The Anne Hathaway/Devil Wears Prada story from yesterday got me twitching to watch that film again so I did last night.

A few observations:

1) AH looks so much better with softer or neutral lipstick than the deep red she goes for so often in the film and real life. The red just looks too harsh against her pale skin and dark hair - like the colour scheme my brother had in his bedroom in the late 1980s.

2) AH is really good at looking duly smug - those impossible to resist sly smiles are spot on.

3) Some of the between-the-friends dialogue is really clumsy (eg, the “let’s introduce our jobs” conversation) but most of the time their interactions seem really natural. They all chat over each other at the end of the clumsy scene from lazy writing and it seems normal. And Tracie Thoms, who places her best friend Lilly, is spot on with her reaction to the re: the Marc Jacobs bag.

4) I really want to like AH in real life - because she seems normal and down to earth compared to many of her contemporaries (and actually acting for the acting, not the fame and fashion lines) - and find her pretty - because she’s not a standard clone - but I find the latter difficult sometimes. Sometimes she looks gorgeous but other times … decidedly not. I don’t know what this is but suspect unflattering photography angles and lighting are to blame at least some of the time. She doesn’t seem to suit a lot of the dresses she goes for either - both she and the dresses are perfectly nice in their own rights but don’t work together.

5) On that note, it may be because it’s a few years old now and also because high fashion isn’t always meant to be accessible but some of Andy’s outfits are … peculiar. And by peculiar, I mostly mean hideous. And Miranda’s carpet at home? Also bleugh.

6) Conversely, some of the time she looks utterly bitchin’ and a million miles tall. Is that worth going hungry - so hungry it makes you cry - for? No, definitely no.