I don't know if it's fair to say this, since I don't watch a lot of TV anymore, but Christina Applegate just doesn't pop up on my radar unless something odd is happening in her life or in the press. Lately, of course, there's the news about
her breast cancer. Today, with this news still fresh in my mind, there she was, sitting on a coffee table at this beach house I'm currently borrowing from friends.
She was on the cover of InStyle magazine, a special new issue called "Look Your Best," and she did - she looked better than I've ever seen her. From Kelly Bundy to Jesse Warner (seriously, I was sad when that show ended), to the last time I saw her as Ron Burgundy's love interest in Anchorman..., she's always been amazing, but it's not until you actually read InStyle that you remember how cool she actually is (yes, I'd known it before, somehow, but I can't remember exactly how I knew she was smart and cool). She's a girl whose look says she knows more than you do about what you know, and she's right. She looks especially brilliant in contrast with the girl in the Calvin Klein ad in the same magazine (page 3), who comes out of the ocean with a look on her face (in her parted lips) that says "Um, okay, to make you feel even more ridiculous I'm going to say this in the sexiest way possible: Like, no way will I
even go get coffee with you, dork." Is that Eva Mendes? Who cares.
What's funny about this new thing, this new crush, is that the only other celebrity crush I've ever written about (I think), was with Jennifer Aniston, and Christina played her sister on a few episodes of Friends. Mmmmmmm, sisters... I hope they find a way to remain close after our pretend love triangle. No, you'll never see what I wrote about Jen because I can't find it and have no idea what I said, but it was a stupid poem I posted to the Usenet long long ago praising her on rec.tv.friends or something like that. I'm over her, though. Jen, though she exudes smarts, coolness and class at the same time, seems now to carry with her a sort of sadness. Give me a girl who likes wearing jeans and hanging' out at home, who does crosswords and reads David Sedaris. Give me a girl who can look Audrey Hepburn stunning and be Jenny McCarthy crazy. And maybe (CAA interns, you there to pass this on?), just maybe, give me a girl like this who feels like going for a long sail.
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[Ed. Update: I just realized another reason she's so awesome - she was a key member of one of the greatest Saturday Night Live skits of all time, the "Van Down by the River" skit with Chris Farley. Also, if you read celeb news at all, you've heard she's beat it, but to ensure she remains cancer-free she had a double mastectomy. She says, though, "I'm going to have cute boobs 'til I'm 90, so there’s that" How awesome is that quote? I wish her all the best. Now... back to my Chris Farley DVD where the Chippendale's skit is starting.]
