Taylor Swift has a tortured history with the Golden Globes. She was once nominated, and she lost, and she never loses awards. She turned up to the show once and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler made a few jokes at her expense, which is the first time Taylor had ever been the butt of a joke before and she threw a hissy fit about it for months afterward. But 2019 is a whole new Snake, and Joe Alwyn’s film, The Favourite, is an Oscar contender. So Taylor decided to come out and present a few awards with Idris Elba. She didn’t walk the Globes red carpet, nor does it look like she posed for photos backstage. But she attend the Warner Bros/InStyle post-Globes party and she even walked the carpet!

Taylor stayed in the same curve-hugging Versace gown for all of the night’s activities. This dress is great, and her body looks amazing in it. I think it’s a combination of things – she’s gained some weight and it looks wonderful on her. I also think she got her breast implants redone, because they look bigger and less bolted-on now? I also think it’s possible she got butt implants. Still, I feel like Taylor’s hair is throwing off the whole look. The hair says “country music awards” but the dress says “Golden Globes presenter.”

We expect wackiness and interesting looks from Janelle Monáe at this point. But was I alone in thinking that the main part of her Chanel ensemble was just… a solid look? It was the gold hat that made everything weird. Sans hat, she would have just looked really cute and sophisticated. As for the hat… why is sitting so high on her head? Why am I hungry for Ferrero Rocher now?

Lucy Liu in Galia Lahav. I love her and I love Elementary, and I was sad when she talked about shooting the last episodes of the show. People really should have watched it, it was SO good. Anyway, Lucy just looked bizarre. She’s lightened her hair, and her dress was not great.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I saw Green Book over the holidays because I had a come-to-Jesus moment that despite the warnings and controversies, Hollywood was still going to give awards to this fakakta film. I was right. I was right about all of it. I was right about the film being bad, and I was right about Hollywood falling all over itself to reward this white savior bulls–t. Just in the past month, multiple critics and analysts have detailed why the film is terrible, and then Viggo Mortensen and Peter Farrelly doubled-down by literally silencing black voices to declare that they knew and understood a black man’s experience better.

Well, at the Golden Globes last night, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association decided to give Green Book as many awards as possible. Mahershala Ali won Best Supporting Actor. Green Book won Best Screenplay AND Best Picture, Musical/Comedy. For whatever record, Mahershala does what he can with this role, and I’m choosing to believe that his talent and humanity comes through the terrible white-savior script. But I’m starting to get a pit at the bottom of my stomach about Green Book, that it will be this year’s Three Billboards. By that I mean, Hollywood is all too eager to give awards to films where white racists are the heroes, where they’re “saved” and given all of the humanity. Green Book is All Lives Matter: The Movie.

“the winner is green book” pic.twitter.com/4IHmf2qpY7

— wes (@fashioniconluke) January 7, 2019

great optics for Green Book, a film about race relations in America pic.twitter.com/pJT1um3gy2

— Kathryn VanArendonk (@kvanaren) January 7, 2019

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So we’re sitting around LaineyGossip HQ last night, trying to arrange all the articles and picking out the perfect pairings – people who it makes sense to talk about together – all while navigating dogs and narrowly avoiding ‘that person is MINE’ skirmishes. Then someone (Kathleen?) says, “Oh, Duana…

So we’re sitting around LaineyGossip HQ last night, trying to arrange all the articles and picking out the perfect pairings – people who it makes sense to talk about together – all while navigating dogs and narrowly avoiding ‘that person is MINE’ skirmishes. Then someone (Kathleen?) says, “Oh, Duana…

Do you remember how hot Jamie Lee Curtis looked at the Halloween premiere this fall? (God I loved that movie.) Here’s a link to those photos. She had on a menswear-inspired look showing lots of cleavage and her hair was spiky short and cute.

Last night a lot of people loved Jamie Lee Curtis’ look, particularly her silver hair. The color was amazing but there was something off about the way it was styled and her makeup was wrong. Jamie told Access Hollywood that she bought this white McQueen dress three months ago before she knew her plans. It’s a gorgeous white gown, I love how sleek it is and the silver diamond across the front is so cool, but this is an example of how styling makes all the difference. Her coloring is off, her eye makeup is too dark and her lips are too nude plus she needs to do something different with her hair. I’m sorry for criticizing this queen but I know how much better she can look!

Nominee Connie Britton was also in white, in a Christian Siriano strapless gown featuring silver beading in a delicate diamond striped pattern. She lost in the Actress in a Limited Series category to Patricia Arquette, who won for Escape at Dannemora. I really liked her look, it’s safe but kind of perfect for the evening. I have Dirty John on my DVR waiting for me! I listened to the podcast over the holiday and was enthralled.

Speaking of Patricia Arquette, she was in Vivienne Westwood and she looked incredible. During her acceptance speech she put on a pair of bedazzled reading glasses and now I want some. (I wear bifocal contact lenses now, I don’t quite need reading glasses, but give it a few months.)

Here’s her speech! She got beeped for saying “how many f-ing teeth does a person need?”

Allison Janney was also in McQueen. She looked a little high to me when she was presenting with Sam Rockwell. Maybe she was just imbibing a bit, that seems to be common at The Globes. This gown is amazing, I love the draping and how it fits her like a glove.

Photos credit: WENN

Richard Madden’s face is a distraction. I found his face distracting in The Bodyguard. I mainlined the series in about a day so it’s not that his distractingly attractive features took away from my viewing experience, it’s just that Richard Madden’s got a face that you can’t stop staring at. It’s DI…

Richard Madden’s face is a distraction. I found his face distracting in The Bodyguard. I mainlined the series in about a day so it’s not that his distractingly attractive features took away from my viewing experience, it’s just that Richard Madden’s got a face that you can’t stop staring at. It’s DI…

I only recently saw Tully, and I have to give Charlize Theron a lot of credit for it. Not a lot of actresses would have gained all that weight and then exposed their body for role about postpartum depression and the realities of motherhood. Charlize’s reward was… a Golden Globe nomination, well-deserved, but she flew under the radar so much because no one really talked about her performance. Charlize seemed resigned to flying under the radar too – this Dior gown doesn’t seem like what you would choose if you were actively Oscar campaigning. It’s an okay dress, and on-trend with a lot of the black-and-white vibes. But it was just sort of boring and safe. Even the too-large bow didn’t irritate me.

I was surprised to discover that Dior dressed other women besides Charlize, and that Dior gave their best custom look to… Kiki Layne, star of If Beale Street Could Talk. This was such a princess moment on Kiki, like the kind of princess moments Dior gave Jennifer Lawrence. I love this.

My least favorite Dior? Elisabeth Moss’s Dior cocktail dress. YIKES.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, WENN.

That’s what Olivia Colman called them when she was accepting her award for Best Actress Drama last night at the Golden Globes: Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz are her “bitches”, with much more affection than how Chrissy Metz allegedly referred to Alison Brie, a situation that Duana has already solved – …

That’s what Olivia Colman called them when she was accepting her award for Best Actress Drama last night at the Golden Globes: Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz are her “bitches”, with much more affection than how Chrissy Metz allegedly referred to Alison Brie, a situation that Duana has already solved – …