Sheer Lining Playbook

So, Jennifer Lawrence made another good speech, as well as a helluva an entrance.  While it's not clear from the limited footage, but when costar Robert De Niro (they certainly don't make these award shows very unpredictable, do they?) called her name, she got extremely and genuinely excited.  She hugged her parents, embraced her leading man Bradley Cooper, and then hugged her parents again, along with her director David O. Russell.  The best part, however, is when the cameras froze and went off her (thanks five-second delay?) and she presumably took a tumble--judging from some of the reactions--no thanks to wearing a two-piece ball gown while negotiating a maze full of chairs.  Now, do I point this out in derision?  No.  Not at all.  It makes me love her even more.  And, if my threshold for the amour I feel for the girl couldn't even grow beyond that, she pulls up her dress while scaling the steps to reveal that her navy blue dress was actually a cocktail number attached to a possible last minute elongated skirt-train addition and provided built-in ventilation for being under those hot lights.  Or, some are calling the Christian Dior design, excuse me, "a tiered gown."  Genius. As long as Lawrence looks hot and remains cool, I'm all for it.

And, then she makes her speech, which was twenty times better than Anne's version of scaling it back. She tells a cute story about getting her SAG card, how it put her in present company, and then acknowledging that "some of you even voted for me."  She thanks her director and his personal  motivations behind making the film, her leading man, and Harvey "rascal" Weinstein (she eloquently references him "nourishing the filmmakers who nourished" her).  She closes it out with telling her family how much she loves them.  Anne could only a dream a dream of making such a speech, if she's lucky.

Lawrence (aka the Baywatch Babe in Blue) wins.  Harvey wins.  Tom Hooper and everyone else watching her from behind wins.  Christian Dior, who is coming out this Spring with a line of ventilated underwear, wins.  We all win.  And that's the silver lining.