Necklace, Feckless, Equus.

Award season is like christmas gone splat. By this I mean that all of the ornamentation that we do to our house and boughs, all in the pursuit of getting
"wows", pales in comparison to the Hollywood's right now. The Golden Globes, The
SAG Awards, The Grammys, The Oscars the list goes on! Like magpies we're drawn
to our television sets to look at the shiney pretty things that our favorite
celebrities will be sporting.

"Oooooh look, pretty lights." -Michael Wallot, I'm Selling Out!! The Stand-Up Musical Comedy

The pagentry distracts us. The Harry Winston's make us forget the traffic on the way home. The Chopard's make us overlook the not-done dishes. We can tune in, turn on, and tune out. The bliss that we get during the holiday season letting the lights hypnotize us last a little bit longer with award season.

"Some of us may be in the gutter, but our eyes are permanently fixed on the stars." -Oscar Wilde

Remember the entire Sharon Stone debacle from 1994? When she thought that Harry Winston's $500,000 was a gift? Harry sued her, she sued Harry, the necklace was returned. We watched, completely bedazzled. The real irony to me is that in the middle ages townspeople would hang all creative types by their necks if they displeased the court. By creative types I mean the eccentrics, the travelling performers, the charlatans, the witches. Centuries later we still offer the audiences our necks, only this time ordained in pretty pretty necklaces. Pictured here is classic Chopard and Madonna's new line for Chopard.

Feckless is an under-used adjective. It means to be lacking of purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective. It can also mean to be careless and irresponsible. In the second definiton feckless is like reckless and what makes that nice is that it rhymes too. "The actresss on the red carpet, seem feckless in the necklace and her cleavage was reckless".

Little Daniel Radcliffe is currently starring in a West End production of Equus. The play is a complicated story involving an adolescent boy and his passion for horses. The role is extremely demanding in it's needs and involves nudity. Many fans of the Harry Potter movies are up in arms over the actor they love to be doing something so risque. They find this choice of roles somewhat feckless, as the youth of this country look up to him. This is what actors need to do; they need to challenge themselves to stretch their skills. Hopefully the concerned audience will learn a further lesson from the talented young man; playing it 'safe' all the time leads to a very boring existance. Taking risks are important in teaching you about you. I guess the fans of Hogwarts will need to be reminded that there's more to the man than just one role. They'll need to be reminded that even Hermione looks him up and down. He's growing up before our eyes. You can't stop that. You can be distracted by it though.