Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Names and faces
■ A man was arrested and is accused of stealing Frances McDormand’s Oscars trophy after the Academy Awards on Sunday night, Los Angeles police said.
Terry Bryant, 47, was arrested on suspicion of felony grand theft, said officer Rosario Herrera, a police spokesman.
“After some brief time apart, Frances and her Oscar were happily reunited. They celebrated the reunion with a double cheeseburger from In-N-Out Burger,” said McDormand’s publicist, Simon Halls. McDormand received the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. The Oscar statuette was believed to have been stolen during the Governors Ball after party, authorities said. Bryant had a ticket for the event, Herrera said. McDormand, a two-time Oscar winner who swept trophies at the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild, Independent Spirit and BAFTA ceremonies, beat out Sally Hawkins of The Shape of Water, Margot Robbie of I, Tonya, Saoirse Ronan of Lady Bird, and 21-time nominee Meryl Streep of The Post at Sunday’s Oscars. In Three Billboards, McDormand played Mildred Hayes, a hardened woman seeking justice for her daughter’s murder in the crime drama. Her first Oscar came in 1996 for Fargo, directed by her husband Joel Coen and his brother Ethan. Bryant was being held in lieu of $20,000 bail Monday morning, police said.
■ It’s not often a dress that steals the show at the Oscars isn’t even new. But that’s what happened Sunday when comedian and actress Tiffany Haddish strode on stage in a $4,000 white Alexander McQueen dress she’s worn publicly at least two other times, widely considered a faux pas in Hollywood. Not only that, she walked out on stage wearing slippers and carrying her gold high heels, as did her co-presenter, Maya Rudolph. “We are so happy to be here but our feet hurt,” Haddish said. Haddish, 38, previously wore the dress at the premiere of Girls Trip in July. She wore it again during her stint as host of Saturday Night Live in November — and dedicated half her opening monologue to it. “My whole team told me, ‘Tiffany, you cannot wear that dress on SNL, you already wore it. It’s taboo to wear it twice,” Haddish said on Saturday Night Live. “I said, ‘I don’t give a dang about no taboo, I spent a lot of money on this dress,’” Haddish said. “This dress cost way more than my mortgage.” She then went on to detail where else she would wear the dress: at a bat mitzvah, at her own wedding, and even at her own funeral one day. “If I die and even if I become fat as hell — if I’m the biggest, fattest — I don’t care,” she said. “When I’m laying in that casket, guess what’s going to be laying on top of my fat-ass body? This dress.”