While ‘The Artist’ bagged five Oscars at the 84th annual Academy Awards, it was Angelina Jolie’s exposed right leg that generated the most buzz on the night. The 36-year-old actor rocked the Oscars in a black velvet Atelier Versace dress, which featured an enormous slit on the right-hand side. Jolie raised eyebrows, and probably temperatures, by exposing a thigh in the gown while presenting one of the awards at the Oscars show. Within less than an hour someone had created @AngiesRightLeg which predictably featured a cropped picture of Jolie’s leg as its avatar and tweeted comments like: “I am Angelina Jolie’s right leg”, “Still here.
Great view, but thank God for the slit in this dress.” By Monday morning the Twitter feed had more than 15,500 followers. “Look at me!” said the leg, 45 minutes after Jolie shimmied onto the stage to present the best adapted screenplay Oscar, flirting shamelessly with the camera by holding her leg just so. “I’m over here!” “I’m a leg, get a load of me!” and “You have to admit, I’m one hell of a leg,” it added. The thigh-baring pose was immediately mimicked by ‘The Descendants’ screenwriters Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash after they accepted the screenplay award from Jolie. The Academy wrote on its Twitter account that Jolie’s appearance “got a LOT of people talking – 3399 tweets per minute about her in fact.”
