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I have always really appreciated Reese's PR. She has very successfully been made to look like she actually has integrity. No T&A, uplifting talk, etc. But let's not confuse that with actually BEING a person of substance. No one can judge that from underneath the mound of constructed artifice that makes up a 29 million per film actor. The great part about the Oscars is watching the tension between the artifice and the reality - the freeze-frame moment when the actor has to speak for herself, not edited by TV news inerviews, magazines, etc. Come on people, it's not Reese you like, it's the Reese TM brand you like.
Now what was good about the Oscars this year was watching her reponse to winning, which I felt was a very public meltdown on the order of good ol' Gwyneth's sobbing in the flat pink ball gown. She recited the most rigidly practised acceptance speech I have ever seen with a saccarhine, automatic grace of a winner, a American winner, a "real woman", just tryin' to make it like she did back in Tennesee. For those who buy this stuff it may have actually inspired sympathetic tears.
And yet a big crack was visible - "my children, who should be in bed right now".
WHY? Why slam your kids, Reese? Yet another attempt to prove that actors can have family values? I mean this is really weird: your mom's on stage, winning her Oscar, and yet she needs to tell the world how bad you are for staying up to watch?
Hello, flip side of the pressure drop of attaining the totally bizarre, unsustainable pinnacle of a 29 million salary and yet still being a real mom with a small child who refuses to acknowledge you're the most powerful woman in Hollywood.
Fascinating.
Again, not a comment on Reeese Witherspoon the human being. That is not for me to judge.
Cintra's comments were really funny to me - but she missed that one.
