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Cup of Chicha rates trailers (can you believe they remade that cheesy French movie Taxi as an even cheesier American movie, by the way? The best thing about the French one is the total goombah lead playing "Daniel". It's like he's from the New Jersey of France (Marseille, apparently.)) She notes that Jude Law needs robot costars:
Alfie, Closer, I Heart Huckabees: Three trailers prove that Jude Law needs his own genre, populated solely by AI’s finest whore-bots. Paired with mortals, his good looks make every romantic comedy unintentionally mysogynistic. What woman is prettier than he is? What woman doesn’t look defective by his side?
Like Jude Law would want to kiss Julia Roberts (as he does in Closer) instead of staying home and frenching the mirror. I understand that he's diminutive, and I don't usually go for that, but I'm willing to make an exception. He is fy-ine.
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"Like Jude Law would want to kiss Julia Roberts (as he does in Closer) instead of staying home and frenching the mirror."
My wife tells me people never laugh out loud at the written word but I did at this. That's cheered me up nicely.
Posted by: jdsm | September 07, 2004 at 05:18 PM
Who would want to kiss Julia Roberts? I'd be afraid she'd end up biting my jaw off.
Posted by: ben wolfson | September 07, 2004 at 09:52 PM
"What woman is prettier than he is? What woman doesn’t look defective by his side?"
Actually, there's an answer to this question: his ex-wife, Sadie Frost, a justifiably little-known actress who nonetheless possesses one of the finest figures in christendom.
Posted by: Doctor Memory | September 07, 2004 at 10:55 PM
imdb says Law is 5'11". Do you know that to be wrong, or are you Dutch? (Or are you not talking about his height?)
"My wife tells me people never laugh out loud at the written word..."
WTF?
Posted by: ogged | September 07, 2004 at 11:32 PM
I'm sure there's at least a certain belt-notch satisfaction in kissing Julia Roberts.
Perhaps instead of robot movies, Mr. Law should focus more on gay-oriented love stories, like The Talented Mr. Ripley.
Posted by: Adam Kotsko | September 08, 2004 at 09:23 AM
dude, ogged, there's no way he's 5' 11". he's more like 5' 7". imdb got snowed.
Posted by: belle waring | September 08, 2004 at 09:44 AM
And Belle, the answer to your question is Maggie Cheung.
Posted by: ben wolfson | September 08, 2004 at 10:44 AM
Yeah, IMDB has some dubious information a lot of the time.
I feel terrible even typing this as it seems impossibly picky, but Law's also beginning to lose his hair. It's not that I really mind that at all in normal humans, but because he's always been so preposterously beautiful, it sort of stands out. Also, I don't so much want to ravish him as just gaze at him all the time.
There are women who wouldn't look worse next to him (like maybe Isabelle Adjani?) but I sort of feel like their preposterous beauty would clash with his preposterous beauty.
Posted by: rosalind | September 08, 2004 at 11:12 AM
"My wife tells me people never laugh out loud at the written word but I did at this."
My eyes grow wide.
Posted by: Gary Farber | September 08, 2004 at 09:09 PM
I second the Maggie Cheung nomination.
And Law has been losing his hair for ages -- or at least he has been sporting a high hairline for quite a few years.
Germaine Greer, of all people, waxed lyrical about his beauty and charisma around the time that "The Talented Mr Ripley" came out.
Posted by: Matt McGrattan | September 09, 2004 at 10:29 AM