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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Geeky men's glasses an Emmy fashion disaster

Let Lisa Rinna and Kathie Lee Gifford hassle classy ladies such as Jennifer Love Hewitt and Mary Tyler Moore for their fashion choices during last night's Emmy awards (though I have to admit, Betty White showed Moore why it makes sense sometimes to wear something with sleeves when you're trying to look elegant).

I think it's time for some harsh fashion judgment to fall on the men this year, for the proliferation of one, awful fashion trend: geeky, thick ugly eyeglasses.

CharlesnelsonreillyTom Hanks. John Adams' Paul Giamatti. Alec Baldwin. Martin Sheen. Emmy academy chairman John Shaffner. Every one of them wore glasses thick and ugly enough to make them look like Charles Nelson Reilly. (Indeed, Baldwin, who played Reilly in a hilarious takeoff of Inside the Actors Studio on Saturday Night Live, reminded me uncomfortably of that image last night.)

I know what the glasses are supposed to convey; in Giamatti's case, it's a spirit of geeky cool, like Elvis Costello or Buddy Holly. In Hanks' and Baldwin's cases, I think its a Nicholson-esque attitude: "I'm such a big star, I can look like an old guy and everyone will pretend not to notice." Which, judging by my informal review of Emmy fashion commentary, a lot of so-called "experts" did.

So I'm here to call them out. You tell me whether it's fair:

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