Lucy Liu. She’s a competent actress, I guess (though she seems typecast with ‘bitch’ roles) but I don’t get why people say she’s so attractive. She’s got a good body, but those are really a dime-a-dozen. Her face is really plain in my opinion, which is unusual for me because I generally find Asian women very attractive.
Amen, brother, amen.
Julia Roberts, Cameron Diaz, Pamela Anderson, Jennifer Lopez, … yuck.
Heather Graham. She’s very cute and somehow manages to get great roles in great films but her acting really doesn’t do anyting for me.
I’d like to see Neve Campbell in one scene where she doesn’t have to turn her head back and forth to say a line. Enough with the head rotations!!!
No, but I think she’s real purdy.
I once saw Winona Ryder at a video store in Minneapolis. She was with Dave Pirner. Believe me, brother, without the make-up it was a totally different story. Oy, logic dictates that something that pale shouldn’t be breathing.
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*Originally posted by Mr. Blue Sky *
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The first time I ever saw Glenn Close in a movie was also The World According to Garp, but it had a completely different impact on me – Glenn Close became my favorite actress. Along with Jessica Lange, she still is.
Of course, I always liked the character of Jenny, and it’s still one of my favorite of Glenn Close’s roles. Incidentally, it caused a typecasting problem for her. She was only 34 at the time, but played Robin Williams’ mother, a considerably older part. After that, it was hard to convince directors that she could play (and in fact was) a much younger woman (at least until Fatal Attraction, after which she had a hard time convincing directors that she could play a sane woman).
Other examples of her talent:
The Big Chill - (remember the crying in the shower scene?)
The Natural
Jagged Edge - in which she plays a much tougher, more sophisticated role.
Meeting Venus - in which she plays an opera singer. She is a wonderful singer as well as actress, and was a huge success in Sunset Boulevard on Broadway.
The Paper - A very funny tough bitch role.
All of the films cited by (the other) Ellen. 
and of course my personal favorites, the three Sarah: Plain and Tall movies, which she produced and which seem tailor-made for her strength and quiet dignity.
I really, really wish I could say that I’d never seen a Glenn Close film I didn’t like, but then you just had to go and bring up those darn dalmation movies, didn’t you Ellen?
I agree with all the actesses listed so far, with the exception of Meryl Streep and Winona Ryder. I haven’t seen many of Meryl Streep’s movies, but I definitely like her. I think that Winona Ryder is wonderful in Girl, Interrupted, much better than Angelina Jolie. She’s just very likeable, and she has a great talking voice, in my opinion. Plus, I watched all of Lost Souls, a pretty crappy movie, just because she is in it.
I need to add Drew Barrymore. She makes me physically sick. I seriously think that all the drinking she did as a pre-teen has made her mildly mentally handicapped. I cannot understand why anyone would cast this ugly, baby-talking, annoying biznatch. If I saw her in person, I would, at the very least, slap her fat face. I just really hate her.
Not to mention she’s dating Tom Green. Can you imagine being a guy that asked her out, and was turned down? Knowing I didn’t meet those high standards would be more than enough reason for suicide.
I actually heard that she is married to Tom Green. Strangely enough, I actually did enjoy The Tom Green Show before I found out about his relationship with Ms. Barrymore. Now I can’t stand the sight of him. Yuck-o.
Also, I thought I’d add that the only two things I don’t like about Edward Norton are that he likes Drew Barrymore and he likes Salma Hayek. Ick.
Oh come on, now!
What’s not to like about Salma Hayek. In my opinion, the hottest woman ever.
I vote for Julia Roberts. She ruins any movie she’s in for me, maybe because I find her physically repulsive. Minnie Driver too, to a certain extent.
Ditto the thing about Angelina Jolie’s lips. Not ugly, just really weird. And while Andie MacDowell is no dog, she’s totally lacking in charm for me.
It’s not that women have to be physically attractive; I think it’s a shame a super actress like Kathy Bates has never gotten many decent roles.
But since actress are unfortunately picked on the basis of their looks, I can’t figure what it is with Lucy Liu’s success? I could pick a better-looking Asian woman out of a random sample on the streets of Taipei, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Shanghai…
Ummm… I don’t like the fact that she sucks some serious ass. Yeah, she’s very pretty. But she’s so annoying! I have never liked a movie that she has been in. Well, Traffic was good, but she was barely in it.
I just have to say that, as a female, I think Lucy Liu is amazingly beautiful. She’s definitely on my “Women I Wish I Could Look Like” list. And she’s the best part of Ally McBeal.
Another sucky actress: Jessica Biel. Ew.
Cameron Diaz blows,
Gwyneth Paltrow sucks,
And Pamela Anderson bites the big one.
Wait a minute, maybe they are special after all.
The bug eyed girl from American Beauty is ** Mena Suvari **a 45 year old woman trapped in a 19 year olds body.
I’ve never understood the appeal of **Michelle Pfeiffer **
Who did ** Salma Hayek ** blow to keep her popularity going? I mean, all she’s really done is Desperado and …uh…ain’t that it?
**Jennifer Love Hewitt ** and all those 20 something neophytes, my dog can act better than you.
I don’t mind **Jennifer Lopez ** in *Out of Sight * but in real life, I wish she would just disappear. I give her marriage to her dancing boyfriend 1 year.
**Julia Roberts ** Bland bland bland and teeth like a horse.
I feel the same way about Whoopi Goldberg that Mr. Blue Sky feels about Glenn Close.
The first time I ever laid eyes on her was on some stand-up comedy show named, “Before They Were Stars”, or something along that line, and Whoopi Goldberg, Roseanne Barr, and a couple of others whose names elude me at the moment were on it.
Whoopi physically made me sick with the filth that came out of her mouth. It was on cable, or tape, (this was waaay back in the early eighties) and every other word out of her mouth was ct or ck or any other degrading word she could come up with to describe male or female genitalia. She couldn’t seem to quit saying words that the audience was obviously having a hard time hearing. I didn’t hear too many laugh…mostly nervous twitters.
I have never heard a comedian, man or woman, be that nauseating before or since, and that includes Richard Pryor and Andrew Dice Clay, during their hey-days.
Then she started a lovely monologue on menstruation. It was not only embarrassing, but it was simply sickening and unneccessary. I can cuss and use rough language with the best/worst of them, and this woman just completely revolted me. I haven’t been able to stand her since then. It was simply overkill.
She was great in “The Color Purple”, and I don’t think she is without some modicum of acting ability, but I thought Oprah Winfrey outshone her by a million suns.
Luckily, she hasn’t been in too many films lately, so I’ve been spared.
Cameron Diaz
Sarah Jessica Parker
Jennifer Lopez
Penelope Cruz
Helen Hunt
Helen Hunt. She’s been good in the movies she’s been in, but all of the roles seem to be more developed versions of Jamie Buchman.
Uma Thurmon. I’ve seen more than one quote about how she “looks like she floated down from heaven.” Huh? If that’s true, go ahead and sign me up for Purgatory, because that girl is bizarre.
Maybe it’s just me, but I think Cameron Diaz looks just like a duck. And I absolutely HOWL when I read of Julia Roberts’ looks described as “coltish” - cuz, yeppers, she sure is horse-faced! (Interestingly, her brother Eric looks JUST like her, and I think he is yummy).
I like Salma. She’s gorgeous. I would consider, er, “crossing the street” for her. Acting? Oh… she acts, too?
My least favorite actress is probably Kim Basinger. I completely do not get her appeal.
The Drew saga gets even stranger. I just read in Maxim that Drew admits to picking Tom Green’s boogers. See what happens when you do cocaine when you’re 10?