While we’re supposed to be focused -- like half of Washington -- on today’s presidential primaries, we are not. This is Oscar Week, just five days from our BIGGEST day of the whole darn year. Oh, the stylists, the hair extensions, the haircolor and handbags.
It’s the Super Bowl for girlie girls worldwide. Bring on the chicken fingers and the Veuve.
On top of our MUST DO BEFORE WE DIE LIST is to attend the Academy Awards, clad in something fabulous. If we met a Genie, definitely this would be one of our three wishes after the big pink house on the ocean and a third wish we will not mention in this space.
Until then, we like to hunker down and watch the entire Oscar show -- from the red carpet arrivals to the best picture, which comes last in a program that is always late. DO caffeinate. (BTW: we are available for our own catty play-by-play just in case someone meaner and skinner falls ill. Everyone’s a critic. Go Cojo.)
Speaking of which: we loved Marilyn Monroe and that girl Lindsay Lohan is NO Marilyn Monroe. Puhleeze. Those pix do put to rest one burning celeb question, tho. Definitely real. Oh, underwire, where art tho?
Our esteemed former colleague Sandra Sobieraj Westfall penned a 25 questions story with the Barackster in this week’s PEOPLE mag. It’s a fun, humanizing piece. He mentions that he’s no longer smoking -- says he never had a huge habit, too much made of it in the first place, he defends -- and he also says he got his wife a nice necklace for her birthday in January. We'd love more details.
We like this couple and think they have a fascinating real-world dynamic -- a balance of power, rather than a powerful partner and an appendage in good shoes. Plus, we are super-keen on quality jewelry. A girl puts up with her guy running for president, she deserves a few baubles for the heartache and loss of private time, right? Tiny Jewel Box, line 1.
Speaking of fashion, WHERE can we get one of the GWB tube tops they are wearing over in Africa where they are digging the prez huge? We must check Ebay or somesuch. Terrific under a nice Comme des Garcons blazer for summer. Something supercute for the conventions.
Nancy Reagan is hospitalized after a fall in her home. We hope she is ok. She looked amazing at the debates but also frail. We are thinking of her and wishing her a speedy recovery. We’d like to have tea with Nancy. She’s a tea kind of lady, dontcha think.
What thoughtful attorney -- given what we know about her fragile mental state -- would suggest that Britney Spears' constitutional rights were being violated because her father, now her conservator, is keeping her home and monitoring who she hangs out with and what she spends? C'mon, counselor ... Give her a chance to recover with some adult supervision. We don't need another Heath Ledger this year.
Pearline, our new fave band. Check em out. Rockin.
-- Andrea Billups, The Washington Times
