I used to have a theory that no one actually liked Jennifer Lopez. I thought we were all just so saturated with her presence on our TVs, radios, magazine covers and makeup that everyone had assumed she was a star, without anyone actually liking her. Someone in an office on Madison Avenue decided to give her a snazzy nickname, (something cool, I got it, “J Lo”, see it’s her initials, well, sort of...) close enough to a one word name that we might confuse her success with Madonna or Cher.
Then last month I was invited to go to the Sneak Preview of “the new J Lo movie”. A Sneak Preview?? Who the hell would want to see that movie in the first place, let alone a week before the rest of the brainwashed masses?? I politely declined. But my theory that no one actually likes Jennifer Lopez was proven wrong, and I had to replace it with a new theory -- Almost no one actually likes Jennifer Lopez.
There was a time when J Lo was just Jennifer Lopez. Not “Jenny from the Block”, her new “homegirl” image, either. Just Jennifer Lopez. She was a dancer (technically “Fly Girl”) on Fox’s “In Living Color”. Then she got some small parts in some small films, “Anaconda” and “U Turn”. Then she was in the critically acclaimed “Out of Sight", where she played a gorgeous cop, a tough girl unlucky in love. Then she starred in “The Cell”, where she played a gorgeous psychiatrist, a tough girl unlucky in love.
Then in "My Best Friends Wedd..." oops I mean "The Wedding Planner", she was a gorgeous (although maybe not as tough) wedding planner, but still unlucky in love. That was followed by "Angel Eyes", where she was a gorgeous cop, a tough girl unlucky in love. And then "Enough", where she played an abused (but gorgeous) wife who fights back against her husband. In other words, a tough girl unlucky in love. I'm not skipping any movies here -- that's her filmography, from supporting actress in 1998 to "BIG STAR" in 2002.
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