A gentle reminder that fashion-mad Quinn has three holidays:
1. #AcademyAwards
2. #DragCon
3. #metgala2022If you do not celebrate these holidays, feel free to mute me today.
— Quinn Cummings (@quinncy) March 27, 2022
I always enjoy Quinn Cumming’s ‘Small Stories’, and her fashion snark is on point, too…
Naomi Scott in Fendi. I appreciate the color but also think she might be an altar cloth during Advent. pic.twitter.com/nZVCheaOvq
— Quinn Cummings (@quinncy) March 27, 2022
Maria Menounos does so many of these events. You'd think she'd have run out of old bridesmaid dresses. pic.twitter.com/sOes7WT40O
— Quinn Cummings (@quinncy) March 27, 2022
Tracey Ross looks happy in her Carolina Herrera.
That makes one of us.
Those are some truly unsettling proportions. pic.twitter.com/CwPDOEqt8F
— Quinn Cummings (@quinncy) March 27, 2022
Y’all need to click over & see the full image here, because ‘kilt-inspired formal shorts’ would *not* have been on my red-carpet bingo card…
Wesley Snipes doing to black tie what he previously did to the IRS. pic.twitter.com/ONcoL4aqi9
— Quinn Cummings (@quinncy) March 27, 2022
I kind of don't hate it. It doesn't hurt that Kodi Smit-McPhee is built like an armature and has the vibe of a gentle alien who came to earth to go to art school. pic.twitter.com/5wjF3TxtrP
— Quinn Cummings (@quinncy) March 27, 2022
Here's a fun way to determine your age.
Did you just look at this picture and:
a) sigh in lust.
b) sigh in irritation,
c) try to remember which one this one is. pic.twitter.com/MP2PH07wtA— Quinn Cummings (@quinncy) March 27, 2022
"I wish to be taken seriously as a director so let me dress as a mashup of Beverly Goldberg and an Ionic column." pic.twitter.com/Z4VnhtIesR
— Quinn Cummings (@quinncy) March 27, 2022
Ooh, pockets. pic.twitter.com/JFR7Ud3jP1
— Quinn Cummings (@quinncy) March 27, 2022
West of the Rockies
Slapping Chris Rock… good choice or poor?
Cacti
Will Smith definitely made history.
First man to ever win Best Actor and commit a misdemeanor on the same broadcast.
piratedan
@West of the Rockies: guessing that Mr. Smith was not feeling generous to tolerating quips tossed around cavalierly regarding his spouse’s medical condition in front of a world-wide audience or even a congregation of their peers.
PJ
@piratedan: It was a joke, he and she are celebrities, it comes with the territory. (And not everyone has a subscription to People Magazine to know whether a c-list celebrity has a medical condition or not.)
PJ
@piratedan: It was a joke, he and she are celebrities, it comes with the territory. (And not everyone has a subscription to People Magazine to know whether a c-list celebrity has a medical condition or not.)
NotMax
Fashion is something I barely take any notice of, but I do kind of miss Mr. Blackwell.
PJ
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NotMax
Let’s see… (rummages among obscure and/or amusing links for any fashion related).
Ah, yes. Hermione Gingold, “Hats.”
piratedan
@PJ: it’s Chris Rock, so yeah it was a joke, obviously Mr. Smith was NOT amused.
you can say that Rock was classless for bringing it up, you can say that Smith was thin-skinned for reacting how he did, or you could say that he felt that he was defending her honor (or by extension even his own)… I can say that this will likely be memed to oblivion by daybreak.
tom
@PJ: Making fun of someone over a medical condition isn’t a joke, and it doesn’t matter how many people know about it, it’s out of line, and funny or not isn’t a valid excuse. Will shouldn’t have done what he did, Chris shouldn’t have done what he did.
Geoduck
Though evidently Smith did laugh at the joke at first, and then saw that Jada was not joining in the merriment. So it may have been more an impulsive attempt to immediately get back into her good graces rather than actually hating the joke. May or may not make any difference.
Steeplejack
PJ
@tom: you can’t make a joke about a medical condition if you are unaware of it. Rock was making a stupid joke about the shortness of her hair.
mrmoshpotato
@Steeplejack: What? Is Ukraine aid the decision of Morning Blowjob-For-Dump?
Dangerman
@West of the Rockies: Poor. Not like he needs the money but he just lost some future roles.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
All I know is that I slept through the Oscars (hello, daylight savings in Europe) and woke up to check and see what is happening on my Twitter feed (on a good day, John Scalzi and Chuck Wendig will be having a silly argument and competing to see who can be the hammiest and silliest, or Ursula Vernon will be waxing about some interesting agricultural thing), and all I could see were competing hot takes on the Slap.
Unfortunately the level of sufficient caffeine to mentally deal with this drek exceeds the level of sufficient caffeine to cause an acute health hazard.
I dunno. Maybe it’s like Brexit, in that everybody ends up losing but not everybody realizes it at the time.
Jsaintanne
@West of the Rockies: done with Will Smith. Those fake alligator tears cancel “Best Actor” award.
Martin
@Dangerman: Smith produces most of his own movies these days. He’ll keep hiring himself.
This will all be fine. There will be something in the next week that they talked, Chris apologized, Will apologized. Some attention will be paid to alopecia or medical conditions in general.
What won’t be fine is the usual suspects will work overtime to decide if this is black thuggery or proof of cancel culture or a double standard that Smith isn’t being treated like the Jan6 crew. From what I can tell, black twitter seems to think Will did the right thing, but this was over and buried by the end of the evening and wishes in the future everyone would leave their hair the fuck alone.
SamIAm
@Dangerman:
I doubt it. Here’s ten different brawls and most had no impact to their careers.
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/insane-times-celebrities-got-fistfights-set.html/
Martin
I think the big takeaway here is that we should all be thankful that an altercation between two black males didn’t result in the LAPD busting into the room and murdering both of them.
SamIAm
@Martin: True
Tehanu
Dresses: Very little in the way of hideous this year — a few misfires — and very little in the way of wonderful either. I thought Penelope Cruz looked the best all around.
NotMax
Bringing it all together (in cinema self-parody): slap at a fashion show.
;)
prostratedragon
Wesley Snipes channelling Rufus Thomas?
https://www.eastportlandblog.com/2018/04/08/ancestors-grandpa-still-got-it-the-great-fulfilled-promise-of-memphis-mr-rufus-thomas-by-davin-michael-stedman/
Cacti
@Martin: The flip side to that take is that it’s just one more confirmation that laws are for little people.
An average person does that to another in a public setting, they get a ride to the police station.
Baud
I went to bed and didn’t see any of it, but congrats to the Academy to figure out how to get the Oscars to go viral on social media.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@Tehanu: no, no. The director who dressed like a disco ball was the best. (photo)
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Oscar winner Billie Eilish (photo)
She changed gowns for her stage performance – much better.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Critics like to razz Kristin Stewart, but it takes guts to dress like a tomboy at these snotty gigs. And she pulls it off.
NotMax
Y’know, in 20/20 hindsight they could have shelled out a few more bucks and laid down a blue and yellow carpet, rather than red.
geg6
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:
Really? You think? Perhaps I just can’t get past her horrible performance as Princess Diana, but I thought she looked awful. Lots of awful clothes. Billie Eilish apparently went to the ceremony after draping herself in a plastic leaf bag. Tracie Ross had on a dress about six sizes too small. And Chris Rock could just as easily made fun of that thing Jada Smith had on. He’d have probably still gotten slapped but that was one fugly dress.
germy
Betty Cracker
@Baud: Didn’t see it live either. Are we sure it wasn’t a bit? They’ve both got acting chops!
geg6
@Betty Cracker:
It was definitely not a bit. Crazy shit.
germy
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
I’m not sure of anything anymore.
germy
His acceptance speech was powerful
debbie
@West of the Rockies:
It was a dumb choice, and he did himself no favor by crying during his acceptance speech. There’s always after the ceremony.
Maybe the Academy should stop letting comedians have any hosting duties. Has there been a year in recent history where an audience member not been upset at some point?
debbie
@geg6:
Seconded. I miss pretty dresses. Never wear them, but I miss them.
Al Z.
@West of the Rockies: I’ve read a lot of back and forth on this after seeing this, wondering the same. But then I watched the incident in context; the full minute of jokes before this one and I can definitely say that if you are offended by this joke – even granting he knew she had a medical condition – then you should probably avoid comedians at all cost. Getting assaulted for a relatively innocuous, throw-away joke is an absurd display of toxic masculinity. Chris Rock did nothing wrong.
VOR
@NotMax: Much easier to complain that a leader whose country is fighting a war for its survival wasn’t invited to a gathering of celebrities multiple time zones away. Man’s in a freaking war zone under fire and they want him to appear.
Apparently the red carpet isn’t exactly red, it’s a special color which is a trade secret.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
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