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I do! Or at least I found her charming in Jerry Maguire, which, much to my shame, I liked a lot, and also in Bridget Jones. Something awful appears to have happened to her, though.


Posted by: pjs | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 5:41 PM
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Liked her in Chicago.


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 5:42 PM
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Hmm. This is where it occurs to me that I've never seen her in a movie.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 5:43 PM
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They really will let anyone have a blog nowadays.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 5:44 PM
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Country singer Kenny Chesney, 37, does!!

After a whirlwind four-month courtship, Zellweger and Chesney exchanged vows May 9 on the Caribbean island of St. John, where Chesney has a holiday home.

The couple met at the Concert of Hope tsunami relief benefit Jan. 15, celeb news show "The Insider" reports.

Zellweger wore a wedding dress by her favorite designer Carolina Herrera.

It's the first marriage for both stars.


Posted by: some random gossip columnist | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 6:06 PM
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I need to know if Chesney married for love.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 6:13 PM
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I do, but as I recall, my girlfriend at the time was accusing me of having an erectile dyfunction problem,so I discounted that particular crush. Am I speaking your language, ogged?


Posted by: peter snees | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 6:42 PM
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Indeed, I remember like it was yesterday your girlfriend accusing you of having an erectile dysfunction problem.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 7:08 PM
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Dare we ask what inspired this seemingly-random question? And what is your experience with her if not in movies?


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 7:14 PM
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What? She didn't have you at hello?


Posted by: profgrrrrl | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 8:02 PM
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No.


Posted by: Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 8:57 PM
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At hello he thought she was sweet, and unobjectionably earnest, and he wanted to hear more about her work, but it wasn't like he wanted to date her, so he e-mailed and she never replied, and hence this post.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 9:05 PM
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I liked her in something I saw her in, but I can't remember what that was.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 9:22 PM
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Sheila O'Malley had a great rant about her.


Posted by: ac | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 11:12 PM
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I liked her in Nurse Betty. She should stick to playing simpleminded delusional Middle Americans being pursued by mismatched teams of assassins. Or she should be one of those in real life!!!!


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 11:14 PM
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There you go, Sheila hears me, but apparently she does have fans, right here among the most treacherous commenters in blogdom.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 3-05 11:24 PM
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I'm with you, ogged. she was pretty good in nurse betty, but something about her creeps me out, and I am beyond bored with her weight loss/gain brouhaha. but I love the beach boys.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 06- 4-05 1:43 AM
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Cocking her head sideways and doing that old-lady smirk thing is tedious, especially since Paris picked up on ot.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 06- 4-05 2:09 AM
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I like her in the movies, but apparently I'm a bit of an outlier in these parts.


Posted by: Doug | Link to this comment | 06- 4-05 3:06 AM
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Liked her in Jerry Maguire and Price Above Rubies, but not in anything else.


Posted by: kitty darfour | Link to this comment | 06- 4-05 5:27 AM
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She needs to stop eating lemons before every scene.


Posted by: Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 06- 4-05 8:05 AM
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i do i do!


Posted by: jessica | Link to this comment | 06- 4-05 9:04 AM
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Renee's success baffles me less than that of Keanu Reeves.

Hmmm, "Renee's" and "Reeves" differ only slightly. Coincidence?


Posted by: Mitch Mills | Link to this comment | 06- 4-05 10:40 AM
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I think it's kind of cool that she has such a long univocalic name.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06- 4-05 10:52 AM
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I think it's kind of cool that she has such a long univocalic name.

Pure geek poetry right there, Weiner.

Also, I, like others, liked Renee (or "the Z-Dawg" as we like to say in these parts) in Jerry Maguire, mainly because she seemed hot. I say "seemed" because I have yet to come across an image of her outside that particular movie which could be construed as confirming that impression. Plus, the whole Bridget Jones monstrosity makes it hard to even appreciate her as an actress, hotness or non-hotness aside.


Posted by: Walter Sobchak | Link to this comment | 06- 4-05 12:14 PM
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"Does anybody like Renée Zellweger?"

I've never met her, myself.


Posted by: Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 06- 4-05 2:30 PM
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I think it's kind of cool that she has such a long univocalic name.

Maybe you should change your name to Metthew Weener? (Such an inspired move would also put to bed that whole "rhymes with meaner or miner?" question)


Posted by: Mitch Mills | Link to this comment | 06- 4-05 3:23 PM
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A name can be too univocalic, you know. Which is why I no longer go by

Stonedpope Broachploat.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 4-05 4:07 PM
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Is "univocalic" really the appropriate term? Univowellic maybe?

And SB, didn't you used to also go by Steamedpeep Breachpleat, or was the your wastrel of a brother?


Posted by: Mitch Mills | Link to this comment | 06- 4-05 5:39 PM
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We do not speak of Steamedpeep, the black sheep Breachpleat.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 4-05 6:20 PM
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And whatever happened to ol' Stainedpate Breakplate?


Posted by: Mitch Mills | Link to this comment | 06- 4-05 7:07 PM
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If I recall, since he was tall and awkward and shod himself in clogs, he'd often totter and bonk his noggin on the rotten logs of his lodge. Then that old fraud would flop on his cot and slobber with snot and mawkish sobs.

He was a real pain in the assonance, wasn't he.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 4-05 10:21 PM
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Actually, I think you have Stainedpate mixed up with Staunchpop Broadplop.

I was going to bring up Stunnedpup Budgepus, but then I thought better of it.


Posted by: Mitch Mills | Link to this comment | 06- 5-05 1:18 PM
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Still very sure I've never met her, and pretty much don't know what she's like, and thus have no opinion about her likeability. Also: there's something called "acting" those folks do, which possibly might interfere with judgement as to knowing the real person via the performance. Probably a crazy idea, though, that. (And damn glad I'm not an actor, receiving personal judgements from people who don't know me, although, oddly, as a blogger....)


Posted by: Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 06- 7-05 1:19 PM
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Y'know, if it was Stainedpip Bridgeplate, that would be a chiastic handle.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 06- 7-05 1:35 PM
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And if it were "Stand, Pipe, Bridge, Plate", it would be polysyndetic.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06- 7-05 1:37 PM
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Or maybe I mean asyndetic.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06- 7-05 1:37 PM
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asyndetic

Yes, I suppose the polysyndetic version would be Stand and Pipe and Bridge and Plate. Pleasantly rhythmic, but a mouthful.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 06- 7-05 1:45 PM
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Are you going to Scarborough Fair / Stand and pipe and bridge and plate

These versions have a much more pagan feel than does the Simon & Garfunkel rendition.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06- 7-05 1:52 PM
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Too bad about the melismatic "bridge".


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 7-05 2:13 PM
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