# Jen hugs cancer kid on TV! Saintliness bar raised! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 5, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jen-hugs-cancer-kid-on-tv-saintliness-bar-raised/382962 "2006-12-05T18:46:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jen-hugs-cancer-kid-on-tv-saintliness-bar-raised/382962/41 "2006-12-07T15:24:11Z")
[QUOTE=kittenblue] Okay, how about “lovely” instead? Pretty? Cute? Attractive? [/QUOTE] A fun girl to have a beer with. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jen-hugs-cancer-kid-on-tv-saintliness-bar-raised/382962/42 "2006-12-07T17:46:27Z")
[QUOTE=Jurph] I don’t know if I can exactly pin it down, but there is something about her that is deeply unsettling. Tattoos? Well, everyone’s got tattoos, right? Sure. The vial of blood? Let a girl have some quirks! She also used to cut herself, but maybe she’s over that, too. _Overly sensitive people who want to crucify me for bringing this up, N.B.:_ I am not saying that if you cut yourself you have somehow reduced your value as a person. I am saying that with that knowledge in mind about a date, I would not immediately open myself up emotionally to her. Add that to the fame and the boy-snatching (to be fair: this is just as much Brad’s fault as hers) and a few other behaviors have convinced me that she’s just a wee bit more messed up than your run-of-the-mill famous person. [/QUOTE] Of course she’s crazy - that’s part of her appeal. She’s a bona-fide larger-than-life Movie Star (is there any other actress of her generation you can say that of?), and her various insanities should be larger than life, too. Would you have preferred that Matylin Monroe be sane, too? ---
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2006, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jen-hugs-cancer-kid-on-tv-saintliness-bar-raised/382962/43 "2006-12-08T05:34:15Z")
[QUOTE=Alessan] Of course she’s crazy - that’s part of her appeal. She’s a bona-fide larger-than-life Movie Star (is there any other actress of her generation you can say that of?), and her various insanities should be larger than life, too. Would you have preferred that Matylin Monroe be sane, too? [/QUOTE] You want 'em insane and famous, you can have them. You can have Marilyn Monroe, Angelina, Britney, Lindsay, and so forth. I’ll have Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jewel Staite, and Christina Hendricks. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jen-hugs-cancer-kid-on-tv-saintliness-bar-raised/382962/44 "2006-12-08T14:45:29Z")
[QUOTE=Eve] . . . At which, Jennifer Aniston overthrew the US government and replaced the legislative branch with Smurfs, the judicial branch with Care Bears, and the executive branch with Fairy Princesses. [/QUOTE] And that would change things how? Now there’s an idea… a thespiocracy, government by acting talent. As opposed to actors who changed careers and went into politics. ---
**Author:** ![Caridwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Caridwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caridwen)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2006, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jen-hugs-cancer-kid-on-tv-saintliness-bar-raised/382962/45 "2006-12-08T15:46:03Z")
I liked Angelina a little better when she wearing vials of blood and a little crazy. Now she’s a blah Mother Theresa with implants. Boring. When people say she’s a good actress I’m sort of amazed. She’s not terrible, but great? Maybe I just can’t get the mental image of her playing Colin Farrel’s mother in Alexander with the bad Boris and Natasha accent out of my head. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jen-hugs-cancer-kid-on-tv-saintliness-bar-raised/382962/46 "2006-12-08T16:03:50Z")
[QUOTE=Caridwen] I liked Angelina a little better when she wearing vials of blood and a little crazy. Now she’s a blah Mother Theresa with implants. Boring. [/quote] I dunno… She’s hot, she’s a saint\*, _and_ she’s kinky? An intriguing combo… -FrL- \*Well anyway, she plays one on TV. We’re all already pretending what we see on E News about these people reflects their actual selves, so I’ll go with it. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2006, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jen-hugs-cancer-kid-on-tv-saintliness-bar-raised/382962/47 "2006-12-08T23:36:58Z")
I, too, failed to see the humor in the OP. Maybe I need a cocktail. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jen-hugs-cancer-kid-on-tv-saintliness-bar-raised/382962/48 "2006-12-09T01:23:34Z")
[QUOTE=Neidhart] Has Marlo Thomas done _anything_ in the past twenty years except charity panhandling? [/QUOTE] She took Phil Donahue out of the singles scene. Say “Thank you,” women of America! If not for Marlo, That Guy might be hitting on YOU! ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jen-hugs-cancer-kid-on-tv-saintliness-bar-raised/382962/49 "2006-12-09T08:05:43Z")
[QUOTE=Caridwen] I liked Angelina a little better when she wearing vials of blood and a little crazy. Now she’s a blah Mother Theresa with implants. Boring. [/QUOTE] She got implants? Cite? ---
**Author:** ![Caridwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Caridwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caridwen)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jen-hugs-cancer-kid-on-tv-saintliness-bar-raised/382962/50 "2006-12-09T16:10:13Z")
Joke. And obviously not a very good one. 😃 Mother Theresa didn’t appear to have a similiar body type as Jole unless her habit was really unflattering. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jen-hugs-cancer-kid-on-tv-saintliness-bar-raised/382962/51 "2006-12-09T18:00:24Z")
[QUOTE=Caridwen] Joke. And obviously not a very good one. 😃 Mother Theresa didn’t appear to have a similiar body type as Jole unless her habit was really unflattering. [/QUOTE] I thought of that only after I hit submit. haha. Yeah, Ang has got some nice curves. But I like Jen too. There’s room for more than one pretty girl, it doesn’t have to be a contest! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jen-hugs-cancer-kid-on-tv-saintliness-bar-raised/382962.md?page=2)