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Top 10 Best Dressed Oscar Girls Of Yore

Molly Friedman — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:24:55 EST

For every swan dress there is a fire engine red body-hugger worn by the likes of Catherine Zeta-Jones, or one of those golden sparkle-y things that just melts all over Halle Berry's body. To prove we're not just big meanies when it comes to discussing Oscar outfits of yesterday, we've put together our Top Ten picks for the most exclamatory, drop-dead dresses ever worn on an Oscar red carpet, and even redeemed one member of the Worst Club by placing her at the shiny top of our Best-Dressed cake.

10. Julia Roberts, 2001
9. Daryl Hannah, 1988
8. Hilary Swank, 2005

7. Claudia Schiffer, 1995
6. Reese Witherspoon, 2006
5. Angelina Jolie, 2004.

4. Catherine Zeta-Jones, 2004
3. Charlize Theron, 2004
2. Halle Berry, 2003

And our pick for all-time best-dressed, mostly because she looks so comfortable and glam at the same time: Uma Thurman, redeeming herself for ending up on our Worst Dressed List, in 2006.

OSCARS 08 [Official Site]

Daryl Hannah: A Tree-Viction Round-Up

Mark — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:02:09 EDT

Daryl Hannah's heroic treetop exploits on behalf of squatting farmers all over South Los Angeles have not yet been forgotten. On last night's Daily Show, the phrase "They are going to forcibly remove actress Daryl Hannah from the walnut tree" was deemed only slightly less surreal than hearing an agitated, airborne Samuel L. Jackson yelp, "Get these motherfucking Daryl Hannahs off the motherfucking plane!" In a follow-up story on the protest, today's LAT offhandedly described Hannah as "plucked" from her perch during the tree-viction, a verb choice that makes it sound as if Hannah were an accidental catch in a giant arcade claw machine, retrieved by a police officer who was hoping to snare a Pamela Anderson or a Leonardo DiCaprio from the protester-filled branches to impress his girlfriend. Lastly, Page Six characterizes Hannah as laughing off her arrest and citation by the LAPD, a sunny insouciance she maintained even after some cruel cops taunted the vegetarian with a plate of bologna sandwiches.

DARYL LAUGHS OFF TREE BUST [Page Six]
Protest Subsides at L.A. Urban Farm Site [LAT]

Daryl Hannah: After The Tree

Mark — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:46:15 EDT

We at Defamer realize that those who do not live in the greater Los Angeles area may never have the chance to see in person a real, live celebrity engaged in the act of protest, and so we are happy to share local journalist Andrew Vontz's video of the aftermath of yesterday's star-studded act of tree-climbing civil disobedience by actress Daryl Hannah, whose image we expect to immediately be silk-screened onto t-shirts featuring the slogan "Fight the Power." The footage of Hannah walking reveals that she didn't suffer any serious muscle atrophy during her prolonged stay in South Central's most famous walnut tree, though in her obviously weakened state she apparently was unable to fight off the fellow protester who insisted on tying a tragically unfashionable pillow case bearing the words "Save the Farm" around her shoulders.

Daryl Hannah Out of Tree and Walking! [YouTube]
Daryl Hannah Adjusts Hair, Prepares to Speak Earnestly [YouTube]

Tree-Climbing Activist Hannah Retrieved Safely, Ending Standoff

Mark — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:47:20 EDT

The standoff ended not with a well-meaning celebrity's tragic tumble from a high branch, but in the safety of a fire truck's lift with fist extended in triumph, secure in the knowledge that her valiant act of civil disobedience raised awareness for the plight of urban farmers, or for the too-long-ignored atrocities perpetrated by unchecked arborists, we've already forgotten which. But no worries, for there will be other causes and other trees for Daryl Hannah, we can feel it.

Daryl Hannah removed from tree [AP]

Daryl Hannah Climbs Tree On Behalf Of Squatting Farmers Everywhere

Mark — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:41:04 EDT

In Los Angeles, even a story about the forcible eviction of squatting farmers in South Central can have—nay, must have—a celebrity angle. The LAT reports that Splash/Clan of the Cave Bear star Daryl Hannah this morning demonstrated her solidarity with the squatters by scaling a tree during the raid and refusing to come down until she finished her tree-top interview alerting the world to her presence at the protest:

Hannah said she was sleeping in her tent when the Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies arrived. [Protest organizer John] Quigley alerted her to the raid, and she raced up the tree in about a minute.
"I felt an extreme sense of urgency. Not only did I have to climb up the tree, I had to pull up the rope behind me so they could not follow me," Hannah said in a cellphone interview with The Times from atop the tree.

She vowed to stay up there until deputies forced her down.

It's unclear from the story whether or not the actress is still in the tree, or if the exasperated police finally resorted to dislodging her from her perch with special, extra-soft "celebrity do-gooder" rounds from their non-lethal bean bag bazooka, but our sources have exclusively revealed that Jenna Eflman is already in talks to play Hannah in the movie of the week CBS has rushed into production, Squat and Climb: My Two Hours Among The Evicted Urban Farmers.

UPDATE: CBS News reports that Hannah is still in the tree, despite the fact that the police have started to saw off its limbs in an attempt to curtail her protest. More on this thrilling standoff between authorities and actress as updates become available...

UPDATE 2: Hannah has been de-treed.

[Photo: AP via CBS News]

Farmers, Celebrities Evicted From Urban Plot [LAT via LA Voice]