# GEORGY GIRL... how was she not hot? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 10, 2006, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgy-girl-how-was-she-not-hot/363861 "2006-07-10T13:43:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgy-girl-how-was-she-not-hot/363861/1 "2006-07-10T13:43:16Z")
Alas, I caught it on TCM too late to start taping, but damn- “fat & dowdy” Lynn Redgrave was still a “fine bit’o’something” (ya gotta say it in a smarmy English accent), kinda reminds me how Alysson Hannigan was dowdied down in the early years of BTVS & how Janeane Garofalo was “the ugly duckling” in CATS & DOGS. ---
**Author:** ![Gene\_Frenkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gene\_Frenkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gene_Frenkle)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgy-girl-how-was-she-not-hot/363861/2 "2006-07-10T15:01:27Z")
I gotta respectfully disagree on this one… I love that movie, but not at any point in it did I find her physically appealing. To me, it is one of the rare movies where the unattractive character is actually unattractive. Charlotte Rampling on the other hand, looked amazing. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgy-girl-how-was-she-not-hot/363861/3 "2006-07-10T15:11:12Z")
Well, the NYC explosion diverted me from watching the rest of GG, but another thought… James Mason’s character - a somewhat more mature version of Humbert Humbert? Still after a daughter-substitute? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgy-girl-how-was-she-not-hot/363861/4 "2006-07-10T15:36:47Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Well, the NYC explosion diverted me from watching the rest of GG . . . By the way, NYC did not explode. One townhouse on the Upper East Side did (sounds like it was a gas leak). Just in case you all thought we were incinerated up here. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgy-girl-how-was-she-not-hot/363861/5 "2006-07-10T16:35:14Z")
Oh, thanks. I was out of town this weekend and thought I might have missed something big. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgy-girl-how-was-she-not-hot/363861/6 "2006-07-10T16:46:06Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Janeane Garofalo was “the ugly duckling” in CATS & DOGS. _The Truth About Cats & Dogs_. _Cats & Dogs_ was something else [entirely](http://imdb.com/title/tt0239395/). ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgy-girl-how-was-she-not-hot/363861/7 "2006-07-10T16:53:38Z")
[Rosanne Rosannadana] What’s this I hear about Janeane Garofalo’s dog exploding after leaking gas? [/Rosanne Rosannadana] ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgy-girl-how-was-she-not-hot/363861/8 "2006-07-10T17:01:28Z")
There is a ridiculously long history in Hollywood for the “plain” one to be played by women who would be the lead sex object in another film. The Devil Wears Prada is merely the latest, in which Anne Hathaway, of all people, is the fat dowdy one. About the only one I agree with is America’s Sweethearts, in which Julia Roberts clearly is the unlovely sister next to Catherine Zeta-Jones. Ironically, the movie is set up so that we’re _not_ supposed to wind up believing it. The only trend worse than this in Hollywood is having super-hot bimbos play Ph.D.s. on subjects whose jargon they can’t ever pronounce. Any number of examples, from Daryl Hannah in Roxanne to Denise Richards in The World Is Not Enough. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgy-girl-how-was-she-not-hot/363861/9 "2006-07-10T17:01:57Z")
I’ve always thought Lynn Redgrave was cute, but her character was made out to be totally un-hip (un-attractive) and she was a bit chubby. I love this movie. And you just GOTTA sing along with the theme song! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgy-girl-how-was-she-not-hot/363861/10 "2006-07-10T17:02:09Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > [Rosanne Rosannadana] > What’s this I hear about Janeane Garofalo’s dog exploding after leaking gas? > [/Rosanne Rosannadana] I think you mean Emily Litella . . . 😉 I actually saw the movie for the first time about a month or so ago, after having grown up listening to the theme song on the radio and having an entirely different mental picture of the plot. Redgrave almost reminded me of a younger, less butch but still overweight Rosie O’Donnell. Not physically attractive but cute in a non sexual way. I saw no motivation for Mason’s character to be so taken with her. And the lyrics to the closing theme!?!?!?! I think I will have to re-watch it just to hear those again. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgy-girl-how-was-she-not-hot/363861/11 "2006-07-10T19:44:34Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > And the lyrics to the closing theme!?!?!?! I think I will have to re-watch it just to hear those again. Yeah…they’re like a little re-cap of the movie or something as I recall. I wasn’t keen on it. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgy-girl-how-was-she-not-hot/363861/12 "2006-07-11T01:35:00Z")
Sarah Jessica Parker as the nerdy one in _Square Pegs_. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgy-girl-how-was-she-not-hot/363861/13 "2006-07-11T03:50:42Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Sarah Jessica Parker as the nerdy one in _Square Pegs_. Right, when we all know she’s the homely one. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgy-girl-how-was-she-not-hot/363861/14 "2006-07-11T06:26:31Z")
> [@Exapno Mapcase](#): > > The Devil Wears Prada is merely the latest, in which Anne Hathaway, of all people, is the fat dowdy one. I haven’t seen the movie, but my impression from the clips I’ve seen is that the boss _thinks_ the Anne Hathaway character is fat and dowdy, not that she actually is supposed to be fat and dowdy. I take it to be a comment on the fashion world that the editor of a Vogue-like magazine would call Anne Hathaway “the smart fat one.”