I like Beautiful Girls far more than I should. It is completely a guilty pleasure.
Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
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To muddy the waters a bit, for Katie Holmes it says:
Current approximate level of fame: Sarah Michelle Gellar
Deserved approximate level of fame: Natalie Portman
I am so confused.
In the review of Closer in the New Yorker (or maybe it was TONY) the reviewer was arguing that Portman is too beautiful, that directors don't know what to do with her. Lucas had to slather her with makeup so that she could fit in his asexual universe.
aaand, it's official: the Fame Audit just doesn't like SMG:
Current approximate level of fame: Kirsten Dunst Deserved approximate level of fame: Melissa Joan Hart
That is confusing, Victor.
Though I think it is fair to say that Sarah and Katie are pretty equal on the fame scale. It is beginning to look like everybody is at a Sarah level of fame, and deserves a rise, or something, however.
Does Julia Roberts get a ranking?
Portman is too beautiful
That's just crazy talk.
Deserved approximate level of fame: Melissa Joan Hart
Dang.
Fame tracker is mean.
Too beautiful for a MOVIE ACTRESS? Yeah, that really hurt the careers of Garbo, Kate Hepburn, Deborah Kerr, Julie Christie, and so many many others.
Here's the exact quote, by Anthony Lane:
All of which leaves Natalie Portman and Clive Owen to carry the show. Portman is becoming hard to cast: her beauty is by now so extreme that its sole purpose is the feeding of obsession. (George Lucas loads her with silly costumes and puddles of makeup, as if to wish the beauty away, to stop it from throwing his sexless galaxy out of whack.)