Which Star Rocked the Red Carpet in These Long Lost Photos I Took at the 1995 Oscars?

Clockwise: Susan Sarandon, John Travolta, limo traffic jam and Jodie Foster talks to the press

Steve Martin and press, Sharon Stone and Tom Hanks

It was fun discovering these old pictures in a cardboard box expertly marked PICTURES. I took them on a Kodak instant camera pre-internet. People didn’t share images the way they do now so I forgot about them.

1995 was a good year for movies. Forrest Gump. Four Weddings and a Funeral. Pulp Fiction. Quiz Show. The Shawshank Redemption. Nell. Little Women. Bullets Over Broadway. But Forrest Gump was the big winner. My husband Michael and I watched it all from The Shrine Auditorium, with David Letterman hosting. Wolfgang Puck outdid himself at The Governor’s Ball with pizza and a fabulous chocolate dessert and they gave out Forrest Gump boxes of chocolates at one of the after parties, which I brought home to Connecticut  and kept until they attracted ants.

(top) Lovely Oscar, Tim Robbins and wanna-be celebs me and my husband Michael.

I think Susan Sarandon won hands down for most glam, though Sharon Stone in white satin was a close second and Jodie Foster was radiant in Armani.  Tom Hanks passed the close up test and looked great, perhaps verifying that stars really do look better than the rest of us mere mortals (it took me three days and a painful pre-Spanx girdle to get ready.)

The following year Michael and I watched The Oscars from New York at the Entertainment Weekly party at Elaine’s with this sweet-as-can-be, gorgeous lady. I wolfed down my delicious dinner as I watched Christy eat exactly one half of hers.

Can’t wait for this week’s Oscars–they’re bound to be chock full of Hollywood glam once again. This time I’ll be watching in my pjs from my sofa. Heaven!