“Law & Order: SVU” star Mariska Hargitay and E!’s Giuliana Rancic showed up on the red carpet in similar, blue hued gowns.
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And usatoday.com has a cute little article about the after parties:
Trays of In-N-Out burgers, smoked salmon, double baked mini-potatoes, and corn fritters weaved around Tom Hanks, Edward Norton, Colin Firth, Julianne Moore and Tom Colicchio. When boxes of hot burgers neared Swank and Mariska Hargitay, their eyes lit up. “Oh, yeah,” said Swank, taking a box of four from a server. With a “Wahoo!” from Hargitay, Swank declared, “Now this is a party.”
I updated the Oscar Awards Arrivals with 67 pictures which you can view here. Mariska also attended the Vanity Fair & Governor Oscar parties which I added those to gallery as well.
Mariska attended the Oscars and I added one picture to the gallery. I guess she showed up really early because I missed her on the red carpet but anyway she looks stunning as always. I love that dress! So far, I only have one picture but hopefully I’ll get more as the night goes on so keep checking back.
*EDIT* I added 18 pictures to the gallery.
Law and Order: SVU’s failure to broadcast the leaked kiss between star Mariska Hargitay and guest actress Kathy Griffin is shameful enough, but Griffin may have harbored her own share of regrets the day she filmed the kiss, considering that her first run-in with Hargitay in the early ’90s ended in disaster.
Back then, Griffin performed and taught improv at Los Angeles’s Groundlings theater company, and one of her first students was a young Hargitay, who was almost injured thanks to Griffin’s professorial error in judgment. According to her autobiography Official Book Club Selection, Griffin regrets a long-standing breach of trust that occurred during a classroom activity:
“I have deep shame, though, about one of my charges, a young Mariska Hargitay. This was before the beautiful Mariska would go on to achieve Emmy fame on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.”
“We started class, and in the Groundlings curriculum, one of the first exercises you do is the cliched ‘trust’ game. I made everyone stand in a circle, with me in the center, and I sad, “being onstage, you have to trust your fellow actors, especially when you’re an improviser. You’re going to be there for each other, and they’re going to be there for you. For example, I’m going to fall back, knowing that you’ll catch me.”
Then I let myself fall backward, and sure enough, i was caught. Everyone gets out some nervous laughter, and then they all took turns doing it. By the time it got around to Mariska Hargitay, we’d already done it with ten or eleven students, and they had clearly gotten the point. Then it was Mariska’s turn. “Okay, Mariska, cross your arms in front of you and gently fall back,” I said.
She fell back and nobody caught her. She fell flat on her ass. I was horrified. This had never happened in one of my classes before.”
“Nobody wanted to do the trust exercise after her. Nobody trusted anybody. It was a terrible way to start that class.”
“To this day, whenever I see Mariska, and it’s probably been ten times, I apologize. I let her down that day. Let her fall down, if we’re being specific.”
Hopefully the smooch helped patch any lingering resentment. At least Griffin makes Hargitay look like the good guy here — I can’t say the same for the tennis-hating Andre Agassi.
Source: Movieline
SVU is back with two all new (finally!) episodes starting at 9pm with P.C. followed by Savior at 10pm. I can’t wait for these eps feels like we’ve been waiting forever!
P.C.
WHEN A WOMAN FROM A GROWING LESBIAN COMMUNITY IS FOUND DEAD, DETECTIVES BENSON (MARISKA HARGITAY) AND STABLER (CHRIS MELONI) WORK WITH A LOCAL ACTIVIST (GUEST STAR KATHY GRIFFIN) TO UNCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND THE WOMAN’S DEATH
Detectives Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Eliot Stabler (Chris Meloni) find a woman bleeding from the neck and nearly dead. The woman dies before they reach the hospital, and soon the investigation leads them to the frontman of the death metal band Vampyre Sacrifyce. He bites girls, steals blood from the local blood bank and sings about violence to women all in the name of his strange, vampiric lifestyle.
The singer claims he was nowhere near the scene of the crime, and soon a lesbian rights group led by Babs Duffy (guest star Kathy Griffin) gets involved, claiming the victim’s death was a result of police neglect. However, when more women from Babs’s group are attacked, it becomes clear that the victim’s case wasn’t an isolated incident and that someone out there has a larger plan to bring the group down.
Savior
DETECTIVE BENSON (MARISKA HARGITAY) GETS EMOTIONALLY INVESTED IN A CASE WHEN SHE AND DETECTIVE STABLER (CHRIS MELONI) INVESTIGATE THE MURDERS OF SEVERAL YOUNG PROSTITUTES
When a series of young prostitutes are found murdered with homemade prayer cards attached to their bodies, Detectives Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Eliot Stabler (Chris Meloni) struggle to find the common thread. However, just when they think that they’ve found the murderer, Captain Donald Cragen (Dann Florek) informs the detectives that another victim named Gladys (guest star Mischa Barton) has turned up with a prayer card. This time she survived.
As the case unfolds, Benson finds herself getting emotionally invested in the survivor until she is forced to make a decision that she isn’t ready to face. Also starring: Ice-T (Detective Odafin Tutuola), Richard Belzer (Detective John Munch), Tamara Tunie (Dr. Melinda Warner), and B.D. Wong (Dr. George Huang).
One rumor that continues to pop up about Coco is that she is a “party girl”. According to Coco, she definitely likes to party, “but only with her man”. And, truthfully, she’d always prefer a quiet night out (or just at home) to any nightclub scene. Coco proudly boasts her decade of pure monogamous bliss with her husband and plans for a future “Little Coco” (a girl, she really hopes), though not in the immediate future, as she understands her and Ice’s days are currently too full to take on the big responsibility of a baby. Coco points to SVU star, Mariska Hargitay, as a role model for a career woman who had her first child in 2006 at age, 42.
LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT (NBC) It must be the first law of “Law & Order” thermodynamics: As the original show has improved over the last two years, “SVU” has declined. The only idea the writers seem to have left is to put Elliot (Christopher Meloni) or Olivia (Mariska Hargitay) in danger, preferably in a situation that includes serious injury or torture. Returns Wednesday, with back-to-back episodes featuring the noted thespians Kathy Griffin (as a lesbian-rights activist) and Mischa Barton (as a prostitute).
This is from the JHF facebook page:
Dear Joyful Heart Community,
I wanted to update you on a development with our submission to the Pepsi Refresh Project.
We learned yesterday from Pepsi that they had embedded a supporter-created YouTube video onto their site after our submission was posted and voting had begun. This well-intended action was a mistake and in violation of Pepsi’s own contest rules. They did this on their own, not at our request and without our prior knowledge.
Pepsi assured us that our proposal was the leading submission by 6% prior to them doing this and 6% after. Thanks to your support, we spent much of the contest in the #1 spot.
Pepsi also informed us that our submission would be awarded a discretionary $250,000 grant, the first place funding amount, and assured us that in addition and with our full support, the other two top-three proposals in our category would also be funded with a grant.
To read the statement from Pepsi, please visit the Pepsi Refresh Everything Blog here: http://www.refresheverything.com/blog/2010/02/26/learning-as-we-go/
Despite this situation, we remain so incredibly grateful to the thousands of supporters who have volunteered their time, talent and creativity to promoting our idea and share our commitment to heal, educate and empower survivors of abuse. The outpouring we have received from supporters of our idea has been absolutely astonishing.
On behalf of Mariska, the Board and staff of JHF, and the countless survivors who we have served and will serve in the future, thank you so much for all of your support and dedication to our cause.
Yours in joy,
Maile M Zambuto
Executive Director
Joyful Heart Foundation
And this is Pepsi’s statement on their blog:
The Pepsi Refresh Project focuses on promoting positive social change and collaborating with people who have the ideas and the passion to refresh the world.
Despite our best intentions, we did not follow the program’s guidelines properly, which is the subject of an article in today’s New York Times.
We will be taking the following steps: Pepsi will award Joyful Heart a discretionary grant of $250,000. The second- and third-highest vote-getters at the $250,000 level will receive $250,000 grants from the Pepsi Refresh Project. We also will return the submission to its original format.
We are committed to giving away $1.5 million in mid-March to what will now be 33 grant recipients and more than $20 million by the end of the year to help people bring their positive ideas to life. More than anything, this is the most important commitment of all.
As we move forward and learn from this, we are committed to taking steps to ensure the fairness and integrity of the program and that the Pepsi Refresh Project continues to inspire people to create positive ideas that will change the world.
–The Pepsi Refresh Team
Role: Detective Olivia Benson