Author Archives: Valerie Kuklenski

OK, if you haven’t yet seen Britney in her best black underwear (and I guess we should give her points for covering her bum) as she opened last night’s Video Music Awards, it’s up for viewing on MTV’s site. She … Continue reading →

… for showing excellent judgment in leaving Anna Nicole Smith out of the In Memoriam package. Yeah. technically speaking she was in a couple of movies, but…

Oscar producer Laura Ziskin meant well when she asked for some sort of display on stage of nominated costume designs. But what the hell was that? “Curse of the Golden Flower” and “Marie Antoinette” were showcased nicely, but the corgi … Continue reading →

Was it me or did The Departed screenplay winner William Monahan just get played off very gently to So Long, Farewell from “The Sound of Music?”

Vice President Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio just came out to announce that for the first time in Oscar history, the show has gone green, meaning whenever possible, choices favored those that were ecologically sound. Of course, it probably was much … Continue reading →

Alan Arkin’s win for “Little Miss Sunshine” cuts into the sweep by persons of color. Djimon Honsou of “Blood Diamond” and Eddie Murphy of “Dreamgirls” — who had a leg up from the SAG Awards, we thought — were left … Continue reading →

Great opening sequence with absolutely no frills. Short, sweet and endearing straight-on interviews with the nominees, cut just quickly enough. Thank you, Errol Morris. Then came Ellen DeGeneres. She’s known for her apolitical comedy, and she likes it that way. … Continue reading →

I love Ricky Gervais! If you didn’t catch his video message to Kate Winslet on E!’s red carpet coverage, then it’s going to lose something in this translation. The creative genius behind “The Office” and star of “Extras” was polite … Continue reading →

If you’re ex-Idol contestant and Oscar nominee Jennifer Hudson, one good thing about being interviewed by Ryan Seacrest on the Academy Awards red carpet is his ability to get Simon Cowell eating a heapin’ helping of crow on tape. Cowell … Continue reading →

The Kodak Theatre, anyway. Former Vice President Al Gore, hoping for a documentary award for director Davis Guggenheim’s “An Inconvenient Truth,” just did the red carpet thing with wife Tipper — she in Bill Blass, he in Ralph Lauren. He’s … Continue reading →