ahhh, the red carpet. this year, i had so much to say that i even live-blogged it. i gotta a lot of opinions… apparently.

the ladies to the left had me over the moon in awe. kate beckinsale – i dunno, maybe it’s just her rockin’ bod – but she looked incredible in this kaufman franco gown. and playing up her curves big time was j.lo in this little number by giorgio armani prive.

another favorite was glee star lea michele in oscar de la renta. she’s got it right at the globes too! however, maybe it’s time to go for some color? she’s a fan of black.

penelope cruz chose the gorgeous red ensemble by donna karan. as far as i’m concerned, she can do no wrong. and wrapping out my fave top 5 is rachel mcadams… holy beautiful! she rocked this watercolor elie saab gown. pure perfection.

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and now for the worst. i almost gagged looking at a few of these. sarah jessica parker leads the pack with this beyond fugly canary-yellow dress by chanel. what’s with the darn neck scarf? and i’m hating the shapelessness. nicole richie was arm candy to fiance joel madden, who DJ’ed the event. unforch, she got it oh-so-wrong in this elvira-esque reen acra dress. stripes at the oscars? i don’t think so.

and charlize. ohhhh charlize what the HECK were you thinking?? the lavender boob-cupping is not flattering. this is one time dior couture was not a good look for her. definitely my “worst dressed” for the evening! now, diane kruger wasn’t quite so bad. i actually would’ve liked her chanel choice had it not been interrupted mid-way by those ruffles. close, but no cigar.

zoe saldana’s gown had the makings of a gorgeous dress… great fit, inventive, sparkly and purple. until the camera panned down to the bottom. what the balls? (literally )this givenchy gown was stirrin’ up quite the controversy. she looks like a paper mache project! and my favorite, as one reporter put it, “how do you say UGLY in na’vi?”

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and for good measure, i threw in two gentlemen that got it right. first we have my celeb crush ryan reynolds in a classic tom ford tux. you can never go wrong with a good-fitting suit! i have to hand it to robert downey jr. for being inventive here. while i don’t love the blue sunglasses, i am a hug fan of the blue bow tie. his lanvin tuxedo even coordinated well with his wife’s! now, that’s cute.

alright, so what are you thinkin’? agree or disagree on my best/worsts?

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9:02 – alright, that was fun. after 6 hours of live-bloggin’, i’m done-zo.

8:59 – THE HURT LOCKER wins best picture!! wow! what a big upset!! director kathryn bigelow thanks all the men and women serving in any capacity in our country… “they’re there for us, and we’re there for them.”

8:58 – tommy hanks is here to present for best picture. love him!

8:53 – best director: kathryn bigelow for the hurt locker. the first time a woman has ever won in this category!

8:44 – best actress in a leading role: sandra bullock for the blind side. “did i really earn this, or did i just wear ya down?” what a great acceptance speech!

8:27 – and now for the big dogs… best actor in a leading role: jeff bridges for crazy heart. it’s THE DUDE! how cute, he thanks his wife of 33 years.

8:16 – quentin tarantino is weird.

8:12 – sidenote: the first academy award ceremony in 1929 lasted only 15 minutes. we’re now going on 3 hours. HA!

8:06 – quick shot of the hosts backstage… wearing matching orange snuggies, of course.

8:02 – i heard this afternoon that academy award hosts only get about 15-20 minutes of screen time during the 3-hour broadcast. boo! i need more steve martin & alec baldwin.

7:56 – “remember, the world we created for you is just as amazing as the one we live in.” – winner for visual effects, from avatar.

7:52 – best original score: up!

7:47 – just realized farrah fawcett wasn’t included in the memoriam! MAJOR mistake on the producer’s part.

7:38 – JAMES TAYLOR!!!! singing RIP to patrick swayze, brittany murphy, roy disney, michael jackson, natasha richardson, etc…

7:36 – and avatar picks up it’s first oscar of the night, for cinematography.

7:35 – sandra bullock to the cinematographer on her movie sets: “dude, make me look good.”

7:28 – elizabeth banks is funny!

7:23 – “yeah, yeah, it’s me.” – morgan freeman, when announced that a famous voice would help narrate the sound editing “how-to” video. effective, because i don’t think anybody knows what sounds mixing/editing even refers to!

7:19 – ooooo a tribute to horror films: jaws, the exorcist, chucky, psycho, the shining, scream, silence of the lambs, etc…

7:17 – steve and alec in a film short… “i can’t believe they didn’t get us our own rooms!” as they share a bed the night before their hosting duties…

7:11 – the young victoria wins for costume design. take a look at the trailer. did the film deserve to win?

6:58 – best supporting actress: mo’nique for precious. i saw that comin’ from a mile away! “thank you to my husband for showing me that sometimes you have to forego what’s popular to do what’s right. and baby, you are so right!”

6:55 – “later, the governor’s ball will be held. just one of the many balls that will be held in hollywood later tonight” – robin williams

6:52 – good choice of dress, queen latifah! very flattering.

6:48 – best adapted screenplay: precious.

6:39 – ben stiller comes out in full avatar gear… “this seemed like a better idea in rehearsal…”

6:38 – i HATE when they cut people off, especially people who aren’t well-known. it’s just sad.

6:30 – zoe saldana, again, what the heck are you wearing?!

6:18 – “hey ferris, it is your day off?” paying tribute to legendary director john hughes. so cool, got all the old gang together to celebrate him!

6:15 – best original screenplay: the hurt locker. well-deserved.

6:04 – miley slips up while presenting… “it’s our first time here, we’re a little nervous!” the winner for best song: “the weary kind” from crazy heart.

5:57 – cameron diaz & steve carrel with a HIIIIlarious dialogue about being so “dazzling” that it’s hard to look at them. going through the nominees for best animated feature film… and the award goes to: up!

5:46 – best supporting actor award goes to: christoph waltz for inglorious basterds. YES!

5:41 – “christoph waltz [of inglorious basterds] plays a nazi obsessed with finding jews. well, christoph (motions to the audience)” HAHA!

5:40 - penelope cruz steals the show in that donna karan couture gown of hers!

5:39 – the boys pull out their 3-D glasses to take a peekeroo at avatar director james cameron.

5:37 – “oh look, it’s that damn helen mirren.” “steve, it’s dame helen mirren.”

5:35 – paying honor to the most nominated actress of all time… meryl streep!! or, as steve martin put it, she’s got the “most losses.”

5:34 – i love steve martin & alec baldwin. and i loved it’s complicated. so funny!

5:32 – alright, neil patrick harris is now in a sparkly tux, singing his little heart out. wow, this is a big theatrical number! complete with showgirls and kick lines…

5:31 – the curtains open, and all the best actor & actress nominees are on stage! that’s new.

5:30 – okay, thanks ABC for the last of the red carpet coverage. let’s get on with the show!!

5:26 – meryl looks incredible! favorite part of the night, she says? “getting inside, sitting down & slippin’ off the jimmy choos!”

5:23 – kate winslet always is “best dressed” in my book. gorgeous ensemble, and loving the canary yellow jewelry.

5:22 – miley cyrus, pull your darn shoulders back. bad posture is one of my biggest pet peeves!

5:19 – sidenote, ABC has some great new shows out this year… modern family, the middle, cougartown. love them all!

5:15 – watching the ceremony in high-definition is a whole new ballgame. no amount of make-up can’t help you hide from the cameras, ladies!

5:10 – kathy ireland is the most awkward interviewer i’ve ever seen. what were you thinking, ABC?

5:05 – i hate when hosts ask the celebs if they’re “happy to be there?” yeah, obviously!

5:02 – the five best supporting actress nominees are up on the platform. what a gorgeous array of dresses!

5:01 – sherri shepard & kathy ireland open the oscars. wait, why?

5:00 – did ya see my best & worst of the red carpet?

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3:00 – flip on the E! channel, as ryan seacrest opens up the evening. let the red carpet begin! (check out my coverage of the ceremony itself here!)

3:03 – it’s raining, this should be interesting.

3:04 – avatar star sam worthington and girlfriend are the first on the red carpet. nice accent! he says it took 4.5 years to shoot and edit avatar. wow!

3:07 – zac efron, presenter, walks up… says he say avatar 4 times! and the best part was sam’s acting. sam replies, “well that was the best $100 bucks i’ve ever shelled out. aww, cute celebs.

3:10 – up in the air’s anna kendrick in a beautiful blush-toned gown is up next… i still can’t take her seriously with that horrible twilight acting.

3:12 – mo’nique pops by with her husband (remember their “open marriage” policy? weird)

3:19 – robin thicke & wife paula patton walk by – she’s about 7 months prego! brave girl for walking the red carpet.

3:25 – zoe saldana, oh man. i LOVED your givenchi dress… until i saw the bottom. why are poofy balls attached to your dress?? she still looks gorge though.

3:27 – joel madden and nicole richie… joel is DJing the oscars? interesting! nicole looks way better as a blonde…

3:28 – ryan reynolds. *swoon!*

3:30 – vera farmiga’s dress is GORGEOUS! dyyyying. beautiful color, beautiful cut. by far the best dressed so far (dress is marchesa).

3:35 – i don’t know why, but i just cannot STAND tina fey or her fashion choices.

3:38 – james cameron’s wife looks like a skeleton! gray hair and all. james says they had a cover title for the project so it would be kept a secret… “project 880″.

3:40 – nominee (for crazy heart) maggie gyllenhaal and hubby… she’s cute, but i’m just not a fan of the shapelessness of her gown. straight down, nothing much goin’ on. ha! husband says he got drunk dials from maggie while rehearsing!

3:42 – i love elizabeth banks. she presented the “nerd oscars” aka the sci-tech oscars earlier this week.

3:44 – “it’s not about money, cars, things… it’s all about your connection with other people” – tom ford, in a dazzling self-designed suit.

3:45 – E! poll comes in with 72% of people saying mo’nique will bring home the award for best supporting actress (precious).

3:50 – lenny kravitz & daughter zoe stop by… wow, his daughter looks just like him.

3:58 – seacrest now with diane kruger, here for my favorite film of the year, inglorious basterds. says she had to learn 30 pages of dialogue for her audition! one word to describe quentin tarantino on set? “mad,” she says!

3:59 – sandra bullock, oh sandra. nominated for the blind side. love her gown so incredibly much! the gold see-through, lacey-ish dress looks stunning on her, especially with the red lipstick. “whenever i walk up those stairs to present or whatever, i just don’t want these heels to drag this body down!”

4:02 – tyler perry, talented but insanely arrogant. why does he have to attach his name to the title of every movie he does? (tyler perry’s why did i get married, i.e.)

4:04 – amanda seyfried with seacrest talking about her next role, red riding hood. great make-up, but the armani prive dress is lacking color.

4:05 – big mike from the blind side! ahh! he’s so precious. his job before this? security guard.

4:06 – “people don’t realize how good he really is, because he’s actually a 5′8 white guy” – the blind side co-star tim mcgraw

4:09 – E! poll tells us that 69% of people are vying for sandra to take home the oscar for best actress. like, duuuuh!

4:13 – iiiiiiiit’s miley! that voice, so manly. stand up straight, lady! why the heck does miley cyrus’ mom have angel wing tattoos on her back? awkward.

4:15 – sarah jessica parker in a chanel couture gown. like the color, hate the scarf-type wrap she’s got. hubby matthew broderick is gettin’ old! oh ferris, where are ya?

4:18 – what the FRICK is charlize theoron wearing?? i’m just not a fan of drawing major attention the the “ladies.” but i do love the purple color. (obvi)

4:24 – george clooney shows up with his latest squeeze… looks like he had a hat on before, there’s a crease in the back of his hair. weird!

4:29 – clooney & queen latifah talkin’ about keeping acceptance speeches short. “i even voted for jeff (bridges, nominated for crazy heart). i said, ‘jeff, keep your speech short’” – georgie

4:31 – i love my meryl! nominated for best actress, julie & julia) she has a style of her own, that’s for sure. she confronts ryan about his award pick (he choose sandra!)

4:33 – j.lo, baybee! in an “irridescent pink” gown. definitely a good choice, loving it!

4:39 – keanu reeves is here! my bf’s bro-in-law’s secret twin.

4:40 – best actress nominee gabby sidibe from precious is so cute, at the oscars for the first time ever. “if fashion was porn, this dress would be the money shot!”

4:43 – i’m loving robert downey jr.’s fashion tonight – the blue bow-tie is different, and a very welcomed look.

4:49 – gerard butler is such a relaxed, cool guy. ryan reveals, he has a small dog? ha!

4:52 – rachel mcadams, without a doubt a “best dressed” for me! love it!

4:58 – show’s about to begin! cameron diaz on camera, presenting at the ceremony. she looks quite cleaned up! love the gown, sparkly gold flecks everywhere.

5:00 – it’s ceremony time! check out my coverage of the ceremony here!

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make sure your trays are folded up and your seat is back in its upright position because more reality tv is zoomin’ in to your living room. okay, that was obnoxious. but so is this: the CW has greenlit a reality tv show based on the personal lives of five flight attendents working for virgin america. the CW boasts,

“fly girls follows [the ladies] as they jet from one glamorous location to the next, including las vegas, south beach and new york city, while purusing good times, great parties, adventure and love.”

i don’t know about you, but the flights i’ve been on have all seemed quite boring. the ladies will also share a “crash-pad” in la la land, california. check out some cast interviews here.

if you ask me, this is just about co-branding. virgin america and the CW are tootin’ each other’s horns all over the place. smart move, actually. the CW says their partners at virgin are offering the “hip, sophisticated vibe” that today’s travelers are looking for.  and virgin hits back that the CW is helping to bring the “style and fun back to flying.” alright, whatever you say guys! fly girls premieres on march 24th.

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i bet this guy is just kicking himself right about now… co-producer of the academy-award nominated film the hurt locker took a fairly unconventional approach to garnering support for his film. nicolas chartier sent out a mass email to beg for votes!

umm, can we say against the rules?! take a look at chartier’s desperate email below…

i hope all is well with you. i just wanted to write you and say i hope you liked hurt locker and if you did and want us to win, please tell (name deleted) and your friends who vote for the Oscars, tell actors, directors, crew members, art directors, special effects people, if everyone tells one or two of their friends, we will win and not a $500M film, we need independent movies to win like the movies you and i do, so if you believe the hurt locker is the best movie of 2010, help us! i’m sure you know plenty of people you’ve worked with who are academy members whether a publicist, a writer, a sound engineer, please take 5 minutes and contact them. please call one or two persons, everything will help!

what the heck was he thinking? and did you catch that dig at favored best picture winner avatar? even though he quickly realized his HUGE mistake and wrote an apology letter, the damage had already been done.

deemed an “ethical lapse” by the academy executive commitee, they have ruled to bar the hurt locker producer from the awards ceremony. it’s truly sad, because the movie was actually pretty darn good. did he ruin the hurt locker’s chances for picking up the best picture award? i guess we’ll see!

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how cute can they possibly get? power couple extraordinaire jay-z and beyonce are precious beyond words. and rich. and beautiful. oh yeah, and extremely talented!

rarely do we head the either of them dish on their relationship, but jay-z was less tight-lipped than usual this past weekend. the music mogul let loose on BBC’s friday night with jonathan ross, and crap, he’s kinda funny! watch above… and prepare to giggle.

he says of his wife, “she’s a magnificent performer… i steal routines from her, she stole many things from me. the whole ‘uh-oh’ dance. i started that.” (speakin’ on beyonce’s famous single ladies video). he goes on to say that it was him who choreographed the famous hand flip in the vid! “i actually created that dance. that was me, again.” oh, jay. i’ll believe it when i see it!

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unless you’ve been holed up under a rock, you know that american idol’s beloved simon cowell plans on parting ways with the ratings king at the end of this season.  so that leaves randy jackson, kara dioguardi and newly-minted ellen degeneres to hold down the judge’s fort. room for one more?

well, that’s what perez hilton is hoping for. the self-proclaimed celebrity and gossip blogger is campaigning - hard – to take over cowell’s spot. see his desperate plea above! it doesn’t sound like he has much of a case, considering his biggest rationale for hopping on the idol stage centers around the fact that he’s “gay.” oh really? because we weren’t quite sure.

my thoughts closely mirror this guy’s comment… “if this douche nozzle ever ended up on idol, i would never watch it again!!” but others, like simon cowell himself, think perez might be a good fit. please, spare us!

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poor girl. poor poor girl. after years of speculation, lindsay lohan finally admits to her alcohol & drug use… to the UK’s sun newspaper of all places!

she must be really hard-up for cash if she was willing to divulge these dark secrets. or maybe it’s part of her recovery? she gives a blow-by-blow account of her two drunk driving arrests, three rehab visits, and cocaine usage.

the underlying cause of her erratic behavior, she says now, was her father airing the family’s dirty laundry in public.

“that’s when i hit rock bottom. i abused substances too much, and it wasn’t the answer to my problems. people need to know that… i tried to mask my problems with alcohol, cocaine, and mind-altering substances. now i’m in a place where i don’t need to use anything and i feel emotions because i choose to.”

fame really did a number on her, unfortunately. lohan goes on to say that she never wants to lose everything she’s worked for. but it ain’t a secret that the actress hasn’t been in any hit movies lately. so the question is, has the damage already been done?

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got an iphone? then you must download this application like, yesterday. because it is so insanely important that you have a one-stop shop for all your heidi montag & spencer pratt needs.

alright, now that the sarcasm is out of the way… what the heck is going on here?! for the low price of $1.99, you can gain “exclusive access” to the world of everyone’s favorite media mongers. the itunes store has released the app, named speidiweb, with a description that reads:

“the premier iphone app application for fans of heidi montag and spencer pratt, and supporters as well as fans of MTV’s the hills. gain exclusive access to unseen photos, candids, and videos unavailable to fans, until now. new photos, youtube videos, and ustream files will be constantly uploaded, to keep your experience ‘fresh’. live streaming music from heidi’s newest albums, will keep you entertained while you browse. like a track? simply click the ‘buy’ link and go straight to the itunes store on your iphone. don’t like this track? click next and keep browsing.”

so what are you waiting for? download speidiweb today! or perhaps you have better ways to spend $1.99… like maybe on a pack of gum.

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no shock here… thinner-than-thin celeb victoria beckham is adding her two cents about the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA)’s new “health is beauty” campaign. the campaign encourages stylists, designers and others in the fashion industry to work with healthier-sized models.

while guest hosting on ‘the view,’ victoria says of the issue “most of these girls are naturally thin and i don’t think we should be discriminating against someone because they are too thin or too curvy or too large or whatever it is.” point well-taken, but how in the world can designers tell which ones are “naturally thin” and which are starving themselves every day?

take this girl for example… model coco rocha was told to lose weight at a size 6! a former vogue cover model, rocha lost out on catwalk work because of her refusal to drop sizes. why risk her health? and hear this: model luisel ramos stuck to a menu of green leaves and diet coke for 3 months before runway season… and suffered a fatal heart attack as a result. nobody learned. just six months later, her own sister passed away of malnutrition! so sad. victoria, watch what you say next time. this is too serious to make assumptions.

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