Zurura is beautiful! I love elephants, so I understand completely why you adopted him. They're wonderful, and unfortunately there aren't many of them left. They need all the help they can get.
As for the Oscars, I didn't watch this year (too much to do at home), but I did see the red carpet shots. Salma Hayek probably had the most beautiful gown there, but then, you could wrap her in burlap and she'd be gorgeous. Naomi Watts looked terrible, and Nicole Kidman carried on her Caspar the Friendly Ghost look for another year. :P And Zhiyi Zhang needs to latch onto another color in the spectrum. Yes, she has beautiful pale skin; yes, she has lovely black hair; no, she doesn't need to wear black and white all the time!
Yes, you need to do your fashionista post soon...::grin::
Nicole Kidman would have looked a LOT better if she'd simply done something with her HAIR. That strangly non-starter of a hair style was just plain awful. And I don't mind fair skinned ladies, but downright colorless is another thing entirely.
I'll be getting monthly updates on Zurura so don't be surprised if I pass them on here. He's my baby, after all. Even if I do have to share.
I imagine that if my son did climb on my head it would probably be the last time it would happen. He may be a baby, but I'd still be crunched...::grin::
I don't think we've had any cats that weren't one kind of rescue or another. Some rescued themselves by adopting us. (I'm sure there's some kind of sign that only cats can read on our front porch that says "pigeons living here, move right on in." We've attracted enough strays over the years, it must be a conspiracy.) We've had a couple of purebred dogs, but mostly the mutts have been mutts, too. However they show up, though, they're definitely adopted children here, so Zurura isn't so different. He just doesn't actually live here.
But that didn't keep me from watching--and spending some delightful time tearing apart what the ladies were wearing :) isn't that half the reason for actually watching?
Well, in years when I haven't seen any of the movies nominated for the major awards, tearing apart the dresses is at least half the reason for watching, if not more.
Hey, anyone with a few--really a very few when you think about it--spare dollars can foster one of many available babies, and some older elephants, too. There's even a baby rhino up for fostering. Go look at my baby, then click on the home page to find out how to do it. (The preceding has been an unabashed advertisement for the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.)
Mama Tembo! Ah! I love that movie. And who would not want a baby elephant after seeing those pictures.
Kiera Knightly, who I noticed when I saw her in this LONG boring PBS version of Dr. Zivago (watched because Sam Neill was in it playing, surprise, the bad guy who wants the girl but doesn't get the girl), looked gorgeous in plum. She always looks gorgeous; she makes a stick figure look good somehow.
Actually, she and Scarlett Johanson will get props for me whatever they do, movie-wise, just for going with their natural body type in a sub-culture obsessed with the unnatural.
But the class act of the evening: George Clooney. I adore him. He's definately paid his dues and I was thrilled to see him win, even though it seemed odd that he was in the Supporting Actor category. Also, has anyone worn a tux better since Cary Grant? (Maybe Mel Gibson, who in his heyday could work a Hugo Boss tux like no one else.) But Clooney just has this effortless panache. Maybe because he always looks so comfortable in his skin.
Yes, I picked up a few words of Swahili from watching "Hatari!" about a hundred times over the years, including "Mama Tembo." If anyone ever doubted the cuteness factor of baby elephants, they only have to watch the last ten minutes of that movie with the three babies chasing their "mother" all over town when she tried to leave them.
Clooney is a class act, always has been. He speaks his mind, doesn't pretend to be anyone he's not, but his nature is so genial and quick-witted people love and accept him for himself. And oh, yeah, he can definitely make that tux work. I've heard a lot of people compare him to Cary Grant, and I'm wont to agree myself.
I like Kiera Knightly, I really do, but I just wish she'd learn to stand up straight when she's wearing those red-carpet fashions. Her shoulders always seem to bow forward so much. Is she afraid she'll pop out of her dress? That's how she looks to me.
Clooney can be just a little goofier than Grant (I'm thinking about "O Brother, Where Art Thou" specifically). Cary Grant, even in his most screwball comedies, was always the frantic straight man and never QUITE got to goofy. But other than that...
Someone pointed out that when they showed the concept art for the costumes for "P&P" even Kiera's SKETCH was slouching. Ha! It's a quirk, and I love her anyway. It doesn't do much for the line of a gown, though.
I forgot about Heath. One of the characters in my book looks like Heath, age 18. I didn't realize that until the Brokeback ads started in the fall and I went... Oh! THAT'S who I had in my mind's eye.
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As for the Oscars, I didn't watch this year (too much to do at home), but I did see the red carpet shots. Salma Hayek probably had the most beautiful gown there, but then, you could wrap her in burlap and she'd be gorgeous. Naomi Watts looked terrible, and Nicole Kidman carried on her Caspar the Friendly Ghost look for another year. :P And Zhiyi Zhang needs to latch onto another color in the spectrum. Yes, she has beautiful pale skin; yes, she has lovely black hair; no, she doesn't need to wear black and white all the time!
. . . I need to do my fashionista post soon.
--Kris
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Nicole Kidman would have looked a LOT better if she'd simply done something with her HAIR. That strangly non-starter of a hair style was just plain awful. And I don't mind fair skinned ladies, but downright colorless is another thing entirely.
I'll be getting monthly updates on Zurura so don't be surprised if I pass them on here. He's my baby, after all. Even if I do have to share.
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I don't think we've had any cats that weren't one kind of rescue or another. Some rescued themselves by adopting us. (I'm sure there's some kind of sign that only cats can read on our front porch that says "pigeons living here, move right on in." We've attracted enough strays over the years, it must be a conspiracy.) We've had a couple of purebred dogs, but mostly the mutts have been mutts, too. However they show up, though, they're definitely adopted children here, so Zurura isn't so different. He just doesn't actually live here.
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But that didn't keep me from watching--and spending some delightful time tearing apart what the ladies were wearing :) isn't that half the reason for actually watching?
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Kiera Knightly, who I noticed when I saw her in this LONG boring PBS version of Dr. Zivago (watched because Sam Neill was in it playing, surprise, the bad guy who wants the girl but doesn't get the girl), looked gorgeous in plum. She always looks gorgeous; she makes a stick figure look good somehow.
Actually, she and Scarlett Johanson will get props for me whatever they do, movie-wise, just for going with their natural body type in a sub-culture obsessed with the unnatural.
But the class act of the evening: George Clooney. I adore him. He's definately paid his dues and I was thrilled to see him win, even though it seemed odd that he was in the Supporting Actor category. Also, has anyone worn a tux better since Cary Grant? (Maybe Mel Gibson, who in his heyday could work a Hugo Boss tux like no one else.) But Clooney just has this effortless panache. Maybe because he always looks so comfortable in his skin.
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Clooney is a class act, always has been. He speaks his mind, doesn't pretend to be anyone he's not, but his nature is so genial and quick-witted people love and accept him for himself. And oh, yeah, he can definitely make that tux work. I've heard a lot of people compare him to Cary Grant, and I'm wont to agree myself.
I like Kiera Knightly, I really do, but I just wish she'd learn to stand up straight when she's wearing those red-carpet fashions. Her shoulders always seem to bow forward so much. Is she afraid she'll pop out of her dress? That's how she looks to me.
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Someone pointed out that when they showed the concept art for the costumes for "P&P" even Kiera's SKETCH was slouching. Ha! It's a quirk, and I love her anyway. It doesn't do much for the line of a gown, though.
I forgot about Heath. One of the characters in my book looks like Heath, age 18. I didn't realize that until the Brokeback ads started in the fall and I went... Oh! THAT'S who I had in my mind's eye.
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