The Angelina Gam

Angelina Jolie is always one of the biggest, most dazzling stars on a show business red carpet.  Her red carpet appearances with Brad Pitt are sometimes more memorable than her films.  Sunday is a perfect example.  The next day, there was more talk about her leg than there was about her movie, The Tourist.  Angelina was, as usual, charismatic and camera-ready.  The way she stood outside on the Oscars red carpet made her look like she was about to launch into a sexy chorus of "I'm a Little Teapot."

She repeated that stance onstage as she presented one of the Academy Awards.

All the while, I kept staring at her and thinking "What does her leg poked out like that remind me of?"  Then it occurred to me.  If she had put a lampshade on her head, she would have looked exactly like that lamp in the 1983 movie, A Christmas Story.  Am I right?

Angelina Jolie needed Darren McGavin as Mr. Parker up there clutching an Oscar, looking at her gam and exclaiming, "It's a major award.  I won it!"  In fact, come this 2012 holiday season, Angelina should wear that dress again, stand just like that, and host a special cable TV presentation of A Christmas Story. With a lampshade on her head for full effect. That could be ever so festive.  Don't you think?