Ever think to your self “Self, let’s play out a few Mad Men senarios” but were afraid to approach your friends over it?  (Everyone wants to be Joan.)

Men Barbie and Ken Dolls!  Only in this case it’s (from left to right) Joan, Roger, Don and Betty. 

 Play out various office politics, dramas and shenanigans including morning romps in the executive lounge, afternoon cocktails in Roger’s office, and of course, non-stop cigarette smoking courtesy of Lucky Strike.

The dolls are definatley not set at mid 1960’s prices ($75 each) and are aimed at collecters available this summer.

What on earth happened to Joan’s curves?  Mattel is going to get an earful over Barbie Joan’s lack of a va-va-voom figure, if a backlash hasn’t started already.

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Best Picture – The Hurt Locker 

Best Director - Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker”

Best Actress – Sandra Bullock, ‘The Blind Side”

Best Actor – Jeff Bridges “Crazy Heart”

Best Supporting Actress – Mo’Nique, “Precious”

Best Supporting Actor – Christoph Waltz, “Inglorious Basterds”

Best Original Screenplay – Mark Boal, “The Hurt Locker”

Best Adapted Screenplay – Geoffry Fletcher, “Precious”

Best Cartoon - Up

 The Academy chose substance over style giving top honors to The Hurt Locker over Avatar (which pretty much cleaned up in all the technical awards).  Up in the Air was also shut out of every award it was nominated for (maybe this explains Clooney’s bitch-faces?)

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The Academy Awards can still occasionaly surprise. 

Like when Neil Patrick Harris came out on stage instead of Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin and performed an opening number to kick off the 82nd Academy Awards.

(For one split second I thought he was doing it instead of Martin/Baldwin.)

After his stint at the Emmy’s, the question was why can’t he do the Academy Awards?  After last night the answer is there’s no reason he shouldn’t.

The lyrics of the opening number were hysterically bawdy as was the song’s title, “No one Wants To Do It Alone”. 

Expect a real push from both the industry and the public to have NPH host the 2011 awards ceremony next year.

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The woman has a good sense of humour and knows how to laugh at herself .

Sandra Bullock kept her word and showed up to collect her Razzie Award for Worst Actress for her role in All About Steve.

“I think this is an extraordinary award, and I didn’t realize that, in Hollywood, all you had to do was say you’d show up, and then you’d get the award. If I’d known that, I would have said I was appearing at the Oscars a long time ago.”

Bullock is a double threat this awards season, nominated for both a Razzie and an Oscar at the same time (but not for the same role).  She’s also the first actor to show up to collect their dubious honour since Halle Berry did it for her role in Catwoman several years ago. 

Bullock also came pulling a wagon full of DVD copies of All About Steve one for each of the attendees, promising that if they watch it and decide that her’s is not the worst performance of 2009, she’ll come back next year to return her award, then go for a drink with the audience.   Heh.

Other winners included Transformers:Revenge of the Fallen for worst movie, screenplay, and direction.  The Jonas brothers won for worst actor (all three of them) for The Jona’s Brothers 3-D Concert Experience.

Bullock may be on the stage tonight again if she wins for her role in The Blind Side.  She’s won a Golden Globe and a SAG Award for it so far.

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Would we still go see the fims?  That’s the unasked question those wonderfully subversive troublemakers at College Humor pose with their takes posters for Oscar nominated films.

I’ve seen 4 out of the 10 nominees so far.  Usually I wait for dramas and comedies to come out on DVD to watch them (my one exception being period pieces – becuase of the costumes.  I am such a cliche).

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The publisher that brought us Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters are now turning their attention to actual historical figures.

If Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter sells like Seth Grahame-Smith’s other novels (and the trailer for the book is just purposely bad enough to guarantee interest in it), chances are other historical figures will get similar treatment. 

Not sure if it’s too soon or not, but can’t you just picture Ronald Regan as a space alien?

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There is nothing worse than being given a classy verbal bitch slap from an impeccably dressed gay man. 

In an interview with Wonderwall, Project Runway mainstay Tim “make it work” Gunn was being interviewed and asked questions on a variety of fashion related topics.  The subject somehow went to Jersey Shore and Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

When asked what he thought of the Jersey Shore style (such as it is), Tim answered, “Ugh! Oh! Don’t even get me started. It is not a style to emulate. I know that the show is hugely popular. I will tell you it pains me when I hear 12-year-old girls say it’s their favorite show. You shouldn’t be watching it! And it’s so incendiary that New Jersey is no longer permitting it to be taped in New Jersey”

Tim added that he finds the idea of J-woww launching her own line “preposterous”.

Heh!  The topic then moved on to the Kardashians and thier new line with BeBe.  “I just think the Kardashians have an absence of taste and I don’t think that that should be perpetuated. I’m sorry I’m sounding like an old farty snob but it bothers me.”

It should be added that Tim went on to say he supports celebrity endorsed labels in general, as long the celebrity in question neither oversees the production or the design (too bad for Kim Kardashian), adding “I’m all in favor of anything that employs young designers”. 

Maybe Tim ought to send them all copies of his book in an effort to help?

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All hail the mighty Opes and her 70’s style Farrah hair!

Proving that anything she sets her mind to she gets done because she can, Oprah had an entire set made out of chocolate from Godiva. 

Oh.  My.  God.

The set was made with 7000 chocolate bars and 2400 truffles and includes seats, tables, wall coverings, a fire place and chandelier made from 1500 pieces of chocolate.  (Wouldn’t the lights melt everything?)

Good thing I was nowhere near that place.  I’d be running around taking bites out of everything, laughing like a maniac.

Looks like Godiva is about to see a huge boost in their overall sales.  Can’t wait to see what Oprah eventually does with Legos.

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My Hero!

Dutch speed skater Sven Kramer verbally bitch slaps one of NBC’s reporters coming off his winning performance when she asks him to state where he’s from and if he thought he did well.

I’m surprised she didn’t answer ‘Yes, it’s actually a requirement to work for the network” in response to his “Are you stupid?” response.

Sven get’s extra points for the “Hell no, I’m not gonna do that” before agreeing to be interviewed.

Heh.

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