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July 15, 2009

Fug the Cover: Amy Adams

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While I DO want to love my hair -- I seriously considered buying the $140 shampoo discussed in this month's Lucky until I realized that might be a little bit crazy considering that I am not actually J. Lo - and as much as I fully plan to read about women who sleep with their stylists, never having had a stylist who was intrigued even vaguely by my gender, I seriously have to wonder what happened to the story that Allure's cover photo is clearly advertising. I believe it was originally called, "Conjuncti-VITAL! You CAN Pull Off The Pink Eyeshadow Trend!" Could they have possibly realized that was a bald-faced lie? And if so, does that mean the rest of the cover lines are pure honest truth and I can therefore eat like seven of those no-guilt desserts? Sign me up!

March 10, 2009

Fug or Fab or Fab or Fug or Fug or Fug or Fab or Fab: Emily Blunt and Amy Adams

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EMILY BLUNT: Hey, Amy.

AMY ADAMS: What up?

EMILY: I thought we talked about this.

AMY: About what?

EMILY: What we were wearing to this thing. I said, I was wearing a complicated but potentially charming cocktail dress and you said you were, too.

AMY: I lied.

EMILY: But why?

AMY: I don't know. I just did.

EMILY: I don't know why you would do that. But you're only hurting yourself.

AMY: Whatever do you mean?

EMILY: What do you mean, what do I mean? I look like I'm going to a premiere and you look like you're going to the Junior League's Annual Saturday Night Fever-themed Luncheon. It's just sort of a surprising choice, Amy.

AMY: Don't you like surprises?

EMILY: You are a weird woman.

AMY: Why don't we get a second opinion?

poll by twiigs.com

February 23, 2009

Oscar Fug-or-Fab Carpet: Amy Adams

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Okay, Adams. You get credit: I figured you would go for a strapless dress, but I was certain it'd either have a fishtail hem, or be a straight up-and-down shift with very little to recommend it. I'm not sure why, exactly. But apparently, based on what she did wear, I can't trust my gut -- which makes sense considering I allowed it to convince me that I needed to eat a bunch of artichoke dip before plowing through several slices of pizza, and that may have been a bad decision.

All of which is to say, my gut told me at first that I really liked this dress, and now I don't know if I can believe what it's saying:

I love the detail on the bodice, no question. It's interesting, it's flattering, and it gave the dress a cool extra dimension without resorting to haphazardly ornate flourishes or unpleasant fabric tongues. What has given me pause is how the skirt connects back up to the bust -- part of me thinks it breaks up the nifty effect that bodice has going, and the rest of me thinks, aw, screw it, she looks pretty, and at least it's a trend nobody else went for that night. Not to mention that the fabric isn't white like practically everyone else's gown (AND Mickey Rourke's suit). And finally, I am divided on the necklace. At first blush I thought it was a funky and unusual choice, but the more I stare at this photo, the more it seems to fight with the gown -- and resemble a commemorative mosaic someone's mother made out of a bunch of broken marbles, which her child shattered during its first and most hilariously memorable tantrum.

Ergo, my gut is conflicted. Usually that ends in a sandwich somehow, but even a sandwich doesn't help with my immediate problem.

poll by twiigs.com

February 12, 2009

BAFTA Awards Fug Or Fab: Amy Adams

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I do so love a redhead in blue; I'm just not sure I love THIS redhead in THIS blue.

Not that there's anything wrong with the shade. In fact, it's rather fetching, but for the strange spot near Amy's left armpit. (And the hem, too, I see. Did someone attack her with a fiendish eyedropper?) My beef with the dress is how it manages to be both boring and a bit haphazard at the same time -- almost as if she woke up one day and barked at her stylist, "I love this shirt. Make it into a cocktail dress, please. The tighter the better." So the stylist ran out and sewed a skirt onto it, and Amy smiled and wore it to do the cleaning with all her roach friends from Enchanted, then shoved it back into her closet until the BAFTAs rolled around, at which point she grabbed it and said, "I love this dress. Make it floor-length. With a FISHTAIL. SO FRESH." And voila.

poll by twiigs.com

February 4, 2009

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I get that there's a recession happening. Truly, I do.

But there HAVE to be better ways for Amy Adams to cut back than by skimping on her stylist's fees, in favor of safety-pinning an Infinite Dress in unusual and unflattering places. She looks like a napkin-folding seminar gone horribly awry.

February 2, 2009

DGA Awards Fug or Fab Carpet: Amy Adams

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I think I need a ruling on Amy Adams here. We need to take this play under review, as it were. If I may stretch this metaphor: As a Fug coach, I am challenging this call (which reminds me: congrats to all members of the Steelers nation -- that was one heck of a game!), and you are the review team.

Here's the front:

Eh. It probably is one of those that look better in person, right? Sure, we'll give her that. It's possible. These things have happened before. There's no definitive proof that it DIDN'T look better in person, ergo, it's still too close to call. Let's see it from another angle:

WHAT HAVE WE HERE? That's interesting! Or, depending on your taste, weird. Or possibly interestingly weird, or weirdly interesting. Me? I'm just the coach. But I think I like the back, but wish the whole thing was another color. Something less reminiscent of incredibly shiny oatmeal. But what do I know?

poll by twiigs.com

August 12, 2008

Fug or Fab: Amy Adams

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I feel like Amy Adams has this tendency to occasionally dress up like she's a very expensive gift that's been wrapped by one of those professional giftwrappers who are always trying to stick silk flowers and raffia and pussywillows and whatnot onto your presents. This is no exception:

Sorry, she didn't feel up to giving us the full frontal view - here's hoping AA isn't morphing into Elizabeth Berkeley and will now only allow us to view her from one pre-determined side. And my goodness, isn't she pleased with herself? As for me, I don't know. Certainly, she is pretty, and I am sure the dress itself is lovely, albeit surely too much for a premiere of a movie like Tropic Thunder, which she isn't even in. And yet something about it feels rather Fussy Mumsy Plays Ava Gardner to me. But what do you think?

poll by twiigs.com

December 17, 2007

Fugchanted

I'm just going to come out and say that I don't think a giant bow ever works, unless it's splashed across the hood of a new car:

Because I feel like Amy Adams looks a bit dowdy and somewhat droopy in this, and Amy Adams is far too young and lithe to look dowdy. And yet, here she is, all in costume as Dowdy Droopy McDated, with the huge bow and the pink lipstick and the toes and nails matching the lips and it's like all of a sudden I'm back at my junior high school's multi-purpose room heading into the eighth grade graduation dance -- at which I, for the record, ALSO wore something with a bow AND tiered ruffles. Although it was 1989, and I was 13, and the flowers on my dress coordinated with the elastics on my braces, so I think I looked pretty rad. But while this particular dress would have been, of course, far far too sophisticated for a junior high dance, there is still something about it that's Not Quite Right for 2008, if you're 75 or younger.

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November 19, 2007

Enfuganted

I was originally resistant to the concept of Amy Adams's new movie, Enchanted, on the grounds that it looked really corny. Then I remembered that I am really corny and will at the very least end up watching it on HBO one night and possibly crying into my kettle corn over an as-yet-unspecified moment in the movie. I mean, I cry at Whirlpool commercials, so there you go.

If I do burst into tears, I will probably LONG to have A-Squared's dress here within arms' reach:

A bit spit-ball inspired, no? But it looks like it would be nice and soft on my nose, at the very least, and certainly it's convenient to have what looks like 750-900 wadded up balls of Kleenex collected in one handy garment.

PS: I'm not going to make some kind of groan-inducing WHITHER YOUR GLASS SLIPPER, PRINCESS?!?! crack here, I promise, but....next time you think about going out in a creamy sack of any ilk, I would suggest maybe a metallic shoe. Less breakable than glass, less jarring than these, right?

October 26, 2007

Enfuganted

I'm sure Amy Adams's old school-y two piece number is all very fashion-forward, albeit in an incredibly monochromatic way:

But I can't help it. Every time I look at her in this, I think, "shoot! That reminds me: I have to buy wrapping paper."

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Fug the Cover: Amy Adams

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Fug or Fab or Fab or Fug or Fug or Fug or Fab or Fab: Emily Blunt and Amy Adams

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Oscar Fug-or-Fab Carpet: Amy Adams

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BAFTA Awards Fug Or Fab: Amy Adams

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DGA Awards Fug or Fab Carpet: Amy Adams

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