FameCrawler : oscars 2008

Katherine Heigl Wants To Get Knocked Up

sweatpantsmom — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:55:00 GMT

Life imitates art? Katherine Heigl, who was a presenter at last night's Oscars says she's ready to get knocked up just like her character in last year's hit movie. After only two months of marriage to musician Josh Kelley, Heigl says they're going to start trying in July. You know, 'start trying' is code for 'having sex.' At least that's what my fourth grader tells me.

Heigl, who topped many best dressed lists in her Escada gown, says Kelley may not be as eager to jump into diaper duty. “I say I want to start in like July,” Heigl revealed. “He’s saying the following July. I’m thinking maybe a compromise — sometime in December.”

You know, 'compromise' is code for 'he'll do what I say if he wants to ever have sex with me again.'

Indiana Jones Hauled Away From Post-Oscar Party By Cops!

HerBadMother — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:50:00 GMT

Harrison Ford is, apparently, so deeply influenced by his Indiana Jones alter-ego that he can't just, you know, go the Oscars and the parties and drink heavily before being parcelled home in a limousine like all the other celebrities. Harrison needs to go the Oscars and the Oscar parties and get liquored up and escorted home in the backseat of a police car.

Okay, I don't know about the liquored up part, but I do know that he was - with partner Callista Flockhart (who, between you and me, needs a sammich even more desperately than does Courtney Love) - escorted home from Elton John's Oscar party in a police car. Which, you know, is pretty wild and crazy stuff for a guy who's, what? In his sixties? Even if the cop-escort was just because his own car-and-driver went missing.

According to E! Online, Harrison and Callista just got stranded, and needed a lift:

“They were standing outside waiting for their car to pick them up,” a source reports. “They called and called and called the car, but the driver never showed.”

Deputies from the West Hollywood Sheriff's Station came to the rescue. They offered Indiana Jones and the Brothers & Sisters star a lift.

"Harrison and Calista accepted and were taken home in the back of a squad car!" says my source.

A spokesman for the Sheriff's Department insists the missing car became a public safety issue because people were crowding around Ford and Flockhart. They were driven less than a mile to the Sunset Tower hotel to visit some friends, the rep says.

So it wasn't facing a speeding three-ton boulder or face-melting Lost-Ark-farts, but whatevs. Still kinda exciting.

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Cate Blanchett Backstage At The Oscars

HerBadMother — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:28:00 GMT

Cate Blanchett is, in my opinion, incontrovertible proof that God is a woman.

I mean, look at her: she's gorgeous, but not in that slobbery obvious way preferred by many men, and she's very obviously intelligent and strong-minded, and she carries pregnancy like a goddess. There's absolutely no reliance on glossy sexuality or wide-eyed nymphy prettiness (I'm looking at you, Jessica Alba.) She's just woman. And she rocks.

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The Oscars 'In Memoriam' Montage: Who Was Forgotten? Who Is D-List Dead?

HerBadMother — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:45:00 GMT

Heath Ledger's video memorial was, of course, the final and most loudly applauded of the memorials included in the 'In Memoriam' tribute at last night's Oscars - but who was snubbed?

Well, that depends upon how you define 'snubbed.' Is it a snub for some featured memorials to receive no or little applause when others are loudly applauded and cheered? If so, most of the memorials in last night's Oscar tribute to Hollywood's dead were snubbed: the only significant reaction from the audience came for Ingmar Bergman and, as expected, Heath Ledger. Most others received little or no reaction. That guy who did some sort of make-up or effects work for Jurassic Park? Crickets. Which, you know, has gotta suck for those poor, dead Members of the Academy watching from Heaven or Hell or Living-On-Residuals Purgatory or wherever they are. You get the honor of a memorial at the Oscars and the audience of your peers just sits on their hands? Brutal.

Still, it's worse to be forgotten entirely. Robert Goulet was left out of the montage entirely (I know - who? That's my point.) More notably: Brad Renfro. His memory wasn't honored. Wasn't he one of Hollywood's great bright hopes just a few years back? A handsome young man who starred alongside the likes of Susan Sarandon, Sir Ian McKellen, and Robert de Niro? Why wasn't his death memorialized?

(And don't get me started on the exclusion of Anna Nicole Smith. Appearances in The Naked Gun IV aren't enough to get you in alongside some stunt guy from those Chuck Norris movies? Puh-leeze.)

Is there anything worse than to be considered D-list dead? To be out-died by random make-up artists and stunt guys with better publicists than you? Hollywood sucks.

Philip Seymour Hoffman at the Oscars

Whit Honea — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:35:00 GMT

Philip Seymour Hoffman and his wife walked the red carpet at the 2008 Academy Awards. Hoffman was nominated for an Oscar but didn't win. Damn good actor though.

Photo: Oscars.com