Penny Lane from Almost Famous (Kate Hudson): I'd go so far as to say maybe even my favorite. I really wish Kate Hudson didn't go on to do about 8 billion terrible romantic comedies cause she was just SO good in this. She's a free-spirited sixteen year old band-aid (don't call her a groupie) who takes flights to hotels to hang out with her favorite band and friends whilst prancing around to Cat Stevens. Even the most care-free of gals get hurt. Her best scenes are when she sees the guitarist Russell for the first time again (which I posted) and gets teary eyed while pretending they never met, when she dances to The Wind in the empty theater on napkins, when she gets fucked up on Quaaludes and asks before she overdoses "Why doesn't he love me?", and when learning Russell traded her in a poker game for a case of beer asking "What kind of beer?". She makes the whole movie and you quickly learn everyone in the movie falls in love with her. In the end, she ends up saving the day and flying off to Morocco. Like all good girls do. And with a kick ass wardrobe along the way.
Sophia from Vanilla Sky (Penelope Cruz): Cameron Crowe directed both Kate Hudson as Penny Lane and Penelope Cruz as Sophia so he must know what he's doing. His female leads are usually ethereal, care-free, and vulnerable. Sophia is just kind of cool. Floats through the scenes. She makes some lines cool that would otherwise be really lame with her awesome laid back delivery. Like when she says "I will see you in another life when we are both cats." She's just really cool in this movie. Also the scene when she shows up at his funeral is really great. She's overwhelmed but happy when she looks back at the small amount of time they shared together. Her performance is echoed in the line from the movie that is also a booming life lesson: It's the little things. There's nothing bigger, is there?
Clementine from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Kate Winslet): I was so far off the Kate Winslet train until I saw this movie. It's definitely in my top 3 movies. It will single-handily help you get over the worst break-up of your life. It's a good lesson on overcoming any type of pain for that matter. She goes from someone who seems flighty and fun to the nightmare bitchy girlfriend you hear your bro's complaining about. She's a self-destructive brainy emotionally abusive boozebag with mood swings. Basically an exaggerated version of everyone I know. She teaches us that any experience, whether painful or not, is worth feeling and remembering as long as you feel SOMETHING. Go through it. Go through the fights and the bullshit and the boredom and the failures because it's something. Even though this movie is supposed to come across as dream-like and surreal it is the most realistic movie about love I have ever seen. It's also my favorite performance by Jim Carrey. It's the only movie he doesn't overact in and he completely becomes that character. She guides him back to her though memories and even though she's messed up you want it to work out for her. She's an emotional underdog. SEE THIS MOVIE and thank me when you're done. Meet me in Montauk...
"This is it Joel. It's gonna be gone soon. What do we do?"
Violet Parr from The Incredibles: A quirky shy female with shiny hair who doesn't know how great she is? I don't know why I'm drawn to her... Can't quite put my finger on it...
Roberta from Now and Then (Christina Ricci): OK so maybe her role in Sleepy Hollow or even Casper (so good) would have been more predictable for me to pick. But I love her in this movie! She tapes down her boobs, pretends to drown, and calls her best friend a fat ass all the time. And threatens to kick the shit out of Devon Sawa. Also the scene where she finds the newspaper article about her mom's car crash in the library archives and starts yelling "Why did she have to die?"...tear! Also reminds you of what they say in the boy version of this movie Stand By Me: You'll never have friends like you did when you were twelve. She grows up to be Rosie O'Donnell but we'll ignore that part.
Sally from When Harry Met Sally (Meg Ryan): Besides the obvious of faking an orgasm in a crowded restaurant to prove a point, she's the least annoying high maintenance honey ever! She can hang with her best guy friend while stubbornly upholding the principle that men and women can be just friends without feelings (that principle ultimately fails but she gave it a good go). And the 80's outfits. Siiiiiick. Also when her best friend tells her he's in love with her she responds with "You say things like that and it makes it impossible for me to hate you. And I hate you. I really hate you." Maybe one of the only romantic comedies I actually like. You need a decent female lead like her to make a romantic comedy bearable and she does it. Thanks Meg! See you when your career is revitalized! Which will be never....oo....sorry...
Lauren from The Rules of Attraction (Shannon Sossamon): She's just really cool and chill in this movie but also divinely screwed up. She loses her virginity by getting raped at a theme party while a guy videotapes her and pukes on her back and smokes the doobs with her professors. She looks at pictures of people afflicted with STD's so she'll abstain from getting laid. And her homemade wispy sideburns are only cool on her. She has the non-nerdy Anthropologie look going on. She delivers such a good line saying "Know me? Know me? You will never know me. Nobody can ever really know anyone else". This movie sounds really dark and weird and it is but I really like the book and she's just a cool character. Also tune in for Dawson from Dawson's Creek being a psycho coke-head. The scene where he takes a dump before class is particularly disturbing. Oh and Jessica Beil also plays a huge bulimic whore in it. So many good characters haha. Lauren is actually the innocent one, which everyone talks down to but the movie proves she's the best off out of all of them. Think before you act like a bulimic whore. It will serve you well. Lesson learned.
Friday, December 4, 2009
The Gals Who Always Get "It" Right
After voluntarily (and regretfully? still debating...) pulling myself away from my job of shopping for people, I miss my designer clothes and fashion. All the Nylon magazines and Look of The Days on Instyle.com still don't quench my thirst for a good old fashion, well, fashion-fest. If only I lived somewhere where I could wear all my fun clothes every day and celebrate the art that is every day dressing. I'm sick of Uggs, Northface jackets and Longchamp bags. Break outside the mold people. Break outside the mold. Here's my tribute to the girls who always get it right.
Kate Hudson: Hippie Dippy done right. The I-just-threw-this-on-cause-I'm-lifelong-friends-with-the-designer-look-but-I-really-just-got-back-from-Maui look. Perfected. I'm biased cause I think I may always look at her as Penny Lane but her love for caftans and umkempt curls and her disdain of bra's, love it. I know she gets flack for dressing like a Golden Girl sometimes but I likes what I likes.
Kate Bosworth: Her Etro phase. Mixing of prints. Love of McQueen. Love of Stella. Love of Chloe. Love Love Love
Alexa Chung: Mtv newcomer and stripe loving extrordinaire. Gritty-looking high waisted denim paired with skinny stripes. Enough said. And her faded roots in her hair are def coolness. Gotta love TopShop chic.
Natalie Portman: Making pink fasionable and pulling off a bald head. I prefer her bald actually. Suck on that Demi. She makes Chanel something a little different to look at, for once, and I just love the shit she pulls off. Rodarte rodarte rodarte.
Take note of these girls my local friends. Dress more interesting and maybe I'll like you more. It's also a way to help hone in on your own personal style. If you put all these girls' style together...you basically get my closet but not as expensive. We can't all be friends with Stella.
Gwen Stefani: My one. My only. The one who had me burning peroxide into my hair in the 7th grade and whipping on red lipstick every halloween. On my 12th birthday I had the experience of watching her with her yellow rose covered microphone with diamond bindi in between her eyes, semi dreaded bleached ponytail and cropped wifebeater, asking the crowd to chant "Fuck you, I'm a girl!". Letting people follow her style with Rockabilly bleached coifs, Adidas track pants, black and white ensembles, huge houndstooth prints, plaid plaid plaid, and heels up to there. I get that she's kitsch and kind of looks like a drag queen at events but I love every minute of it and admit it, so do you.
Ashley Olsen: I admit, I do love the homeless trash can look the Olsen twins brought upon us. And I love MaryKate's flippy hippy coked out attitude and style. But I have to give the "it" factor to Ashley. She carries off the clean Calvin Klein look while still managing to show us something we haven't seen yet. Her hair and makeup are always oh so age appropriate atop an outfit that is always perfection. And anyone that is the main brain behind Elizabeth and James and The Row is a friend of mine.
Kate Hudson: Hippie Dippy done right. The I-just-threw-this-on-cause-I'm-lifelong-friends-with-the-designer-look-but-I-really-just-got-back-from-Maui look. Perfected. I'm biased cause I think I may always look at her as Penny Lane but her love for caftans and umkempt curls and her disdain of bra's, love it. I know she gets flack for dressing like a Golden Girl sometimes but I likes what I likes.
Kate Bosworth: Her Etro phase. Mixing of prints. Love of McQueen. Love of Stella. Love of Chloe. Love Love Love
Hilary Duff: Gets an honorable mention due to her masterful use of scarves and huge earrings. And her hair and makeup are always good. She's always ubergreat from the clavical up.
Jessica Schzor: I flip to Gossip Girl, guiltily, to see some of the outfits and my favorites are always on Jessica Schzor. She translates the look to her everyday life too. Whenever I see a Diane Von Furstenberg shirt I don't quite "get", low and behold she always has it styled some way that I understand and then I immediately want it. Her styling is impeccable. The weird texture of her hair alone is shear coolness. Bright colors mixed with sloppy seconds is one of my favorite looks. You gotta mix the pretty with the ugly. Also for some reason I was going on an anorexic blonde kick there so I had to throw in the brunette to represent!
Whitney Port: Speaking of pretty and ugly juxtapositions I give you Whitney Port. She's the master of mixing the ugly shorts with the amazing top. And I love it. She'll mix a bold stripe with a floral. She loves 80's and early 90's looking floral and bold prints and I'm right there a long with her. It's the old look-what-I-can-pull-off-look. Being the ultimate fan of ugly pretty, I heart her look and her line is actually kick ass. Screw what the Bergdorff's people said on The City. She is one of my favorite dresserino's.
Alexa Chung: Mtv newcomer and stripe loving extrordinaire. Gritty-looking high waisted denim paired with skinny stripes. Enough said. And her faded roots in her hair are def coolness. Gotta love TopShop chic.
Natalie Portman: Making pink fasionable and pulling off a bald head. I prefer her bald actually. Suck on that Demi. She makes Chanel something a little different to look at, for once, and I just love the shit she pulls off. Rodarte rodarte rodarte.
Take note of these girls my local friends. Dress more interesting and maybe I'll like you more. It's also a way to help hone in on your own personal style. If you put all these girls' style together...you basically get my closet but not as expensive. We can't all be friends with Stella.
Celebs whose style absolutley bored me
Megan Fox: Go back underneath the rock from which you came.
Jennifer Aniston: Yawn. Oh, a black dress. How quaint.
Beyonce: Diana Ross already did it. We get it. Texas beauty queen on crack.
Carrie Underwood: Bad white Beyonce rip off.
Taylor Swift: Bad Carrie Underwood rip off.
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