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Style Lessons Of The Stars
When stars dress for award shows, they color-coordinate with other winners, or at least they look like they did. Did Angela Bassett call up Keke Palmer and say, "I'm wearing a fabulous purple dress, so you wear a great blue dress, and tell dear Larry (Fishburne) to wear that nice pink tie?" If so, it worked when all three accepted honors at Film Life's 2006 Black Movie Awards on Oct. 15, 2006.
Style Lessons Of The Stars
Talk about pressure! Claudia Schiffer had to dress up to receive a World Style Award from actor Kyle MacLachlan at the 3rd Annual Women's World Awards. She pulled it off elegantly at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York on Oct. 14, 2006.
Style Lessons Of The Stars
Even more pressure: A news conference for the movie "Marie Antoinette," when you're playing the title role. Kirsten Dunst, right, tried a bit too hard to dress down for the occasion when she arrived with actor Jason Schwartzman and director Sofia Coppola during the New York Film Festival on Oct. 13, 2006.
Style Lessons Of The Stars
When you're invited to judge a Scottish fashion show and your name is Rodriguez, don't make a fool of yourself in a kilt. Just dress as usual and sample the national drink of Scotland. Comedian Paul Rodriguez joins fellow judges Patricia Arquette, Thomas Jane and WB TV President Dick Robertson at the Johnnie Walker Dressed to Kilt 2006 fashion show in Culver City, Calif., on Oct. 14, 2006.
Style Lessons Of The Stars
If you've got a worldwide reputation as a clown, you have to live up to it, whatever it takes. Patch Adams mugged for the cameras at "An Evening with Patch Adams" in Sydney, Australia, on Oct. 18, 2006. The event raised funds for the Children's Hospital at Westmead.
Style Lessons Of The Stars
Another clown, Martin Short, dressed for comic success to appear with host Jon Stewart at the "Night Of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Benefit For Autism Education" at the Beacon Theater in New York on Oct. 15, 2006.
Style Lessons Of The Stars
If you spend years building up a classy reputation, you'd better dress like it. Actress Cicely Tyson, recipient of the Hall of Fame Distinguished Career Achievement Award, and actor Billy Dee Williams make an elegant pair in the press room during Film Life's 2006 Black Movie Awards in Los Angeles on Oct. 15, 2006.
Style Lessons Of The Stars
Fashion events pose a particular problem: How are you going to look good next to the style pros? Jaime Foxx, at right, manages to outshine designer Matt Sorum at Sorums'-Noce Couture Clothing launch at the Les Deux Club in Hollywood on Oct. 18, 2006.
Style Lessons Of The Stars
A real actor dresses appropriately for the role. Matt Dillon tips his cap before Game 6 of the N.L. Championship Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Mets at Shea Stadium in New York on Oct. 18, 2006.
Style Lessons Of The Stars
Smart stars always dress nicely, just in case someone throws them a surprise party. Ashanti poses outside the Tao Nightclub at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas during her surprise birthday party Oct. 14, 2006. Ashanti turned 26.
Style Lessons Of The Stars
Real stars go with a retro look when saying farewell to an old haunt. Singer Patti Smith performs onstage at CBGB during the famed New York punk music club's final show Oct. 15, 2006.
Style Lessons Of The Stars
Real stars stick to their roots. Singer Tim McGraw wears a cowboy hat and poses with his mom, Betty, after receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in front of the Virgin Megastore on Oct. 17, 2006.
Style Lessons Of The Stars
Stars have to compete for attention in a glittery crowd. You've got to love a guy who wears a hat like this. Sizu Yantra of Cafe Tacuba and singer Nelly Furtado appear on stage at Los Premios MTV Latino America 2006 at the Palacio De Los Deportes in Mexico City on Oct. 19, 2006.
Style Lessons Of The Stars
You think it's easy dressing up to a surname like "Zombie?" Artist Rob Zombie and actress Sheri Moon Zombie attend the fuse Fangoria Chainsaw Awards at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles on Oct. 15, 2006.
Style Lessons Of The Stars
This is how a real zombie dresses. An actor is seen on the "Bates Motel" set on the Universal backlot in Universal City, Calif., on Oct. 13, 2006. He appears in the theme park's "Halloween Horror Nights" production.
Style Lessons Of The Stars
A smart star dresses right to promote a horror movie. Director, producer, co-writer and actor David Arquette wears a suit sprayed with fake blood at the Hollywood premiere of his film "The Tripper" on Oct. 13, 2006. The movie also stars Courtney Cox Arquette, Jaime King, Thomas Jane, Lukas Haas, Jason Mewes and Paul Reubens.
Style Lessons Of The Stars
Stars must always wear nice underwear to an awards show, in case someone asks to see it in front of the cameras. Singer James Morrison shows an interviewer his (Calvin Klein) underpants as he arrives at the New Zealand Music Awards 2006 on Oct. 18, 2006, in Auckland.
Style Lessons Of The Stars
When they're caught doing something really embarrassing, brave stars brazen it out. This is how ex-BBC sportscaster Tara Stout showed up for sentencing at Magistrates Court in London on Oct. 13, 2006. Found guilty of harassment for bombarding a football club boss with lewd messages, Stout got a suspended sentence.
Style Lessons Of The Stars
If you're Clint Eastwood, there's no pressure at all. You wear what you damn well please, and nobody's about to give you any lip. The director and actor poses at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills on Oct. 7, 2006. He's promoting "Flags of Our Fathers," his new movie.