Moran, launched a brief film career. I can’t find any info about her son.
Here’s a clip from a Hitchcock TV show opposite another great character actress, Mary Wickes.
Nurse! This is from her work opposite Susan Hayward in “With a Song in My Heart.”
Below as Moe Williams with Richard Widmark in “Pickup on South Street.” … she was a walking Hopper painting.
Here’s Thelma in an early uncredited role, “A Letter to Three Wives,” where she plays Connie Gilchrist’s loveable neighbor with an opinion. She often played cards in her films.
Thelma Ritter died of a heart attack 10 days before her 67th birthday, shortly after performing on a Jerry Lewis TV show.
Shockingly, Thelma Ritter does not have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Howie Mandel, Nicolas Cage and the Olsen twins do.
You can write to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce here, to ask for a star for Thelma.
The marvelous, witty, earthy, darling Thelma Ritter is today’s Friday Face.
That blossoming flower of gerontological hotness, Cayetana, Duchess of Alba, appeared at the Naciones Festival Awards, and she clearly chose to be photographed on a checkerboard floor just to make my day (let me have my moment, okay?).
The unfortunately dressed man on the left (who can’t tell navy from black) is Sevilla Major Ignacio Zoido, and the woman on Cayetana’s left is her buddy Carmen Tello.
This picture can be printed for your wallet, or makes lovely desktop wallpaper, and serves as a mild appetite suppressant.
Ashton Kutcher made news yesterday on TheDirty.com when they reported that he banged some blonde in Las Vegas, and the story went wide. That didn’t prevent the sitcom doofus cleanup man from showing up at some awards nonsense last night at the Kodak, honoring wee TV magnate Ryan Seacrest.
If you don’t think Ashton’s a putz, I offer up that hat as proof. But which of these two is more guilty of a moral trespass? Ryan Seacrest brought us “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” and its multiple spinoff infections.
It was a horrid moment for me, seeing this picture and having the thought that something awful could have happened to even one winged-back hair on her royal noggin, but this pic of Cam and Chuck just grabbed the top prize at the Picture Editors’ Guild Awards in London.
Matt Dunham of Associated Press picked up the honors for the shot of the royal wheels being ambushed by anti-student-fee protesters on Regent Street. Let’s have a closer look, shall we?
The Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Charles were uninjured and proceeded to an event, although I was irreparably harmed.
