Posted by babka at 170-215-192-166.nas2.nor.ny.frontiernet.net on January 23, 2004 at 09:21:30:
In Reply to: Have you ever noticed...? posted by Will Turner, Karaoke King on January 23, 2004 at 09:03:34:
that attended Gigli (the envious vitriol of the reviews, the contempt, the
who-does-she-think-she-is racism, the he-can't-act attacks) and the
reports in which each said that their career had suffered because of
their relationship/participation in a perceived flop....the media glare,
the postponement of J.G. (and the momentum of their new-love)....
who can untangle these twines?
Re. Kevin and the New Askew embodied in J.G. - every action has an
equal and opposite reaction. We had to expect Big Opposition,
because the advance in every way is Big.
I can't put Cruise & Kidman in the same category as Affleck and
Lopez somehow, although it must be terrible-hard to walk a tightrope
that high up in high winds, blinded by the klieg-lights.
Off to my Metaphors Anonymous meeting now.....
in other words, the professional bottom-line must be in there, but
that outside scribes and inside coteries should have the power to
turn love-birds against eachother....if that is in part what happened...is
sad.
I like to think that in an alternative universe, Neb Kcelffa and Refinnej
Zepol, a small-town columnist and a housewife who sings to the
baby while she does the dishes.....are sublimely happy and live to a
ripe old age in deepening harmony.