I used to love Alias.
The first 2 seasons, I was all about it— from the moment double agent Sydney Bristow showed up in the lobby of the CIA wearing that raver wig and looking beat all to hell, till they pulled that crappy 2 year time lapse thing at the end of the second season and things started to get all weird and shitty.
That show was amazing, because it was the first time I can remember a female lead in a modern action series that wasn’t just two dimensional (or should I say, 32-DDimensional) but managed to be strong, sexy, smart, badass, and yeah, vulnerable at the same time. Before you could say “Emmy nomination” I was signing up for Krav Maga classes and checking out books on game theory from the library. I never finished either the books the Krav Maga lessons (or the TV series for that matter) but I’m pretty sure Jennifer Garner, Bradley Cooper, and Michael Vartan all thank their lucky stars every day for that damn raver wig and the character beneath it who gave them their big breaks.
As I mentioned above, the show started going downhill for me after the end of the second season, and this week, Michael Vartan (who played Sydney’s love interest, Vaughn, on the show) finally nailed the coffin shut for me by getting engaged to his girlfriend Lauren Skaar, a woman he met in a Whole Foods parking lot in Los Angeles last year.
What the shit? The only thing I’ve ever managed to pick up at a Whole Foods is a growler of Yazoo beer.
So, congratulations and stuff…. I guess.
At least we still have Bradley Cooper. I know at least one writer on this website who is willing to be such a beard for him the L.A. Kings will constantly think it’s hockey playoff season.
i’ve never watched alias. never will.
but kudos on the yazoo beer..
They were so perfect together! And they also dated in real life, right?
I think this was good news though. He’s finally found someone he wants to marry AND who is not in the same business.
Also: I’m not really sure whether we still have Bradley Cooper. He’s practically married….
uh…32DD over here…
Same here. But we’re MORE than our cup sizes, and so was she- that’s what I was getting at. No offense to taatass was meant. I <3 the taataas.
“I know at least one writer on this website who is willing to be such a beard for him the L.A. Kings will constantly think it’s hockey playoff season.”
hahhahahahahhaha
Didn’t Garner cheat on her husband with Vartan?
Anyway, great hockey jab!
Pamela Anderson in modern day Baywatch (not the Shakespearean version) managed to be “strong, sexy, smart, badass, and yeah, vulnerable at the same time,” while cavorting around the beach in her Baywatch one-piece.
Okay, I’m mostly being facetious, but, once one gets past the obvious T & A, Baywatch actually did have some strong female characters, women from across the 32DD spectrum.
I do recall that MV and Jen Garner were an item, perhaps around the time that Ben Affleck and J-Lo were keeping it real, together.
Proper whole foods pick-up etiquette calls for one to linger in the store aisles or parking lot and allow things happen, organically.
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