My point is that, one of these days, she will, and when she does, she’d better have a back-up plan. You’re right, she doesn’t look 40 at all.
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Even when I don’t like the movie she’s in - and I often don’t, but I watch a lot of them, because airlines really seem to like showing them - I still like her. Not as well as I know every line of “While You Were Sleeping,” because I watch it every time it’s on cable, but still. “Miss Congeniality” may not have won her (or William Shatner) any Oscars, but TBS wouldn’t run it every other weekend if there wasn’t a considerable number of us who think it’s funny when she snorts or trips in her heels. The reason she does such a great job in roles that require her to be endearingly dorky is that she is endearingly dorky.
But when it comes to non-threatening romantic comedies that amount to wish-fulfillment fantasies for grown-up ladies (some more fairy-tale than others - “Practical Magic”? They had actual powers!), it’s easier for normal women to identify with and therefore root for someone who looks like she could be in your yoga class than someone who looks like she just stepped off a Chanel billboard, Nicole.įreakishly beautiful women belong in tragic love stories fizzy comedies require relatably attractive women, and Bullock fits that description perfectly.Īnd more than that, Bullock is likable. I mean, not to make any sexist generalizations about how women hate beautiful women, because I don’t think that’s the case.