Here are Kiran Stordalen and Horst Rechelbacher. The two have been together for 20 years. They attended the opening night party of Purebeauty. Why? His new company Intelligent Nutrients is a partnership with Regis.

The full line of IN products are expected to be available at the end of May. Horst noted that they recently ran into a packaging issue– the caps didn’t fit the bottles.
Horst also pointed out that Progressions salon, at the Mall of America next to Purebeauty, will soon carry his line. It is currently an Aveda concept salon, but it is owned by Regis Corp. It looks like we’re in for an exciting time in the Minnesota beauty world!

Jeff Strickler: When Jennifer Hudson was led off stage. She was dazed.

Claude Peck: When Ryan Seacrest flashed his underwear. And when Ryan Gosling walked the red carpet with his mother and sister. More seriously, when Jennifer Hudson won.

Rick Nelson: Jennifer Hudson, Beyonce, Anika Noni Rose and Keith Robinson in their Screamgirls songfest.

Sara G: The life-imitates-fiction (or nonfiction, depending on who you ask) moment when Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt clearly wanted to hit Best Costume Design winner with the Oscar and give it to Pat Field. A true fashion moment. The Devil would be proud.

Colin Covert: Scorsese’s best director win. The whole Kodak Theatre was on its feet. It was like the Red Sox fans after the team finally won the World Series. Everyone in the room was celebrating.

“The Departed,” blah, blah, blah. We’ve had a glaring omission in our Oscar coverage. Kirsten Dunst. Love the hair, love the makeup…now the dress??? I want to like it. It’s Chanel. The color is awesome. I even kind of like the face-framing collar. But I can’t excuse its multiple personality disorder. An homage to Marie Antoinette’s many moods?   

Some new kid named Martin Scorsese wins the best director Oscar. Damn this Hollywood youth culture. This is an award that thrills the entire room. There’s a standing ovation, cheers, taxi whistles. Onstage with Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, it’s like a 1970s Class Reunion, and that reinforces how long delayed this award has been. In a way it’s a consolation prize for not winning for “Raging Bull” or “The Last Temptation of Christ” or “Goodfellas” or “The Age of Innocence” or “The Gangs of New York” or “The Aviator.” And now “The Departed” takes best picture, announced by Diane Keaton and a bald Jack Nicholson, who apparently will next be starring in a biography of David Letterman’s bandleader, Paul Shaffer.

That Leo. Still so young, but so wise. He didn’t win for Best Supporting Actor, but he won:

1. His get Martin Scorsese an Oscar campaign.

2. His crusade to draw attention to the environment, thanks to pairing with Al Gore.

3. The attention of his ex Gisele. Wherever she may be in the world.

Forest Whitaker collects the Oscar, the fourth African-American to win, following Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington and Jamie Foxx, and brings closer the day when we stop counting how many black actors have won the award. It was a towering performance, no question, but re-viewing the movie recently, I was struck how little screen time he actually had. His presence was so strong that even when he was offscreen, you felt that magnetism.