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For the 1925 production of California Straight Ahead, Drew Barrymore plays Herself.
In 1913, she stars as Susan in the production of The Battle of Bloody Ford.
In 2003, Drew Barrymore stars as Herself in the video Anal Perversions 2.
For the 2007 mag Auto Express, she takes the role of Herself.
In 1975, Drew Barrymore is cast in the role of Lucy Whitmore in the Ballo in maschera, Un.
She takes the role of Con Sawyer in the 1995 movie Filmverfilmer, Die.
Drew Barrymore's character is Herself in the 1914 movie The Adventures of Shorty.
Drew Barrymore stars as Margaret Jessup in the 1999 show Attention!.
Amy Fisher in the 1985 production of Amudha Gaanam.
Drew Barrymore plays the part of Lisa Piper in the 1939 feature Batas ng salapi.
For the 1987 release of Beauf, Le, Drew Barrymore plays Lilly Laronette.
In 1950, Sugar in the show Apoorva Sahodaralu.
In 2003, Drew Barrymore plays Herself in the release of Assistance.
Drew Barrymore's character is Hope in the 2007 movie Bare.
Drew Barrymore plays Leslie Bogart in the 1976 production of Amante perfecta, La.
For the 1988 show The Comedy Crowd, Drew Barrymore stars as Holly Pulchik-Lincoln.
She plays Amanda ("The General") in the 2005 show Dancing Under the Dust Cover.
In 1977, she stars as Dylan Sanders in the release of Barra Pesada.
In 1966, Dylan Sanders in the release of Bakuto Shichi-nin.
In 1964, Drew Barrymore's character is Darlene in the production of Curse of the Stone Hand.
Drew Barrymore plays the part of Penny in the 1982 show All Star Comedy.
In 1951, she plays the part of Jody Woldarski in the production of '42.
Drew Barrymore plays the part of Herself in the 1963 release of Adultero lui, adultera lei.
For the 1920 movie The Dear Departed, Drew Barrymore plays Karen Pomeroy.
For the 2004 Clarkson: Hot Metal, she is cast in the role of Holly Gooding.
In 1955, Drew Barrymore plays Nancy Kendricks in the release of Azaad.
In 2003, she plays Herself in the release Digital Cinema Solutions.
In 1995, she stars as Gertie in the feature Batang X.
She is cast in the role of Herself in the 2005 show Bruno en Violet.
She plays the part of Herself in the 1934 release of Country Fair.
Danielle De Barbarac in the 2002 video Bay Boyz.
For the 2000 show 6 auf See, Drew Barrymore plays Schuyler Dandridge.
For the 2000 show The Dog Inside, Drew Barrymore's character is Joleen Cox.
She plays the part of Charlene 'Charlie' McGee in the 1973 show Agri daginin gazabi.
She stars as Mr. Davidson's Receptionist in the 1986 show Blue de Ville.
For the 1994 movie Christina's Dream, Drew Barrymore stars as Herself.
In 1912, Drew Barrymore is cast in the role of Anita Minteer in the movie The Beating He Needed.
For the 2004 video release of Back Seat Bangers Vol. 1, she plays the part of Herself.
For the 1970 feature Caveira, My Friend, Sally Jackson.
For the 1973 show Coming Out, Drew Barrymore's character is Daisy.
In 1980, Drew Barrymore plays the part of Casey Brodsky in the movie Bitmeyen azap.
For the 1994 Haunted Nights, Drew Barrymore stars as The Jockey.
She takes the role of Casey Roberts in the 1996 release of Cambio di mano.
Drew Barrymore plays Herself in the 1911 production of Fair Exchange Is No Robbery.
For the 1969 movie Breve cielo, she is cast in the role of Herself.
She plays Herself in the 2006 production of Aruba.
In 1950, she plays the part of Fantasy Girl in the show Ballerina.
In 2007, she plays the part of Herself in the magazine BUST.
In 2003, she plays the part of Josie Geller in the show 2 Shocking 4 TV.
For the 1995 Anal Hellraiser 2, she stars as Tinsel Hanley.
She stars as Ivy in the 1991 show Asalto.
In 1989, she stars as Beverly D'Onofrio in the production of Apsara and All the Children of the World.
Drew Barrymore stars as Herself in the 1957 release of Foothold on Antarctica.
She plays Casey Becker in the 1996 movie The Associate.
In 1989, Drew Barrymore stars as Cathy in the production of A byl li Karotin.
In 1987, Drew Barrymore plays Daisy in the production of Bobo, O.
For the 1985 show Desert Lesbian, she plays the part of Fantasy Girl.
Drew Barrymore plays the part of Bobby Graham in the 1968 movie Alley Tramp.
For the 1914 movie Dream of the Wild, A, she takes the role of Herself.
For the 2005 The Brides of Franc, Drew Barrymore's character is Vampire Victim #1.
She takes the role of Bjergen Kjergen in the 1931 movie Big Ears.
For the 1967 production of 10.000 dollari per un massacro, Drew Barrymore is cast in the role of Julia Sullivan.
In 2005, she plays Lena in the show The Contender Rematch: Mora vs. Manfredo.
She is cast in the role of Lindsay Rule in the 2003 video Buttfaced 7.
Drew Barrymore plays Herself in the 1986 feature Ali veli deli.
Drew Barrymore stars as Elizabeth Carter in the 2000 video release of Dos michoacanos vs. dos colombianos.
Drew Barrymore is cast in the role of Helena Richie in the 2005 video Double Air Bags 16.
In 1906, she is cast in the role of Egypt in the feature The Critic.
Drew Barrymore plays Herself in the 2002 release of Cover Story.
Drew Barrymore plays Margaret Garrison in the 1999 video Black Sabbath: The Last Supper.
For the 1922 show The Call of Home, Lady Frederick Berolles.
For the 2003 release Be Gentle It's My First Time, she stars as Maris.
In 2006, she takes the role of Agatha Morley in the tv series Alesio.
For the 1910 production of Cowboy's Pledge, A, Drew Barrymore plays Jane Carleson, Mrs. Murray Campbell.
For the 1986 show Cassie, Drew Barrymore is cast in the role of Grandmother Ostrovsky.
In 2004, she takes the role of Miriam Monroe in the feature Arul.
In 2005, she plays the part of Mrs. Brian Patrick Riordan in the movie Albert: The Movie!.
In 1953, Drew Barrymore plays Katherine Chandler in the release of Big Leaguer.
In 1916, Drew Barrymore plays Alida De Bronkhart in the release of At Twelve O'Clock.
For the 1975 movie 3 Minutes on the Dangers of Film Recording, she stars as Mary Herries.
Nadia Turgeneff in the 2001 show 2001 MTV Movie Awards.
In 2000, she plays the part of Esther Carey in the video Carnage Road.
She is cast in the role of Clorinda Gildersleeve in the 1913 release of Critico, Il.
For the 1939 movie The Barnyard Brat, Herself.
In 1987, she plays the part of Grandma in the release of The Art of Passion.
For the 1999 movie Fast perfekte Hochzeit, Eine, she stars as Lady Sterling.
She is cast in the role of Flanders/Belgium in the 1963 release of Barilan sa Pugad Lawin.
She plays the part of Miss Willey in the 2007 movie American Prison: The Forgotten Jews.
For the 1993 movie American Yakuza, Drew Barrymore plays the part of Isola Franti, 'The Nightingale'.
She plays Emma McChesney in the 1995 show Death of Apartheid.
For the 1986 feature Battle of the Titans, Drew Barrymore plays the part of Lady Sophie Horfield.
For the 1996 show Balena azzura, La, Drew Barrymore stars as Miss Em.
In 2006, she stars as Miss Spinney in the movie Bootyful World.
For the 1989 release of Abhimanyu, Drew Barrymore plays Alexandra, the Czarina.
For the 2008 production of Chasing the Green, she plays the part of The Mother Superior ('Mother Auxilia').
Drew Barrymore plays the part of Granny in the 1991 show Cielo sube, El.
Drew Barrymore plays the part of Herself in the 1997 movie Alliance for Better Campaigns.
In 1982, Drew Barrymore plays Mrs. Warren in the production of Big Meat Eater.
Drew Barrymore plays the part of Mrs. Hazel Pennicott (segment "Mademoiselle") in the 2004 feature Am Ende eines Tages.
She plays the part of Abigail Trent Budell in the 2004 production of Deathdealer: A Documentary.
She takes the role of Nan Baldwin in the 1989 feature Beverly Hills Brats.
In 1918, Drew Barrymore plays Aunt Jessie Tuttle in the movie The Bride of Fear.
For the 2001 Haunted Restaurants, she plays Herself/Host.
In 1996, she takes the role of Herself - winner in the production of God's Lonely Man.
In 1917, Drew Barrymore plays the part of Herself in the feature God's Man.
For the 1916 show Going Straight, Drew Barrymore plays the part of Winner.
In 2004, Drew Barrymore plays Herself in the movie Bazuka.
In 2004, Herself - Presenter: Best Makeup in the Anal Pick-Up.
In 1921, Herself - Audience Member in the show Bit Old Fashioned, A.
In 1966, she stars as Herself - Co-Presenter: Best Costume Design in the movie Aussicht, Die.
In 1953, she plays Herself - Presenter: Best Original Song Nominee "Look To Your Path (Vois Sur Ton Chemin)" in the feature The Good Beginning.
She is cast in the role of Herself in the 2003 feature Goyo.
Herself in the 2005 production of Goyo.
She is cast in the role of Herself in the 1969 release of Goyokin.
She is cast in the role of Lindsay Meeks in the 2005 video Ass 'troyed 2.
In 1927, she plays the part of Billie in the production of Goyosen.
For the 2007 release of Goyta, she is cast in the role of Herself.
Drew Barrymore is cast in the role of Herself in the 1990 release of Goza conmigo.
Herself - Audience Member in the 1974 production The Big Job.
In 2006, she takes the role of Herself in the show God and Dave.
For the 1990 feature Gozal, Drew Barrymore's character is Herself.
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DREW Barrymore would rather "look like a basset hound' than have surgery.
on 2010-03-16 04:49:11Drew: I was fat and beaten every day
DREW Barrymore admits the pain in her first film as a director came from her "own experiences".
on 2010-03-15 04:47:07Drew: I was fat and beaten every day
DREW Barrymore admits the pain in her first film as a director came from her "own experiences".
on 2010-03-15 04:46:57Drew: I was fat and beaten every day
DREW Barrymore admits the pain in her first film as a director came from her "own experiences".
on 2010-03-15 04:46:54Easy to find LA celeb hangouts during Oscar season
(AP)
AP - Look, there's Oscar winner Warren Beatty at the Beverly Hills Hotel, lounging in a restaurant booth. Or Drew Barrymore huffing it up a trail in the Hollywood Hills.
on 2010-02-24 04:45:11Girlie Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore is a "girlie girl".The 'Charlie's Angels' actress - who is dating actor Justin Long - says her style changes every day but everything she wears has a feminine aspect to it.The 35-year-old actress revealed: "My style is totally eclectic. It
on 2010-02-24 04:48:31Drew Barrymore To Be Honored For Gay & Lesbian Support
She’s always been an advocate for gay rights, and now Drew Barrymore will be awarded for her outspoken support.
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, otherwise known as GLAAD, is presenting the “Grey Gardens” actress with t
on 2010-02-23 04:49:36Drew Barrymore To Be Honored By GLAAD
She’s always been an advocate for gay rights, and now Drew Barrymore will be awarded for her outspoken support.
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, otherwise known as GLAAD, is presenting the “Grey Gardens” actress with
on 2010-02-23 04:49:16Barrymore & Sykes To Get Gay Media Awards
Drew Barrymore and Wanda Sykes are to be the recipients of this year's (10) top gay honours at the 21st annual Glaad Media Awards.Officials at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation will bestow their Vanguard Award on Barrymore, while gay comedie
on 2010-02-22 04:47:45Barrymore & Sykes: A Couple of GLAAD Gals
Congrats to Drew Barrymore and Wanda Sykes.
Ms. Barrymore will receive the Vanguard Award at this year's GLAAD Media Awards. A longtime best friend of the gays, Barrymore most...
on 2010-02-19 04:46:16Drew Barrymore and Wanda Sykes to be Honored by GLAAD
Drew Barrymore and Wanda Sykes have been named as honorees at this spring's GLAAD Media Awards.
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) announced that Barrymore will receive the Vanguard award, while Sykes will be honored with the Stephen
on 2010-02-19 04:47:59Celebrity-Signed Chrysler Up for Auction to Help Haiti This Saturday
Hundreds of celebrities, including Drew Barrymore and boyfriend Justin Long, took time to sign a vehicle at the Golden Globe Awards that will be auctioned off to benefit the American Red Cross Haitian Relief Fund. ET has the details...
Stars For a
on 2010-02-18 04:47:24Drew Barrymore: Rear-Ended By Paparazzo
Venturing out for a pampering session, Drew Barrymore was spotted visiting the Byron salon in Beverly Hills on Monday afternoon (February 8).
The ?ET? actress was a bit shy as she exited the beauty parlor after getting her golden locks touched up, as she
on 2010-02-09 04:49:48Drew Barrymore: Rear-Ended By Paparazzo
Venturing out for a pampering session, Drew Barrymore was spotted visiting the Byron salon in Beverly Hills on Monday afternoon (February 8).
The “ET” actress was a bit shy as she exited the beauty parlor after getting her golden locks touc
on 2010-02-09 04:48:53Drew Barrymore Happy To Age
Drew Barrymore isn't bothered about getting wrinkles.The 34-year-old actress - who recently made her directorial debut with 'Whip It!' - loves her life at the moment and if ageing takes its toll on her body, she'll just stay behind the camera.She said: "I
on 2010-02-08 04:47:49Original 'We Are the World' Kids -- All Grown Up
ET reminisces with the grown children involved in the original children's recording of "We Are the World."
A young Drew Barrymore told ET back in 1985, "I'm a kid and there are many kids in Ethiopia too and they're dying and kids want to h
on 2010-02-05 04:47:28Drew Barrymore's Single Valentine's Day
Drew Barrymore won't spend Valentine's Day (14.02.10) with her boyfriend.The 34-year-old actress - who is rumoured to be engaged to actor Justin Long - tries to be a loving girlfriend every day and so doesn't want to turn the romantic festival into a big
on 2010-02-04 04:48:10Drew Barrymore 'Not Engaged'
Drew Barrymore's representative has dismissed reports the actress is engaged to on/off lover Justin Long. The 34 year old sent gossips into a frenzy over the weekend (30-31Jan10) by updating her page on social networking site Facebook to read "I'm E
on 2010-02-03 04:48:50Drew Barrymore Facebook Hoax: She's Not Engaged!
Don't believe everything you read on Facebook! A rumor ignited on the social networking site that Drew Barrymore and Justin Long were not engaged, but her rep says it's all a hoax!
on 2010-02-02 04:49:08Drew Barrymore and Justin Long Engaged? Not
Maybe after another 50 first dates, Drew Barrymore and Justin Long will be ready to take the plunge...
But in the meantime, Long has not popped the question yet, according to the...
on 2010-02-01 04:45:33Drew Barrymore and Justin Long Engaged? Not
Maybe after another 50 first dates, Drew Barrymore and Justin Long will be ready to take the plunge...
But in the meantime, Long has not popped the question yet, according to the...
on 2010-02-01 04:45:21Drew Barrymore and Justin Long Engaged? Not
Maybe after another 50 first dates, Drew Barrymore and Justin Long will be ready to take the plunge...
But in the meantime, Long has not popped the question yet, according to the...
on 2010-02-01 04:45:13Drew and Justin Enjoy Tea For Two in LA
Drew Barrymore showed off her noticeably longer locks yesterday while grabbing drinks to go with Justin Long in LA. Drew has been an award season darling so far, and Justin sweetly escorted her to the Golden Globes where she took home one of her awards fo
on 2010-01-31 04:48:03Timberlake 'haiti Telethon Was Surreal'
Justin Timberlake was starstruck as he manned phones during George Clooney's Hope For Haiti Now telethon on Friday (22Jan10), insisting it was "surreal" to be working with so many celebrities in aid of the country.
The singer joined a host of A-listers in
on 2010-01-27 04:49:33The Screen Actresses Get Glam For the SAGs Red Carpet
The ladies at Saturday night's SAG Awards took many different directions with their looks. A few actresses picked gowns that popped against the red carpet, with Diane Kruger leading the way as your pick for best dressed in a Jason Wu she said they created
on 2010-01-25 04:48:24The SAG Awards Are Full of Glee, Basterds, Betty White and More!
The SAG Awards took over LA's Shine Auditorium Saturday night to honor the year's best work in TV and film. Once the posing on the red carpet was finished, the show started right off with the announcement of Alec Baldwin's win in the category of Outstandi
on 2010-01-25 04:48:23Cindy, Reese, Drew, Julia: Who'd You Rather?!
Filed under: Who'd You Rather? Cindy Crawford, Reese Witherspoon, Drew Barrymore and Julia Roberts all did their part at the Hope for Haiti benefit on Friday nightQuestion is ...
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on 2010-01-25 04:47:29Fashion Police: Drew Barrymore Wins Again
When Drew Barrymore won her Golden Globe for best actress in a miniseries last Sunday, we kind of ignored her on the fashion front. We just weren't sure what to do with those sea urchin things...
on 2010-01-24 04:45:19Fashion Police: Drew Barrymore Wins Again
When Drew Barrymore won her Golden Globe for best actress in a miniseries last Sunday, we kind of ignored her on the fashion front. We just weren't sure what to do with those sea urchin things...
on 2010-01-24 04:45:30Fashion Police: Drew Barrymore Wins Again
When Drew Barrymore won her Golden Globe for best actress in a miniseries last Sunday, we kind of ignored her on the fashion front. We just weren't sure what to do with those sea urchin things...
on 2010-01-24 04:45:55-
azindn wrote:
> Well, it is a farce in the same vein as SNL.
> However, Fallon IS cute and no, I'm not 14 nor do I drink Pepsi (yuk!).
> Fever Pitch with Drew Barrymore is awful as was Taxi.
> Has he done much else to garner the group's wrath?
*Personally* I find him tres annoying. Much they way you would find an
itch that you couldn't quite reach annoying - or one of those tastebud
cramps you get.
Whether he's a "sell-out" or not I could care less. He's a
late-20/early30 yr old acting like a 14 year old. THAT is what I find
most annoying.
JM
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Biting on Tinfoil wrote:
> azindn wrote:
> *Personally* I find him tres annoying. Much they way you would find an
> itch that you couldn't quite reach annoying - or one of those tastebud
> cramps you get.
> late-20/early30 yr old acting like a 14 year old. THAT is what I find
> most annoying.
>
OMG, but when it comes to Fallon and Chris Tucker, it's night and day.
No contest there.
(Tucker THE anoying one)
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Well, it is a farce in the same vein as SNL.
However, Fallon IS cute and no, I'm not 14 nor do I drink Pepsi (yuk!).
Fever Pitch with Drew Barrymore is awful as was Taxi.
Has he done much else to garner the group's wrath?
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I bet Spielberg got his panties in a bunch because of that's the road
that Drew Barrymore went after she became so famous in his film "E.T"?
A little guilty maybe? Why I cannot imagine, he was not her father or
even a family friend.
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Who's that girl, really?
August 22, 2005
The Sun-Herald
Singer and actress Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson and husband, singer Nick Lachey, arrive
at the 13th annual ESPY Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood last month.
Photo: Reuters
She's an enigma wrapped in a riddle; a star who is most famous for asking
dumb questions. But is Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson - singer, actor, empire builder - a
myth of her own making, Phillip McCarthy wonders.
It's not a bad time to be Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson.
It was a canny reality show about life with her equally telegenic spouse
that created her media moment - and the honeymoon is going strong.
But the bottom line Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson question still hasn't been answered: "Is
this girl for real?"
Is she dumb or smart? Acting or singing? Married or divorced? Naughty or
nice? Bubbly or manipulative?
People keep coming back for more. Her movie debut, The Dukes Of Hazzard, hit
the American cineplexes in No. 1 position this month, assuring her of a
Hollywood crossover career. She has two lines of clothing about to hit the
stores and her bath and beauty line already has, as they say, "strong
curiosity interest" in the stores.
Remember, Simpson actually started out as a singer - so it's probably
fitting that her fourth album, to be released later in the year, features a
cover of the Nancy Sinatra hit These Boots Are Made For Walkin'. There's
certainly no evidence that Simpson, with a name more searched on the web
than Britney Spears's, is doing anything less than making really big
strides.
That's not bad for a girl whose distinguishing characteristic has been a
penchant for saying really dumb things. Adorably dumb - and always delivered
with well-meaning sincerity - but not the sort of thing on which multi-media
empires are anchored.
"She made this connection with her reality show back in 2002; people just
sat back and took her in, so the real strength of her celebrity is her
personality," Us Weekly magazine editor in chief Janice Min said. "Yes,
people laughed at her when she came out with some real clunkers. But they
were laughing with her as well because she seemed so natural about it. And
she's always been smart enough to laugh at herself."
It helps, of course, that Simpson is pretty easy on the eye. And in zeroing
in on her first big movie role - in Dukes she plays a drop-dead gorgeous,
and not too smart hillbilly siren called Daisy Duke - she didn't try for
anything she couldn't pull off.
We do know this: Simpson, at 25, is smart enough not to over-reach herself.
When we meet, she's at it again, quite convincingly. She's talking about why
she chose the role despite stiff competition and is wearing a T-shirt with a
picture of the Queen and the word "Anarchy" on it. If you ask her, though,
she says she doesn't know who is pictured.
She goes on to describe how the role played to her strengths and didn't tax
her shortcomings.
"I have, like, 12 lines," she says.
"All I had to do really was talk southern, which is easy if you come from
Texas, bat my eyes a lot, smile pretty much the whole time, and work out
several hours a day so I would look good in my Daisy Dukes. I'll be
interested some day to see myself in a movie where I can't play an
outdoorsy, southern girl. That would be a real challenge. Would it be any
good or not?"
Well, let's not get into that. But in playing Daisy Duke, though, it helps
that the character, if not exactly a fashion plate, has a wardrobe trend
named after her. Those short denim cut-offs that are Daisy's signature look
are now known in the fashion world as Daisy Dukes, in homage to the long,
luscious legs of the original television Daisy Duke, Catherine Bach.
For some reason, the denim hot pants look has long been Hollywood's ideal of
hillbilly chic. In the various film, stage and print versions of Al Capp's
Li'l Abner, Daisy Mae has always worn tight denim (as did Elly May Clampett
in The Beverly Hillbillies).
Predictably, of course, she was linked with one of her Dukes co-stars,
comedian Johnny Knoxville, which on Planet Jessica is a pretty big deal,
although certainly not something that doesn't help create a buzz for her
brand. They both laughed if off, of course. Everyone knows, from several
seasons of the Newlyweds, that Simpson is blissfully wed to another
actor-singer, Nick Lachey.
Hollywood has always loved adorable, ditzy blondes - from Marilyn Monroe to
Goldie Hawn to Drew Barrymore - and it seems endlessly happy to make room
for another, especially now that Meg Ryan has moved on from the field.
But not just any blonde; they have to be, not exactly wholesome, but nice.
And it's pretty well known that Simpson, 25, beat out another young blonde
singer with movie star aspirations for the role of Daisy Duke. That was
Britney Spears and the choice is instructive: Spears is a bit, well, trashy
to be adorable. Another post-Meg blonde with ambition, Brittany Murphy,
failed because her niceness was a bit too limp.
But Simpson may have done the dumb blonde, clueless ingenue thing to excess.
She seemed almost fixated on proving that she's not the brightest bulb in
the socket. Yet she was smart enough to have made it work for her: building
her brand and her bank balance.
The typical Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson gag usually involved taking food deions a
bit too literally with a punchline overlay of apparent personal
cluelessness. She was once seemingly caught - almost certainly
intentionally, but not obviously so - casually speculating on the exact
nature of a popular American brand of canned tuna called Chicken of the Sea.
How did they get the chooks to live underwater, she wondered, before putting
them in the can?
It became her signature gag and she has laughed all the way to the bank with
playing it like a thoroughly professional ingenue with a definite edge. It's
the sort of thing that seems to work with fast food, as Paris Hilton proved
recently.
In Simpson's case, a fast food chain engaged her to promote its version of a
fried chicken delicacy, known in America as buffalo wings. The pitch?
Jessica pulling silly faces and making infantile noises in a paddock full of
grazing, disinterested buffalo to try to get the animals to flap their wings
for the cameras. After putting up with that, doing Daisy Duke must have
seemed like Chekhov.
The only time grown-up reality seems to intrude on the charmed, if heavily
merchandised life of Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson, is when her marriage comes up for
discussion. And having sold it to television years ago, it's pretty much
public property now.
She and hubby Lachey, a one-time crooner in a boy band quartet called 98
Degrees, started dating when she was 18. Jessica - whose earring-wearing
father and manager Joe is an ordained Baptist minister - has always
maintained that she was a virgin when they married four years later. If so,
it was unusually restrained behaviour from a pop star; it certainly set the
bar high for any future strayings.
The couple became reality television fodder in 2002 when - presumably as a
shrewd calculation that their careers would benefit more than their marriage
would be trivialised - they opened their post-nuptial lives to television
cameras in the MTV series, Newlyweds. At least they did better than Carmen
Electra and one-time Red Hot Chili Pepper Dave Navarro who, in a similar MTV
series, probably lost whatever street cred they had before it.
"Everybody always asks me how I deal with the rumours about our marriage,"
Simpson says. "You just have to let it roll off your shoulders. I'd be
nervous if they weren't wanting to write about me. And Nick. In some ways,
you just have to look at it as a compliment. No one seems to be suggesting
that we've turned into unattractive people. So you just laugh it off and
hope that your character will prove it wrong."
As the media scrum gets more intense, though, so the marriage rumours get
more lurid.
Apart from her alleged fling with co-star Knoxville, Simpson has been linked
with Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst (who was also linked, before her latest
marriage, to Spears). And Lachey has been accused of "cavorting with
strippers". Even a corporate affiliate of Newlyweds network MTV spoke
recently of a "vigil for their strained relationship".
But perhaps even more troubling - given the role of perceived cluelessness
in riding out various controversies - is the insidious idea that Simpson is
not as clueless as she pretends to be. For this she can partly blame her
mother, Tina, who recently told Vanity Fair that her daughter's IQ was an
impressive 160. Jessica herself confirms the story; except she says her IQ
is 150.
Those Simpsons. They love confusing the issue. Jessica's sister, singer
Ashlee, was recently embroiled in a lip-synching controversy that suggested
she was incapable of learning lyrics.
Now Jessica and her mother are throwing contradictory numbers around about
the star's IQ. If you didn't know they were, like Daisy Duke, simple country
folk, you might think they were trying to confuse the issue.
Which might well be Jessica's recipe for success.
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Who's that girl, really?
August 22, 2005
The Sun-Herald
Singer and actress Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson and husband, singer Nick Lachey, arrive
at the 13th annual ESPY Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood last month.
Photo: Reuters
She's an enigma wrapped in a riddle; a star who is most famous for asking
dumb questions. But is Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson - singer, actor, empire builder - a
myth of her own making, Phillip McCarthy wonders.
It's not a bad time to be Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson.
It was a canny reality show about life with her equally telegenic spouse
that created her media moment - and the honeymoon is going strong.
But the bottom line Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson question still hasn't been answered: "Is
this girl for real?"
Is she dumb or smart? Acting or singing? Married or divorced? Naughty or
nice? Bubbly or manipulative?
People keep coming back for more. Her movie debut, The Dukes Of Hazzard, hit
the American cineplexes in No. 1 position this month, assuring her of a
Hollywood crossover career. She has two lines of clothing about to hit the
stores and her bath and beauty line already has, as they say, "strong
curiosity interest" in the stores.
Remember, Simpson actually started out as a singer - so it's probably
fitting that her fourth album, to be released later in the year, features a
cover of the Nancy Sinatra hit These Boots Are Made For Walkin'. There's
certainly no evidence that Simpson, with a name more searched on the web
than Britney Spears's, is doing anything less than making really big
strides.
That's not bad for a girl whose distinguishing characteristic has been a
penchant for saying really dumb things. Adorably dumb - and always delivered
with well-meaning sincerity - but not the sort of thing on which multi-media
empires are anchored.
"She made this connection with her reality show back in 2002; people just
sat back and took her in, so the real strength of her celebrity is her
personality," Us Weekly magazine editor in chief Janice Min said. "Yes,
people laughed at her when she came out with some real clunkers. But they
were laughing with her as well because she seemed so natural about it. And
she's always been smart enough to laugh at herself."
It helps, of course, that Simpson is pretty easy on the eye. And in zeroing
in on her first big movie role - in Dukes she plays a drop-dead gorgeous,
and not too smart hillbilly siren called Daisy Duke - she didn't try for
anything she couldn't pull off.
We do know this: Simpson, at 25, is smart enough not to over-reach herself.
When we meet, she's at it again, quite convincingly. She's talking about why
she chose the role despite stiff competition and is wearing a T-shirt with a
picture of the Queen and the word "Anarchy" on it. If you ask her, though,
she says she doesn't know who is pictured.
She goes on to describe how the role played to her strengths and didn't tax
her shortcomings.
"I have, like, 12 lines," she says.
"All I had to do really was talk southern, which is easy if you come from
Texas, bat my eyes a lot, smile pretty much the whole time, and work out
several hours a day so I would look good in my Daisy Dukes. I'll be
interested some day to see myself in a movie where I can't play an
outdoorsy, southern girl. That would be a real challenge. Would it be any
good or not?"
Well, let's not get into that. But in playing Daisy Duke, though, it helps
that the character, if not exactly a fashion plate, has a wardrobe trend
named after her. Those short denim cut-offs that are Daisy's signature look
are now known in the fashion world as Daisy Dukes, in homage to the long,
luscious legs of the original television Daisy Duke, Catherine Bach.
For some reason, the denim hot pants look has long been Hollywood's ideal of
hillbilly chic. In the various film, stage and print versions of Al Capp's
Li'l Abner, Daisy Mae has always worn tight denim (as did Elly May Clampett
in The Beverly Hillbillies).
Predictably, of course, she was linked with one of her Dukes co-stars,
comedian Johnny Knoxville, which on Planet Jessica is a pretty big deal,
although certainly not something that doesn't help create a buzz for her
brand. They both laughed if off, of course. Everyone knows, from several
seasons of the Newlyweds, that Simpson is blissfully wed to another
actor-singer, Nick Lachey.
Hollywood has always loved adorable, ditzy blondes - from Marilyn Monroe to
Goldie Hawn to Drew Barrymore - and it seems endlessly happy to make room
for another, especially now that Meg Ryan has moved on from the field.
But not just any blonde; they have to be, not exactly wholesome, but nice.
And it's pretty well known that Simpson, 25, beat out another young blonde
singer with movie star aspirations for the role of Daisy Duke. That was
Britney Spears and the choice is instructive: Spears is a bit, well, trashy
to be adorable. Another post-Meg blonde with ambition, Brittany Murphy,
failed because her niceness was a bit too limp.
But Simpson may have done the dumb blonde, clueless ingenue thing to excess.
She seemed almost fixated on proving that she's not the brightest bulb in
the socket. Yet she was smart enough to have made it work for her: building
her brand and her bank balance.
The typical Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson gag usually involved taking food deions a
bit too literally with a punchline overlay of apparent personal
cluelessness. She was once seemingly caught - almost certainly
intentionally, but not obviously so - casually speculating on the exact
nature of a popular American brand of canned tuna called Chicken of the Sea.
How did they get the chooks to live underwater, she wondered, before putting
them in the can?
It became her signature gag and she has laughed all the way to the bank with
playing it like a thoroughly professional ingenue with a definite edge. It's
the sort of thing that seems to work with fast food, as Paris Hilton proved
recently.
In Simpson's case, a fast food chain engaged her to promote its version of a
fried chicken delicacy, known in America as buffalo wings. The pitch?
Jessica pulling silly faces and making infantile noises in a paddock full of
grazing, disinterested buffalo to try to get the animals to flap their wings
for the cameras. After putting up with that, doing Daisy Duke must have
seemed like Chekhov.
The only time grown-up reality seems to intrude on the charmed, if heavily
merchandised life of Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson, is when her marriage comes up for
discussion. And having sold it to television years ago, it's pretty much
public property now.
She and hubby Lachey, a one-time crooner in a boy band quartet called 98
Degrees, started dating when she was 18. Jessica - whose earring-wearing
father and manager Joe is an ordained Baptist minister - has always
maintained that she was a virgin when they married four years later. If so,
it was unusually restrained behaviour from a pop star; it certainly set the
bar high for any future strayings.
The couple became reality television fodder in 2002 when - presumably as a
shrewd calculation that their careers would benefit more than their marriage
would be trivialised - they opened their post-nuptial lives to television
cameras in the MTV series, Newlyweds. At least they did better than Carmen
Electra and one-time Red Hot Chili Pepper Dave Navarro who, in a similar MTV
series, probably lost whatever street cred they had before it.
"Everybody always asks me how I deal with the rumours about our marriage,"
Simpson says. "You just have to let it roll off your shoulders. I'd be
nervous if they weren't wanting to write about me. And Nick. In some ways,
you just have to look at it as a compliment. No one seems to be suggesting
that we've turned into unattractive people. So you just laugh it off and
hope that your character will prove it wrong."
As the media scrum gets more intense, though, so the marriage rumours get
more lurid.
Apart from her alleged fling with co-star Knoxville, Simpson has been linked
with Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst (who was also linked, before her latest
marriage, to Spears). And Lachey has been accused of "cavorting with
strippers". Even a corporate affiliate of Newlyweds network MTV spoke
recently of a "vigil for their strained relationship".
But perhaps even more troubling - given the role of perceived cluelessness
in riding out various controversies - is the insidious idea that Simpson is
not as clueless as she pretends to be. For this she can partly blame her
mother, Tina, who recently told Vanity Fair that her daughter's IQ was an
impressive 160. Jessica herself confirms the story; except she says her IQ
is 150.
Those Simpsons. They love confusing the issue. Jessica's sister, singer
Ashlee, was recently embroiled in a lip-synching controversy that suggested
she was incapable of learning lyrics.
Now Jessica and her mother are throwing contradictory numbers around about
the star's IQ. If you didn't know they were, like Daisy Duke, simple country
folk, you might think they were trying to confuse the issue.
Which might well be Jessica's recipe for success.
-
Who's that girl, really?
August 22, 2005
The Sun-Herald
Singer and actress Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson and husband, singer Nick Lachey, arrive
at the 13th annual ESPY Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood last month.
Photo: Reuters
She's an enigma wrapped in a riddle; a star who is most famous for asking
dumb questions. But is Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson - singer, actor, empire builder - a
myth of her own making, Phillip McCarthy wonders.
It's not a bad time to be Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson.
It was a canny reality show about life with her equally telegenic spouse
that created her media moment - and the honeymoon is going strong.
But the bottom line Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson question still hasn't been answered: "Is
this girl for real?"
Is she dumb or smart? Acting or singing? Married or divorced? Naughty or
nice? Bubbly or manipulative?
People keep coming back for more. Her movie debut, The Dukes Of Hazzard, hit
the American cineplexes in No. 1 position this month, assuring her of a
Hollywood crossover career. She has two lines of clothing about to hit the
stores and her bath and beauty line already has, as they say, "strong
curiosity interest" in the stores.
Remember, Simpson actually started out as a singer - so it's probably
fitting that her fourth album, to be released later in the year, features a
cover of the Nancy Sinatra hit These Boots Are Made For Walkin'. There's
certainly no evidence that Simpson, with a name more searched on the web
than Britney Spears's, is doing anything less than making really big
strides.
That's not bad for a girl whose distinguishing characteristic has been a
penchant for saying really dumb things. Adorably dumb - and always delivered
with well-meaning sincerity - but not the sort of thing on which multi-media
empires are anchored.
"She made this connection with her reality show back in 2002; people just
sat back and took her in, so the real strength of her celebrity is her
personality," Us Weekly magazine editor in chief Janice Min said. "Yes,
people laughed at her when she came out with some real clunkers. But they
were laughing with her as well because she seemed so natural about it. And
she's always been smart enough to laugh at herself."
It helps, of course, that Simpson is pretty easy on the eye. And in zeroing
in on her first big movie role - in Dukes she plays a drop-dead gorgeous,
and not too smart hillbilly siren called Daisy Duke - she didn't try for
anything she couldn't pull off.
We do know this: Simpson, at 25, is smart enough not to over-reach herself.
When we meet, she's at it again, quite convincingly. She's talking about why
she chose the role despite stiff competition and is wearing a T-shirt with a
picture of the Queen and the word "Anarchy" on it. If you ask her, though,
she says she doesn't know who is pictured.
She goes on to describe how the role played to her strengths and didn't tax
her shortcomings.
"I have, like, 12 lines," she says.
"All I had to do really was talk southern, which is easy if you come from
Texas, bat my eyes a lot, smile pretty much the whole time, and work out
several hours a day so I would look good in my Daisy Dukes. I'll be
interested some day to see myself in a movie where I can't play an
outdoorsy, southern girl. That would be a real challenge. Would it be any
good or not?"
Well, let's not get into that. But in playing Daisy Duke, though, it helps
that the character, if not exactly a fashion plate, has a wardrobe trend
named after her. Those short denim cut-offs that are Daisy's signature look
are now known in the fashion world as Daisy Dukes, in homage to the long,
luscious legs of the original television Daisy Duke, Catherine Bach.
For some reason, the denim hot pants look has long been Hollywood's ideal of
hillbilly chic. In the various film, stage and print versions of Al Capp's
Li'l Abner, Daisy Mae has always worn tight denim (as did Elly May Clampett
in The Beverly Hillbillies).
Predictably, of course, she was linked with one of her Dukes co-stars,
comedian Johnny Knoxville, which on Planet Jessica is a pretty big deal,
although certainly not something that doesn't help create a buzz for her
brand. They both laughed if off, of course. Everyone knows, from several
seasons of the Newlyweds, that Simpson is blissfully wed to another
actor-singer, Nick Lachey.
Hollywood has always loved adorable, ditzy blondes - from Marilyn Monroe to
Goldie Hawn to Drew Barrymore - and it seems endlessly happy to make room
for another, especially now that Meg Ryan has moved on from the field.
But not just any blonde; they have to be, not exactly wholesome, but nice.
And it's pretty well known that Simpson, 25, beat out another young blonde
singer with movie star aspirations for the role of Daisy Duke. That was
Britney Spears and the choice is instructive: Spears is a bit, well, trashy
to be adorable. Another post-Meg blonde with ambition, Brittany Murphy,
failed because her niceness was a bit too limp.
But Simpson may have done the dumb blonde, clueless ingenue thing to excess.
She seemed almost fixated on proving that she's not the brightest bulb in
the socket. Yet she was smart enough to have made it work for her: building
her brand and her bank balance.
The typical Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson gag usually involved taking food deions a
bit too literally with a punchline overlay of apparent personal
cluelessness. She was once seemingly caught - almost certainly
intentionally, but not obviously so - casually speculating on the exact
nature of a popular American brand of canned tuna called Chicken of the Sea.
How did they get the chooks to live underwater, she wondered, before putting
them in the can?
It became her signature gag and she has laughed all the way to the bank with
playing it like a thoroughly professional ingenue with a definite edge. It's
the sort of thing that seems to work with fast food, as Paris Hilton proved
recently.
In Simpson's case, a fast food chain engaged her to promote its version of a
fried chicken delicacy, known in America as buffalo wings. The pitch?
Jessica pulling silly faces and making infantile noises in a paddock full of
grazing, disinterested buffalo to try to get the animals to flap their wings
for the cameras. After putting up with that, doing Daisy Duke must have
seemed like Chekhov.
The only time grown-up reality seems to intrude on the charmed, if heavily
merchandised life of Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson, is when her marriage comes up for
discussion. And having sold it to television years ago, it's pretty much
public property now.
She and hubby Lachey, a one-time crooner in a boy band quartet called 98
Degrees, started dating when she was 18. Jessica - whose earring-wearing
father and manager Joe is an ordained Baptist minister - has always
maintained that she was a virgin when they married four years later. If so,
it was unusually restrained behaviour from a pop star; it certainly set the
bar high for any future strayings.
The couple became reality television fodder in 2002 when - presumably as a
shrewd calculation that their careers would benefit more than their marriage
would be trivialised - they opened their post-nuptial lives to television
cameras in the MTV series, Newlyweds. At least they did better than Carmen
Electra and one-time Red Hot Chili Pepper Dave Navarro who, in a similar MTV
series, probably lost whatever street cred they had before it.
"Everybody always asks me how I deal with the rumours about our marriage,"
Simpson says. "You just have to let it roll off your shoulders. I'd be
nervous if they weren't wanting to write about me. And Nick. In some ways,
you just have to look at it as a compliment. No one seems to be suggesting
that we've turned into unattractive people. So you just laugh it off and
hope that your character will prove it wrong."
As the media scrum gets more intense, though, so the marriage rumours get
more lurid.
Apart from her alleged fling with co-star Knoxville, Simpson has been linked
with Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst (who was also linked, before her latest
marriage, to Spears). And Lachey has been accused of "cavorting with
strippers". Even a corporate affiliate of Newlyweds network MTV spoke
recently of a "vigil for their strained relationship".
But perhaps even more troubling - given the role of perceived cluelessness
in riding out various controversies - is the insidious idea that Simpson is
not as clueless as she pretends to be. For this she can partly blame her
mother, Tina, who recently told Vanity Fair that her daughter's IQ was an
impressive 160. Jessica herself confirms the story; except she says her IQ
is 150.
Those Simpsons. They love confusing the issue. Jessica's sister, singer
Ashlee, was recently embroiled in a lip-synching controversy that suggested
she was incapable of learning lyrics.
Now Jessica and her mother are throwing contradictory numbers around about
the star's IQ. If you didn't know they were, like Daisy Duke, simple country
folk, you might think they were trying to confuse the issue.
Which might well be Jessica's recipe for success.
-
Who's that girl, really?
August 22, 2005
The Sun-Herald
Singer and actress Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson and husband, singer Nick Lachey, arrive
at the 13th annual ESPY Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood last month.
Photo: Reuters
She's an enigma wrapped in a riddle; a star who is most famous for asking
dumb questions. But is Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson - singer, actor, empire builder - a
myth of her own making, Phillip McCarthy wonders.
It's not a bad time to be Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson.
It was a canny reality show about life with her equally telegenic spouse
that created her media moment - and the honeymoon is going strong.
But the bottom line Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson question still hasn't been answered: "Is
this girl for real?"
Is she dumb or smart? Acting or singing? Married or divorced? Naughty or
nice? Bubbly or manipulative?
People keep coming back for more. Her movie debut, The Dukes Of Hazzard, hit
the American cineplexes in No. 1 position this month, assuring her of a
Hollywood crossover career. She has two lines of clothing about to hit the
stores and her bath and beauty line already has, as they say, "strong
curiosity interest" in the stores.
Remember, Simpson actually started out as a singer - so it's probably
fitting that her fourth album, to be released later in the year, features a
cover of the Nancy Sinatra hit These Boots Are Made For Walkin'. There's
certainly no evidence that Simpson, with a name more searched on the web
than Britney Spears's, is doing anything less than making really big
strides.
That's not bad for a girl whose distinguishing characteristic has been a
penchant for saying really dumb things. Adorably dumb - and always delivered
with well-meaning sincerity - but not the sort of thing on which multi-media
empires are anchored.
"She made this connection with her reality show back in 2002; people just
sat back and took her in, so the real strength of her celebrity is her
personality," Us Weekly magazine editor in chief Janice Min said. "Yes,
people laughed at her when she came out with some real clunkers. But they
were laughing with her as well because she seemed so natural about it. And
she's always been smart enough to laugh at herself."
It helps, of course, that Simpson is pretty easy on the eye. And in zeroing
in on her first big movie role - in Dukes she plays a drop-dead gorgeous,
and not too smart hillbilly siren called Daisy Duke - she didn't try for
anything she couldn't pull off.
We do know this: Simpson, at 25, is smart enough not to over-reach herself.
When we meet, she's at it again, quite convincingly. She's talking about why
she chose the role despite stiff competition and is wearing a T-shirt with a
picture of the Queen and the word "Anarchy" on it. If you ask her, though,
she says she doesn't know who is pictured.
She goes on to describe how the role played to her strengths and didn't tax
her shortcomings.
"I have, like, 12 lines," she says.
"All I had to do really was talk southern, which is easy if you come from
Texas, bat my eyes a lot, smile pretty much the whole time, and work out
several hours a day so I would look good in my Daisy Dukes. I'll be
interested some day to see myself in a movie where I can't play an
outdoorsy, southern girl. That would be a real challenge. Would it be any
good or not?"
Well, let's not get into that. But in playing Daisy Duke, though, it helps
that the character, if not exactly a fashion plate, has a wardrobe trend
named after her. Those short denim cut-offs that are Daisy's signature look
are now known in the fashion world as Daisy Dukes, in homage to the long,
luscious legs of the original television Daisy Duke, Catherine Bach.
For some reason, the denim hot pants look has long been Hollywood's ideal of
hillbilly chic. In the various film, stage and print versions of Al Capp's
Li'l Abner, Daisy Mae has always worn tight denim (as did Elly May Clampett
in The Beverly Hillbillies).
Predictably, of course, she was linked with one of her Dukes co-stars,
comedian Johnny Knoxville, which on Planet Jessica is a pretty big deal,
although certainly not something that doesn't help create a buzz for her
brand. They both laughed if off, of course. Everyone knows, from several
seasons of the Newlyweds, that Simpson is blissfully wed to another
actor-singer, Nick Lachey.
Hollywood has always loved adorable, ditzy blondes - from Marilyn Monroe to
Goldie Hawn to Drew Barrymore - and it seems endlessly happy to make room
for another, especially now that Meg Ryan has moved on from the field.
But not just any blonde; they have to be, not exactly wholesome, but nice.
And it's pretty well known that Simpson, 25, beat out another young blonde
singer with movie star aspirations for the role of Daisy Duke. That was
Britney Spears and the choice is instructive: Spears is a bit, well, trashy
to be adorable. Another post-Meg blonde with ambition, Brittany Murphy,
failed because her niceness was a bit too limp.
But Simpson may have done the dumb blonde, clueless ingenue thing to excess.
She seemed almost fixated on proving that she's not the brightest bulb in
the socket. Yet she was smart enough to have made it work for her: building
her brand and her bank balance.
The typical Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson gag usually involved taking food deions a
bit too literally with a punchline overlay of apparent personal
cluelessness. She was once seemingly caught - almost certainly
intentionally, but not obviously so - casually speculating on the exact
nature of a popular American brand of canned tuna called Chicken of the Sea.
How did they get the chooks to live underwater, she wondered, before putting
them in the can?
It became her signature gag and she has laughed all the way to the bank with
playing it like a thoroughly professional ingenue with a definite edge. It's
the sort of thing that seems to work with fast food, as Paris Hilton proved
recently.
In Simpson's case, a fast food chain engaged her to promote its version of a
fried chicken delicacy, known in America as buffalo wings. The pitch?
Jessica pulling silly faces and making infantile noises in a paddock full of
grazing, disinterested buffalo to try to get the animals to flap their wings
for the cameras. After putting up with that, doing Daisy Duke must have
seemed like Chekhov.
The only time grown-up reality seems to intrude on the charmed, if heavily
merchandised life of Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson, is when her marriage comes up for
discussion. And having sold it to television years ago, it's pretty much
public property now.
She and hubby Lachey, a one-time crooner in a boy band quartet called 98
Degrees, started dating when she was 18. Jessica - whose earring-wearing
father and manager Joe is an ordained Baptist minister - has always
maintained that she was a virgin when they married four years later. If so,
it was unusually restrained behaviour from a pop star; it certainly set the
bar high for any future strayings.
The couple became reality television fodder in 2002 when - presumably as a
shrewd calculation that their careers would benefit more than their marriage
would be trivialised - they opened their post-nuptial lives to television
cameras in the MTV series, Newlyweds. At least they did better than Carmen
Electra and one-time Red Hot Chili Pepper Dave Navarro who, in a similar MTV
series, probably lost whatever street cred they had before it.
"Everybody always asks me how I deal with the rumours about our marriage,"
Simpson says. "You just have to let it roll off your shoulders. I'd be
nervous if they weren't wanting to write about me. And Nick. In some ways,
you just have to look at it as a compliment. No one seems to be suggesting
that we've turned into unattractive people. So you just laugh it off and
hope that your character will prove it wrong."
As the media scrum gets more intense, though, so the marriage rumours get
more lurid.
Apart from her alleged fling with co-star Knoxville, Simpson has been linked
with Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst (who was also linked, before her latest
marriage, to Spears). And Lachey has been accused of "cavorting with
strippers". Even a corporate affiliate of Newlyweds network MTV spoke
recently of a "vigil for their strained relationship".
But perhaps even more troubling - given the role of perceived cluelessness
in riding out various controversies - is the insidious idea that Simpson is
not as clueless as she pretends to be. For this she can partly blame her
mother, Tina, who recently told Vanity Fair that her daughter's IQ was an
impressive 160. Jessica herself confirms the story; except she says her IQ
is 150.
Those Simpsons. They love confusing the issue. Jessica's sister, singer
Ashlee, was recently embroiled in a lip-synching controversy that suggested
she was incapable of learning lyrics.
Now Jessica and her mother are throwing contradictory numbers around about
the star's IQ. If you didn't know they were, like Daisy Duke, simple country
folk, you might think they were trying to confuse the issue.
Which might well be Jessica's recipe for success.
-
Who's that girl, really?
August 22, 2005
The Sun-Herald
Singer and actress Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson and husband, singer Nick Lachey, arrive
at the 13th annual ESPY Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood last month.
Photo: Reuters
She's an enigma wrapped in a riddle; a star who is most famous for asking
dumb questions. But is Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson - singer, actor, empire builder - a
myth of her own making, Phillip McCarthy wonders.
It's not a bad time to be Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson.
It was a canny reality show about life with her equally telegenic spouse
that created her media moment - and the honeymoon is going strong.
But the bottom line Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson question still hasn't been answered: "Is
this girl for real?"
Is she dumb or smart? Acting or singing? Married or divorced? Naughty or
nice? Bubbly or manipulative?
People keep coming back for more. Her movie debut, The Dukes Of Hazzard, hit
the American cineplexes in No. 1 position this month, assuring her of a
Hollywood crossover career. She has two lines of clothing about to hit the
stores and her bath and beauty line already has, as they say, "strong
curiosity interest" in the stores.
Remember, Simpson actually started out as a singer - so it's probably
fitting that her fourth album, to be released later in the year, features a
cover of the Nancy Sinatra hit These Boots Are Made For Walkin'. There's
certainly no evidence that Simpson, with a name more searched on the web
than Britney Spears's, is doing anything less than making really big
strides.
That's not bad for a girl whose distinguishing characteristic has been a
penchant for saying really dumb things. Adorably dumb - and always delivered
with well-meaning sincerity - but not the sort of thing on which multi-media
empires are anchored.
"She made this connection with her reality show back in 2002; people just
sat back and took her in, so the real strength of her celebrity is her
personality," Us Weekly magazine editor in chief Janice Min said. "Yes,
people laughed at her when she came out with some real clunkers. But they
were laughing with her as well because she seemed so natural about it. And
she's always been smart enough to laugh at herself."
It helps, of course, that Simpson is pretty easy on the eye. And in zeroing
in on her first big movie role - in Dukes she plays a drop-dead gorgeous,
and not too smart hillbilly siren called Daisy Duke - she didn't try for
anything she couldn't pull off.
We do know this: Simpson, at 25, is smart enough not to over-reach herself.
When we meet, she's at it again, quite convincingly. She's talking about why
she chose the role despite stiff competition and is wearing a T-shirt with a
picture of the Queen and the word "Anarchy" on it. If you ask her, though,
she says she doesn't know who is pictured.
She goes on to describe how the role played to her strengths and didn't tax
her shortcomings.
"I have, like, 12 lines," she says.
"All I had to do really was talk southern, which is easy if you come from
Texas, bat my eyes a lot, smile pretty much the whole time, and work out
several hours a day so I would look good in my Daisy Dukes. I'll be
interested some day to see myself in a movie where I can't play an
outdoorsy, southern girl. That would be a real challenge. Would it be any
good or not?"
Well, let's not get into that. But in playing Daisy Duke, though, it helps
that the character, if not exactly a fashion plate, has a wardrobe trend
named after her. Those short denim cut-offs that are Daisy's signature look
are now known in the fashion world as Daisy Dukes, in homage to the long,
luscious legs of the original television Daisy Duke, Catherine Bach.
For some reason, the denim hot pants look has long been Hollywood's ideal of
hillbilly chic. In the various film, stage and print versions of Al Capp's
Li'l Abner, Daisy Mae has always worn tight denim (as did Elly May Clampett
in The Beverly Hillbillies).
Predictably, of course, she was linked with one of her Dukes co-stars,
comedian Johnny Knoxville, which on Planet Jessica is a pretty big deal,
although certainly not something that doesn't help create a buzz for her
brand. They both laughed if off, of course. Everyone knows, from several
seasons of the Newlyweds, that Simpson is blissfully wed to another
actor-singer, Nick Lachey.
Hollywood has always loved adorable, ditzy blondes - from Marilyn Monroe to
Goldie Hawn to Drew Barrymore - and it seems endlessly happy to make room
for another, especially now that Meg Ryan has moved on from the field.
But not just any blonde; they have to be, not exactly wholesome, but nice.
And it's pretty well known that Simpson, 25, beat out another young blonde
singer with movie star aspirations for the role of Daisy Duke. That was
Britney Spears and the choice is instructive: Spears is a bit, well, trashy
to be adorable. Another post-Meg blonde with ambition, Brittany Murphy,
failed because her niceness was a bit too limp.
But Simpson may have done the dumb blonde, clueless ingenue thing to excess.
She seemed almost fixated on proving that she's not the brightest bulb in
the socket. Yet she was smart enough to have made it work for her: building
her brand and her bank balance.
The typical Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson gag usually involved taking food deions a
bit too literally with a punchline overlay of apparent personal
cluelessness. She was once seemingly caught - almost certainly
intentionally, but not obviously so - casually speculating on the exact
nature of a popular American brand of canned tuna called Chicken of the Sea.
How did they get the chooks to live underwater, she wondered, before putting
them in the can?
It became her signature gag and she has laughed all the way to the bank with
playing it like a thoroughly professional ingenue with a definite edge. It's
the sort of thing that seems to work with fast food, as Paris Hilton proved
recently.
In Simpson's case, a fast food chain engaged her to promote its version of a
fried chicken delicacy, known in America as buffalo wings. The pitch?
Jessica pulling silly faces and making infantile noises in a paddock full of
grazing, disinterested buffalo to try to get the animals to flap their wings
for the cameras. After putting up with that, doing Daisy Duke must have
seemed like Chekhov.
The only time grown-up reality seems to intrude on the charmed, if heavily
merchandised life of Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson, is when her marriage comes up for
discussion. And having sold it to television years ago, it's pretty much
public property now.
She and hubby Lachey, a one-time crooner in a boy band quartet called 98
Degrees, started dating when she was 18. Jessica - whose earring-wearing
father and manager Joe is an ordained Baptist minister - has always
maintained that she was a virgin when they married four years later. If so,
it was unusually restrained behaviour from a pop star; it certainly set the
bar high for any future strayings.
The couple became reality television fodder in 2002 when - presumably as a
shrewd calculation that their careers would benefit more than their marriage
would be trivialised - they opened their post-nuptial lives to television
cameras in the MTV series, Newlyweds. At least they did better than Carmen
Electra and one-time Red Hot Chili Pepper Dave Navarro who, in a similar MTV
series, probably lost whatever street cred they had before it.
"Everybody always asks me how I deal with the rumours about our marriage,"
Simpson says. "You just have to let it roll off your shoulders. I'd be
nervous if they weren't wanting to write about me. And Nick. In some ways,
you just have to look at it as a compliment. No one seems to be suggesting
that we've turned into unattractive people. So you just laugh it off and
hope that your character will prove it wrong."
As the media scrum gets more intense, though, so the marriage rumours get
more lurid.
Apart from her alleged fling with co-star Knoxville, Simpson has been linked
with Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst (who was also linked, before her latest
marriage, to Spears). And Lachey has been accused of "cavorting with
strippers". Even a corporate affiliate of Newlyweds network MTV spoke
recently of a "vigil for their strained relationship".
But perhaps even more troubling - given the role of perceived cluelessness
in riding out various controversies - is the insidious idea that Simpson is
not as clueless as she pretends to be. For this she can partly blame her
mother, Tina, who recently told Vanity Fair that her daughter's IQ was an
impressive 160. Jessica herself confirms the story; except she says her IQ
is 150.
Those Simpsons. They love confusing the issue. Jessica's sister, singer
Ashlee, was recently embroiled in a lip-synching controversy that suggested
she was incapable of learning lyrics.
Now Jessica and her mother are throwing contradictory numbers around about
the star's IQ. If you didn't know they were, like Daisy Duke, simple country
folk, you might think they were trying to confuse the issue.
Which might well be Jessica's recipe for success.
-
Who's that girl, really?
August 22, 2005
The Sun-Herald
Singer and actress Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson and husband, singer Nick Lachey, arrive
at the 13th annual ESPY Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood last month.
Photo: Reuters
She's an enigma wrapped in a riddle; a star who is most famous for asking
dumb questions. But is Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson - singer, actor, empire builder - a
myth of her own making, Phillip McCarthy wonders.
It's not a bad time to be Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson.
It was a canny reality show about life with her equally telegenic spouse
that created her media moment - and the honeymoon is going strong.
But the bottom line Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson question still hasn't been answered: "Is
this girl for real?"
Is she dumb or smart? Acting or singing? Married or divorced? Naughty or
nice? Bubbly or manipulative?
People keep coming back for more. Her movie debut, The Dukes Of Hazzard, hit
the American cineplexes in No. 1 position this month, assuring her of a
Hollywood crossover career. She has two lines of clothing about to hit the
stores and her bath and beauty line already has, as they say, "strong
curiosity interest" in the stores.
Remember, Simpson actually started out as a singer - so it's probably
fitting that her fourth album, to be released later in the year, features a
cover of the Nancy Sinatra hit These Boots Are Made For Walkin'. There's
certainly no evidence that Simpson, with a name more searched on the web
than Britney Spears's, is doing anything less than making really big
strides.
That's not bad for a girl whose distinguishing characteristic has been a
penchant for saying really dumb things. Adorably dumb - and always delivered
with well-meaning sincerity - but not the sort of thing on which multi-media
empires are anchored.
"She made this connection with her reality show back in 2002; people just
sat back and took her in, so the real strength of her celebrity is her
personality," Us Weekly magazine editor in chief Janice Min said. "Yes,
people laughed at her when she came out with some real clunkers. But they
were laughing with her as well because she seemed so natural about it. And
she's always been smart enough to laugh at herself."
It helps, of course, that Simpson is pretty easy on the eye. And in zeroing
in on her first big movie role - in Dukes she plays a drop-dead gorgeous,
and not too smart hillbilly siren called Daisy Duke - she didn't try for
anything she couldn't pull off.
We do know this: Simpson, at 25, is smart enough not to over-reach herself.
When we meet, she's at it again, quite convincingly. She's talking about why
she chose the role despite stiff competition and is wearing a T-shirt with a
picture of the Queen and the word "Anarchy" on it. If you ask her, though,
she says she doesn't know who is pictured.
She goes on to describe how the role played to her strengths and didn't tax
her shortcomings.
"I have, like, 12 lines," she says.
"All I had to do really was talk southern, which is easy if you come from
Texas, bat my eyes a lot, smile pretty much the whole time, and work out
several hours a day so I would look good in my Daisy Dukes. I'll be
interested some day to see myself in a movie where I can't play an
outdoorsy, southern girl. That would be a real challenge. Would it be any
good or not?"
Well, let's not get into that. But in playing Daisy Duke, though, it helps
that the character, if not exactly a fashion plate, has a wardrobe trend
named after her. Those short denim cut-offs that are Daisy's signature look
are now known in the fashion world as Daisy Dukes, in homage to the long,
luscious legs of the original television Daisy Duke, Catherine Bach.
For some reason, the denim hot pants look has long been Hollywood's ideal of
hillbilly chic. In the various film, stage and print versions of Al Capp's
Li'l Abner, Daisy Mae has always worn tight denim (as did Elly May Clampett
in The Beverly Hillbillies).
Predictably, of course, she was linked with one of her Dukes co-stars,
comedian Johnny Knoxville, which on Planet Jessica is a pretty big deal,
although certainly not something that doesn't help create a buzz for her
brand. They both laughed if off, of course. Everyone knows, from several
seasons of the Newlyweds, that Simpson is blissfully wed to another
actor-singer, Nick Lachey.
Hollywood has always loved adorable, ditzy blondes - from Marilyn Monroe to
Goldie Hawn to Drew Barrymore - and it seems endlessly happy to make room
for another, especially now that Meg Ryan has moved on from the field.
But not just any blonde; they have to be, not exactly wholesome, but nice.
And it's pretty well known that Simpson, 25, beat out another young blonde
singer with movie star aspirations for the role of Daisy Duke. That was
Britney Spears and the choice is instructive: Spears is a bit, well, trashy
to be adorable. Another post-Meg blonde with ambition, Brittany Murphy,
failed because her niceness was a bit too limp.
But Simpson may have done the dumb blonde, clueless ingenue thing to excess.
She seemed almost fixated on proving that she's not the brightest bulb in
the socket. Yet she was smart enough to have made it work for her: building
her brand and her bank balance.
The typical Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson gag usually involved taking food deions a
bit too literally with a punchline overlay of apparent personal
cluelessness. She was once seemingly caught - almost certainly
intentionally, but not obviously so - casually speculating on the exact
nature of a popular American brand of canned tuna called Chicken of the Sea.
How did they get the chooks to live underwater, she wondered, before putting
them in the can?
It became her signature gag and she has laughed all the way to the bank with
playing it like a thoroughly professional ingenue with a definite edge. It's
the sort of thing that seems to work with fast food, as Paris Hilton proved
recently.
In Simpson's case, a fast food chain engaged her to promote its version of a
fried chicken delicacy, known in America as buffalo wings. The pitch?
Jessica pulling silly faces and making infantile noises in a paddock full of
grazing, disinterested buffalo to try to get the animals to flap their wings
for the cameras. After putting up with that, doing Daisy Duke must have
seemed like Chekhov.
The only time grown-up reality seems to intrude on the charmed, if heavily
merchandised life of Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson'>Jessica Simpson, is when her marriage comes up for
discussion. And having sold it to television years ago, it's pretty much
public property now.
She and hubby Lachey, a one-time crooner in a boy band quartet called 98
Degrees, started dating when she was 18. Jessica - whose earring-wearing
father and manager Joe is an ordained Baptist minister - has always
maintained that she was a virgin when they married four years later. If so,
it was unusually restrained behaviour from a pop star; it certainly set the
bar high for any future strayings.
The couple became reality television fodder in 2002 when - presumably as a
shrewd calculation that their careers would benefit more than their marriage
would be trivialised - they opened their post-nuptial lives to television
cameras in the MTV series, Newlyweds. At least they did better than Carmen
Electra and one-time Red Hot Chili Pepper Dave Navarro who, in a similar MTV
series, probably lost whatever street cred they had before it.
"Everybody always asks me how I deal with the rumours about our marriage,"
Simpson says. "You just have to let it roll off your shoulders. I'd be
nervous if they weren't wanting to write about me. And Nick. In some ways,
you just have to look at it as a compliment. No one seems to be suggesting
that we've turned into unattractive people. So you just laugh it off and
hope that your character will prove it wrong."
As the media scrum gets more intense, though, so the marriage rumours get
more lurid.
Apart from her alleged fling with co-star Knoxville, Simpson has been linked
with Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst (who was also linked, before her latest
marriage, to Spears). And Lachey has been accused of "cavorting with
strippers". Even a corporate affiliate of Newlyweds network MTV spoke
recently of a "vigil for their strained relationship".
But perhaps even more troubling - given the role of perceived cluelessness
in riding out various controversies - is the insidious idea that Simpson is
not as clueless as she pretends to be. For this she can partly blame her
mother, Tina, who recently told Vanity Fair that her daughter's IQ was an
impressive 160. Jessica herself confirms the story; except she says her IQ
is 150.
Those Simpsons. They love confusing the issue. Jessica's sister, singer
Ashlee, was recently embroiled in a lip-synching controversy that suggested
she was incapable of learning lyrics.
Now Jessica and her mother are throwing contradictory numbers around about
the star's IQ. If you didn't know they were, like Daisy Duke, simple country
folk, you might think they were trying to confuse the issue.
Which might well be Jessica's recipe for success.
- Celebrity Gossip
- Scion of the legendary acting family, at the age of five this once-precocious cherub landed a small part as William Hurt's daughter in Altered States and a larger one in E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial two years later. She played major roles in other filmsincluding Irreconcilable Differences (1984) and two Stephen King adaptations, Firestarter (1984) and Cat's Eye (1985)-but her career was overshadowed in the late 1980s by her highly publicized bouts with alcohol and drugs (and a resulting suicide attempt), an eerie echo of her family's troubled history. 1989 saw the release of Far From Home her first adolescent movie role. In 1990 she coauthored a book about her substance dependencies and subsequent rehabilitation, and in 1992 she made further news by posing nude for a national magazine to promote her sexually charged movie Poison Ivy (1992). That same year she had a provocative (but brief) part as a murder witness in The Sketch Artist co-starred in the well-received independent feature Guncrazy (1992), and was one of three actresses to play the headline-making "Long Island Lolita" in the telefilm The Amy Fisher Story (1993). She then appeared in a provocative series of print ads for Guess Jeans. She had a sexy cameo in Wayne's World 2 (1993), then costarred in the distaff Western Bad Girls (1994). Her star rose dramatically in 1995 with the release of Boys on the Side, Mad Love and Batman Forever.
- "Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths."
- "Every morning I stay in bed for ten minutes to ponder my place in the universe; then I wash my face and check my karma." - on her morning routine.
- "I try to make movies that I would want to go see rather than ones I would just want to do as an actor. I want people to have movies full of romance and hope and empowerment, something they can escape into and feel good about. I love happy endings." -- on her favorite movies to make.
- "I believe you can be the person that you dream of being."
- "I believe in fate. I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it's important to seek out that reason - that's how you learn."
- "If I ever start talking to you about my 'craft', my 'instrument', you have permission to shoot me."
- "There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk."
- "I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused for 'exhaustion' or 'the flu'?"
- Is a big fan of the British band Blur
- Had breast reduction surgery to take her all natural 34DD chest down to its current 34C size.
- At age 16, wardrobe departments were binding her chest so she could play characters her own age and look the part.
- Although thought to be just a skit by the audience, was originally going to legally marry Tom Green live at the end of the episode of "Saturday Night Live" he was hosting. Drew backed out of the on-air wedding at the last minute. They eventually married later.
- Measurements: 34C-24-34. (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
- Ranked #61 in Premiere's 2002 annual Power 100 List.
- Great niece of famed actors, Ethel Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore.
- Middle name Blythe was the original surname of the her great-grandfather, Maurice (1847-1905), who changed it to Barrymore. "Drew" was her great- grandmother's Georgiana's (1855-1893), maiden name.
- She and Green honeymooned in Ireland.
- Married Green twice, 1st eloping to the South Pacific in March, then in 7 July before family and friends in a ceremony in Malibu, California.
- Dated Eric Erlandson from the band Hole.
- Published an autobiographic book titled 'Little Girl Lost' (co-written by herself and contributor Todd Gold) in 1990. At the time of completing the book she was 14.
- Barrymore and Tom Green married in a private ceremony in Malibu. [July 2001]
- During an appearance on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show", she said that she never watches any of the movies she stars in.
- Born at 11:51 AM
- Drew's $3 million dollar Beverly Hills mansion caught fire while she and fiance Tom Green were inside sleeping. The couple made it safely out, but the house was ruined. [February 2001]
- Turned down an opportunity to appear on the cover of "Vogue" magazine because they wanted her to wear clothes by a company that dealt in fur/leather. A committed vegan, she would only agree to do the cover if she could wear cruelty-free clothing from Stella McCartney.
- Was offered the leading part of Nomi Malone in Showgirls (1995).
- Was the youngest person to ever host Saturday Night Live at seven years old.
- She was formerly a vegan: "I don't eat a ton of meat, and I don't wear a ton of leather, but I just don't put strict limitations on myself anymore".
- As a child, Drew auditioned for the role of Carol Ann in Poltergeist.
- She is allergic to garlic, bee stings, perfume and coffee.
- Anna Strasberg is her godmother.
- Won the 1999 Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Award for favorite movie actress.
- She has 6 tattoos : a cross on her right ankle; a blue moon on her right big toe; a butterfly below her naval; a daisy on her inner left hip; on the middle of her back she has a cross held by an angel with a bar blocking out the name "JAIMIE" (ex-boyfriend); on her lower right back she has an angel with a cross bearing the name of her mother "JAID."
- Her favorite poet is e.e. cummings.
- Godmother to Courtney Love's daughter Frances Bean.
- Steven Spielberg gave her a quilt for her birthday with a note "Cover yourself up". Enclosed was a copy of the January 1995 issue of Playboy Magazine for which she posed nude, with the pictures altered by Spielberg's art department so that she appeared fully clothed.
- Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1984" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 36. [1984]
- Granddaughter of actress Dolores Costello.
- Daughter of John Drew Barrymore and Jaid Barrymore.
- Steven Spielberg is her godfather.
- She is half Hungarian from her mother's side.
- Great-granddaughter of silent film actor Maurice Costello.
- Granddaughter of actor John Barrymore.
- Chosen by "People" magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. [1997]
- Was engaged to Jamie Walters for a brief period of time.
- Originally offered the lead role in Scream (1996) but chose to play Casey Becker because she thought it would be more fun.
- Never finished high school.
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