Deserved approximate level of fame: Melissa Joan Hart
Dang.
Tact is just not saying true stuff. I'll pass.
Cordelia ,'Dirty Girls'
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Sean K - Dec 08, 2004 3:42:30 pm PST #6894 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Alibelle - Dec 08, 2004 3:44:13 pm PST #6895 of 10001
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
Fame tracker is mean.
Scrappy - Dec 08, 2004 3:44:26 pm PST #6896 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
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.
Tom Scola - Dec 08, 2004 4:08:58 pm PST #6897 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
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.)
Strega - Dec 08, 2004 4:18:07 pm PST #6898 of 10001
They just don't like her?
Since Gellar portrays the title character, the show obviously rests heavily on her diminutive shoulders, and she has inhabited it for six seasons with grace, humour, vulnerability, wit, confidence, and ass-kicking ferocity.
Gellar's audit is also from two and a half years ago. It's a snapshot, not a tracking poll.
Polter-Cow - Dec 08, 2004 4:29:10 pm PST #6899 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I like Beautiful Girls far more than I should. It is completely a guilty pleasure.
It's a good movie, that. I don't think it's guilty pleasure material.
Betsy HP - Dec 08, 2004 5:18:31 pm PST #6900 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Portman is becoming hard to cast: her beauty is by now so extreme that its sole purpose is the feeding of obsession
Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Connelly seem to have survived.
§ ita § - Dec 08, 2004 5:40:22 pm PST #6901 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I do find Natalie's beauty distracting. Never thought Nicole was that powerfully beautiful, and Jennifer Connelly has taken a remedy of her own.
I do understand the sentiment. To a degree, Jude Law better be a good actor, otherwise I just go into a fugue state.
Rick - Dec 08, 2004 5:45:52 pm PST #6902 of 10001
Portman is becoming hard to cast: her beauty is by now so extreme that its sole purpose is the feeding of obsession
It's true that she is so beautiful right now that it can take you out of the moment when you are watching a movie. She tilts her head in a certain way and you sit there thinking "She's sooo beautiful!" while the dialog goes on without you.
Also smart. And a Psych major. And . . .
§ ita § - Dec 08, 2004 5:47:06 pm PST #6903 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
the dialog goes on without you
Yes, this. I admit, I'm visually impressionable, but Natalie has to be either pretty good or pretty bad to get me to pay attention.