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...Staff writer Jessica E. Vascellaro can be reached at vascell@fas.harvard.edu...
...Jessica E. Vascellaro is a history concentrator in Currier House. She was an executive editor of The Crimson...
...chin, Giamatti knows that his mug will almost always be cast in the service of actors with cheekbones. Unlike some of his rage-filled characters, he carries no visible resentment about that. Sitting in a café in Prague (where he is shooting The Illusionist, supporting Edward Norton and Jessica Biel), Giamatti announces, "You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something. Seriously. When you profile someone, there has to be a narrative, and my narrative just happens to be 'Who is he?', 'Oh, he's that guy' and 'He looks like a squid!' Sideways doesn't change...
...Scott Fitzgerald told us there are no second acts in American lives. Fortunately, TV is not life. And ever since Ozzy Osbourne's and Jessica Simpson's comebacks, TV has been doling out second and third acts like Halloween candy. Eccentric Charlie's Angel Farrah Fawcett, p.r. queen Lizzie Grubman and gossip-beset Britney Spears have done reality shows. Kirstie Alley responded to being the butt--so to speak--of tabloid fat jokes on Showtime's sitcom Fat Actress. This summer scandal magnets Tommy Lee and Bobby Brown remind us who they are on NBC and Bravo, while next fall...
True, baring all on TV is a great way to become successful--at baring all on TV. But it won't necessarily sell any CDs. For every Jessica Simpson, who this summer stars in the Dukes of Hazzard movie, there's an Anna Nicole Smith, who's shilling for Trim Spa. Fat Actress put Alley on magazine covers, but then its ratings plummeted like her weight...