Well, Melissa Leo’s Glamour Shots didn’t hurt! Take note, future Oscar nominees! Melissa Leo won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in The Fighter after a prolonged presenting duty done by Kirk Douglas. I get that Kirk is a legend and everything, but I just felt for the nominees who had to sit there through his convoluted speech with their nerves in tatters. In her speech, Melissa said in part: “I’m just shaking in my boots here… thank you David O. Russell, the actors, Mark Wahlberg, Amy Adams…Yeah, I am kind of speechless, golly there’s people up there. When I saw Kate win two years ago, it looked so F-CKING EASY.” She was referring to Kate Winslet, by the way. And she cursed on live television! Shocking. They bleeped it really fast though. Thank God for the time delay.

Anyway, this was expected. Melissa won the Globe, the SAG and a bunch of critics awards. Her Glamour Shots didn’t hurt, and honestly, this is probably the only award The Fighter is going to win. Sorry, I forgot about Christian Bale! Whatev. Congrats to Melissa! Considering she was winning everything, it wouldn’t have hurt her to have prepared something a little less… trashy, I guess?

Photos courtesy of WENN.

This is just our Open Post for all things Oscar this year – I’ll be updating this throughout the red carpet (I‘ll be watching the E! Red Carpet, by the way), and once the ceremony starts and the big awards begin to be handed out, CB and I will be doing individual posts on the winners. I have my fingers crossed for The King’s Speech, but other than that, I have to say… this might be one of the most subdued awards seasons ever, so I have very low expectations for this Oscar telecast. The most interesting people tonight will probably be the presenters. I do hope there’s at least one major upset… perhaps in Best Supporting Actress?

Anyway, if you’re drinking tonight, first of all, DON’T DRIVE. Hopefully your drunk ass is sitting at home with your box of wine and a bag of Doritos, in which case, might I suggest you take a big gulp of your jug o’ wine every time:

1. Ryan Seacrest comes on to a male celebrity on the red carpet.
2. You can see a woman’s Spanx line.
3. A woman winces when she tries to smile through the Botox.
4. La Seacrest makes celebrities talk about him.
5. James Franco laughs at one of his own jokes.
6. James Franco or Anne Hathaway makes a reefer joke.
7. Every gratituitous cut-away to Natalie Portma’s bitchface.

You should be wasted by 8:30! Enjoy yourselves, bitches! I’ll start updating once the red carpet gets swinging.

6:02 – Okay, the Red Carpet has begun! Jennifer Lawrence is absolutely beautiful, and I love that she wore her hair down. The Calvin Klein dress is simple and pretty. I like it. It’s age-appropriate too.

6:04 – I like Guiliana’s Christian Sirano too!

6:07 – OH NOES. What is Melissa Leo wearing, a doily?!? Also: was that little Hailee Steinfeld in the prom gown?

6:11 – Hot damn! Mila Kunis looks AMAZING. Did you see that strut? Melissa Leo is wearing Marc Bower, btw. A Marc Bower original mirrored doily dress. Tacky, tacky, tacky. I don’t even like ML’s hair.

6:16 – Armie Hammer is so… unaffected. He’s just big and goofy and kinda dumb.

6:22 – Hailee looks like a 15-year-old girl who wanted to look like a princess. She’s adorable. Who caught the hint of Michelle Williams in a F&%$# neutral.

6:24 – Oh, okay – Michelle Williams looks cute, and I love that her “date” is Busy Phillips, her BFF. Thoughts on Amy Adams’ navy/purple dress? Love that Dame Seacrest mispronounced “antithetical”.

6:27 – Florence Welsh was cute but boring. Mila… same. I dislike Mila’s hair. Mandy Moore, just STOP.

6:32 – Russell Brand is presenting with his true love Dame Helen Mirren!!! OK, I LOVE Michelle’s dress.

6:34 – Um, what’s going on with Michelle Williams’ lips? Is that The Herpe?!? The Chanel is gorge though.

6:41 – I liked Anne Hathaway’s red dress. She was really working it too. OOOooh, Mark Ruffalo! And I HATE Amy Adams’ L”Wren Scott dress and styling. I’ve made up my mind. Her bad hair made the decision for me.

6:49 – Why are Guiliana & Kelly jizzing over Mandy Moore’s dumb Monique Lul-whatever dress? It sucked.

6:50 – I love Mark Ruffalo. I love that he loves his wife.

6:51 – J.Hud in orange-red. Don’t care for what the dress does to her boobs. At all.

6: 52 – Geoffrey Rush!!! BLANCHETT!!!!!!!!! La Blanchett is on the carpet. CODE RED!!!

6:58 – Re: Blanchett – Um, okay, the dress is “complicated”. It is “high fashion”. It isn’t “pretty”. But she’s Cate Friggin’ Blanchett, so HATERS CAN STUFF IT. ScarJo’s Dolce & Gabbana is HIDEOUS. Last thing – Kevin Spacey hitting on Jeremy Renner?!?

7:01 – DRINK, bitches. Dame Seacrest just hit on Kevin Spacey. And Justin Timberlake brought his mother, not Jessica Biel. Sucks to be Jessica Biel tonight!

7:03 – God, I hate ScarJo’s dress. It looks so cheap and Vegas.

7:08 – Sharon Stone = Cruela de Vil. CRAZY BITCH.

7:09 – Timberlake, ENOUGH.

7:11 – Something nice about Marisa Tomei: I like that she looks natural, and un-Botoxed. Something mean about Marisa: Her dress is TERRIBLE. And the hair is BAD.

7:17 – HELENA!!! She looks kind of pretty, right? Also, I like Hilary Swank’s dress (Versace?). I want to marry HBC, though.

7:22 – What is Nicole Kidman wearing? It looks weird too.

7:24 – ZOMG, Celine Dion looks awesome!! Oooo – Halle. Halle in a neutral. Blech.

7:25 – Penelope Cruz & Javi on the red carpet together!! YAY! Hugh Jackman is so cute. I wish Christian Bale has shaved that junk. COLIN FIRTH IS THE MAN. I feel like we’ve seen this dress on Halle before, right?

7:27 – ZOMG Homoerotic moment: Javi and Josh Brolin kissing. Priceless. Reese Witherspoon looks so CUTE!!

7:32 – Space-age Goop! I like Gwyneth’s Calvin Klein, honestly, but I HATE her hair. She needs a new colorist. LOVE Penelope’s dress. And bitches, you’ve got to drink after Seacrest tried to get into Matthew McCon.’s pants. Love Camila Alves’ dress. She looked so beautiful. HATE HATE HATE Nicole Kidman’s dress. It’s HIDEOUS.

7:38 – Sandra Bullock in red Vera Wang. Cute. The makeup was a little weird, but I thought she got it mostly right. I really do like Gwyneth’s dress. What does that mean?!?

7:42 – RDJ is here. All of you other bitches can go home.

7:52 – Rhea Wahlberg is so pretty, but that dress is completely hideous.

7:58 – The Bitchface is here!! Natalie Portman in purple. Thoughts?

Okay, I’m signing off on the live-blog! Enjoy the show, bitches!

Photos courtesy of WENN.

There was a big discussion on The View yesterday about an article in the Sunday New York times that seemed to have a glaring factual error by stating that only seven black actors had won Academy Awards. The article was worded confusingly and wasn’t technically inaccurate in that they referred to an earlier paragraph about 2002, when Denzel Washington and Halle Berry took home Oscars, to say that only seven black actors had won prior to that. Then they named checked all the African American Oscar winners since, which didn’t include View panel member Whoopi Goldberg, who won her Oscar in 1990 for Best Supporting Actress, for Ghost. Whoopi said that it hurt her “terribly” not to be mentioned and she called the piece “sloppy journalism.” She even whipped out her Oscar to prove her point.

Whoopi Goldberg blasted the New York Times today for not mentioning her in a Sunday article about black Oscar winners.

“I am embarrassed to tell you it hurt me terribly,” Goldberg said Monday on “The View.” “When you win an Academy Award, that’s part of what you’ve done, your legacy. I will always be Academy Award-winner Whoopi Goldberg.”

Goldberg said she was “dismissed and erased” by the Times’ top film critics and described the piece as “sloppy journalism.” And to settle any doubts whether she’s an Academy Award-winner, Goldberg pulled out her Oscar for the 1990 film “Ghost.”

It’s true that the Times didn’t mention Goldberg. And clearly she was offended by the omission. But did the Times make a factual error?

The Times films critics described how Denzel Washington and Halle Berry won Oscars in 2002, before noting in the following paragraph that the Academy “had given statuettes to a total of seven black actors in the previous 73 years.”
It would be incorrect to claim that only seven black actors have ever won the award, which is apparently how Barbara Walters read the piece. But the Times is correct that only seven won the award before 2002.

Either way, Elisabeth Hasselbeck is siding with her co-host and said Monday that she canceled her subscription.

A Times spokeswoman declined to respond to criticism on “The View.”

[From News.Yahoo.com via Gossip Rocks]

I agree with what Whoopi had to say about how it was a full 70 years between when Hattie McDaniel won (update: which is technically incorrect, it was 51 years, but she corrected herself later in the show) for Gone with The Wind and her win in 1990, and how that was significant. Out of the 13 black Oscar winners, only Whoopi, Louis Gossett Jr. (Best Supporting Actor, Officer and a Gentlemen, 1982), and Cuba Gooding Jr. (Best Supporting Actor, Jerry Maguire, 1996) weren’t mentioned. That’s just three people and they easily could have been incorporated into the article. In a story about how minorities get shafted by Hollywood and the Academy, the Times kind of proved their point.

Also I have to mention this story from 2008 where Whoopi Goldberg was upset when she was left out of a clips reel including Oscar hosts over the years. She hosted the Oscars four times, starting in 1994 and last in 2002. The Academy has a short memory and admitted that leaving her out was an oversight.

Dame Goopy rises from the ashes like a sanctimonious phoenix and awaits her reward for thinking so highly of herself. The reward: Gwyneth has been invited to the Oscars. No, she wasn’t nominated for acting, silly! Country Strong was simply too powerful a Britney Spears-esque exploration of being drunk and twangy to earn an acting nomination. And of course Dame Gwyneth would not deign to be a mere presenter. Of course not! Her dear friend Beyonce performed a “musical compilation” (that’s what “the children” are calling it these days) at the Oscars, so Dame Gwyneth must follow in her best dear friend’s footsteps. So yes, in addition to performing (“performing”) at the Grammys, Dame Gwyneth has deigned to grace the Academy Awards stage to perform a song from Country Strong. The song? “Coming Home”. Let’s see if I can find that junk….

Oooh! Here it is:

Holy crap, IS SHE SINGING ABOUT A DOUBLE WIDE?!?! LMAO.

I can’t even finish this junk, I’m laughing too hard. God bless Gwyneth.

Country Strong PR images from All Movie Photo.

These are photos of Anne Hathaway at a press screening of Rio, an animated film where Anne did some voice work. It’s not a premiere, it’s a screening, so there was no need for Anne to get dressed up in her finest or anything. And maybe that’s the problem – this is how Anne puts together a “casual” outfit. I mean… did Rachel Zoe pick this Marni top and bottom out for her? Or is this entirely Anne’s doing? I really, really hate to think that she chose that sweater herself. It’s like a crop-top ‘90s version of something Freddy Krueger would have worn. And the pants might have been cute… in a different situation. Like, without that sweater.

Still, I can’t hate on Anne. She’s beautiful and talented and she lets Rachel Zoe put her in the worst crap, which makes her accessible. I have high hopes for her and James Franco at the Oscars – as hosts, I think they’ll end up surprising us all, and knocking it out of the park. Fingers crossed. Here are some of their cute promos:

Photos courtesy of Fame.

It’s already looking like a crazy slow day, and I was looking through our photo agencies, I noticed that there were lots of runway photos from Paris Fashion Week. Yesterday was the Elie Saab Spring/Summer runway show, and I became enchanted with these gowns. Not that I would wear any of them (Prince Harry still hasn’t called me for a date!), but I’m wondering if several of these gowns might end up on some of the nominees and presenters at the Oscars. These dresses could also end up at the SAG Awards this weekend, although that might cutting it close, fittings-wise. So let’s go through some of my favorite Elie Saab looks! This is a special treat, isn’t it? So, the dress in the header – I love this dress. I love the cut, I love the sleeves, I love the skirt, I love the color. It’s sack-y enough for someone like Angelina Jolie, although she would never wear this pink color. I see it on someone small-chested too – like Olivia Wilde.

Another pink-pink dress, although I don’t like this one as much. It’s too frilly and fussy, when most girls like “clean”. I could see this on a non-pregnant Kate Hudson, or even Jennifer Lopez.

This black, one-shouldered gown is something Rachel Zoe would put on Anne Hathaway. And it would be a mistake on her! I’d like to see an over-40 actress like nominee Annette Bening, or even Susan Sarandon wear this.

Another frilly pink dress, only this one I LOVE. Back in the day, Nicole Kidman would have claimed it. These days, she won’t touch it. I could see it on a non-pregnant Natalie Portman, or even on the younger nominees, like Best Supporting Actress nominee Hailee Steinfeld or Best Actress nominee Jennifer Lawrence. It might be too grown-up for Hailee, though. Or it might be perfect.

This is gorgeous, although yellow-green is HARD. It’s really difficult to pull off. I want to say Amy Adams, but this color might make her look like a corpse. Perhaps on a blonde, like nominee Michelle Williams.

THIS is what Anne Hathaway should be wearing. Sexy, adult, slinky, high-fashion. Plus, Anne has the boobs for it.

This is the kind of hot mess that Cameron Diaz loves.

I love this dress too – Elie Saab is doing great stuff with black this year! It could go matronly, depending on the hair and accessories. Annette could end up in something like this, but I suspect it would end up on Michelle Williams.

Ugh, I hate this one, mostly because I suspect bitches will be fighting over it. I can see so many women becoming a fashion disaster in this one, from Anne Hathaway to Nicole Kidman. That detailing at the hips is hideous!

And finally, the wedding look – HATE IT. Looks like a cat barfed up some cotton balls.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I’m so glad I’m not doing a minute by minute account of the Oscar nominations, because it took forever for the nominations announcement to start. Come on, people! Ugh, anyway, this morning the big Oscar nominations were announced, and while many of the biggest contenders were completely expected (Colin Firth, Natalie Portman, The King’s Speech, The Social Network), there were some surprises, mainly with who DID NOT get nominations. I’ll do the full list of nominees, and then my thoughts on the noms.

The nominations:

Best Picture: Black Swan, The Fighter, Inception, The Kids Are All Right, The King’s Speech, 127 Hours, The Social Network, Toy Story 3, True Grit and Winter’s Bone.

Best Director: the Coen Brothers (True Grit), David O. Russell (The Fighter), Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan), Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) and David Fincher (The Social Network).

Supporting Actor: John Hawkes in Winter’s Bone, Jeremy Renner for The Town, Geoffrey Rush for The King‘s Speech, Christian Bale for The Fighter, Mark Ruffalo for The Kids Are All Right.

Best Supporting Actress: Melissa Leo and Amy Adams for “The Fighter,” Hailee Steinfeld for “True Grit”, Helena Bonham Carter for The King’s Speech and Jackie Weaver for Animal Kingdom.

Best Actress: Natalie Portman for Black Swan, Annette Benning for The Kids Are All Right, Jennifer Lawrence for Winter’s Bone, Nicole Kidman for Rabbit Hole, and Michelle Williams for Blue Valentine.

Best Actor: Javier Bardem for Biutiful, Jeff Bridges for True Grit, Jesse Eisenberg for The Social Network, Colin Firth for The King’s Speech and James Franco for 127 Hours.

Best Original Screenplay: ‘Another Year’, ‘The Fighter’, ‘Inception’, ‘The Kids Are All Right’, ‘The King’s Speech’

Best Adapted Screenplay: ’127 Hours’, ‘The Social Network’, ‘Toy Story 3′, ‘True Grit’, ‘Winter’s Bone’

Here were some of my big surprises and general thoughts:

* No Ryan Gosling for Best Actor for Blue Valentine, but Michelle Williams got nominated.

* No Julianne Moore for The Kids Are All Right, but Mark Ruffalo and Annette Bening were nominated.

* No Andrew Garfield for The Social Network! That one really hurts, because Garfield was the best part of that film.

* Javier Bardem got nominated for an Oscar after being snubbed for nearly every other awards nomination.

* I wonder if Annette is going to campaign for an Oscar? If I was an Academy voter, I would vote for Annette over Natalie Portman.

* No nomination for director Christopher Nolan for Inception.

* Winter’s Bone was shown a lot of love with nominations in Best Supporting Actor, Best Actress and Best Picture.

* Still so much love for Joel & Ethan Coen.

*The King’s Speech ended up with 12 nominations overall, the most nominated film this year.

* One of my favorite films of the year, The Town, only got one major nomination, for Jeremy Renner for Best Supporting Actor. That’s nice, but I would have liked to see it get a Best Picture nomination. It was a stronger film than The Kids Are All Right, in my opinion.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I’m in an odd position this year, because I’ve actually seen the films considered the leading contenders for the Best Picture Oscar. I saw The Social Network, Black Swan and The King’s Speech. I’ve also seen Inception, The Kid’s Are All Right and The Town, although I doubt any of those films will be in major Best Picture contenders. The only ones I’ve yet to see are The Fighter, 127 Hours and True Grit (which I’ll be seeing next weekend!). Most critics and Oscars-watchers have already declared The Social Network the film to beat for all of the big awards. So imagine everyone’s surprise when The King’s Speech took home the big prize at this weekend’s Producer’s Guild Awards! Yes, my personal favorite movie of the year, The King’s Speech, is back in contention for all of the big prizes (Best Picture, Best Director), and not just Best Actor for Colin Firth. YAY!

The king, it turns out, isn’t ready to give up his crown. In a surprise win, The King’s Speech took the top prize Saturday at the Producer Guild of America Awards, giving The Social Network its first setback of the trophy season and setting up a possible showdown at the Academy Awards. The drama about King George VI’s struggles with stuttering picked up the Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award — the guild’s equivalent of best picture — for producers Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin.

Speech was considered an underdog to Social, a skewering profile of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Social had picked up key pre-Oscar award wins for best picture, including the Golden Globe and the Critics Choice Award. Both Speech and Social are expected not only to collect a raft of Oscar nominations Tuesday, but to head the 10-film best picture field when the Academy Awards are handed out Feb. 27.

Over the past 21 year, the PGA best picture winner has matched the Oscar best picture winner 14 times, including the last three years. Last year, The Hurt Locker claimed the PGA award on its way to the best picture Academy Award. The Producers Guild also has been a bellwether for Academy Award nominations.

Last year, the first that the Oscar went to 10 nominees, the Producers Guild followed suit. This year’s PGA nominees —Social, 127 Hours, Black Swan, Inception, The Fighter, The Kids Are All Right, The King’s Speech, The Town, Toy Story 3 andTrue Grit— are considered leading contenders for a best picture nomination Tuesday.

The PGA gave its best animated film award to Toy Story 3 over Despicable Me and How To Train Your Dragon, while Waiting for Superman won the best documentary feature award.

The guild recognized television as well. Best comedy-series went to Modern Family, while Mad Men claimed best dramatic series. The Colbert Report picked up the trophy for best live entertainment television and The Deadliest Catch won for non-fiction TV.

[From USA Today]

Yes, the guild awards (producer’s, director’s, writer’s, actor’s) are all considered the bellwethers for the Oscars. And that makes me so, so happy. It’s not that I didn’t like The Social Network – I did. I liked it a lot, and I thought it was a very well-done film, from the script, to the direction, to the acting (minus Justin Timberlake). But The King’s Speech was just flat-out brilliant, enjoyable and amazing. In addition to Best Picture, I hope TKS will also be a major contender for Best Adapted Screenplay, because David Seibler’s script was magnificent (and better than Aaron Sorkin’s excellent script for The Social Network). All in all, an embarrassment of riches. Which is means this year’s Oscars will be really good!

Photos courtesy of PRPhotos.

Here’s a piece from The Daily Mail that could be total crap, but it’s still fun to repeat. Supposedly Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes aren’t going to the Oscars this year because Anne Hathaway is co-hosting with James Franco. Hathaway did a hilarious Katie Holmes impression on Saturday Night Live a couple of months ago, to which Holmes is said to have taken offense. The Holmes-Cruises are said to be avoiding the Oscars because they don’t want to run into Hathaway, who they used to be friendly with.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes may boycott next month’s Oscars ceremony because they don’t want an awkward red carpet confrontation with the host, Anne Hathaway.

The 28-year-old actress, who will be presenting the 83rd Academy Awards alongside 127 Hours actor James Franco, upset Katie by mocking her on U.S.comedy show Saturday Night Live in November.

Anne was guest-presenting the comedy show when she mimicked Katie in a sketch, speaking in breathy tones and constantly tucking her hair behind her ear.
‘Tom and Katie don’t want to have to cross paths with Anne,’ says a Hollywood source.

‘They used to be friends and took Anne to a Tina Turner concert in 2008 when Anne split up from her boyfriend Raffaello Follieri.

‘Katie feels they were really supportive at a difficult time so she feels let down that Anne took to national TV to make fun of her.
‘Anne didn’t even warn her it was going to be on TV.’

Anne’s new film, Love And Other Drugs, is directed by Tom’s old friend Ed Zwick, who directed him in The Last Samurai.

‘The whole thing has left a sour taste with Tom,’ adds the source.

A spokesman for Cruise said he had yet to decide whether he will attend the Oscars, adding: ‘It’s too early to confirm – it depends on shoot schedules.’

[From The Daily Mail]

This would be believable if Cruise and Holmes have ever actually gone to the Oscars together. From what I can find, Cruise hasn’t been to the Oscars in a few years and Holmes has never gone. (They went to the Vanity Fair Oscar party in 2007, but not to the ceremony that I can find.) Their Scientology buddies John Travolta and Kelly Preston go to the Academy Awards more than they do. Here’s why I think they don’t go to the Oscars – it has to do with Tom’s ex wife, Nicole Kidman, who is usually presenting or being nominated for something. Kidman goes basically every year. If Kidman is nominated for that Rabbit Hole movie Tom isn’t going to go and risk having to see her. It’s not like either Katie or Tom is going to be nominated for anything this year, but you know “Kate” would love to be a presenter if they’d have her. I doubt she consults Tom on anything lately.

Tom, Katie and Suri are shown out in NY on 12/20/10 and in Prague on 9/22/10. (Katie is carrying the doll carriage in those pics.) Credit: WENN.com

This is interesting… instead of going with an old hand or some known comedian, the Oscar hosts for the 2011 awards show are reportedly… Anne Hathaway and James Franco. That’s FRANCO – because I first read it as “Jake Gyllenhaal”. Anyway, this is nailed down, but it does come from Nikki Finke, she of the best Hollywood scoops. I suppose it would be a bold decision… after all, Franco is likely to get an Oscar nomination for 127 Hours, and I can’t even remember the last time the Academy had a host who was also nominated in the same year. As for Anne… well… er… sure.

I’ve just learned that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has asked James Franco and Anne Hathaway to host the 83rd annual Academy Awards on February 27th, and it “looks like” both young stars have accepted the offer.

There is always the chance that one or both of them might back out because of prior commitments and other concerns. But my sources say the host announcement could be made as soon as this week. Both are starring in Fox movies out in theaters now: Franco in Fox Searchlight’s 127 Hours, and Hathaway in 20th Century Fox’s Love And Other Drugs.

The star of Princess Diaries and The Devil Wears Prada, Hathaway did a major dance and musical number with then host Hugh Jackman at the Academy Awards two years ago. Franco is also a multitalented actor who has taken risks in everything from the Spider-Man movie franchise to ABC’s General Hospital. Both are equally adept at comedy and drama. Their selection, if it pans out, is an inspired choice and demonstrates how much current Academy president Tom Sherak wants to improve Oscar ratings.

What’s most unusual about their hosting is that both thesps may be Oscar nominees themselves in the fiercely competitive Best Actor and Actress categories this awards season. Franco is considered a shoo-in for a nomination director Danny Boyle’s thriller 127 Hours, the real life story of a trapped hiker who must choose between his arm and freedom. And Hathaway is more of a long-shot in director Ed Zwick’s romantic dramedy Love And Other Drugs which opened soft at the box office this past weekend. That might be the main reason one or both of the stars decide to beg off. A decision like this to host the Academy Awards is made by committee with a star’s agent, publicist, manager and even studio weighing all the pro and con options. Which is why the Academy has such a tough time finding good people every year to host because it can be such a career-altering decision. And even more so when the stars are this young.

[From Deadline]

Anne seems like the safe pick that Middle America will like (she was in those princess movies!), and Franco is the artsy “New York liberal” pick – he was on 30 Rock (hilarious) and he’s published a book of crappy short stories and he does photo shoots in drag and he’s an intense artist and everything. Here’s the kicker though – I actually think James Franco would be really, really good and just naturally funny and charming as a host, while Anne will probably come across like she’s trying too hard. Just my opinion.

Photos courtesy of WENN.