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February 23, 2005
The Trouble with Love
Jennifer Love Hewitt, what has happened to your career?
In 1997, no starlet was hotter than Hewitt. She was on the top-rated orphan drama Party of Five, and enjoyed box office success with film hits I Know What You Did Last Summer and Can't Hardly Wait. She was so money that FOX gave her her very own spin-off show Time Of Your Life (which has forever ruined that Green Day song for me). That show was cancelled within a year, and it was all downhill from there...
Heartbreakers
The Tuxedo
Garfield
3 Pop Albums
...
Now, Love will be starring as a psychic in the doomed drama Ghost Whisperer. This might sound promising if it weren't a shameless rip-off of NBC's successful new series Medium.
It's official: Hewitt has morphed into the poor man's Patricia Arquette, laced with a Kathie Lee Gifford media personality. While I've always found her perkiness quite annoying, even I hate to see so drastic a Hollywood downfall. Someone please take pity and save her with a gritty indie film role!
Posted by Michele at February 23, 2005 11:12 PM
Comments
She's perfect for the role: Girl's as skinny as a ghost in that photo!
Posted by: Adam at February 24, 2005 08:26 AM
another example of the downward spiral was when she was "punk'd" a year or two ago and the premise was about a movie role. she appeared *so desperate* to get the job it was pretty sad.
Posted by: mundaneDan at February 24, 2005 12:14 PM
Yeah, I saw that "Pund'd" too, and she seemed way too desperate.
She never did it for me either - I couldn't take her as a serious/worthy actress.
Posted by: Jackie at February 24, 2005 03:35 PM
Though I believe she is a "good" actress (by "good" I mean she usually doesn't suck), I think she should resolve herself to find a good Daytime Soap and plant her feet down firmly. She has the perfect Daytime Soap personality and look.
Dear All My Children Writers/Casting: Please present a story line where Erica Kane has a long lost forgotten daughter who returns to Pine Valley to reek havoc. Please cast Jennifer Love Hewitt as said daughter. Yeah I know it's been done before, but hasn't it all?
She'll be gracing the covers of Soap Opera Digest in no time.
Posted by: Tisha at February 24, 2005 08:15 PM
I saw the Tuxedo - I paid to see it, no less - and let me tell you what I thought. Actually, I don't even want to think about it, it was so awful. Sorry.
Posted by: Abby at February 24, 2005 10:26 PM
You paid to see The Tuxedo! Muhahahaha. Even me, a Jackie Chan fan wouldn't pay to see it. I have the dvd if you want to borrow it.
Posted by: Brian at February 25, 2005 12:13 PM
