After watching last night’s episode of Glee, I can do nothing other than beg the women of Hollywood to lay off the Botox and plastic surgery.
Olivia Newton-John was so pretty until the heavy hand of her plastic surgeon had his way with her face. She looks so stretched out and bizarre that it is hard to imagine the fresh face of her youth. Jane Lynch looked fabulous in comparison—she may have lines, but she still looks human.
And there are so many others. Courteney Cox may deny that she has had work done, but her face didn’t look anything like that on Friends. And Jennifer Aniston’s aesthetic manipulations made it nearly impossible for me to pay attention to Marley & Me when she was on screen.
I want more stars to follow the lead of Virginia Madsen, who uses Botox to soften a few lines without compromising her entire look. See her talk about it here.
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There are those of us out there who just can’t get over Brad Pitt leaving Jennifer Aniston for Angelina Jolie. We pull for Jen every time she dates a new man, and we feel heartbreak when relationship after relationship doesn’t work out.
Now, when Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey split, most people were on Nick’s side. Nick did a great job of playing the abused party in that separation, and that image stuck. Jessica was the bad guy, and we felt no sympathy for her.
That all changed the day before Jessica’s birthday party when the news came out that she had been unceremoniously dumped by Tony Romo. Public outcry turned to Jessica’s favor. (I mean, really, the day before her big birthday party?) Speculation ran rampant that maybe Jessica and Nick would get back together. (Nick’s brother Drew says that’s not happening.)
Why do we care so much? Why do we feel the need to take sides? And why can’t we just let Jen and Jess conduct their love lives at their own speed and in their own manner?
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[digg=http://digg.com/movies/Marley_Me_I_Hate_You]I watched Marley & Me over the weekend. It was hard to get into because Jennifer Aniston had something really weird going on with her face, as if she had visited a Botox-happy dermatologist right before filming. It was also hard to take great joy in the movie because I had been spoiled about the ending. (If you don’t want to know, stop reading now, because spoilers follow.)
Since before Mr. Pop Culture Curmudgeon and I got our Greater Swiss Mountain Dog and Bernese Mountain Dog, we had been reading of the horrors of bloat and gastric torsion. Both of our dog breeds are prone to bloat (even mom’s miniature dachshund is a bloat risk), and it can be a quick killer. It is a condition where you call the emergency vet while you are driving there–you don’t call to see if you should come in, you just go if your dog exhibits any of the signs, even a sign as small as not acting like himself. I had been warned by members of the Bernese Mountain Dog Yahoo group that bloat is what killed Marley, so it was actually scary to watch. I couldn’t stop thinking about the time when we might experience that with one of our dogs.
The movie is a wonderful look at how you care for an aging dog. The Grogans make Marley happy and keep him with them as long as he still loves life. Then, when Marley is no longer able to recover from repeated episodes of bloat and gastric torsion, they put him to sleep so that he would no longer suffer. I’ve had to put quite a few animals to sleep over the years, and they did a wonderful job of capturing the experience.
I don’t know if I recommend the movie or not. It had its moments–Marley reminds me a lot of our Swissy–and, like I said, it was wonderfully accurate and provided important information about bloat. It focused more on the Me than on the Marley; I get the feeling that the book contained more doggy details than the movie. But it was so sad. And not sad in a Bridge to Terabithia or Gone with the Wind way. Sad in a way that was depressing, not cathartic.
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Have you seen Jamie Kennedy and Jennifer Love Hewitt together? Have you heard him gush on and on about how lucky he is to be with her? How transcendent and joyful their feelings for each other are? Was your first response, “Take it down a notch, dude. Be a man, for god’s sake.”
I fear that Jamie will get his heart not just broken, but crushed, blended, and poured down the drain when the two of them breakup, because he has not protected himself. He has not acted aloof, as men in our society are supposed to do, so we all know how smitten he is. His pain will not only be personal, as he works to get over his break-up, but also very, very public, as we all worry about him and constantly question him about whether he has been able to get over J.Love. I just realized: Jamie Kennedy will be the new Jennifer Aniston.
How do you feel about Jamie Kennedy’s girl-like behavior about his relationship. Do you think it is actually girly? Is it refreshing to see a dude be so open? Or do you think less of him?
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And, more important, would it be any good?
Since my beloved Friends went off the air, there has been speculation that the cast would reunite for a movie. (To wit, Showbiz Spy, AHN, and Digital Spy, as just a recent few.)
Now talk has shifted to a TV special, a la A Very Brady Christmas and the like. I think it is pretty obvious that I would watch, but I fear that it wouldn’t be as good as the show. The quality of the show declined in the last few years, as storylines were recycled and characters became less than three-dimensional. The nice thing is that the passing years would give new storylines, as Emma, Jack, and Erica would likely be in school now, and Joey moved to LA. (Speaking of Joey, how would they handle the spinoff?)
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