Oscars 2013 Who Designed for Who?

Oscars is the highest accolade for Hollywood movies. Looking back 1929, when the first Academy Awards of Merit was presented at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. 

The Best Actress Award is the ultimate goal of every female stars for the event, as it is for fashion designers. Red carpet photographers and every girl watching anticipates Who wears what. And whoever gets the Best Actress award becomes the most photographed woman in the world, so designers become suckers for the glitz and glam that goes with it. It's as good as being tagged for the "title-holder-best designer" line.

I've never really been a fan of Oscars. This year's Oscars was by far the second Oscars event I've ever watched. Shame on me, I know. :D

I barely see statement creations of the famous designers for the celebrities on events like this. That's why the effect on me is as fascinating as watching who wins at the Miss Universe pageant.

Here is a run down of Who Designed for Who. Celebrity gowns created by famous designers:

Amanda Seyfried in a lace, tulle Alexander McQueen gown

Amy Adams wearing Oscar de la Renta gown

Kristen Stewart in Reem Acra gown

Sandra Bullock in an Elie Saab gown, my favorite outfit so far!

Jessica Chastain in Giorgio Armani

Adele in black Jenny Packham gown

Naomi Watts in Giorgio Armani

Jennifer Hudson in a Roberto Cavalli gown

Nicole Kidman in L'Wren Scott

Halle Berry wearing Versace

Catherine Zeta- Jones in Zuhair Murad Couture

Anne Hathaway wearing a minimalist Prada gown, simple and classy. Another favorite!

Charlize Theron in Dior Haute Couture

Samantha Barks in Valentino

Jennifer Aniston in Salvatore Ferragamo

Olivia Munn in Marchesa

Reese Witherspoon wearing a royal blue-black combination Louis Vuitton gown

Jennifer Garner in an elegant gown by Gucci, also my favorite Oscars outfit!

And the Oscars 2013 Best Actress goes to...

Jennifer Lawrence for the movie, Silver Linings Playbook. Stunning in a Dior Haute Couture gown despite falling on Oscars stage at Dolby Theater. Applause for a 22-year-old actress like her.

Jennifer Lawrence in a Roger Vivier Clutch for the Oscars.

I told you the Best Actress gets to be the most photographed woman in the world. :)

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Dolphy, Philippines’ King of Comedy

The Dolphy news has not yet brought to pass. As much as his films and proofs of kindness are lauded, he’s likely to be remembered in the next years or more. Today July 13, President Aquino declared National Day of Remembrance for the comedy king.

Dolphy (Rodolfo Vera Quizon, Sr. July 25, 1928- July 10, 2012)

The story of his passing is starting to set foot in me by osmosis. It was at first a far-fetched fact to consider before the news about his health moving stealthily down came time and again. I was young and 2 when his last longest-running sitcom, Home Along Da Riles started airing. I have honestly become a regular Thursday night sofa spud since after realizing the show was a good thing to watch for family values and wisdom when I was 5.

The show was indeed a worthy play of every average Filipino family’s daily encounters. Dolphy (Rodolfo Vera Quizon, Sr.), sometimes more known as John Puruntung and Kevin Cosme shared so much laughter in the Philippine television. He was, and he is continuously favored by most Filipinos because of his rather preference to portray as seemingly hard-lucked-but-positively-funny everyman. His roles almost always mirrored every Filipinos hankering for life and finding a little humor in it despite the daily misfortune. I am an almost savvy to his clever lines and actions.

“Sumasaya ang family pagtulung-tulong all the way. Problema ay may remedy at pati may konting komedy.” goes the first few lines of his Home Along Da Riles show theme song.

Dolphy's second longest running sitcom (Situational Comedy 1992-2003)

The man with a pot belly yawning, having his early morning coffee, and the usual lashing of a rolled newspaper on the heads of the “sunog baga” (the facetious drunkards in the running gag, Home Along Da Riles) and all his other film sidekicks are few of the Dolphy scenes I truly miss. All that I can really do now is to put into words all the beautiful memories his craft as comedian has left in me.  

Home Along Da Riles cast

Apart from his comicality, the stories of most ordinary people whose lives were touched by the comedy king moved me to believing that there is a genuinely good person behind those characters portrayed in more than 200 films.

John & Marsha movie sequels, Facifica Falayfay, Markova: Comfort Gay, Da Best in Da West, Tataynik, Hahabul-habol are some, to name a few of his movies that I love.

Dolphy was not at all perfect. But he lived a great life in the way he treated people especially the lowliest ones, in the way he honed his being an actor/comedian, and in the way he loved his family.

“Before, I used to dream of big things. Now I only dream of having my children grow as good people.” puts an actual grown and insightful man, Dolphy.

I only felt this to be told, I cried when I reached home and watched about his death. Call me emotional. Was I affected? It maybe isn’t about being a pansy or being an overly-sensitive-21-year-older. It’s more about having Dolphy as one big part of my childhood and every other ordinary Filipino’s lives that’s taken away. 

Recall back Home Along Da Riles intro. I am hoping for a re-run. 

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28 Women I Would Love to have Coffee with

1. Hillary Rodham Clinton
2. Samantha Brown
3. Maria Ressa
4. Joanna Kathleen Rowling
5. Lea Salonga
6. Nigella Lawson
7. Julie Andrews
8. Janice Lee 
9. Sonia Lee
10. Patricia Evangelista
11. Andrea Jane Corr
12. Lualhati Bautista
13. Sherry Argov
14. Feliz Diestro-Lucas
15. Karen Pamintuan
16. Thammie Sy
17. Daphne Oseña-Paez
18. Emma Watson
19. Elizabeth Gilbert

And if they were still alive:

  20.   Coco Chanel

  21.   Enid Blyton

  22.   Princess Diana of Wales

  23.   Eleanor Roosevelt

  24.   Audrey Hepburn

  25.   Eva Peron

  26.   Corazon Aquino

  27.   The real Rose Calvert

  28.   Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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28 Men I Would Love to Have Coffee with

1. Norman Vincent Peale                                                                                                                                                  
2. Rick Warren
3. John Maxwell
4. Nicholas Sparks
5. Paulo Coelho
6. Seth Godin
7. Zig Ziglar
8. Joshua Harris
9. Andrew Zimmern
10. Anthony Bourdain 
11. Bobby Chinn
12. Mark Shea
13. Mikey Bustos
14. Aj Rafael
15. Darren Rowse
16. Chris Goins
17. Sean Si
18. Jim Caviezel
19. Daniel Radcliffe
20. Nick Vujicic
21. Dalai Lama
22. James Taylor
23. Yiruma
24. Ian Wright
25. Bob Ong

And if only they were still alive:

26.  Steve Jobs

27.  Michael Jackson

28.  the late Blessed John Paul II 

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