Music Monday: Rita Fever Forever

Just a quick reminder from Rota Moreno, circa 1976, to never let a man diminish your light – especially if that man is an Animal. Know your worth, ladies and gentlethems. Know your worth. Also, holy crap, Rita was a hottie. Sorry, and continues to be a hottie 50 years later still. Respect where respect is due. Happy Monday, kittens.

SGALGG: Wannabe Queer Oscars 2022 Edition

So, fine, some straight people showed up at the Academy Awards, too. I guess. And they were perfectly lovely, for the most part. But, as always, how those Straight Gals love to act like Gay Gals when the fancy dresses (and suits) go on. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. And, yes, a few Queer Gals also slip back into this post. But, then, anyone who has ever been to a college party knows Straight Gals can flock to Gay Gals like moths to a flame when the mood strikes. Or so I’ve heard.

And, to be honest, who isn’t happy to see Sarah, Jean and Judith all together again? On y va!

Judith Smart & Judith Light

See, hanging out with Sara has made them want to SGALGG by themselves.

Rosario Dawson & Amu Schumer

Love means always having to share your jalapeno poppers.

Marlee Matlin & Penelope Cruz

Marlee’s clearly saying, “Don’t worry, Penelope. I was on The L Word, I know what to do.”

Billie Eilish & Megan Thee Stallion

Look, people will try to lick you if you wear a dress made out of Reese’s peanut butter cup wrappers.

Zendaya

I don’t even understand the physics of how she can look like this in that suit. But I kind of hope this signals the return of big shouldered 80s broads – in attitude if nothing else.

Nicole Kidman & Jessica Chastain

Getting a little handsy there, Nicole.

Nicole & Zoe Kravitz

Am I sensing a theme with Nic?

Nicole & Ariana DeBose

Theme confirmed.

Now, this part I call, Everybody Loves Ariana (Unlike Chris, ahem)

Ariana & Kirsten Dunst

It’s the intense hand-holding for me.

Ariana & Jessie Buckley

Using that fellow nominee status to sneak in a long embrace, I see.

Ariana & H.E.R.

Now, that would be a ridiculously talented couple.

Ariana & Rita Moreno

I mean, who am I to judge that May-December love?

Oscar's Up

Well, the Oscars happened. The winners were utterly predictable (like, seriously, every favorite won). Yet there were flashes of the great show it could have been. Like with the Time’s Up moment and inclusion montage. And like all the out queer female filmmakers who were present, and even shouted out their wives while winning. And like 86-year-old Rita Moreno slaying in the same gown she wore to the Oscars in 1962. And, of course, Jordan Peele’s great win for “Get Out.”

While I was rooting for “Get Out” over “The Shape of Water,” I appreciate that it was the first female-fronted film to win best picture since “Million Dollar Baby” in 2004. Also, Guillermo del Toro’s acceptance speeches were lovely.

Some more on the highlights.

1) Tiffany Haddish and Maya Rudolph should co-host the Oscars next year. Full-stop.



2) Rita, girl, I can’t wear some of the same clothes from a year ago, let alone 56 years ago.



3) I didn’t totally hate the jet ski bit, but probably only because Helen Mirren was the celebrity model.



4) Lupita Nyong’o should put it in her contract she always has to wear these adorable glasses.



5) Damn, it was nice to see Annabella Sciorra again.



6) Jordan Peele, here getting his Oscar engraved, is the first black writer to win for best screenplay, and only the fourth nominated in the Academy Aaward’s 90-year history. So, yeah, representation matters.



7) Frances McDormand having all the female nominees this year stand up. Powerful, both because of the talent of these women and how few women there were standing up.

Frances McDormand has all the female nominees in every category stand up. "Look around, everybody...because we all have stories to tell and projects we need financed." https://t.co/lJd891ISOk #Oscars pic.twitter.com/rNfg08xQJP

— ABC News (@ABC) March 5, 2018

8) The ads were…good. Well, some of the ads. Out filmmaker Dee Rees had the best commercial of the night, hands down. Two moms. Mary J. Blige. Space monsters. Black girl magic. Fuck yeah, though I’m still not gonna shop at Walmart.



9) Twitter ad was also quite good, especially lesbian poet Denice Frohman’s words. Too bad about all the Nazis, Russian bots and men threatening to rape women on the site. Ahem.

Happy to join fellow women of color storytellers @IssaRae @JenBrea and the legendary @JulieDash. Fierce poem by @DeniceFrohman. #HereWeAre pic.twitter.com/L4SPqwIlX0

— Ava DuVernay (@ava) March 5, 2018

10) And, of course, all gay ladies love them a little Jodie Foster in a white tux blaming her crutches on Meryl Streep.

Jennifer Lawrence: "I'm so sorry, what happened to you?"
Jodie Foster: "Streep. She I, Tonya-ed me."https://t.co/VcTTT3wnXt #Oscars pic.twitter.com/AzgVLwsyqf

— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) March 5, 2018

Speaking of Jen, she was living her best life climbing over chairs and not spilling a drop of her wine.



So, your favorite moments? And, don’t worry, SGALGG is coming. It is so coming.