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ouch! fair comment?

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 09:52 (twenty years ago) link

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 09:54 (twenty years ago) link

Hating someone for being happy - dud. Whether it's not entirely real or not. You know, she's young, beautiful, rich, powerful - maybe she IS happy all the time? Maybe she's aware that life now is a million times better than it looked like it might have been?

Or perhaps I'm just sucked in by the cuter-than-a-puppy thing. I wouldn't be surprised.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 10:05 (twenty years ago) link

She's cute but I dunno if she can act. But she was in (and produced) Donnie Darko, so I love her :)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 10:05 (twenty years ago) link

tres classic, with a decent good films to bad films ratio

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 10:09 (twenty years ago) link

Im trying to think what films I love her in, and I cant, shes been in some clangers and she married TOM GREEN, but somehow her cute face and endearing manner does me in.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 10:43 (twenty years ago) link

i always enjoy her appearances on letterman. i find myself becoming a little breathless as she flirts outrageously with dave.

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 10:55 (twenty years ago) link

That article has single-handedly put me off of seeing "Donnie Darko".

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 11:01 (twenty years ago) link

btw, charlie's angels:full throttle -> worst film ever

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 11:13 (twenty years ago) link

worse than Wall Street?

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 11:26 (twenty years ago) link

Surely not worse than 28 Days Later.

Hmm, I'm already rather excited about the second Charlie's Angels film. The first was a gorgeous pop confection and was part of a very odd weekend.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 11:38 (twenty years ago) link

I like Drew Barrymore. Yes, it's true. I think she's cute. I don't care if she's not a great actress, I still like to watch her. I love movies like The Wedding Singer. Never Been Kissed was silly, but I still enjoyed it.

And I love the expression "gorgeous pop confection."

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 11:49 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.gla.ac.uk/~cmc1z/fantasy_celts_b/fantasy_celts_12/drew_barrymore_01.jpg

Ok, I just google image searched for pix of her and almost all of them were of her being completely nude and I really didn't want to see all that... *censor! censor!*

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 11:54 (twenty years ago) link

Dan should still see Donnie Darko.

Drew Barrymore is grebt! She is almost always in horrible movies, but many of them (such as The Amy Fisher Story) are horrible on a fantastic level! And Mad Love has to be one of the most unintentionally hilarious films of all time -- Drew's loopy portrayal of crazed obsession was funny enough, but the idea becoming unhinged over Chris O'Donnell is even funnier.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 12:04 (twenty years ago) link

dud when she actually, like, appears in movies and stuff.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 12:04 (twenty years ago) link

CLASSIC as a screaming brat in ET

― kephm, Tuesday, 1 July 2003 12:07 (twenty years ago) link

I shall go and see the new Charlies Angels film because the first one is very good.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 12:08 (twenty years ago) link

Ha ha. I thought Mad Love was funny too. It introduced me to 7 Year Bitch though, which is a serious matter.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 12:11 (twenty years ago) link

''And I love the expression "gorgeous pop confection."''

yes its v english. never mind ;)

I've no probs with her (or cameron diaz, whom they also criticize if you click on the link).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 12:13 (twenty years ago) link

OK. Trivia. Which celebrity portrayed Drew Barrymore on SNL opposite Will Farrell playing James Lipton on one of those "Inside the Actor's Studio" sketch? I can't remember who it was, but whoever it was did a really good job. Maybe Kate Hudson?

― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 12:14 (twenty years ago) link

who cares if she can't act?! 'performances' is a real dud issue when evaluating movies.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 12:15 (twenty years ago) link

The picture of her on the cover of last Sunday's Mirror supplement- dud.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 12:20 (twenty years ago) link

The anecdote was about her boyfriend, Fabrizio Moretti (of The Strokes)

Screw all the other reasons, THIS is what should strike some terror into your heart.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 12:22 (twenty years ago) link

Fabrizio Moretti v. Tom Green, FITE.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 12:31 (twenty years ago) link

i liked her in the wedding singer

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 12:48 (twenty years ago) link

That was Kate Hudson on SNL, and yes it was hilarious. Also, Ed is completely wrong about CA2.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 12:58 (twenty years ago) link

I have a very soft spot of Ever After too. Though I think she should probably stick to just producing Barbarella, I'm not sure if she could pull the role off.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 13:15 (twenty years ago) link

Fabrizio Moretti v. Tom Green, FITE.

It would be ugly no matter what way that was settled.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 13:27 (twenty years ago) link

"Lispy Potatoface"!

― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 13:44 (twenty years ago) link

http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/tv_pix/nbc/saturday_night_live_episode_photos/_group_photos/kate_hudson27.jpg

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 14:04 (twenty years ago) link

Who actually marries Tom Green anyway? WTF is the point of doing that?

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 14:05 (twenty years ago) link

Charlie's Angels 2 -> "hi we're Sony please buy our stuff"
I got the feeling all the way through as if McG* was going to jump out from the wings and nudge me in the ribs saying, "geddit, did you get my funny reference to the bluesbrothers/terminator/the thin man/sailor moon"

*McG is the name of the director, just McG nothing else. What a complete prick. He looks like a thickneck fratboy/rugger bugger.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 14:07 (twenty years ago) link

I subscribe to the 'perkiness = evil' point of view of the article. However, dissing people in first person plural is a whole lot worse than giggling all day long.

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 14:10 (twenty years ago) link

Sounding better by the minute. Looks like a proper, honest, dumb blockbuster.

What's wrong with Sony anyhoo?

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 14:12 (twenty years ago) link

McG is from Orange County. I'll say no more.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 14:12 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.tvtome.com/images/shows/16/9/60-4864.jpg

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 14:14 (twenty years ago) link

Nothing wrong with sony, I'd buy a TV from them any day, I just don't like it ramming down my throat.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 14:17 (twenty years ago) link

Image no work.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 14:17 (twenty years ago) link

Seriously, doesn't this description make Orange County sound great????

Ned and Chris B must be having fun that they are not telling us about.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 14:18 (twenty years ago) link

DO NOT REMIND ME OF THAT PLAGUE ABOUT TO BE UNLEASHED UPON A WILLING POPULACE YOU HORRID PERSON.

And you wonder why I don't watch TV.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 14:25 (twenty years ago) link

Well, no-one likes a television rammed down their throat. Especially not in widescreen. Showing The O.C.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 14:26 (twenty years ago) link

You're a wise man.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 14:27 (twenty years ago) link

That's the oddest reading of "CA2" possible, Ed. Surely the entire mesage of the movie was "Look! Cute girls doing patently impossible stunts! ADOWABLE!"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 14:31 (twenty years ago) link

I hope I never go "ADOWABLE!" to anything.

The ridiculous stunt aspect was good. Particularly the bike sequence. But the jokes all the way through were laboured and lame and Bernie Mac, whoever the fuck he is, is a tosser and a low rent wisecracker.

Amazingly all of the "bullet time™" sequences were done without any humour or satire on the warshowskis at all.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 14:36 (twenty years ago) link

ed bernie mac can be very funny but every report says he is not in top form here.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 14:39 (twenty years ago) link

I hope I never go "ADOWABLE!" to anything.

So you hated the ferret scene, then.

I thought Bernie Mac was pretty great, especially in the kids' crosswalk scene.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 14:47 (twenty years ago) link

He's not in top form, though he is funnier than Bill Murray was in the first one. (PS I liked this movie & I really don't understand why people get so angry about it)

(x-post)

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 14:49 (twenty years ago) link

bernie mac has the greatest south chicago accent ever, full of phlegm and weird glottal stops.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 14:56 (twenty years ago) link

Man, that article definitely seemed like overkill. This is the first time in my life I've spent such a large block of time actually thinking about Drew Barrymore. If you don't think about her too much, she's just fine. If you think about her for too long, you get annoyed with whomever is making you think about her.

― jewelly (jewelly), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 15:10 (twenty years ago) link

I liked the first CA more than I thought I would, and I liked the second one a lot more than the first. I thought it was a riot -- the lame, labored jokes were deliberately lame and labored, which is an old stunt and rarely works, but the timing was just right. And forget the director, the editor's the one who made that movie.

I say Drew's classic, partly because her movies make my wife happy, and I like things that make my wife happy. They also make me happy at least some of the time. So she's no [insert great actress here]. I got no problem with her.

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 16:01 (twenty years ago) link

I thought she was good in Poison Ivy, personally. And she is cute and sexy. Those things are sufficient for me to be in favour of her.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:02 (twenty years ago) link

she always seems like someone's sister putting on a show for the family at thanksgiving. this is endearing but only for like 15 minutes.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:11 (twenty years ago) link

she's totally hot!

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:21 (twenty years ago) link

shes not that hot!

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:27 (twenty years ago) link

no way man - she's totally hot!

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:30 (twenty years ago) link

There are far worse sins than being Drew Barrymore and producing and acting in movies. Really. You can look it up. I mean, she's not a "serious actress," but neither does she pretend to be. That and a few entirely pleasant films she took part in win her a lot of slack in my book.

As for Tom Green, he or she who has never dated anyone gross or inappropriate can cast the first stone. Good thing US Weekly doesn't keep track of all of our romantic foibles, no?

True, she did marry him, but still.

― Lee G (Lee G), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:33 (twenty years ago) link

I thought after the dust settled on Drew and Tom it turned out that they never were legally married.

And I remember when their house burned down and some news crew interviewed them in their car and Drew was as perky as ever, with Tom in the background interjecting, "Except our HOUSE...BURNED DOWN!" after Drew kept insisting she was happy and not bothered at all about it.

And classic.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 20:49 (twenty years ago) link

I'd do her.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 21:25 (twenty years ago) link

Wedding Singer is fantastic. I can't think of anything else she's been in that sticks with me (besides E.T.), but she is foxy. Still, Tom Green ... worthless cretin.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 21:30 (twenty years ago) link

She is very beatiful and sexy.

Nothing is worse than 28 Days Later.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 22:04 (twenty years ago) link

sightings:
i used to see her at el coyote (rest. in LA) ca. 94-96 all the time, i saw her backstage at pavement in '94 (w/ then beau eric "i'm courtney's bitch" erlandson), saw her at a tonight show taping.

impressions:
i thought she was really cute (note: neither "hot" nor "totally hot") in person. i like that she is very comfortable having a goofy side. and that lisp is very endearing.

artwork:
loved "never been kissed", i don't think i've seen any of the other movies besides "ET" and "Irreconcilable Differences", neither of which I've seen since a youngster.

cons:
bad taste in men; possibly equalled by taste in music (?).

overall:
i'd ask her out if i was in a mildly successful alt-rock band.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 22:44 (twenty years ago) link

Er, I actually liked that Cinderella movie she did, it could so easily have been super annoying but she made it work. Oh, and she is friends w/Courtney Love which was the first reason I thought of for her being cool.

wow, speaking of fairy tales, is that FameTracker person the Wicked Witch of the West or what? sheesh, who pissed in their cornflakes?

― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 22:48 (twenty years ago) link

It's run by the people who also write Television Without Pity -- they're pretty much bitter and pissy about everything.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 00:22 (twenty years ago) link

thank god!

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 00:30 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, I like their styles.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 01:13 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, I read TWOP a lot but I was just pointing out that this was not an uncharacteristic attack.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 01:17 (twenty years ago) link

I agree with at least half of what Ally C said.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 3 July 2003 14:57 (twenty years ago) link

I love how all the Celtic sites have her in photoshopped hoops. Its like she is the fairy god mother of their websites at the moment.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 3 July 2003 15:28 (twenty years ago) link

She's hot, and I can't think of anyone else moviewise who is, "Never Been Kissed" was a great goofy teen movie, and I'd ask her out if I was drunk. I'll prob watch CA1 on Sunday, now I've been forced to think about it.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 4 July 2003 13:43 (twenty years ago) link

I agree with at least the second half of what Ally C said. But then that's not surprising is it.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 4 July 2003 13:46 (twenty years ago) link

Who are you to say she isn't beatiful?

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 4 July 2003 13:47 (twenty years ago) link

I'm a certified beauty inspector.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:53 (twenty years ago) link

I'm only interested in yr beat inspecting credentials, Pete

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 4 July 2003 15:00 (twenty years ago) link

Uh, while we're still sort of talking about Charlie's Angels 2, I get the impression from the commercials that a lot of very swank and very cool classic sports cars are gratutiously destroyed. Is this, in fact, an accurate judgement of the film? I mean, it was nauseating enough seeing that Charger get wrecked in the first Fast and/or Furious movie.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Friday, 4 July 2003 15:12 (twenty years ago) link

I decided I didn't like Drew Barrymore anymore after Donnie Darko. her part in that film was a real "I'm executive producer so I will have a part that makes me look like a fascinating and fully rounded person" ego wank. Plus she married that twatmunk from that Roadtrip film. OK so she divorced him, but marrying him in the first place suggests strongly that she is TOTAL DUD.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 4 July 2003 22:48 (twenty years ago) link

It just means that she is kind to animals.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 4 July 2003 23:01 (twenty years ago) link

DUD.

― tyler hildy, Saturday, 5 July 2003 00:03 (twenty years ago) link

i'd do her too, but then i'd probably have a really bitter self-loathing jag

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 6 July 2003 00:04 (twenty years ago) link

I think that were I to sleep with Drew Barrymore I would be too surprised by the turn of events to be self-loathing. But then I'd have some explaining to do, and that could get messy.

― Matt (Matt), Sunday, 6 July 2003 00:07 (twenty years ago) link

read matt's post in the voice of james lipton for x-tra hilarity

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 6 July 2003 00:08 (twenty years ago) link

if only I knew who James Lipton was, hang on a sec (googles) oh come on, what did I ever do to you?

― Matt (Matt), Sunday, 6 July 2003 00:36 (twenty years ago) link

yeah she was notably terrible in "Donnie Darko" partly b/c the other leads were generally quite good. but even in charlie's angels she doesn't seem comfortable with the lines, with the movement and so on, compared to diaz and liu. she projects little but a kind of insecurity masquerading as wilfull indifference.

― amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 6 July 2003 02:55 (twenty years ago) link

i should cut her a break. sometimes i forget how young she is--just a few years older than me. it's impressive that as a producer she's helped to get a few good movies made, at her age.

― amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 6 July 2003 02:56 (twenty years ago) link

she's not my cup of twee.

― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 6 July 2003 03:16 (twenty years ago) link

really though i prefer my women hard-faced or butch or fat or supersmart or preferably all four and drew is none of those things.

― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 6 July 2003 03:17 (twenty years ago) link

you people are seriously misunderestimating her intelligence

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 6 July 2003 04:45 (twenty years ago) link

I find her oddly appealing, though I'll be damned if I can figure-out why - but I'm guessing that it has to be her girl-next-door looks contrasted with her wild behavior - though it seems to me that she's living pretty fast these days which makes me wonder if she's going to burn-out soon.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Sunday, 6 July 2003 05:25 (twenty years ago) link

As contrasted w/her meek and restrained earlier days? She was in rehab at 13 or something, I think.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 6 July 2003 09:46 (twenty years ago) link

*sigh* I know. They grow-up so fast these days, don't they?

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Sunday, 6 July 2003 16:00 (twenty years ago) link

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Drew Barrymore : Classic or Dud?

DO NOT REMIND ME OF THAT PLAGUE ABOUT TO BE UNLEASHED UPON A WILLING POPULACE YOU HORRID PERSON.

DUD.