8 photos in galleryOr, as I described this to Heather, “a bunch of famous people looking okay, and then some less famous people looking insane.” Plus Alexander Skarsgard.
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Fugger: Winona Ryder
Fugs and Fabs: The Disconnect Screening
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Well Played, Winona Ryder/OMG Ray Liotta
5 photos in galleryI have a lot of thoughts. Most of them are encapsulated as: WINO FOREVER.
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SAG Awards Fug or Fab: Wino Forever
Wino has been swaddled in black as of late — you know, in case you missed that she’s in Black Swan — so it seems only natural that she’d flip the coin and turn up at the SAGs in bridal white. Maybe she finally watched the movie and was like, “Oh, Black Swan is TRIPPING,” or maybe she wants this to symbolize her lifetime re-commitment to the industry and doing the kind of great work we all remember from… well, from before Mr. Deeds. Unfortunately for her, The Dilemma is already out there. We know about it, Wino. But if you really will use this dress to marry better scripts in the future, we will pretend it never happened. No real dilemma there.
However, despite the Someone Just Shot Bambi In My Peripheral Vision fear in her eyes, can we just note how gorgeous Wino’s face is, still, after all these years? Lordy.
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Well Played, Wino Forever
Winona’s last few appearances on the red carpet have been tragic. Or at least semi-tragic. So this warmed the cockles of my heart, which are usually kept at a very frosty sub-freezing temperature:
It’s really simple, yes, but it’s the best combination of soft and flattering that she’s sported in a long time. And now I want to go watch Heathers again. Although really, it does not take much to get me to want to watch Heathers – death by Drano, Shannen Doherty, “I love my dead gay son,” and Martha Dumptruck, and… well, it’s all so very, you know? It’s a BIGGER deal that this makes me want to watch Reality Bites, the movie that in my youth I thought was very funny, and in my current state of adult decrepitude makes me want to scream at people about wearing bras, getting a goddamn job, washing their hair (I’m looking at you, Ethan Hawke), and not being pretentious assheads (ditto). Like, when you start rooting for the Taye Diggs character in Rent, and Ben Stiller in Reality Bites, and you cheer for Janeane Garofalo in that movie when she tries to get Wino a job at The Gap, you know you’re inching outside the target demographic. Although, I like to think of it as wisdom. PAY THE RENT, PEOPLE. Pay for your Snickers. God.
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Who Fugged Menswear More (Or Less): Wino Forever vs Leighton Meester
Right on the heels of Leighton Meester’s foray into a suit comes Winona Ryder – whom I will never not refer to in my head, and often in print, by the edited version of Johnny Depp’s tattoo that once honored her — at the Black Swan premiere. By the way, did anyone even know Winona was IN Black Swan? Frankly, I couldn’t have named anyone who took part in it other than Natalie Portman, but apparently it’s got Wino and Vincent Cassel and Barbara Hershey, and Mila Kunis, and even Guiding Light‘s Tina Sloan and Gossip Girl‘s Sebastian Stan (Leighton’s ex, coincidentally). Who knew? I guess it’s all about Natalie with the marketing.
But not right now — this one’s all Wino, forever and always:
She went for more boring — so, practical — footwear than Leighton did, and replaced the actual necktie with a diamond pendant that seems to be approximating a bolo. It’s sort of Veronica Sawyer-sassy, maybe with a touch of a grown-up version of her Gothy Beetlejuice character, or, like, the lady vicar at Edward Scissorhands’ church. However, that is hair I’d sooner expect to see on Jo March’s mother, Marmee, than on the former embodiment of Jo herself. I guess that’s what ending up with boring old crusty Professor Bhaer does to a girl.
What do you think? Love it, loathe it, only like it in comparison? Vote it up and then chat it up.
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Fine or Fab: Wino Forever
Winona always looks like she is terrified in advance, as if she owns an unruly pet and hates going home because she just knows the sitter is going to tell her that it ate another pair of shoes and then tried to mate with her purse.
Which is too bad, because this is a perfectly nice outfit. With confidence — just a little extra zing — she could sparkle in it. Look how not-tentative she is here. What do we have to do to bring back that girl? She’s still gorgeous, and I REALLY want her to get into a project I’m excited to see because I miss her, but it’s hard to sell either an outfit or oneself if you look like you are about to duck preemptively in case the locust plague starts.
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