Reese Witherspoon’s “Big Little Lies” won its Emmy. Reese Witherspoon’s film “Home Again” is winning its audience. Forget accomplishments. Let’s talk wardrobe.
At a screening for this new movie she was an 18-karat golden girl. The gold hair accompanied a gold dress, gold shoes, gold bag, matching jewelry.
One invitee wore a black-and-white, horizontal-stripe bandage dress. Sort of T-shirt material. Short short. Tight tight. When nobody was looking but me, she quickly gave it a tug tug.
Invitees were an assortment of behinds. Another was in a floor-length bright red thin thin filmy sort of silky fabric. Semi-see-through if you wanted to.
Me, I didn’t want to. Her fabric? Not substantial. An outline of underpants was clearly visible.
The evening was organized by the Cinema Society’s Andrew Saffir, who sported black velvet slippers. No socks.
Candice Bergen, who’s in the movie, wore her long, just-purchased multicolor heavy silk coat. Stunning. Expensive.
Candice: “This is not something that must be returned to some designer in the morning. This is mine. Not loaned by any stylist. I picked this out myself and bought it with my own money. It’s by Dries Van Noten.”
The shoes that complemented colors of the coat? “I bought them on Madison Avenue. At Barneys. And paid for them. They’re Altuzarra.” Off to a side stood her daughter. Said Candice: “See? She is not wearing short short. She’s dressed elegantly. Properly.”
Please try to pay attention
Anyone know Nicole Kidman once told Glamour magazine she missed her first big acting break when director Jane Campion wanted to cast her in a student film that required her to romance another girl and she didn’t feel she could do it? Nicole said: “Instead, I told her I had school exams.”
That was then. Today, “Battle of the Sexes,” the Billie Jean King-Bobby Riggs tennis match story, plays major sapphic scenes of Emma Stone’s romance with a woman. Time flies. So do values.
Anyone also know CBS’s Jane Pauley was a multiple loser in her local homecoming queen elections? . . . And that Scarlett Johansson lost a role in the remake of “The Parent Trap” a lifetime ago because it went to filmdom’s then-It girl Lindsay Lohan?
Now that Daniel Craig signed again for another James Bond like we all didn’t figure he would — anyone know Burt Reynolds, 81, still regrets nixing the 007 role that producer Cubby Broccoli had once offered him? Burt said: “An American can’t play James Bond. Can’t be done. Now, middle of the night, I’ve been known to wake up in a cold sweat going ‘Bond . . . James Bond . . .’ ”
Bits & pieces
Amy Schumer’s new black dog, has sunglasses and little pajama outfits. Name’s Tatiana Ronnie Maslany. In a hurry, it’s “Tati” . . .
2017 Theater Hall of Fame inductees come Nov. 13, are Audra McDonald, Marin Mazzie, Matthew Broderick . . .
Mobile, Ala. Nicolas Cage took time from moviemaking to personally thank Coast Guard Aviation personnel who risked their lives to save others during the hurricanes . . .
Sept. 28. Monte Carlo, Monaco. His Serene Highness Prince Albert II will honor his even serener importantness L. DiCaprio for environmental advocacy, philanthropic endeavors and helping the ocean. Black-tie. Cocktails. Seated dinner. Auction. The whole schmear.
Guy in a T-shirt, passing crowded lower Broadway street, holding a plastic takeout lunch, and hollering into his cell: “Dumb? He’d eat a Nathan’s hot dog on raisin bread with mayonnaise.”
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.