Angie Harmon showed up last night to officially flip the switch on the UNICEF Snowflake at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City, and my first thought when checking out her outfit was, “Wow, interesting hankerchief!” Then I realized that it was actually a flower-shaped object that was part of the fabric of her skirt. Angie’s definitely made some questionable fashion choices, including a recent bustier that made her girls look almost fake. However, this outfit isn’t terrible at least in a festive sense. Those dangling sleeves are meant to look festive, right? I don’t know. Also, the skirt makes her seem a little hippier than usual:

Lately, Angie has kept a rather low media profile since her summer-based rant about how life is so difficult since leaving her children and husband behind in North Carolina, but she knew that she was doing the right thing because the “Rizzoli & Isles” script was a sign from God. She also wanted to invent something to cure mommy guilt — delusional bitch.

At any rate, I was very curious as to why Angie has been so quiet lately, and the answer might very well be that she’s discovered Twitter in a huge way; that is, the verified account of Angie Harmon has already 39 times today. And (get this) she calls her followers “Twangels.” Ugh. Tweeting in such an excessive manner seems like just one more way that Angie distracts herself from life itself, but I will give her props for interacting with her fans, especially those who seem troubled and in need of her (very specialized form of) guidance:

Okay, I can’t hate on her for attempting to encourage this young lady and give her hope that life will eventually get better. Angie probably feels like she’s helping this girl out in a very profound way, and maybe she is? Still, this woman decided in her own mind that “God” was a great reason to abandon her family and return to Hollywood for months on end, so any advice concerning “God” from Angie might be, um, well-intentioned but still a blanket excuse for disregarding free will. If this Twangel’s home situation is really that bad, maybe she should move to another relative’s home or contact law enforcement. Staying put just because Angie Harmon thinks that everything is part of God’s plan might just be a dangerous thing to do.

Photos courtesy of WENN

Angie Harmon covers the July issue of Good Housekeeping to promote her upcoming TNT series “Rizzoli & Isles,” which looks like a huge helping of cheesecake female detective work masquerading as empowerment. For most of this interview, Harmon complains about how much she misses her husband, former NFL defensive Jason Sehorn, and their three daughters (aged 2-7) because she works 90 hours per week in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, her family has remained in North Carolina (they moved there last August when Harmon’s work dried up) while Mom plays yet another tough, crime-fighting babe just like she did in “Baywatch Nights” and “Law & Order.”

Still, Harmon herself isn’t as much of a woman of principle as she’d have us all believe in this interview because she can’t stop rattling on about how wonderful a mother she is because she moved her family away from Hollywood; and yet she evidently doesn’t care about them enough because, just as soon as the opportunity popped up for her to start a new television show, she decided “the role was too good to lose.” Get ready for some sanctimonious justification of Harmon’s way of life:

On Being 2000 Miles Away: “I’m a mess. I’ve lost 10 pounds since I got here,” she says in her signature smoky voice, made famous on Law & Order back in the late nineties. “This is the hardest time in my life, for sure. But Harmon says she will get through it, and that her precious girls and well-tended marriage will thrive. She made a heart-wrenching choice, but for the right reason: her kids’ welfare.

“It breaks my heart that I don’t see my daughters every day, don’t get to hug them and brush their hair,” Harmon admits. Still, she set her sights on North Carolina for her girls’ sake, and has never looked back. She sums up the state’s special allure: “There’s a church on every corner as opposed to just a Starbucks…. The people are just a little nicer — more real.”

Harmon didn’t like what the kids were picking up in the fast-moving, flashy Hollywood world. She was horrified to learn that daughter Avery had been hearing friends talk about “sexual things,” like making out with a boy. “Things were just going too fast for her.”

Still, no matter how much they Skype and share by phone, Harmon is bound to be absent for some milestones. Yesterday, for instance, a phone call with the girls nearly unraveled her: “The baby is a great talker, and she’s improving every day. So she got on the phone and said, ‘Mommy, I mith you so muth.’ She has a lisp now! I just lost it.”

Missing the little everyday mom moments is hard — and Harmon is hard on herself. “When I feel like I’m not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself,” she says. “I don’t know how to deal with it. I find some consolation in the fact that all mommies feel it. If there was a way to cure mommy guilt, I would bottle it and be a bazillionaire.”

On Why She Returned To Acting: When her career hit a wall a couple of years ago, she figured it was time to shelve her acting aspirations. However, before she embraced full-time motherhood, she prayed for guidance about which path to pursue. “I said to God, ‘If the plan is to raise these girls, I will wholeheartedly do that, because they are so important to me,’” she recalls. “Once I made that transition in my heart, the [Rizzoli & Isles] script was literally on my doorstep the next day.” She took that as a sign that her acting days were not yet behind her.

On Giving: “I was yanking on the girls to give up their old toys and telling them to think about the little ones who don’t have anything, but they just didn’t understand at all,” she says. “So I decided to show them pictures of poor children in other countries, and now they get it. We all take big bags of toys to Goodwill.”

On Being Accepted In North Carolina: Harmon turned for reassurance to dear friend and NASCAR champ Jimmie Johnson and his wife, Chandra, who live in Charlotte and had encouraged her to move the family there. “They told me, ‘Don’t calm down; we love you for who you are,’” she recalls. As it turned out, Harmon need not have worried about her exuberant personality; it certainly didn’t scare anyone off. “Jason and I have a group of about 10 couples who opened their homes and hearts and welcomed us like nothing I have ever seen before,” she says, visibly moved. “I wasn’t expecting to be embraced like that.”

When Harmon is away, Sehorn and the girls often make the rounds to different families on the weekends, having breakfast at one house and later barbecuing elsewhere in the neighborhood. It’s that sense of community that continues to impress Harmon, who adds that she tends to be gun-shy about trusting people after having been burned in relationships in the past. (She’s too polite to name names or dish any details.) “All of these women back in North Carolina know that I am gone, and they’re all taking care of my children and helping my husband,” she says. “I love them so much.”

[From Good Housekeeping]

Yes, and I’m sure all of those women love Harmon’s husband too. Of course, it sounds awful for me to imply that sort of thing, but I also believe it’s rather naive for Harmon to believe that her marriage will stay “rock solid” while she’s away indulging in the self-actualizing process, and her husband’s at home doing all of the real work for the family. It’s also rather bizarre that Harmon desires a cure for mommy guilt because that guilt is there for a reason, and if mothers could collectively do away with those pangs, none of us would bother raising our children at all. It’s a classic recipe for disaster, and even though Harmon may have been joking about bottling a cure, it’s quite telling in light of her decision to virtually abandon her children during their most formative years. Skype is not the same as a warm hug from one’s mother, but hey, Harmon gives toys to Goodwill, which means she’s just like us!

Also, I certainly don’t want to offend any North Carolinians, but doesn’t the way that Harmon speaks about being so “embraced” by the community sound a lot like Gwyneth Paltrow praising London for being so gloriously wonderful with better citizens and amenities than anywhere else in the world? To push that similarity even further, it sounds like Harmon is still trying to convince herself (by convincing us) that her decision to leave the family behind and jet off to Los Angeles for months at a time is actually something that will ultimately be good for her family. In reality, the family would be better off staying together (virtually) anywhere than to be separated in such a traumatic way. Good values can be instilled and reinforced anywhere too; granted, in Los Angeles it’s slightly more difficult to do so, but if Harmon thinks that kids and teenagers aren’t exposed to sexual matters in North Carolina, well, she’s got a big surprise coming for her one day. Further, her poor daughters will someday reflect upon their childhood and think, “Mom was gone most of the time.” And Harmon’s carefully constructed dual house of cards will crumble. The really sad thing is that it’s not like Harmon needs to separate her family by necessity; she’s not a member of the Armed Forces or anything of that caliber but merely an actress.

Photos courtesy of WENN

Last night, People Magazine threw an event for “A Night of Red Carpet Style”. Yeah, your guess is as good as mine. Anyway, several B-listers came out and enjoyed themselves, and these are some of the photos from the event. I was going to lead off with Jennifer Love Hewitt, but then I saw Angie Harmon’s boobs. Um… did she always have those? No! She’s always been pretty small-chested, correct? She’s got one of those amazing, athletic, lean figures but she’s never had much in the Boob Department. Is it a boob job, or just some really great bustier-type action? My investigation leads me to “bustier” – they don’t really look fake to me.

Next up – Jennifer Love Hewitt. Hate beige on her, hate the cut of the dress. The whole thing is pretty fug, but at least she doesn’t look like she’s going to her junior prom.

Sarah Shahi – best known as the chick from Life and the new USA series Fairly Legal. I’ll admit, I love this girl. I think she’s beautiful, and I love that she got another television series. But I HATE the bangs trauma on her – she looks so pretty without it. Also, she either got too much sun or she’s drunk off her ass.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Does anyone watch the new TNT show, Rizzoli & Isles? I started watching it because I was too lazy to flip the channel after The Closer, and because I like the two leads, Angie Harmon (Law & Order) and Sasha Alexander (NCIS). The show was pretty horrible the first few episodes, but I have high hopes that they’ll work out the kinks and that it will be a solid female-driven cop drama, worthy of its plum post-Closer timeslot. Sasha and Angie have a lot of girlish chemistry together, and now the show is starting to work with that more, so fingers crossed.

Anyway, since Angie Harmon left Law & Order, she’s done several things: she got married to football player Jason Sehorn, she had three adorable little girls, and she’s been working pretty steadily in various guest roles, lead roles, supporting roles, almost always in television. But she had yet to become the lead in her own major television series, which is kind of a shame – she has that rare quality on camera, where even though she’s really pretty, on camera she always seems tough and badass, never the wilting flower. Now she is the badass lead in Rizzoli & Isles, and things are starting to go awry – in her personal life. It seems that Jason isn’t thrilled that his wife of nine years is now a big television star. Caveman, coming through!

Success has been murder on Angie Harmon’s family life! Her TNT cop drama Rizzoli & Isles has quickly become a huge hit for the former Law & Order actress, but her career demands are wreaking havoc with her nine-year marriage to former football star Jason Sehorn, say sources.

“Angie’s marriage has always been one the strongest in Hollywood,” an insider told the Enquirer. “But the popularity of the show has put so much pressure on the relationship that it’s gone from rock-solid to rocky in a matter of weeks.”

Ever since Angie started working on the series, “Jason’s been forced to play Mr. Mom to their three young daughters,” said the insider.

While Jason loves his children, he never expected to become a full-time house-husband. But for now, Angie says she needs him to assume that role – which means that a lot of Jason’s time is scheduled for playtime, little girl style.

“It’s hilarious when you come in and see them all doing the tea party, and he can barely fit on the little chair,” Angie told a reporter.

But the insider noted: “It may be funny to Angie, but Jason’s not laughing.”

The ex-footballer is waiting anxiously for the college football season to resume so he can return to a TV gig doing commentary.

“Jason is struggling to get used to Angie being consumed by her hit series,” said the insider. “He’s chomping at the bit to get back to work himself.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition]

First of all, I don’t really buy that this is the dynamic – Angie never really stopped working completely, she just took it down a notch when she was having babies and everything. I think Jason knew he was marrying a working actress, and if he’s been fine with it for nine years, what’s the big deal now? Of course, if the Enquirer is right, and he’s pissed, Jason totally needs to get a grip and, to be crude, sack up. Angie gave birth to three beautiful, healthy babies, they’re a great family, and mama wants to go back to work. It’s time for Dad to step up.

Angie and Jason at the 2010 Vanity Fair Oscars party, and on January 27, 2010. Credit: WENN. Angie & Sasha Alexander on July 3, 2010. Credit: Fame.

For some reason Fox has done a two-part interview with actress Angie Harmon on her Republican views. And her frustration with the Democrats – and how she thinks people label her a racist when she speaks out against President Obama. In the second part of the interview (because everyone’s so fascinated with Angie Harmon that Fox deems it necessary to break up the excitement so we can contain ourselves), she complains about how hard it is to be a Republican in Hollywood, and admits she’s probably lost some jobs due to her politics.

Harmon also admitted that she’s probably (unknowingly) lost jobs over her political views, and is pretty disillusioned over why so many Americans are not open to freedom of opinion.

“It’s not like anyone has come up to my face and been like ‘I’m not hiring you because you’re a Republican!’ But the media is so liberal and I get it, but I’m just confused on where we lost the respect for our fellow Americans. Not all of us are supposed to believe the same things and think the same way,” she added. “I think the difference between the parties is, with the Democrats you can sit down with them and have a 15 minute conversation and if you’re not believing everything they say and buying into what they’re selling you, it is like you’re some dumb hick who doesn’t deserve to live here anymore. But with the Republicans, it is like okay I want to know what you know, you want to know what I know, okay great lets go have a beer after work, we’re still friends. I’m just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone’s God-given right to think the way they think and that’s fine. That’s why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want.”

And in the Democratic-driven heat of Hollywood, Ms. Harmon has definitely taken a risk in voicing her views.

“Look we haven’t been shot yet! We’re still alive! We’ve said the word “Republican” like four times and we’re still alive! Can you believe it?” Harmon joked.

[From Fox News’ Pop Tarts]

Most people think their side is willing to hear the other out, but believes the other side is not willing to hear them out. Angie feels Republicans will hear Democrats out but they won’t return the favor because that’s the side she’s on. I feel Democrats will hear Republicans out but they won’t do the same because that’s the side I’m on. We feel that way because the other side doesn’t agree with us. And it’s an issue both conservatives and liberals deal with; it’s not like Republicans are inherently tolerant and open-minded towards differing points of view while Democrats are not.

Angie’s probably been passed up for jobs because she’s a has been and has to bring up politics to get attention. That’s the only way the press pays attention to her anymore – when was the last time you heard a thing about her being in a movie or on television? The last show she was in was “Women’s Murder Club,” in 2007 and that was cancelled after 13 episodes. Prior to that, she had bit parts here and there but nothing significant since she left “Law & Order” in 2001. This strikes me as nothing more than an attempt to whine and get attention. Of course, I’m willing to grab a beer with Angie after work and hear her out if that’s what she wants.

Here’s Angie Harmon at the launch of ‘Latisse’ in Los Angeles on Sunday. Images thanks to WENN .

Angie Harmon has been one of the most vocal Republicans in Hollywood for years. The Texan beauty, most famous for her turn as a prosecutor on Law & Order, has actively campaigned for Republicans and has often spoken out of Republican issues. No one really bothered her about it, as far as I could see. Throughout the years Harmon has often talked disparagingly of liberals in Hollywood.

Now Harmon is criticizing both President Obama and the people who defend him. Harmon claims that “If I have anything to say against Obama it’s not because I’m a racist, it’s because I don’t like what he’s doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you’re called a racist.” She has a point, albeit a point in which she creates a straw man argument. Who is calling Harmon a racist again? She’s pretty vague about it. Fox News has more:

Angie Harmon is not afraid to come out and say she doesn’t like how President Obama is handling the job — but she’s sick of having to defend herself from being deemed a racist.

“Here’s my problem with this, I’m just going to come out and say it. If I have anything to say against Obama it’s not because I’m a racist, it’s because I don’t like what he’s doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you’re called a racist,” Harmon told Tarts at Thursday’s Los Angeles launch of the new eyelash-growing formula, Latisse.

“But it has nothing to do with it, I don’t care what color he is. I’m just not crazy about what he’s doing and I heard all about this, and he’s gonna do that and change and change, so okay … I’m still dressing for a recession over here buddy and we’ve got unemployment at an all-time high and that was his number one thing and that’s the thing I really don’t appreciate. If I’m going to disagree with my President, that doesn’t make me a racist. If I was to disagree with W, that doesn’t make me racist. It has nothing to do with it, it is ridiculous.”

Speaking of dislikes, the starlet has also had enough of the double-standards in the media.

“I do think McCain would have done a better job, only because I think he has more experience. I also think if W or John McCain or Reagan would have gone and done a talk show, the backlash would have been so huge and in his face, and ‘What is our president doing? How unclassy!’ But Obama does it and no one says anything,” Harmon said.

And in spite of the scornful opinions most of her Tinseltown counterparts have shared on Gov. Sarah Palin, Harmon remains a true fan.

“I admire any kind of woman like her. My whole motto is to know what I stand for and know what I don’t stand for and have the courage to live my life accordingly and she does exactly that. The fact that this woman has made the decisions she’s made and literally lived her life according to that and takes heat for it is absolutely disgusting to me,” she added. “People cannot look at this woman. I really think they’re afraid of her and her morals, ethics and values and the fact that she hangs on them. Is she the most experienced person in the world? But she was running to be the Vice President, so we then put the most inexperienced person as the President. That didn’t make any sense to me.”

From Fox News

It’s clear that Angie Harmon genuinely felt like she was being personally attacked as a racist for her political beliefs. And for that, as someone who vocally supported Obama, I will apologize. It felt horrible for many of us supporting Obama to see the sleazy ways in which some people attacked Obama for his race, his religion, his family and his patriotism. Collectively, I think we were seeing racists and bigots around every corner, when it wasn’t always the case. So for the record, some people who criticize Obama for race-specific things (and you know what they are) are racists, but most of Obama’s critics do not have a racist bone in their bodies.

Angie Harmon is shown with her daughters at the Monsters vs. Aliens premiere on 3/22/09. Credit: Albert L. Ortega/PRPhotos