Any practiced attendee of the Academy Awards will tell you that the best time to glide across the red carpet is at the end of arrivals time, when the setting sun casts a favorable light on those pesky wrinkles and unsightly bulges.
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But Mordred -- big, proud, poor Mordred -- he leaned against me the next day after losing control and wetting the carpet for the first time ever, and Douglas and I leaned onto each other, hard and sobbing, when we heard the word "tumor" the day after that.
It's that time of year when the red carpet unfurls in the south of France and stars descend for the Cannes Film Festival.
Every time you buy an imported handmade carpet, an embroidered pair of jeans, a beaded purse, a decorated box or a soccer ball there's a good chance you're acquiring something fashioned by a child.
After his success in SW19 came a quarter-final place at the US Open and another title in Switzerland on carpet, and it would seem to be time for a good run at Roland Garros.
But by the time Coca-Cola was finished carpet-bombing the planet with its vision of Santa Claus, there was no doubt what Santa Claus looked like: He looked like Haddon Sundbloom, who used himself as a model for many of his later Coca-Cola paintings.
Once upon a time, when Wall Street was rolling out the hiring carpet, major brokerage firms offered Employee Forgivable Loans to top producers and had trainee programs for wannabes.
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"We owe it to the survivors not simply to say that a certain time has passed and that it should be swept under the carpet, " he says.
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This brings us to the third point: Why did Romney buy the election by carpet-bombing his opponents with negative ads and pretending for the first time in his political life to be "severely conservative"?
Every time somebody in Europe or the U.S. buys an imported handmade carpet, an embroidered pair of jeans, a beaded purse, a decorated box or a soccer ball, there's a good chance they're acquiring something fashioned by a child.
When Meryl Streep, George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Viola Davis strut down the red carpet to the Kodak Theatre for the Academy Awards ceremony on February 26, it may be for the last time.
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