Angelina Jolie's pose at the Oscars still has people talking. She, better than anyone else on the stage Sunday night, fulfilled her role as a movie star.
When Jolie flashed her right leg through a black gown, people started talking worldwide. Some were struck by her sexiness; others blasted her thinness.
But, hey, she had people talking, the way that movie stars used to. With her strut on the Oscar stage, Jolie brought to mind Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn, two stars who always brought a lot of oomph to Oscar night.
Was Angelina too thin? No thinner than Audrey, perhaps the greatest style setter in Oscar history.
Was Angelina too bawdy? She'd have a long way to go to match Elizabeth Taylor, who brought playful good humour to the Oscars with her plunging gowns, her jewels, her dark tans and her bawdy laugh. And who can forget Liz's being ruffled after a streaker invaded the Oscars? Movie legend Taylor would have loved Jolie's pose.
Movie stars are supposed to make an impression. Angelina Jolie did. Jim Rash and his fellow "Descendants" writers adopted the Jolie stance on the Oscar stage after she presented them their awards.
Backstage at the Oscars, "Community" actor Rash said he wasn't ridiculing Jolie. "I just saw her pose and I thought, 'You know what? We have exactly the same legs,' " Rash joked. "And I wanted to show everyone what it meant. It was a loving tribute."
And although the internet is now awash with spoof ''leg-bombing'' pics, Jolie has supplied another Oscar moment to remember. If you hold on to them, you'll overlook how boring the show can be. Plea to Oscar: Please make sure Jolie returns.
