Traditionally, the first faces on the crimson carpet are the ones most in need of exposure. Richard Roeper mentioned Sally Kirkland; God bless her, every year she shows up first and then must wait in her seat for hours for the ceremony to begin. You know she's got power bars in that satin clutch.
I was going to predict that it'd be Brittany Murphy with her limo idling at the curb, but I was wrong. The first celebrity sightings are in:
On the E! Channel, John Legend was standing by for his Ryan Seacrest interview. Then Jennifer Jason Leigh and her nominated husband, Noah Baumbach, braved Isaac Mizrahi.
On the TV Guide Channel, Lisa Rinna submitted herself to Joan Rivers' fake-breast jokes.
P.S. By 4:41 p.m., Joan had already been bleeped. It was a word, incidentally, often used to describe female homosexuals -- in this case, Rosie O'Donnell.
where's your Oscar drinking game Paige? i say a shot every time Mizrahi gropes someone - two if its below the waist!
Bloscar responds:
Mizrahi confessed that he'd had his hand slapped by E! (literally?) for fondling red carpet passersby. So it could be a sober night.