Last week, it was still somewhat debatable whether or not
Reese Witherspoon was a legit hottie or just a really pretty and talented lady. It was also thrown out there that I've been choosing actresses with prominent foreheads. I swear it hasn't been a conscious decision on my part. However, it did make me carefully dissect my choice for this week, the eternal "it girl" of the X Generation, Claire Danes.
Claire Danes
Considering the massive cult following that Claire's breakout canceled show, "My So-Called Life" has, I can't claim to be the only or even the first person to have discovered her talent. Only 15 when she started out on that show (and in big screen films like the remake of LITTLE WOMEN), people couldn't stop talking about her back in the mid-1990's. She went on to woo audiences even further as the doomed Juliet to Leo DiCaprio's Romeo in the fantastical Baz Luhrmann version of the Shakespeare tragedy.
However, when I started looking back and truly examining Claire's career over the years, I can't say that she's got a great wealth of roles to be proud of. Either completely forgettable (TO GILLIAN ON HER 37TH BIRTHDAY, POLISH WEDDING, THE FLOCK) to so gratingly bad/annoying that you wish you could forget them (THE MOD SQUAD, BROKEDOWN PALACE, THE FAMILY STONE), I came to the realization that Claire has exactly two expressions: angst-ridden complete with furrowed brow or anxiety-driven with a fake look of paranoid fear. Even on the red carpet, she gives off this wrapped in plastic feel.
So imagine my discomfort is proclaiming that I find her to be a true beauty. It doesn't make much sense, if I'm supposed to weigh her talents and accomplishments against her appeal as a whole. I was easily able to stomach her in SHOPGIRL (where being angsty and anxious suited that particular character perfectly) and in looking over the pictures I've seen of her, I admire that her style has remained simple and sophisticated for the last 14 years. She's aged, but in a healthy and appetizing way. Sure, she'd be an instant hottie to me without a single doubt if she had more than her barely-there hint of a chest region, but beautiful is beautiful and that's most definitely (in my opinion) what Claire is.
Your turn... do you find Claire Danes to be hot? Pretty? Or (fill-in-the-blank)?
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She's also truly a gorgeous woman. Not your classical kind of "hot", but I find her extremely attractive.
She's also truly a gorgeous woman. Not your classical kind of "hot", but I find her extremely attractive.
And that first pic up there of her? She looks WAY too young in it to be attracting the gents. That's a shot for teenagers and pervs to drool over.
And that first pic up there of her? She looks WAY too young in it to be attracting the gents. That's a shot for teenagers and pervs to drool over.
Shes not the type of chick that immediately gets my loins in an uproar, but somethin is roaring. Ok that didnt come out right but you get the point
Shes not the type of chick that immediately gets my loins in an uproar, but somethin is roaring. Ok that didnt come out right but you get the point
Still waiting...
But this has nothing to do with her looks. Do I think she's hot? Yeah. Quite hot. In fact, I'm surprised she grew into her looks as well as she did. She was always kind of gawky on MSCL and that was one of the things that made her character so endearing. But now she's all
But this has nothing to do with her looks. Do I think she's hot? Yeah. Quite hot. In fact, I'm surprised she grew into her looks as well as she did. She was always kind of gawky on MSCL and that was one of the things that made her character so endearing. But now she's all woman and she's real and raw and painfully beautiful. So I still have hope that she will be cast in that elusive role and I will continue to wait until it happens.
I am true female member of Gen X and adored her in MSCL...
But, my real love of her came in this decade while watching the little known Igby Goes Down.
I am true female member of Gen X and adored her in MSCL...
But, my real love of her came in this decade while watching the little known Igby Goes Down.
yikes
Besides those clown shoes she has at the bottom of her legs, I've always been a fan of hers. I wouldn't say she's hot, but she's definitely girl-next-door pretty...which I find hot.
And maybe I don't know shit about shit, but I liked her in The Family Stone. Maybe it's just because I'm a fan of that movie or because I really didn't like Sarah Jessica Parker in it.
Besides those clown shoes she has at the bottom of her legs, I've always been a fan of hers. I wouldn't say she's hot, but she's definitely girl-next-door pretty...which I find hot.
And maybe I don't know shit about shit, but I liked her in The Family Stone. Maybe it's just because I'm a fan of that movie or because I really didn't like Sarah Jessica Parker in it.
Ewww...
for instance, she has a slightly large honker, a goofy little smile, and her body isn't sculpted in marble nor spilling out of tight dresses.
yet none of that detracts from her beauty. rather, it enhances it. it makes her real. she's a person. flaws and all, she is a human being, not an unobtainable pin up fantasy - i find that refreshing, especially in Hollywood.
for instance, she has a slightly large honker, a goofy little smile, and her body isn't sculpted in marble nor spilling out of tight dresses.
yet none of that detracts from her beauty. rather, it enhances it. it makes her real. she's a person. flaws and all, she is a human being, not an unobtainable pin up fantasy - i find that refreshing, especially in Hollywood.