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Did you think I was gonna say Pesky Pippi picks her nose? Silly! I’ll save that for another post.

The 84th Academy Awards will be presented February 26. And watching it is a tradition around here!

Here’s a good printable ballot. Go on, print it out and pick your favorites.

http://www.mercurynews.com/academy-awards/ci_20018755

Here’s Pippi’s picks for the 84th Academy Awards:

• Best picture: Hugo
• Best director: Martin Scorsese: Hugo
• Best actor: George Clooney, The Descendants
• Best actress: Viola Davis, The Help
• Best supporting actor: Christopher Plummer, Beginners
• Best supporting actress: Berenice Bejo, The Artist
• Best animated feature film: Rango
• Best foreign film: A Separation, Iran
• Best original screenplay: Midnight in Paris
• Best adapted screenplay: Hugo
• Best art direction: Hugo
• Best costume design: The Artist
• Best original song: Real in Rio from Rio
• Best original score: Hugo
• Best documentary: If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
• Best documentary (short): The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
• Best cinematography: Hugo
• Best film editing: The Artist
• Best makeup: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
• Best sound editing: War Horse
• Best sound mixing: War Horse
• Best visual effects: Hugo
• Best short film (animated): La Luna
• Best short film (live action): Time Freak

Just remember. We are all winners.

Oh, Demi Moore. I liked you with chubbier cheeks. You are now a skeleton and did you know that Halloween is over?

Here’s one word for ya: EAT.

The media targets women with headlines that scream “she’s too fat,” with Kirstie Alley and Jessica Simpson getting the majority of these grocery store-line headlines. Kirstie has been the butt of a lot of jokes; as in check-out-her-big-butt. And while I secretly utter a mean little “ha ha,” I actually feel bad for these women. They are getting singled out for their size. Yo-yo dieting sucks. Thickening around the middle sucks. And to have your cellulite photographed in the most unflattering way? Or to have yourself photographed shoveling down Costco cake? I imagine that that also sucks. (More on Costco cake soon. I have an addiction.)

But the media also hits with the “wasting away: too skinny” headlines. I even saw one about “pin-thin Kate Middleton.” Pin-thin? I have never been described as a pin, nor would ever want to. These too-skinny Hollywood actresses have made this list in recent months: Katie Holmes, Kate Bosworth, LeAnn Rimes, Kate Middleton (OK, not from Hollywood, but she steals headlines), Nicole Richie.

Seems to me–or it is my experience anyway–that men do not want non-eating skeletons as girlfriends or wives. That most men prefer a partner who can partake in a heaping pile of nachos and throw back some beers. Instead of “no thanks, I’m on the cotton ball diet.” Have you heard of that one? Scary. See here for crazy-ass fad diets. But please don’t try them at home.

In Hollywood, as a woman, you’re screwed if you’re too fat. Or if you’re too skinny.

Women and mothers: Don’t wither away. Nourish yourselves. Eat.

My kids–who have a pretty good sense of healthy eating and exercise, but who also have been exposed to ideal body image in our American culture–say that I’m just right. And that’s OK for me.

Nachos and beer anyone?

I realize I’m a little late to the my-what-yellow-teeth-you-have-Miss-Lindsay party. That was soooo two weeks ago. For image-conscious starlets, yellow teeth simply are not an acceptable accessory. When I read the headline:

“Lindsay Lohan debuts newly-whitened teeth”

I thought, hmmm, white teeth on a Hollywood actress shouldn’t be making news. That’s the ol’ dog-bites-man headline = not news.

Check out the article; it’s for real.

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/lindsay-lohan-debuts-newly-whitened-teeth-days-s-set-admit-probation-violation-article-1.969941#ixzz1ccahe2JH

In order for white-teeth-on-a-starlet to make news headlines, those chompers must have been way bad. So I did some sleuthing and Googled some stuff to see how bad Lindsay’s teeth looked. Yikes! Sweet Lindsay from The Parent Trap and Herbie Fully Loaded shouldn’t have yellow teeth. Check out this funny man-bites-dog headline and article about just that:

“Lindsay Lohan flashes smoke-stained yellow teeth on Hollywood red carpet”

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-10-13/gossip/30294012_1_fiore-films-kim-gotti-irwin-smigel

People get their teeth whitened every day. People have dental work done all the time. Glad that my trips to the dentist don’t make news headlines. Otherwise, you might read this:

“Cavity Suspected, Yet Dentist Appointment Reveals A Simple Case of Over Brushing”

Yep, turns out I was just brushing too hard. Hey, you can’t blame me for making my chompers white.