Sometimes I think there are two Brendan Frasers and two Nicholas Cages.
In some movies (It Could Happen to You, The Mummy), they’re gorgeous!
In others (Raising Arizona, Airheads), they have a kind of trailer park trash (in Cage’s case) or skaterat (in Fraser’s) look going which I find completely unattractive.
I think they’re both actually sets of identical twins…one buffs up and does the whole Hollywood star beauty regimen thing and the other is a skinny, heroin-addicted, hollow-eyed trailer queen.
Stephen Rea is another one. He seems goofy in photographs, but then while watching him in a movie (The Crying Game, for instance) I wonder what I was thinking before. He’s super cute, all of a sudden.
Mauvaise- Yup, I heard about it awhile ago and have been avidly awaiting it ever since. I even relish the “24” commercials, just for glances of him. <Sigh>
Back to the topic at hand…
I’d say Julia Roberts. She strikes me as someone who wouldn’t be considered gorgeous were she not famous. It’s more of a love it or hate it look. I saw her in another movie, “Flatliners” (also w/ Kiefer Sutherland), and she looked way more subdued. I’d consider her better looking in that one, actually.
You think right. I think she’s hideous. I can’t decide if I’m happy for her (“Score one for we ugly people!”) or peeved (“Why wasn’t ugly in when I was suffering through adolescence?”)
And I realize I’m going to get creamed for this, but Helen Hunt and Jodi Foster are also going on my list.
To add a guy, Ray Liotta, even though most of the time I lust after him.
For about 3 months he was just it, so cute, so handsome,
but then almost overnight he turned downright ugly!!!
How did he do that???!
the Wahlburg guy: Dont get that at all…
Sarah Jessica Parker: she just screams UGLEEEE! Just what kind of fools do they think people are anyway? Just because
she advertises beauty products and has her picture taken a lot we are supposed to think she’s pretty? She should have done something about that nose a L O N G time ago. Has nice hair though.
The girl with the GIGANTIC forehead and heart shaped oily face
whats her name? Dont get that either… blecchh
Julia Roberts: One moment she’s stunningly beautiful, the next minute all you see is the very wide nose and that odd shaped mouth.
Katharine Zeta Jones:
Now thats a perfect picture of prettiness.
Britney Spears. Now that’s she’s “legal” I feel better about typing this. Forget about her music for the moment. She really does have a kind of sexy, womanly figure now that her hips are broadening out but her face is a real puzzlement. In looking at pictures of her mother you can see directly where it is going and it’s not a pretty place. It’s a hard leatherish seamed look with narrowed eyes that looks like too much makeup covering too much sun and cigarette smoke damage.
It’s amazing how fast she’s beginning to look like her mother.
There’s a bunch of women out there with The Forehead that Ate Miami–Christina Ricci, the lead singer of Garbage, and Tyra Banks leap to mind–who are otherwise stunning.
How about Liza Minelli?
And whatever happened to Mary Tyler Moore’s mouth? Back in her Dick Van Dyke Show days, she had a fairly normal mouth. Now, she’s in the same league as Julia Roberts.
In my younger days, I was compared to Liza a time or two. I never could decide whether it was a compliment or not.
Also, I saw a promo for an upcoming film (sorry, didn’t catch the name) starring Billy Bob Thornton. He has a clean shaven chin, and a full head of hair. It makes him oddly attractive, and throws me completely for a loop. If I’m thinking Billy Bob is cute, there must be something wrong with me.
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*Originally posted by astro *
**Britney Spears.
In looking at pictures of her mother you can see directly where it is going and it’s not a pretty place. It’s a hard leatherish seamed look with narrowed eyes that looks like too much makeup covering too much sun and cigarette smoke damage.
It’s amazing how fast she’s beginning to look like her mother. **[/QUOTE
Bizarre, I was just thinking yesterday that Britney’s going to age in a very hard manner.
And Sandra Bernhardt? She reminds me of an image burned into a Mexican tortilla.
The one that, for me, fits this category, is the girl on Dharma and Greg. Not Jenna Elfman (she’s cute enough, though), but the one who plays her friend Jane. I think the actress’s name is Shae D’lynn (sp?). I can’t decide if she’s hot, in a freaky sort of way, or just really freaky looking.
Sarah Jessica Parker actually used to be beautiful. In the early-to-mid 90s, in films like Holiday in Vegas, Hocus Pocus, and even The First Wives Club she was hot.
Then at the end of the 90s along comes Sex in the City and I couldn’t believe what had happened to her. Someone on AOL remarked “Looks like she fell out of the ugly tree and hit her face on every branch.” I have a theory that the present SJP is an imposter. She assassinated the original (beautiful) one and hid her body and took her place.
Billy Bob Thornton is a good example of the opposite trajectory. In Sling Blade and U-Turn he was everybody’s idea of the Ugly Inbred Redneck from Hell. Then he marries Angelina and next thing you know he loses weight and winds up handsome. Maybe some of her good looks rubbed off on him.
