To all wondering why this article was published....

http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/board/about54746.html

..."Some of those in attendance at Joe’s Pub that evening are well known personalities, who are available for comment (see below**).

Translation: “Cintra Wilson was there, and she’s got my back.” "

and the person who wrote this article is....Cintra Wilson.

So you (Cintra Wilson) are friends with Nancy Balbrier, that makes sense as to why this was written. Nice to have friends......

"There has been no avoiding the scandal that hit..."

And yet...somehow I managed to avoid it. Thanks, Salon, for drawing my attention to such crucial happenings in the shallow world of people who care only about themselves and how many people know them. Congratulations to Ms. Wilson for giving her buddy the airtime she so richly craves -- er, of course I meant "deserves." However, I'm sure this important news story would have been well covered by Salon's crack reporters even if none of them were good friends with the attention-seeker in question. Right?

Wow, I always suspected that Salon readers were probably a bit on the stodgy, overserious, self-important side (at least the ones I know personally), but not to the extent evidenced by the brimstone reaction to this bit of playful fluff from the ever tantalizing and sexy-browed Ms. Wilson.

The worst part about this article was that it is boring tripe. Formerly a fan of Cintra, this article has diminshed her reputation, and made me think twice about automatically reading what she publishes in Salon. Was the editor asleep at the wheel? Boo hiss boo. Is this the best you can do?

Okay, why is Salon obsessed with Jennifer Aniston?

She was the weakest actor on Friends, and there is absolutely nothing interesting about her opinions, her life, her friends, her background, her anything.

She's a manufactured personality, talentless and rather grotesque, the Mamie Van Doren of our day.

are completely full of shit, shallow, unintelligent, willing to have gay/lesbian or straight sex to get what they want (irrespective of their orientation) and pathological liars. Why assign human traits and characteristics to meat puppets that don't have any. Aniston just did what most of them did to get where they are, make a faustian pact and shit on anyone who may or may not get in their way. Most politicians are no different.

"sexy-browed", reggie?

seriously???!

no, i'm sorry, but she's gone too far. Cintra is fast approaching Joan Crawfordian levels of tweeze.

someone had to tell her, reg.

--M

p.s. fluff though it might be, i'm not giving Cintra a pass on this one. not when her "interview" is clearly nothing more than a thinly disguised opportunity to help pimp a friend's upcoming book about her nasty "inside Hollywood" experiences. frankly, this "interview" exposes the "grotesque swelling" of Cintra's own Hollywood machinery-manipulating capabilities. so perhaps, on second thought, i oughta be giving Cintra a big "you go!" for finally having the courage to drop all pretense of being a sharp-eyed Hollywood outsider-looking-in, and admit that she's really an accomplished insider, whoring her chicken cutlet "interviews" around with the best of them.

Yes, a little editorial restraint please and a lot less logrolling.

something doesn't add up. wouldn't the cutlets cover up the nipples, thereby defeating the point of icing the nipples? or do the cutlets just hang in the bottom of the bra below the nipples. not that i want to try it, because wouldn't the cutlets start to smell???

if it were passed off as fiction, it would be a nice short story; i suppose everyone's got a tale or two about a friend who wasn't, doesn't have to be a celeb ... just someone on the make on the way up using someone else.

No, I won't waggle my finger at Salon for publishing this. I have to laugh at the predictable chorus of people wailing and gnashing their teeth over the fact that a fluffy entertainment piece (one that had the gall to involve Jennifer Aniston again, no less) somehow squeezed through the Editorial Sphincter.

What was kind of off-putting was the whole setup of the piece, complete with the "the subject and her zany friends, including the author" picture. The whole exercise just reads like a dubious soapbox for one bitter almost-actress who may or may not have lived with The Jennifer to take some passive-aggressive shots at her former roommate. I don't mind fluffy pop culture pieces, even ones about overexposed stars. I just don't like pieces that seem like they exist only because the subject is a friend of the writer's. Cintra, I dug your work more when you were just trying to ape Hunter S. Thompson's style.

i've never iced my nipples, but i would think the effect would go away in a few minutes at most, unless you went into a very cold audition room. why not sew pearls or something into the bra/shirt? and again, this icing doesn't seem to add up with the chicken cutlets method. the attorney in me would like to interrogate this opportunist to expose the holes in her story. i don't mind hating on aniston, who i wouldn't piss on if she were on fire, but these anecdotes do not add up.

timesly,

FYI--

At the Underminer event itself, Nancy's story had three parts 1) when she lived in NY with "Jane"; 2) when she Jane moved to L.A. but they were still friends/in touch; and 3) post-friendship. As Nancy told it, the chicken cutlet trick was one Jane shared with her in New York, when the two went on auditions together. The ice cube trick, on the other hand, was one Jane had discovered once she was out in L.A., going on auditions on her own. As far as whether these breast-enhancing tips work or not, that's an experiment i'd rather not try at home. (the chicken thing is really just unsanitary!)

"Chicken cutlets" is the name for silicone pads that women (indeed, virtually all actresses and models) slip into their bras to make their bust appear larger and perkier. They're called "chicken cutlets" because that's what they resemble. They're also sometimes called "explants" because that's basically what they are - silicone implants worn outside the body.

The term "chicken cutlets" is the most commonly used term for these breast-enhancers in the fashion industry and Hollywood. She wasn't talking about putting actual poultry in her bra people.

Now you can say you've learned something new today!