Safe as Blouses: It's hard to begrudge a mother of six a
comfortable dress on a night away from the kiddies. Hard, but not impossible. Angelina Jolie strikes a pose at the SAG Awards in
yet another sophisticated but amorphous gown, this time opting for a steel-blue
flutter-sleeved... more number. It's classy, it's comfy ... and it's a complete snooze.
It didn't have to be this way. Seems the slimline megastar decided to wear the
dress backward to make it, in the words of
her stylist, "more blouson," which, despite evidence to the contrary,
does not mean "more boring." Granted, with a face that could launch a 1001
ships, Jolie doesn't need to gild the lily, but that doesn't mean the lily
should be left to languish in a dreary room. Here's a woman who can wrangle a
half-dozen rug rats and still find time to nuzzle Brad Pitt's pornstache. She flies planes and rides
motorcycles. She rubs shoulders with world leaders. She tattooed the Latin
phrase "What nourishes me also destroys me" on her belly. At her first wedding,
she wrote the groom's name in blood on her shirt. At her second wedding, she was
sure Billy Bob Thornton was the sexiest man alive. In other
words, this is someone who isn't afraid to climb out on the proverbial limb and
swan dive off. So, why go conservative on the red carpet? As Nicolas Cage said to Cher in "Moonstruck" (yes, it's a random segue, but just go
with it), "Playing it safe is just about the most dangerous thing a woman like
you could do." Close
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