Not Even Close To Perfect
I saw a photo spread of Sara Rue in a magazine recently. Rue is the brunette from "Popular," and "Less Than Perfect." She's very funny, a good actress of average size, which of course in Hollywood means she's going to get all the parts labeled "Fat Girl."
Her TV show was called "Less Than Perfect," a play on words about the fact that her main character was not your typical Hollywood girl. That is to say, she was not composed of sinew, bone, and a skin stretched so tight that it can be played like a snare drum.
It the entertainment field, where caffeine and nicotine are classified as food groups, a woman isn't allowed to have more than five extra pounds on her at any given time. That figure goes up to seven in the post-meal, pre-vomiting stage.
The picture indicated that Rue had lost most of the weight that kept her separate from everyone else in Hollywood. She also had gotten a shorter haircut, which she had dyed blonde. If not for the caption, I wouldn't have recognized her, nor would I have looked.
Why does the alternate universe that is Hollywood insist on having everyone look the same? Is it so that all of these actresses can play each other in the movies, and we don't have to worry about getting the names correct? If I saw a movie starring Maggie Gyllenhall, Keira Knightley, Taryn Manning, and Jaime King, they'd have to wear nametags so I could pretend to care about each one of them.
It's the Christina Ricci syndrome. When Ricci reached legal age, she was attractive because she appeared to have a figure behind her. Even though, or perhaps because she was a walking smoky, Gothy, bad attitude, she stood out in Hollywood. Now that same girl is exactly the same girl as everyone else, with the forgotten indy cred long left behind her.
I'm not sure about anyone else, but I like things that are different. Every movie does not have to have the exact same cast, plot, special effects, and voice-over guy.
Look at "The Island." Was it enough that you had Scarlett Johannson, a very good, attractive actress in the lead? Nope. You have to Photoshop the ads, and inflate her to superhuman proportions.
Scarlett Johansson Terrified By Her Own Giant Rack
No wonder we're a society possessed of unrealistic expectations.
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