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Last night, in between trying to get dinner
ready, kids bathed, and put to bed, I watched the Oscars. Maybe I am biased, but I thought the women that looked the
most beautiful, most relaxed, and most centered were the mamas.Michelle Williams gets my vote for best...everything. Best dress (thank you for choosing something other than a "neutral," and for pulling it off), best hair, best make-up, best smile. In the pre-show, it was nice to hear Heath Ledger say that he didn't need an Oscar because he had Michelle and their baby daughter Mathilda.
Jennifer Garner, mama to baby Violet, almost tripped as she approached the microphone. Never mind. She recovered quickly and quipped that she "does all her own stunts." She also proudly showed off her most...um..."productive" assets.
Hooray for Reese! She's a mother of two and when interviewed before the show, she said that she was allowing six-year-old Ava to stay up late and watch the Oscars. I bet she's glad she did. I wasn't crazy about her dress, but Reese was positively glowing as she collected her award for Best Actress for Walk the Line.
Meryl Streep also looked radiant in a moment of acting brilliance with Lily Tomlin. Ad-libbing and improving in a tribute to Robert Altman, I found that I couldn't take my eyes off her. She is so beautiful, so serene, so earth-motherly. She pulled off a plunging neckline and still looked tasteful and elegant.
And finally, Rachel Weisz accepted her Best Supporting actress award for The Constant Gardener while seven-months pregnant. She was also exuding confidence and beauty last night. In the movie, she wore a prosthetic pregnant belly that looked so realistic, people thought she was really pregnant.
It was a great night for the mamas at the Oscars!
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3-06-2006 @ 7:21PM
eden said...From everything I know, all the women you mentioned are also positive role models.
If you've heard or read Reese interviewed, she often talks about not only the dearth of positive female celebrity "role models" but about how detrimental the actions of some female celebrities are to the self-esteem of young girls. That's what I got out of her speech, which I thought was great (probably b/c there were nice long shots of Joaquin Phoenix during it but that's neither here nor there).
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3-06-2006 @ 9:20PM
daisy said...I don't really get why you are singling out moms here, especially more than dads. Jada Pinkett Smith wasn't more relaxed than her hubby. And weren't most of the women there moms? One who wasn't, Sandra Bullock, looked pretty darn relaxed too.
Maybe if the moms were particularly relaxed, it was because they weren't worrying about the high price of the nanny at home with their kids.
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3-07-2006 @ 6:52PM
LB said...Reese is okay.. but who was she trying to impress with the "Ava can stay up" crap? On the WestCoast the show was over by 8:30ish, maybe there was a chance it would have run to 9:30, not exactly late enough to call child protective services. Maybe she was trying to convey that she is in-control and grown-up? To look like the perfect parent afterletting Dad take the baby on a bike without a helmet?mmm?
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3-12-2006 @ 11:00AM
Rachel said...does anyone know if Reese is pro-life or pro-choice.?.
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