Who were all those nontraditional dates?
Clint Eastwood brought his mother, Ruth Eastwood; Alec Baldwin accompanied Ireland, his 8-year-old daughter with ex-wife Kim Basinger; and Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon chaperoned their 11-year-old son, Miles, and actor Liam Aiken, 14, who appeared with the actress in 1998's ''Stepmom.''
And that man sitting next to Renée Zellweger? The one she called her ''beloved''?
He ain't her ''ain true love'' -- that would be White Stripes frontman Jack White -- but longtime manager and awards-show companion John Carrabino.
Speaking of ''ain,'' what the heck does it mean?
It's an 18th-century Scottish word for ''own.'' As for how many Civil War-era Southerners would have used it in conversation? Beats the hellfire out of us.
