The non-enthusiast's perspective of...
Gillian, who isn't a popcult junkie like the rest of us
So, Gillian, what are your thoughts on Steve Zahn?
Gillian: I don't know who that is.
MFF: [points him out in Entertainment Weekly]
Gillian: No, he doesn't look very familiar.
MFF: Did you see Out of Sight?
Gillian: Nope.
WC: Did you see That Thing You Do!?
Gillian: Nope.
WC: Did you see The Object of my Affection?
Gillian: Nope. Oh, no, I did see that. Who was he in that?
MFF: He wasn't in that.
WC: Yes he was.
MFF: Oh yeah. He was the brother.
WC: He was Paul Rudd's brother. He was the main guy's brother --
MFF: The doctor...
WC: ...that kept getting engaged to all these different women, and then got married at the end.
Gillian: Oh yeah, I remember him, okay. [pause] He's ugly.
WC: He was also in Reality Bites...He's actually not that ugly. It's a really bad picture of him.
Gillian: Really? That is a bad picture.
WC: He is an "It Second Banana," though. And he's a Hey! It's That Guy.
MFF asks: who's the big It Person of the summer? Robbie Williams?
WC: He's not the It Person of the summer. Ricky Martin is the It Person of the summer.
Gillian: Is he the guy...is that the guy who sings the song -- you're going to laugh at me now, I can see it coming -- that song "Millennium"?
MFF: Yes.
Gillian: Good!
MFF: Why would we laugh?
Gillian: I feel like I'm taking an exam.
What about David Arquette?
WC: Thank God Courteney Cox never brought David Arquette in to play opposite her on Friends, because...damn.
Gillian: Ew, what is with that, anyway?
MFF: They got married.
Gillian: I know, but he's just so dumb.
MFF: Yeah, and Courteney Cox is the president of MENSA.
WC: She at least seems like she's together.
MFF: Yeah, together by a thin layer of skin.
Gillian: First of all, she's really pretty. Second of all, she's successful -- two things he is not.
WC: He's successful. He's been in lots of movies.
MFF: He was in Scream 2.
WC: And Scream.
Gillian: I've never seen them.
MFF: He was in Never Been Kissed.
Gillian: A Reasonable Person would not know him.
WC: That's a very good point.
Gillian: I only know him because he's Courteney Cox's fiancé. I've only seen him on Entertainment Tonight.
MFF: Well, so that answers your question of why he's with Courteney Cox.
Gillian: That's what I was saying. I know why he's with her.
MFF: But if you want to know why she's with him...I don't know. Because she's really skinny? Really, really skinny.
Jude Law is good-looking. Discuss.
Gillian: The name rings a bell. This guy? [looks at a picture in Entertainment Weekly, from The Talented Mr. Ripley]
MFF: Jude Law.
Gillian: No, I've never seen him in anything.
MFF: He's good-looking though, right? I see your eyes lighting up.
Gillian: He's very gay. He looks gay.
MFF: Why, what's gay about him? Just because he has spats on? That makes you gay all of a sudden?
What do you think of Sarah Polley?
MFF: She's in the "Women We Love" issue (of Esquire).
WC: I know, you told me.
Gillian: She's in Entertainment Weekly again, for God's sake?
MFF: And there's another terrible picture of her.
Gillian: I think she looks like a rodent.
And lastly, what do you think of Ricky Martin?
MFF: Do you know who Ricky Martin is?
Gillian: He is one hot latino lover. Yes, I do know who he is.
WC: Every girl knows who Ricky Martin is. And every gay man.
Gillian: He's that flamboyantly gay, "Livin' La Vida Loca" guy. And I do know also that he was recently in Toronto and there was a very poor turnout. There were maybe 4500 people and they expected hundreds of thousands.
WC: He's no Spice Girls.
Gillian: He is no Spice Girls.
MFF: He's only had one single out so far. His whole career is based on one single.
Gillian: No, it isn't. He was huge in Menudo.
WC: Did anyone really listen to Menudo, though?
MFF: What's the English translation of the word "menudo"?
WC: It's some kind of dish, isn't it?
Gillian: "Liar"?
MFF: It is, it's like some kind of Mexican stew that's like all different spicy...Ricky Martins.
Gillian: I thought it was something to do with the word "lying."
MFF: And Ralph Macchio was in Menudo.
Gillian: Ralph Macchio was?
MFF: No. But he could have been.
WC: No, he couldn't. He's Italian, he's not Mexican.
MFF: John Turturro, wasn't he in it? And Gabriel Byrne?
WC: You know, [John Turturro's] presence was sorely missed in Summer of Sam.
MFF: He was the voice of the dog! Did you see that in the credits?
WC: No!
Gillian: No!
MFF: "I want you to kill! Kill! KILL! I want you to get me some kibbles and bits, kibbles and bits!" That's him. You know who was good in Summer of Sam?
WC: Adrien Brody?
MFF: [nods sagely]
Gillian: Never heard of him.
MFF: He has a really huge schnozz, though.
WC: He was also on that Vanity Fair [Young Hollywood issue] cover.
Gillian: Ohhhh.
MFF: He has the biggest nose of any person in Hollywood except for Dustin Hoffman.
Gillian: Is he the one who kind of looks like the guy from Friends? Ross? Russ? Ross?
MFF: No.
WC: No, he does a little bit.
MFF: No, she's thinking of that other guy, probably.
WC: What other guy?
MFF: I don't know; the guy in the kilt?
WC: Noooo! That guy [in the kilt] didn't look anything like Ross.
Gillian: He wasn't in a kilt. He was on the left-hand side of the front, front cover.
WC: Yeah, yeah, yeah! That's him!
Gillian: [claps]
WC: See? She knew. [high-fives Gillian]
MFF: That's it. I'm the new Reasonable Person.
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