BEN IS FREE!!! BEN IS FREE!!!

Aug. 16th, 2003 at 5:01 PM

weather	:	partly cloudy
outside	:	22°C
mood	:	ecstatic

Ben is free!!!

Well, here's his chance to bolt, anyway.

I don't know why their relationship bothers me so much. It's not like I really liked Ben Affleck that much to begin with.

[Update - Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - 1030h]

Bah. It looks like this is going to blow over. None of the magazines are publishing anything about it because they want to bid for exclusive coverage of the Bennifer Wedding.

*deflate*

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sertrel

Aug. 16th, 2003 05:11 pm (UTC)

Mmm... Maybe your relief stems not so much from liking Ben Affleck as it is disliking Jennifer Lopez? =)

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bride

Aug. 16th, 2003 05:13 pm (UTC)

I'd thought of that... but I can't imagine (remember?) what it is that I don't like about her. Her singing isn't great, but a lot of people don't sing well...

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sertrel

Aug. 16th, 2003 05:49 pm (UTC)

Mmm. It could be a whole nebulous mess of discrete reasons for disliking her, none of which is sufficient on their own, but together, just rub you the wrong way. I don't like her singing, or her material, and I really don't care for her style and mass-marketed, processed image.

There was an Onion article in the wake of 9/11 which bemoaned the media obsession with "serious issues" and spoke of Americans wanting to get back to a regular diet of fluffy, comforting, meaningless entertainment news, and was illustrated with a picture of Jennifer Lopez. The fact that her name alone is virtually synonymous with "stupid celebrity media coverage" speaks volumes.

Rereading this, the tone is a bit heavy. I don't really hate her or anything, that's just too much energy. She's just lumped in with all those other Hollywood folks who can command 8-figure salaries to make bland mass-market, lowest-common-denominator dreck, and have far too many pages of excessive press coverage dedicated to them, e.g. Julia Roberts, and lots of others who I don't particularly care to dredge my memory to name.

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bride

Aug. 16th, 2003 05:54 pm (UTC)

Y'know, what you wrote resonates with me as well. It's an overall "ick".

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_romance

Aug. 16th, 2003 05:14 pm (UTC)

omg wow! this is like the best news i've heard all day :) at lesat they broke up BEFORE they got married. geez

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bride

Aug. 16th, 2003 05:20 pm (UTC)

HaHA! She can't get her Frequent Marriage Points for this one =D =D =D

Well, they haven't officially broken up yet, but it's looking real hopeful =)