Posted 6:14 PM by Gene

We have only one explanation why Jennifer Aniston's face is so famous: she looks like your sister. Or my sister (if I had one), or anybody's sister. Also she's cute for a soon-to-be forty-year-old. But I well remember the authors of an eloquent and unjustly neglected picture-book called The Movies taking Alistair Cooke to task for stating that Mary Pickford was the woman every man wanted for his sister. To which the authors Messrs. Griffith and Mayer responded, she was not: she was the woman every man wanted for himself. Leaving aside Mary Pickford we have come altogether too far when arguably the most visible actress of her generation has gotten that way for qualities other than being desirable.

P. S. I see I said over two years ago she looks like a Valley Girl, which I suppose is still true enough, but I suggest what I just said is now truer.