Star-Anon: where you can't identify the famous

Hi, I’m Smiling Bandit, and I have a problem.

Hi Bandit!

I get most movie starlets mixed up. The men I can differentiate, but all the women look different to me. I didn’t “J. Lo” was Jennifer Lopez and couldn’t pick her out of a police lineup with a gun to my head. She looks just like that girl from Fanastic Four (hey, half the title was accurate!) or Cameron Diaz to me. It’s like they stamp them out of mold.

Maybe it’s because they’re all seemingly of identical height, weight, and physical features, with minor differences for skin color.

Starlets I can indetify: Geena Davis, Bette Midler, and Whoopie GOldberg. OK, they don’t all qualify as Starlets anymore. Some never did.

Well, lately I’ve had trouble telling Amy Winehouse from Britney Spears

I don’t have a problem differentiating the women you mentioned so my advice may not help. In any case, if you’re ever in a situation where you find yourself with all three of them, here’s how to tell them apart:

-Jennifer Lopez (J-Lo): Brunette, about 5’6" and easily the most bottom-heavy of the three.

-Jessica Alba (i.e., the girl from Fantastic Four): can be blonde or brunette (tends to go back and forth on hair color), petite frame, and the shortest (5’2") of the three actresses.

-Cameron Diaz: usually blonde (but sometimes dark-haired), now rather skinny, wide mouth that’s especially noticeable when she smiles, and the tallest at about 5’8".

Also, according to the strict definition of “starlet”, Jessica Alba is probably the only one who fits this category. Lopez and Diaz have been around too long and are in their mid 30’s. Calling them starlets would be like still calling a professional athlete who’s been active for ten years a rookie.

I have a similar problem. I admit I’m a grocery store magazine cover reader. But I’m having a problem. I don’t know why these people are famous. It seems like the cover of magazines and grocery store rags are now covered with B List stars whose publicity agents get them there.

They all look alike to me, too. : shrug : I’m not good on actors in the first place, and these girls are kind of cookie-cutter.

Well look at it this way.

If you’ve screwed one Hollywood starlet, you’ve screwed them all.

Now if I could only get the one…

Yeah, like who’s that Kim Kardasian woman? Is she only famous for her ass? (I believe the answer is yes.) I only know kind of who she is from reading gofugyourself.com.

Her dad was one of OJs lawyers in the murder trial IIRC. Not sure why that gets her a show on E!, must be her ass.