Fugger: Debra Messing

Golden Globes Fugs and Fabs and Fines: The Ladies of Smash

Jan 14, 2013 By Jessica AT 2:30 pm
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We may disagree about these ensembles, but I do I think we are all in agreement that we can’t WAIT to hate-watch Smash again.

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Fugloween 2012

Nov 1, 2012 By Heather AT 1:00 pm
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Here are two things I’ve learned from doing postings this Halloween: 1) I am pretty sure Chris Brown’s costume is going to make your head explode, and b) I’d best not even try to ID most of these costume for fear of angering Fug Nation when I get it wrong. Some folks are REALLY disgusted that I happen not to have seen Moonlight Kingdom. It’s like I personally knifed them, just because I can’t watch or get to the movies as much as I’d like. Please forgive, Fug Nation. I hate it when we fight. At LEAST wait until I can acquire and don some leggings as pants, so that your disappointment can be complete.

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Fugbra Messing

Aug 29, 2012 By Heather AT 2:00 pm

I could not love this photo more.

The outfit… snore. The costumers still seem to have problems with proportion on Debra. The jacket itself isn’t a terrible idea, but with the long floaty shirt and the boring pants, the way it hits her mid-thigh isn’t really working. I  mean, maybe it IS just an outdoor coat, so whatever, but since this is a fantasy world in which the characters are never actually outside for more than thirty seconds and thus their ensembles don’t actually have to be functional, Job #1 seems to be: make them look really good that whole time. And the lines of this outfit are just sort of dumpy. Or zzzz.

But mostly I just wanted an excuse to end the day with this photo, because that face is hilarious. All it’s missing are some finger-snaps. I am imagining this punctuating a conversation with her terrible child on the show, or perhaps with the producers (“You want Julia to be MORE irritating and idiotic? YOU GOT IT”), or she’s describing a tussle with last season’s costumer in which they tried to duel with scarves. What do you think when you see this, Fug Nation? While away the rest of the day engaging in some fantasy captioning, if you will. Just for fun. Because it’s hump day and we need to help each other through the damn home stretch.

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Well Played, Debra Messing

Aug 22, 2012 By Jessica AT 1:00 pm

First of all, I would like to say that I love Post-its, so the fact that this is some kind of Post-it event at which Debra Messing is the Post-it Spokesmodel, pleases me:

I kind of wish they’d made her wear something covered in Post-Its — maybe ones with network notes for season two of Smash written on them, like, “can you figure out a way to kill off the kid without it being depressing? Advise,” and “ELLIS MUST GO” and “Karen = The Worst. Y/N?” But since NBC probably wouldn’t sign off on that, I guess this will have to do. Good thing it’s so cute.

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Fug the Costume: Debra Messing

Aug 9, 2012 By Heather AT 9:00 am

In the absence of my fall/winter hate-watch, Smash, I’ve been forced to hate-watch The Newsroom and Bunheads, which is satisfying enough — like scratching an itch when you have the chicken pox: You know it will lead to no good, but damn, in the moment it feels right — but not quite the same. I miss the way Smash’s lofty aspirations come crashing down because they’re tethered to bad characters and weird plots and wrong assumptions and faulty logic… and bad costuming. On that front, I refer of course to Debra Messing’s character and her pathological obsession with dusters and scarves, and the kind of layering usually reserved for extremely homeless people who don’t have anywhere else to keep their stuff. But the new showrunner has also hired a new costume designer, and if this is indeed part of the show, it does it seem like they’ve gone in the opposite direction. Specifically, a nakeder one.

What nightmare is this? She looks like she bought a dress at Goodwill for a mass wedding that will be performed in a meadow moments before another Rapture (a real one this time, I’m sure). If her chest doesn’t file a grievance with SAG, then at least she should pull a diva trip and refuse to come out of her trailer.

Then again, maybe this was just a run-through. Because another set of pictures that appears to be from the same location shows her wearing something entirely different and a lot more Julia.

Her name is now an adjective

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Met Ball Fug or Fab: Debra Messing

May 9, 2012 By Heather AT 9:00 am

This looks better than it did when she was walking around on the live feed.

I happen to think Debra looks better than she did in her Will & Grace days — I think she’s one of those people, kind of like Julianna Margulies, who was always pretty but really clicked in her late thirties/early forties, and she’ll probably look exactly that good for the rest of her days, which will be endlessly irritating to those of us with early-onset crow’s feet. But she paints herself into such a boxy corner. All that gathering up in the navel region is giving her a weird shape, and I keep wondering if it’d work better if she wore it backward. Still, because this photographs much more flatteringly than I expected, I’m throwing it up to a vote. Because it’s possible I don’t know how to judge her anymore when she’s not swaddled in her Smash swobes and scarves, like a refugee from one of those old Top Model challenges where the winner got to keep everything she could put on her body in thirty seconds.

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