Thursday, August 12, 2004

WHO WANTS A $20 MILLION PAYCHECK? Salon today contains this interesting article (yeah, you'll have to watch a brief commercial. Deal.) questioning who's the real "princess" of Hollywood for a new generation. Although Salon only deals with three names, they do represent three very different perceptions of high-school/college-age feminity. Hilary Duff is the non-threatening but cute girl who's a little behind in Algebra II. Anne Hathaway is the prim and proper sorority girl who excels in all her classes and who's never seen without her designer skirt. Julia Stiles is the angry-ish leader of the feminist reading group who'll argue with you about Catherine McKinnon's view of pornography.

In light of this article, EW's cover story from last week about the failure of Hollywood to generate new big stars, and Fametracker features like this, this, and this, I have two questions for the panel:

1. Who will be the next Julia Roberts?
2. Who should be the next Julia Roberts?

I'm a Stiles fan myself (though she needs to pick better scripts rather than the atrocious crap like "Prince & Me" she's done of late), but a case can be made for several names. Make it below.

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