At one point, things got ‘Ugly’
“Ugly Betty” stars 1. Becki Newton, left, Ana Ortiz and Michael Urie proved to be real cut-ups for their official Costume Designers Guild Awards portraits shot backstage at the Regent Beverly Wilshire on Feb. 17. Oscar front-runner 2. Helen Mirren picked up another kudo, the Distinquished Actor Award, thanking costume-design winner 4. Consolata Boyle for making her “Queen” costumes so special that she felt royal. Now about that padding.... “Clothes Off Our Backs” creator 3. Jane Kaczmarek lets husband Bradley Whitford bite her ring backstage before the couple hosted the event, and 5. “24” stars Rena Sofer, left, and Mary Lynn Rajskub may have been talking about L.A.’s loose nukes. On the show, on the show!
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ELIZABETH SNEAD
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In the swim of things
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10. Beyonce -- in a slinky Costume Nationale dress -- looked happy to have landed a new role: the cover of Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue. “It’s an honor,” she said at the issue’s PDC launch party Feb. 14. Another haute SI model was 9. Bar Rafael, Leonardo DiCaprio’s gorgeous new model-girlfriend. There was one party guest posing with SI models who was thankfully NOT featured in the skimpy swim spread: 8. Ken Davitian, who nude-wrestled in “Borat.”
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Their ‘23’ skiddoo
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6. Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy sported matching bobs at “The Number 23” premiere at the Orpheum Theatre Feb. 13. But they blew off the after-party at the Edison, a downtown nightspot with 100-year-old generators, turbines and boilers. 7. Director Joel Schumacher said Carrey’s bodyguard is “an ex-Israeli Mossad who will get you in the dark before you even notice.”
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No party is complete without ...
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A canine kiss! 11. “American Idol” judge Paula Abdul gets slathered in some serious pooch smooch at the Benefit Concert for Animals held Feb. 17 on the Paramount lot.
Also at the party and having a barking good time for a good cause: Eric Roberts, James Cromwell and Deborah Gibson.
