18.1.09

Somewhere?

It’s that season again. Hollywood rolls out the red carpets. Limo drivers spiff up their stretches. Stylists coif and dress the Swells.

It will be very interesting to watch the round of award ceremonies this year. Why this year more than any other? Because, as many Americans are tightening their belts and cutting back on luxuries like dinners out, starlets don’t seem to be affected in the least.

The red-carpet gauntlet at the Golden Globes was awash in sequins, and tulle, and lace. And baubles. While some writing-heads on “news” blogs remarked about Hollywood getting the memo to tone down the bling, there were still enough precious and semi-precious stones draping décolletés to make Mr. Arpels blush.

Escapism is one of the few things that bad economies are good at, along with alcohol consumption. Conceivably, the awards shows, and the Inauguration and its ubiquitous balls, offer us a glimpse of what was once and what may well be again. Somehow. Some day.

8 comments:

  1. Funny you'd post this today- Sundance Film Festival is going on right now here- just put that type of Glam in a small mountain home town!
    It's quite the mix!!!

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  2. I have to admit a strange fascination with all of these shows......

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  3. As long as Kate Winslett wins the gong for the best Kate Winslett award, I’ll be happy.

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  4. Hello, thank you for adding my blog in your favorites, it's nice of you, I always enjoy watching the Awards, of course not recession is not for Hollywood, Hollywood is there for us to forget about our miseries, it's allright with me.
    can you explain what is: "Kaffeeklatsch" please?

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  5. I dare to admit my love of the glitz and glam of Hollywood, while wishing there were others (the Footballers' WAGs) who went without, instead!

    Thank you for capturing the Zeitgeist, you! x

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  6. It's a nice escape, for sure. Albeit too short-lived... :o(

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  7. I love old Hollywood glamour. Those gals really knew how to pull it off!

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  8. I tend to think that people want escapism during these dread times and thus the spectacles will be spectacles rather than accommodating to the new times.

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