Issue Date: January 14, 2007
WHO'S NEWS GOES BEHIND THE SCENES
Monday's Golden Globes starts the awards season. Join USA WEEKEND's Lorrie Lynch as she tells you the stars' secrets to becoming beautiful.
I have a confession to make. I've never indulged in a spray tan or injected my feet with collagen to get ready for a black-tie event. I wore the same suit to the Golden Globe Awards that I put on for my company's holiday party, and I've never borrowed million-dollar diamonds, even for a special night.
The stars -- no matter what the glossy magazines say -- are definitely not like me.
They are, however, like "Access Hollywood's" Nancy O'Dell, who has hair, makeup and style people at the show to get her camera-ready. "They know your needs and your secrets," she says. "We speak the same language."
That language will be spoken all around Hollywood on Monday as stars get Golden Globe glamorous. To uncover some of their style secrets and share them with you, I talked to the people who make it all happen -- the stylists, hairdressers, designers, jewelers and, yes, even the spray-tan man. Here, on the eve of Tinseltown's biggest awards season, is the scoop.
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THE BLING
Some people find it odd that actors who make millions per movie borrow their bling. But when you're talking millions for a necklace, even they can't afford all the jewelry needed for those red-carpet moments. Enter jeweler Harry Winston.
In 2002, the year Halle Berry won an Oscar for "Monster's Ball," Winston created a garnet and diamond bracelet to match her Elie Saab gown. It was beautiful, but she also wore a ring with the world's largest orange diamond, worth a cool $3 million.
One award-winning actor (whose name I promised not to reveal) purchased Winston earrings for his wife to wear to the Academy Awards. But he wanted them to be one of a kind, so the jeweler had to break up and reset all others of the same design.
Big stars favor smaller jewelers, too. In 1999, the week before her Oscar win for "Shakespeare in Love," Gwyneth Paltrow visited Cathy Waterman's ocean-side studio and found a sapphire and diamond bracelet that she later bought. Julia Roberts has her pick of jewelers. So, Waterman says, "[Sometimes] we don't know what [jewels] she is wearing until she is presenting on TV."
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THE 'DO
Just one day after Golden Globe nominations, Ken Paves (PAY-vis) is "on hold" for Jennifer Lopez, Eva Longoria and Evangeline Lilly. These days, the super-hot hairdresser will work with only two or three women on awards day. He learned that lesson the hard way.
For one show in 2000, he styled Calista Flockhart, Lucy Liu, Kristin Davis, Portia de Rossi, Kim Cattrall, Lara Flynn Boyle, Michael Michele and Sela Ward. Work began the night before; he set de Rossi's hair wet. And he ended the next evening with TV actress Michele, who did her own ponytail, because "I got to her house and the limo was already there. I twisted it into a chignon and set it with a brooch."
It was Paves who gave Eva Longoria 10 different hairstyles during last year's Latino ALMA awards show, and for the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, he put Jessica Simpson on the red carpet "with short hair, like Marilyn Monroe. The fun thing about Jessica is that she has no problem telling people, 'I'm wearing a wig.' "
Britney Spears was not wearing a wig when she appeared on David Letterman's late-night talk show with a short blond bob. "The bob was her real hair," Paves says. He didn't cut it, but he did add some long extensions days later.
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FINISHING TOUCHES
Think it's the California sun keeping celebrities golden? Wrong. It's the spray tan. The goal is to look like you've just jetted back from Hawaii, not to look like poor Charlize Theron, about whom there's still talk because she looked orange the night in 2004 when she won her Oscar for "Monster."
The tanning team at Christophe often goes to a star's home and occasionally faces a sticky situation. Like the day the team arrived at a famous rock singer's home to find her "out of it." One of them had to remove a cigarette from her hand because it was burning her fingers.
Although there are plenty of spray tanners in L.A., there is just one man to see for eyebrows: Damone Roberts. Stars such as Brandy, Mandy Moore and Jaime Pressly pop in to his salon for regular upkeep. Beyonce, on the other hand, made a quick stop there on her way to the American Music Awards. The limo was idling as Roberts shaped and plucked.
But Roberts actually goes to Madonna. Once, before an album release party, "I did her eyebrows as the stylist was holding up outfits." (She finally settled on a T-shirt and slacks.)
THE OUTFIT
It's rough out there on the red carpet. And, oh, the tales I hear about mishaps and evening-saving moves.
"TV Guide's" Melissa Rivers had a dress fall apart on air. At one of the first Academy Awards she covered with mom Joan, Rivers wore a designer sample, but she didn't know samples are often loosely basted, not sewn at the seams. And when one thread pulled, it began a chain reaction. During commercials, Rivers and her crew madly pieced it together with black duct tape.
At the 1999 Emmys, Nancy O'Dell had a dress problem of her own. The plan was to wear a cream-colored velvet two-piece with "a very small amount of midriff showing." The top was large and was to be tailored. At the final fitting two days before the show, "I saw they had taken it in, but they also took it up. Instead of a small amount of my belly showing, there was a ton showing. It looked like no more than a bikini top." O'Dell did 2,000 stomach crunches in two days. "And, of course, I hardly ate anything, and I went tanning four times. I actually was doing crunches minutes before I went on live."
For the 1997 Oscars, stylist Phillip Bloch had Sandra Bullock's dress made. It arrived "a half-inch short in every direction." Bullock was cool about it: "Sandy is no muss, no fuss." Another designer, Richard Tyler, saved the day with a different dress.
Bloch says he'd love to dress father-son co-stars Will and Jaden Smith this awards season (hint, hint). His concept: Jaden could wear a tux, with a diamond tie pin of his favorite cartoon character.
Cover photograph by Michael Grecco for USA WEEKEND
Hair by Ricky Evans; makeup by Karen Knopp; styling by Nicole Allowitz
With Jeanne Wright in Los Angeles
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