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<\/a>Parker Posey, arriving in her nightgown and robe. Photo by Karen Salkin, as is the one at the top of this page.<\/p><\/div>\n
As proud long-time Screen Actors Guild members, this is the awards show we were actually the most interested in because we vote for the \u201cActors.\u201d I don\u2019t think that any of our choices won this time, but I didn\u2019t expect them to. I actually correctly predicted just about every single award winner, even though I\u2019ve seen only three television<\/em> nominees! I know how these things go. Everyone was surprised by Michael B. Jordan\u2019s Best Actor win, (which was wholly undeserved,) but I<\/em> knew it would happen.<\/p>\n And FYI, I live-tweeted some of my thoughts on those proceedings, @MajorCelebrity<\/strong>, so you can still read them there because I usually don\u2019t repeat my tweets in my articles in this e-zine.<\/p>\n E ARRIVALS<\/strong><\/p>\n Get those creepy hosts out of here. They\u2019re sooo phony, especially that woman. She called Abbott Elementary<\/em>\u2019s Chris Perfetti<\/strong> \u201cPerEtti,\u201d with no \u201cf\u201d in the middle! How stupid for a host who should know every celeb\u2019s name. But at least the male host was somewhat amusing, possibly by accident.<\/p>\n Demi Moore, looking like a cadaver. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n Why did they show old<\/em> videos of people walking in when it turned-out that they were clips from other shows??? Creepy. This was actually the first time I was tweeting on time<\/em>, and it all tricked me into commenting on some of the guests like it was live. (But people still read them, with no negative comments, so I guess I\u2019m safe on that front.)<\/p>\n Sheryl Lee Ralph<\/strong> is very talented, but she\u2019s also annoying. However, I enjoyed that she tried not to \u201ctwirl\u201d when the inane host demanded she do it, because she knew her back fat would show. Not a great look.<\/p>\n We had never heard of actress Yerin Ha<\/strong>, (still don\u2019t know what her claim to fame is,) but we both said that she seems lovely and darling.<\/p>\n The Pitt<\/em>\u2019s Patrick Ball<\/strong>, (whose name I recognized because I reviewed him in a play last year,) looked like he literally just woke-up and grabbed his girlfriend\u2019s skirt by accident.<\/p>\n Odessa A\u2019zion<\/strong>, the woman who played the maybe-girlfriend in Marty Supreme<\/em>, looked like a witch. What is wrong with her? Has anyone ever seen her and that creepy girl from America\u2019s Got Talent<\/em>, The Sacred Riana, together?<\/p>\n That awful host, on the right, pushing her guest’s arm down so she would stop talking! Wow. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n The awful female host, Keltie Knight, had no idea who Adam Scott <\/strong>and Britt Lower<\/strong> from Severance<\/em> were, (neither do I, by the way,) so she asked inane questions, such as, \u201cHow long are the hallways on set?\u201d On top of that, when she wanted to get rid of them, but Britt was about to talk more, Keltie literally changed microphone hands so she could push Britt\u2019s miked hand down to prevent her from speaking more, and then summarily dismissed the duo! I\u2019ve honestly never seen such rudeness on a red carpet! (I had to look all<\/em> of their names up now, including the host\u2019s, because I had no idea who any<\/em> of them are!!! But if I<\/em> were hosting these shows, I\u2019d sure as hell research everyone<\/em> beforehand!)<\/p>\n Irina Shayk. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n I was already in love with the acting<\/em> of Hamnet<\/em>\u2019s Jacobi Jupe<\/strong>, but his red carpet interview was the absolute best one I\u2019ve ever seen. I mean it. He\u2019s eleven and every word he uttered was perfect. And to cap it all off, when the host ended it by saying, \u201cHave a good time tonight,\u201d that adorable child replied, \u201cYou, too.\u201d I\u2019m crying over here.<\/p>\n How is Bradley Cooper\u2019s ex, Irina Shayk<\/strong>, a model<\/em>??? Even Mr. X said, \u201cWhat are her boobs doing?\u201d They were hanging down, plus her hair was filthy and disgusting. I wouldn\u2019t leave the house with mine looking like that. And why was she even at an acting<\/em> awards show?<\/p>\n Good for Janelle James<\/strong> to say that success can buy stress relief. Most of us never thought of it like that. (Perhaps that\u2019s why I\u2019m always stressed!)<\/p>\n Teyana Taylor. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n Why in hell would nominee Teyana Taylor<\/strong> wear a dress that has nipples painted on the boobs??? Mr. X even noticed it from afar. (The guests to the side of her when she was being interviewed on the other channel were as shocked as we were by the choice, which you can see in my tweet about it.) And we cannot understand a word she ever says.<\/p>\n Every time we see Demi Moore<\/strong> these days, Mr. X and I both say, \u201cOh my God. Ewww.\u201d Does she not have a mirror in her house? Nor anyone to tell her what she looks like?<\/p>\n I guess that Parker Posey<\/strong> didn\u2019t have time to get dressed. She rolled out of bed with her nightie and robe and just went with it. But it definitely looks like she saw how old she looked on The White Lotus<\/em> and got a lot of plastic surgery since then. But in this case, good for her.<\/p>\n NETFLIX ARRIVALS<\/strong><\/p>\n This was another arrivals show with weird hosts. And who were they? We never saw, nor even heard of, either one of them before. The woman is soooo nasal and has the worst voice; she sounds like someone doing an SNL<\/em> skit.<\/p>\n The Miss Piggy doppelg\u00e4nger Megan Stalter. Notice her visible panty line. And more importantly, the cigarette in her hand. How offensive! Photo by Karen Salkin!<\/p><\/div>\n Even worse than her voice, though, was that she had absolutely nothing interesting to say or ask. And she kept cutting-off what the interviewees were saying! She wasn\u2019t listening to them at all. The woman was absolutely not even attempting to engage in a dialogue with anybody.<\/p>\n I never heard of, nor saw, the Miss Piggy look-alike, Megan Stalter<\/strong>, but she looked disgusting. Why would anyone choose to look like she did at an awards show??? She even brought along a dirty purse, like she was going to Walmart. Ugh. And even worse is that she was walking around with\u2026a cigarette!!! I\u2019m sure it\u2019s because she feels she has to be outrageous to distract from her awful hair and body, but that was many steps beyond. (But her face is pretty and she and her co-worker were amusing on the show, so perhaps there\u2019s hope for her. She just needs a major gym membership for a few years and to shave her head and start her hair all over again.)<\/p>\n Ali Larter. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n Ali Larter<\/strong> is stunning! And did I hear right that she said she\u2019s fifty? She looks much younger, and naturally so. Mr. X and I both said that she must have seen my Ret Turner-designed dress that I wore on my first Tonight Show<\/em> appearance because hers looked very similar to mine. Great minds\u2026 (But I<\/em> got mine at Cher\u2019s garage sale, so I get extra props for that.)<\/p>\n Kerri Russell <\/strong>and Matthew Rhys<\/strong> seem like such a lovely couple. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen either of their work, but I just may look for them now.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n THE ACTORS AWARDS SHOW<\/strong><\/p>\n Having the show on Netflix this year was very weird. Until near the end, the telecast could not be paused and you couldn\u2019t go back. And there are commercials that you can\u2019t barrel through! It\u2019s like watching TV in the \u201950s. I have a feeling that it was the only channel SAG could get the show on, or the least expensive, or some such business decision like that. I hope they go back to TBS, or whatever it used to be on, next year.<\/p>\n Michael J. Fox. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n I\u2019m sure I wasn\u2019t alone in getting choked-up when Michael J. Fox<\/strong> did one of those little \u201cI am an actor\u201d anecdotes at the beginning of the show. Everyone loved seeing him there.<\/p>\n Everyone in Hollywood seems to think it\u2019s cute or clever to curse in public. But it\u2019s just classless. I\u2019m from Brooklyn, so I swear like a truck driver in real life. (Or, at least, my origin story is my excuse to do so.) But, in the almost four hundred<\/em> episodes of Karen\u2019s Restaurant Revue<\/em> that I did, which was even on cable<\/em> TV, I never cursed even once! And trust me, I had lots of reasons to over the years! The cursers really need to stop it.<\/p>\n Case in point\u2014Heated Rivalry<\/em>\u2019s Connor Storie<\/strong>, (who had just hosted SNL<\/em> the night before!, so good for him,) said something about \u201ca shit ton of pills.\u201d That was totally not necessary. And he looked so pleased with himself for doing so.<\/p>\n How gorgeous is Jacob Elordi<\/strong>??? I\u2019m still wondering how Guillermo del Toro ever thought that this gorgeous man could play Frankenstein\u2019s monster! (He did<\/em> pull it off, of course, and beautifully.)<\/p>\n Lisa Kudrow. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n Michelle Williams<\/strong> should have definitely mentioned her Dawson\u2019s Creek<\/em> \u201cboyfriend,\u201d James Van Der Beek, in her acceptance speech! When she started talking about how your co-stars are your family, that\u2019s where I thought she was going. Shame that she didn\u2019t think the same way.<\/p>\n How dumpy has Lisa Kudrow<\/strong> gotten? Sad.<\/p>\n I knew that Catherine O\u2019Hara was going to win. It would have been wrong for her not to. I<\/em> even almost voted for her, even though I\u2019ve never seen the show she was on.<\/p>\n But Seth Rogen<\/strong>\u2019s acceptance speech on Catherine\u2019s behalf was perfect. It could not have been any better.<\/p>\n (L-R) Tyler the Creator, Timothee Chalamet, Odessa A\u2019zion, and Gwyneth Paltrow. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n With Timothee Chalamet<\/strong> the most normally-dressed of a group, you know that was one odd-looking cast presenting their film, Marty Supreme<\/em>. Tyler the Creator<\/strong> must have mistakenly thought he was going to a clambake in winter, and, as usual, Gwyneth Paltrow<\/strong> thinks people want to see her bare chest and different-sized sideways breasts, and, as mentioned before, Odessa A\u2019zion looked like a literal witch.<\/p>\n Harrison Ford. Give that man a tissue for his runny nose, please! Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n That was the best that Woody Harrelson<\/strong> has ever looked! Still not good, but better. And I totally felt for him when his jokes were not going over with the audience\u2014I lived that experience myself once, when I opened for the Temptations and Four Tops! It\u2019s a horrible feeling of inadequacy. You just want to run off the stage and hide forever.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve always known that Harrison Ford<\/strong> is the dullest person who ever lived. And his speech proved it. It was completely devoid of humor or charm. But he is<\/em> eighty-three, so I\u2019m giving him a break. But he still needs to know enough to wipe his running nose, though.<\/p>\n Amy Madigan<\/strong> gave the best speech of the night. Her talk about the anatomies of Barbie and Ken was so real.<\/p>\n Sarah Paulson, looking like The Undertaker. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n I guessed that the In Memoriam section was coming by what Sarah Paulson<\/strong> looked like. She looked like the undertaker, or like she was auditioning for Amy Madigan\u2019s role in Weapons 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n That was a lovely and appropriate musical interlude after In Memoriam. I paid attention to Miles Caton<\/strong>\u2019s guitar-playing this time because he had said earlier that he learned guitar just for his Sinners<\/em> role, which I had not known. [My image of it is at the top of this page.\u00a0Photo by Karen Salkin.]<\/p>\n That entire several-segments-long ping-pong tournament bit was soooo stupid and time-wasting! I\u2019ve adored young actor Jacobi Jupe<\/strong> since I saw him in Hamnet<\/em>, but the writers of that insanity missed the mark\u2014the winner of this fake tourney should have naturally been Timothee Chalamet! What were they thinking?!<\/p>\n Jacobi Jupe. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n Even as the major mani lover that you know I am, I was impressed by Jessie Buckley<\/strong>\u2019s and Emily Watson<\/strong>\u2019s unadorned fingernails, which told us that they<\/em> don\u2019t give a fig about such things at all.<\/p>\n Michael B. Jordan<\/strong> gave a very nice and appreciative speech when he won Best Actor. Although I feel he deserved it least of all five nominees, it was nice to see him be so moved, and the entire assemblage so happy for him.<\/p>\n And then my favorite moment of the night came when his film, Sinners<\/em>, won for Best Ensemble. Not because of its victory, (because it\u2019s an awful movie,) but because I got to witness the chivalry of its young star, Miles Caton, who helped not one<\/em> of his female co-stars up the steps to the stage, but two<\/em> of them at the same time! Lovely young man.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>