The Dress

Today, I thought I would write about the dress.

Yep, that dress.

The one that Tiffany Trump wore at her wedding that was truly spectacular.

I loved the classis square neckline, the fitted bodice, the A-line skirt, and the long, luscious train.

Then there was the fabric – satiny, shiny, beaded.

It was elegant. The bride looked like a princess.

As she should. And when we see her happy face, it makes one wonder if she was able to forget the family drama all around her.

The sister who wore a crop top at the rehearsal dinner. The sister in-law who wore some silver thing that wasn’t quite in the pastel vibe as the rest of the wedding party. The fiancee of her brother who wore black. The step-mother who wore off-white.

Well, at least her mother was beautiful in a pastel purple.

But forget all that. Let’s allow Tiffany to be known as a beautiful bride because she was. Mar-a-Lago was filled with flowers, music, food, and a little magic. She and her groom looked happy together. And soon they will settle into a new life together. She is a beautiful bride and perhaps the most renown for right now.

After the Biden grand-daughter gets married on the South lawn of the White House, we will be getting new pictures of a beautiful bride.

I hope her dress is just as magical as Tiffany’s.

Note: See pictures of Tifany’s two wedding dresses at the Hello Magazine website. My efforts to save a picture of the dress were futile.

Hathahate

Family Movie Night

By Karyn Bowman

For whatever reasons I am seeing a lot of hate for Anne Hathaway.

Why would any one hate Anne, right? I know what you are thinking, she was so cute in those Princess Diary movies. And she was great in Les Mis, she sang so beautifully in that movie. I honestly thought she was an angel in Jean’s death scene.

But there are plenty of people who hate the 33-year-old actress.

They say she grew up in the theater and therefore she has picked up a lot of ‘theater kid’ bad habits. She is always willing to give it one more try, willing to suck up to the director. She has little ticks that give away what she is thinking about as she is acting.

In fact, there are times that I wonder why she didn’t go harder in various scenes in movies such as The Intern (2015) where she could have been a more Miranda Priestly type. I always felt that character, with as much as she had to say about modern feminism, needed to be tougher in the workplace. Yes, she is cool and hip but her assistant has a meltdown worthy for a boss who is meaner.

Perhaps the problem is more that Anne Hathaway is incredibly beautiful and talented. It is true that she became known because of a Disney movie. She performed in a few other fairy tale-based movies. But Hathaway has also taken risks, such as when she was Jake Gyllenhall’s wife in Brokeback Mountain (2005). She is playing a woman who may or may not know that her husband is gay. But she went after him and their marriage is not entirely unhappy.

Another risk taking role for Hathaway is in The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Here she is playing Cat Woman, not as a sexy siren but as a woman willing to do what it takes to survive. Perhaps not as seductive as Michelle Pfeifer’s turn, Hathaway brings a toughness we haven’t seen in her before. Yes, she is a criminal and she is willing to do what it takes to get the job done. In this version, Selina Kyle does not have any regret over her actions. She has her reasons and sticks to a code of her own making.

Her toughness really comes through in Rachel Getting Married (2009) as she plays a young woman released from rehab in order to attend her older sister’s wedding. While filled with one liners and heart breaking truths, it gets down to the nitty gritty about guilt and how one comes back from the worst thing they ever did in life. Hathaway does not play it safe in this movie, seldom letting her own sunny personality come through.

Anne Hathaway as Fantine in Les Miserable, image from IMDb.com

Perhaps my favorite movie with Hathaway is Les Miserables (2012). It is a long, heart breaking opera-style movie about the poor in post-revolution France. Here, Hathaway must be hopeless, downtrodden, filled with despair as she loses her job and must find other degrading ways to earn the money needed to support her daughter. And yet she is the moral center of the story, she is the one who gives us hope in the end.

Is the Hathahate true hate or is it jealousy?

Until next week, see you in the rental aisle.