JLo -- Who Cares?

Cafe Society
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Honest to God, who cares?

I’ve got Entertainment Tonight on in the background, and Jann Carl just breathlessly reported on “a week in the life of…” – ending with an emergency root canal. What kills me is that I already knew about the root canal. I knew about the house in Georgia. I knew all this crap. It’s inescapable.

My question is – who is actuallyinterested in this? Who are her fans? Do they actually exist? Or is this just part of some ongoing media prank the likes of which we’ve never seen before? If so, was naming Ben Affleck “Sexiest Man Alive” part of the same prank?

This is as much serious question as it is quasi-comic rant – so if you’re a fan (or know one personally, “friend of a friend of my cousin’s coworker’s babysitter” is the stuff of urban legends), please speak up.

Thanks.

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Jennifer Lopez impressed me immensely in Out of Sight. That was about my favorite movie of that year, and she was about the best thing in the movie.

This was before she ever had a recording career, so she was just some up-and-coming young actress who did a great job in a great little film.

I still look for that quality in her work, but I’m a bit sad that her “celebrity” has eclipsed her talent as an actress.

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What lissener said. Her performances in Selena and Out of Sight were great but her movies have gotten progressively worse and her “music” is nothing but over-produced, cooky-cutter dance crap. I think she made the mistake of believing her own hype.

The big question, though, is why would anyone actually watch Entertainment Tonight in the first place?

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Not a particularly original topic, but nonetheless, I don’t care.

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I thought she was great in that episode of South Park…

taco taco taco… taco-flavoured keeeeeesses…

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Damn, now that song is in my head again.

*Sweet taco kisses for my Ben.

Taco Taco… Burrito*

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One of the supermarket tabloids blared that Ben if subjecting her to a makeover because she doesn’t have enough “class.” If you took away her complete lack of class would there be anything left?

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Celebrity worship frightens me. All of this fuss over what is basically a glorified civil service job. Don’t get me wrong. I have a lot of respect for performers (actors, writers, singers, etc). I just don’t feel the need to know every single detail of their lives. I was hanging out with friends once. They were expressing their concern over a detail of some famous person’s life (don’t remember who). My comment, when asked for it, was "If this person found out that I was fifty dollars light on my rent that mornth, would they care? Why should I give a hoot about their concerns? I don’t know them.
A lot of Americans probably know more about assorted celebs than they do about the people who live in their own neighborhoods…and that’s a darn shame.