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Red Carpet Runway

The Emmys are known as “TV’s Biggest Night,” but the red carpet also makes for one of fashion’s biggest nights. As your favorite TV stars walk the red carpet, fashion stylist Hitha Prabhakar takes notes.

Heidi Klum

Heidi Klum

BEST DRESSED

Prabhakar tells me the very pregnant reality host nominee Heidi Klum is “a winner” in her Marchesa gown. Us Weekly’s Fashion Director Sasha Charnin Morrison adds Klum is “having her 4th child and she looks that good. What a pro!”

Blake Lively

Blake Lively

Morrison calls presenter Blake Lively “sexy, hot, fierce” in Versace. And Noelle Watters of FNC Imag loves Olivia Wilde of “House,” also in Marchesa.

Olivia Wilde

Olivia Wilde

WORST DRESSED

Melora Hardin

Melora Hardin

Watters gives “The Office” actress Melora Hardin worst-dressed honors for “looking like a lemon meringue.” Both Watters and Morrison put Tina Fey in the worst-dressed category. Morrison calls Fey’s black gown “a downer.”

Tina Fey

Tina Fey

And Prabhakar gives the worst-dressed award to reality host nominee Padma Lakshmi of “Top Chef.” Prabhakar didn’t think the dress was right for Emmy night – especially if Lakshmi had won. “She could’ve potentially gone on stage with that atrocity,” says Prabhakar. (That possible sartorial crisis was averted, though, when Jeff Probst of “Survivor” won the Emmy for reality competition host.)

Padma Lakshmi

Padma Lakshmi

For all your style and celebrity scoop, catch the Strategy Room Entertainment Hour weekdays at 12-1et.  And, as always, we want to hear from you. Click “comments” and tell us whether you agree with our fashionistas!

FOX in Toronto: Mariah Carey, Matt Damon & More!

By Ashley Dvorkin, FNC Entertainment Producer

APTOPIX BRITAIN MARIAH CAREYAside from chatting with Megan Fox and her humor-horror flick co-stars about their gig coming out this week “Jennifer’s Body” (see past “On the Scene” entry), there were other A-listers who lent us their time to dish about their latest projects.

Multi-tasking entertainer Mariah Carey turns actress again for the drama “Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire” an intense film in which she plays a social worker trying to help a troubled 16-year-old abuse victim (played by newcomer Gabourey Sidibe, who’s name I predict we will all know soon).  It’s the film Mo’Nique is already getting awards buzz for and the one Oprah is producer on.

This is the role you may have also heard features a make-upless Mariah (with a wardrobe circa 1987).  She has a fun sense of humor when talking about stripping down her usual glamorous look to get into this heavy role that she calls “more than a plain Jane”.  It was a welcomed challenge and she trusted the director, but admits to trying to sneak a little blush and laughed when she added “it didn’t matter, like blush was going to solve that issue.”  So as you can tell, no Diva-attitude here!  I think we’ll be seeing more of the Hollywood-bound Carey who admits she’d like to keep pursuing this route.

(Stay tuned for more on this film when it gets closer to the November release date!)

Meanwhile, Matt Damon was also in town for “The Informant!”, due out this week, a dark comedy based on true story of the highest-ranking corporate whistleblower in the US.  Although when it comes to undercover spy work Matt said, “I don’t think I’d be particularly good at it, I’m not very good at keeping secrets in general.”  And bringing things back to his Academy Award win for writing, I asked if he’ll be doing more behind the camera work, “I’d like to keep writing and eventually want to direct”

It was also fun to spend time with Ricky Gervais who pretty much does everything on his upcoming film “The Invention of Lying” as star, writer, and director.  Set in a world where everyone tells the truth because they have to and “saying nothing at all” isn’t an option – it co-stars Jennifer Garner and Rob Lowe among other big-time cameos.  We talked about having fun on the set (nerf balls were apparently a toy of choice) and Lowe clarified the theory that just because they make believe on the big screen doesn’t mean they are good at lying in real-life he says “good actors are bad liars, bad actors are good liars”.  I also tried to throw a statistic at Gervais about how many times people lie in a day just to have him play along but – I didn’t have the number on me!  So although a funny moment, it was a failed attempt – guess I’m not that good a liar either!

You only have to wait until October for this one.

(and yes, there will be plenty more video and information on those films too coming up on Foxnews.com!)

An ‘Always Sunny’ Night

Season 5 of the comedy “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” hits F/X tonight. To celebrate, the Paddy’s Pub crew thrilled fans of the show last night at New York’s Beacon Theater with a performance of last season’s memorable musical episode, “The Nightman Cometh.”

Photo courtesy Patrick McElhenney

Photo courtesy Patrick McElhenney

Cast member Danny DeVito says this season, the show will tackle the recession and the Bernie Madoff headlines. DeVito’s character, Frank, is the father figure to the rest of the gang. When economic woes hit Paddy’s Pub, his character helps out. “So I dig into my secret capital,” says DeVito, “And I keep them afloat. But I got hit hard by a Ponzi scheme guy. So it affects everybody.”

The gang also gets into WWE-style wrestling – for a good cause. The characters aim to entertain the troops, but something tells me their USO tour won’t go smoothly. Star Glenn Howerton, who plays egocentric Dennis, gives me the scoop: 

“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” premieres on F/X tonight at 10pm.

FOX in Toronto: Mariah Carey, Matt Damon & More!

By Ashley Dvorkin, FNC Entertainment Producer

Aside from chatting with Megan Fox and her humor-horror flick co-stars about their gig coming out this week “Jennifer’s Body” (see past “On the Scene” entry), there were other A-listers who lent us their time to dish about their latest projects.

Multi-tasking entertainer Mariah Carey turns actress again for the drama “Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire” an intense film in which she plays a social worker trying to help a troubled 16-year-old abuse victim (played by newcomer Gabourey Sidibe, who’s name I predict we will all know soon).  It’s the film Mo’Nique is already getting awards buzz for and the one Oprah is producer on.

This is the role you may have also heard features a make-upless Mariah (with a wardrobe circa 1987).  She has a fun sense of humor when talking about stripping down her usual glamorous look to get into this heavy role that she calls “more than a plain Jane”.  It was a welcomed challenge and she trusted the director, but admits to trying to sneak a little blush and laughed when she added “it didn’t matter, like blush was going to solve that issue.”  So as you can tell, no Diva-attitude here!  I think we’ll be seeing more of the Hollywood-bound Carey who admits she’d like to keep pursuing this route.

(Stay tuned for more on this film when it gets closer to the November release date!)

Meanwhile, Matt Damon was also in town for “The Informant!”, due out this week, a dark comedy based on true story of the highest-ranking corporate whistleblower in the US.  Although when it comes to undercover spy work Matt said, “I don’t think I’d be particularly good at it, I’m not very good at keeping secrets in general.”  And bringing things back to his Academy Award win for writing, I asked if he’ll be doing more behind the camera work, “I’d like to keep writing and eventually want to direct”

It was also fun to spend time with Ricky Gervais who pretty much does everything on his upcoming film “The Invention of Lying” as star, writer, and director.  Set in a world where everyone tells the truth because they have to and “saying nothing at all” isn’t an option – it co-stars Jennifer Garner and Rob Lowe among other big-time cameos.  We talked about having fun on the set (nerf balls were apparently a toy of choice) and Lowe clarified the theory that just because they make believe on the big screen doesn’t mean they are good at lying in real-life he says “good actors are bad liars, bad actors are good liars”.  I also tried to throw a statistic at Gervais about how many times people lie in a day just to have him play along but – I didn’t have the number on me!  So although a funny moment, it was a failed attempt – guess I’m not that good a liar either!

You only have to wait until October for this one.

(and yes, there will be plenty more video and information on those films too coming up on Foxnews.com!)

Megan Fox on her new film, high school evil, & protecting her privacy!

megan_apBy Ashley Dvorkin, FNC Entertainment Producer

In Diablo Cody’s dark comedy “Jennifer’s Body” the academy-award winner’s version of High School has the popular girl in class as a literal “maneater” (think horror film) and is played by constant headline grabber Megan Fox.  Surprisingly, Fox says high school for her was actually “torturous.”  And when we talked about whether playing a role in the lockered hallways makes you nostalgic, she said she’d like to “go back to a time where I didn’t have any responsibility, but not necessarily high school.”

Also, when it comes to all the attention she gets these days, she doesn’t even have Twitter, Myspace or any other online way to respond directly or talk to fans.  She said “I don’t need to get on and address things that happen publicly to everyone. I feel like I cling to my privacy and I don’t need to expose myself further to people. I would love to interact with fans but I don’t think that something like Twitter is the appropriate forum for me to do that.”

Click here for more of the interview with Megan Fox and her “Jennifer’s Body” co-stars Johnny Simmons, Amanda Seyfried & Adam Brody!

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