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<\/a>The stars of Conclave, (L-R: John Lithgow, Ralph Fiennes, Sergio Castellitto, and Isabella Rossillini,) which won the Ensemble award. Photo by Karen Salkin, as is the one of Pam Anderson at the top of this review.<\/p><\/div>\n
The first is a bit of painful advice from me\u2014you should all watch Conclave<\/em> right now<\/em>, so you\u2019ll know what is happening possibly next week, if you get my sad drift.<\/p>\n Another is that this show is so unpopular these days that they have it on Netflix now, where the general population can\u2019t even watch it! So rude. Either no network nor even cable channels feel that this presentation is worth their time, or the powers-that-be are just too cheap to produce the show elsewhere other than a streaming channel. Shame.<\/p>\n Even the E channel didn\u2019t bother with an arrivals show! What is up with that<\/em>???<\/p>\n But my main complaint is about this\u00a0<\/em>acting competition and<\/em>\u00a0the Oscars one. I was trying to figure out why several actors and actresses have been nominated in the wrong categories, not just this<\/em>\u00a0year, but always<\/em>! (The Golden Globes don\u2019t count because they\u2019re a private entity who just nominate stars they want to show up! And they reward actors in both comedy and drama, just so they can give the nod to ten<\/em> people in each category instead of the usual five<\/em>.) It\u2019s insane that Zoe Saldana, (who is the main<\/em>\u00a0actress in Emilia Perez<\/em>,) Kieren Culkin, (who is an equal co-star to Jesse Eisenberg in A Real Pain<\/em>,) and especially Ariana Grande, (who is one hundred percent equal to Cynthia Erivo in both screen time and billing<\/em>\u00a0in Wicked<\/em>,) are in the Supporting category!!! That\u2019s just nuts!\u00a0 And Demi Moore, who\u2019s in less than half of The Substance<\/em>, (and most of that is lying on the floor sedated or just looking at herself age badly,) put herself in the Best Actress race, most likely because she does\u00a0<\/em>get star billing in it. (By the way\u2014she shouldn\u2019t have been nominated in any<\/em>\u00a0category, period!)<\/p>\n Demi Moore at the Independent Spirit Awards, with her dog and in a super-nerdy outfit, to boot, the night before the SAGs.<\/p><\/div>\n I\u2019ve been trying to get to the bottom of those obvious unfairnesses, with not much satisfaction. I believe that the studios or actors themselves can submit in whichever category they choose. Often they choose Supporting because they feel they can\u2019t win against their co-lead, or a studio does it that way to try to win both<\/em>\u00a0awards, and not dilute the voting for their stars. But it\u2019s all a total shonda! It should not be allowed. The governing body of each voting entity should not accept submissions from liars or cheats. I\u2019m just sayin\u2019.<\/p>\n One last thing. (Well, two<\/em>, actually.) Women will just screw themselves if they keep campaigning to not have gendered awards. Just as they now do at the Independent Spirit Awards. Speaking of them, I just have to say how obnoxious it was of Demi Moore to bring her dog<\/em> to that event! Very entitled of her. And creepy.<\/p>\n And I\u2019m sorry that I couldn\u2019t live-tweet enough because Netflix doesn\u2019t let you pause the action nor go back! You can watch it only live<\/em>! What is this\u2014the \u201950s??? I did manage to tweet a tiny bit, but I found-out much later that I had been using the wrong hashtag, so I\u2019ll repeat some of those thoughts here. (I know\u2014this is beyond<\/em> a first world problem!!! I\u2019m just explaining what happened.)<\/p>\n NETFLIX ARRIVALS<\/strong><\/p>\n I definitely needed commercial breaks during this to live-tweet more!<\/p>\n Jane Fonda, on the right, dealing with that inane interviewer! Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n And who the f is the dark-haired interview woman??? Jane Fonda<\/strong> sooo didn\u2019t want to deal with her. And Jodie Foster<\/strong> was so much nicer to her than that creepy woman deserved! (I found-out later that she was someone named Lily Singh. I have no idea who that is, but she should never be allowed to talk to people on TV ever again!)<\/p>\n The other host was actress Sasheer Zamata<\/strong>, who was on a sitcom that Mr. X and I loved, Home Economics<\/em>, a few years ago, which we still can\u2019t believe was cancelled after just two seasons! I like Sasheer in general, and she did well talking to people, but that other one\u2026ugh!<\/p>\n Demi Moore’s neck. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n Demi Moore<\/strong>\u2019s neck is proof that plastic surgery cannot be done very satisfactorily on that area. With all the work she\u2019s had on her visage, you know she would have done her neck, as well, if it was possible. But it is<\/em> winter now, so she should have opted for a high-necked dress at this point. Long sleeves, too. And gloves<\/em>, while she\u2019s at it!<\/p>\n Quinta Brunson<\/strong>\u2019s dress was adorable. And Joey King<\/strong>\u2019s was the best! (You can see Joey’s dress in my tweets from Sunday.)<\/p>\n Pamela Anderson<\/strong> really needs to start wearing make-up again! Going to big events bare-faced is for\u2014this is a news flash\u2014people who look good that way!!! Enough already. It\u2019s just depressing to see her looking like that! I\u2019m just hoping that we\u2019ll find-out down the road that this period of no make-up for her was a hoax, like the one that Joaquin Phoenix did in 2008, when he acted crazy for a year for what turned-out to be a documentary. (As pale as Lisa Kudrow was that night, at least she tried a little!) [Note: That’s Pamela Anderson at the top of this page. Photo by Karen Salkin.]<\/p>\n One of Ariana Grande’s horribly-tattooed hands.<\/p><\/div>\n What has Ariana Grande<\/strong> done that to her hands??? Mr. X and I both separately thought she was wearing black lace gloves!!! She should ask her ex, Pete Davidson, how to get rid of them.<\/p>\n I love that my choice for Best Stunt ensemble for movies, The Fall Guy<\/em>, won! (They announced the Stunt winners on the red carpet because God forbid they\u2019d take the time on the show for the important stunt men and women to go up to the stage and say thanks!)<\/p>\n Who knew that journeyman actress Wendie Malick<\/strong> speaks so well and is so intelligent? She explained everything she said perfectly and without one phony word or inflection. Good for her. Also, good for Sasheer in this exchange: At one point, Wendie said, \u201cYou don’t have to be a serial killer to play a serial killer,\u201d to which Sasheer slipped in a low-key, \u201cThank goodness.\u201d I love that.<\/p>\n SHOW<\/strong><\/p>\n Kristen Bell and Leighton Meester recreating a Gossip Girl moment. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n The SAGs rarely have a host, and I always think it\u2019s better that way because it moves so much faster than hosted awards shows. But I\u2019m re-thinking that now because host Kristin Bell<\/strong>\u2019s bits were amusing.\u00a0 And quick enough. I especially liked her Gossip Girl<\/em> bit with Leighton Meester<\/strong> because I watched that entire series back in the day, and am now a fan of Leighton. (And of her husband Adam Brody, as well\u2014I love them together!)<\/p>\n I\u2019ve never seen Hacks<\/em>, but that opening bit was hilarious! I love Jean Smart<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Good for them to have a table of firefighters. (But just one<\/em> table???)<\/p>\n Nobody looks great on Netflix! Perhaps it\u2019s their lighting or the quality of their broadcast.<\/p>\n Did everyone but me know that Kristen Bell sings??? I had forgotten about her in Frozen<\/em> a dozen years ago. I guess I was too busy for Disney movies back then.<\/p>\n The “before they were stars” bit that we would have liked to see straight-on and full screen! Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n But when she was doing that bit about actors before they were very famous, they should have shown the audience the screen straight on<\/em>, (so we could see the images better,) not to the side of Kristen to make sure she was the featured image! They just wanted to remind people like me that she sings.<\/p>\n The old-before-her-years Millie Bobby Brown. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n We both thought that Millie Bobby Brown<\/strong> was Ivana Trump at first, until we realized that Ivana died three years ago, at the age of seventy-seven! So Mr. X asked who this<\/em> was, and I asked him how old he thought she was, which he replied was mid-forties. He was shocked when I said she was only twenty-one!<\/p>\n Kieran Culkin<\/strong>, who was the Supporting Actor victor, gave a funny speech, but it was a tad weird of him to basically bite the hand that feeds him.<\/p>\n Comedian Kumail Nanjiani<\/strong> is in shape and muscular, but his really sloping shoulders are weird.<\/p>\n Look at Kumail Nanjiani’s weird shoulders! Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n I would have really loved to hear the speeches of TV comedy winners\u00a0Jean Smart and Martin Short<\/strong>, but she was working and he had just gotten Covid at least week\u2019s SNL<\/em> Anniversary show! Shame.<\/p>\n Jamie Lee Curtis<\/strong> is the only smart older woman\u2014she was covered up from head to toe; only her head was showing!<\/p>\n As always, Colin Farrell<\/strong> gave the best speech.<\/p>\n What a great political speech from Jane Fonda<\/strong>! And on a shallow note, she looks fabulous for someone with so much surgery! It really worked for her. After all, she\u2019s eight-seven! That woman is going down fighting! she just may be my new idol!<\/p>\n Jamie Lee Curtis’ smart older-woman dress. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n She didn\u2019t speak like an old woman. And her eyes looked beautiful. I was impressed that she didn\u2019t let the sound system glitches bother her.<\/p>\n There was absolutely no reason for winner Zoe Saldana<\/strong> to be gasping like she was during her acceptance speech.<\/p>\n When giving the award for \u201cEnsemble in a Drama Series,\u201d David Duchovny<\/strong> explained, \u201cEnsemble. It\u2019s a French word that means \u2018Thank God I have to work only 3 days a week.\u2019 \u201d That was cute. And true!\u00a0 But he messed-up the rest of the presentation by opening the envelope with the winner before he announced the nominees<\/em>!<\/p>\n Anna Sawai<\/strong> from Shogun<\/em> is a gorgeous girl!<\/p>\n Selena Gomez, now on the left, and a year ago on the right!<\/p><\/div>\n How, and when<\/em>, did Selena Gomez<\/strong> get so skinny? She does not have \u201cOzempic face<\/em>,\u201d but she\u2019s clearly using one of the weight loss jabs, (even though she\u2019s denying it.) And good for her\u2014she looks soooo much better like this!<\/p>\n Lisa Kudrow<\/strong> needs to fire her make-up peeps pronto! Or hire new<\/em> ones. At this show, she needed darker lipstick, (her pale lips<\/em> blended in with her uber-pale face<\/em>,) must better underlie concealer, mascara, and a tan! At the very least. She looked zombie-esque, which actually could have been in purpose since she was introducing the In Memoriam segment. (And if she looked like that because she was sick<\/em>, she should have stayed home and not foisted her germs on the assemblage! Just sayin\u2019.)<\/p>\n Uber-pale Lisa Kudrow. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n Of the sixty or so deceased actors they paid tribute to, I think I personally knew about 10%.\u00a0 That made me sick.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t even know that some of them had died! Those In Memoriam segments in all awards shows get more heartbreaking every year. I was especially upset about funny woman Mitzi McCall\u2014I always think I\u2019ll bump into her and her funny husband, Charlie Brill again at any second.<\/p>\n Even while watching all the SAG-nominated films, and voting for them, I had not realized just what a great crop of male nominees in the Lead Actor category they were! (Winner Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet<\/strong>, expected<\/em> winner Adrian Brody<\/strong>, Ralph Fiennes<\/strong>, Daniel Craig<\/strong>, and my<\/em> fave\u2014Colman Domingo<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n Timoth\u00e9e gave perhaps the most honest speech ever, but it showed just how young he is.\u00a0 I\u2019m afraid some people will turn against him for saying that he wants to be one of the greats!<\/p>\n Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet’s mom in the middle. Am I right in my assessment of her looks or am I right? Especially sitting next to classy Jane Fonda! Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n And why did his mother show-up looking like an old Italian Madame, with her nakedness and sixty-five-year-old boobs hanging out???<\/p>\n And just when are actors going to realize they don\u2019t have to bend down to microphones??? Come on, kids\u2014that\u2019s \u201cTalking Into a Mic 101!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>