OlderJennifer Aniston’s Curtain Call
Jennifer Aniston took her curtain call on stage earlier this evening for her Broadway debut in the 10-minute play, Three Girls and Bob. Jen played a single woman who attends an intimacy workshop with two friends (Rosie Perez and Lynn Whitfield) and then tries out its lessons on a hapless man (David Cross).
Jen’s play was part of The 6th Annual “24 Hour Plays” on Broadway to benefit the Working Playground, Inc. at NYC’s American Airlines Theatre. Jen, 37, arrived at 8 AM and rehearsed through the day. Technical rehearsals ran from 5 PM to 7:30 PM. Doors opened at 7:45 PM and the curtain rose at 8 PM. I am oh so curious to hear the reviews…
Co-star Rosie Perez said: “We had a real boost from Jennifer Aniston. She was as sweet as pie. I really appreciated her coming because she raised the profile of tonight’s event and that is going to help so much. She didn’t have to do this. She didn’t have to take time out of her schedule.”
Jen, 37, was accompanied on stage by fellow actors Nia Vardalos, Anna Paquin, Lynn Whitfield, Kieran Culkin, and Erika Christensen (pictured below). More pictures in the gallery!
UPDATE :: The New York Post says: “Jennifer Aniston made a hit debut on Broadway last night.”
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Jen complains there are no good comedy roles for women, yet,
Drew Barrymore has produced Charlies Angel’s one and 2 which
are action comedies and starred in other rom coms. She
complains about not wanting to be seen at as a victim but
consider how the Vogue Interview and the Harpers interview came
out. The articles discusses at some length, her relationship and
break up with Brad - the elephant in the room. I only read those
2 interviews as they were reproduced in JJ.
Don’t say she doesn’t have any control over how the interviewer
portrays her. I’m sure she does have some. Look at how Brad
has handled his interviews. In esquire and subsequent ones
since. He doesn’t mention his X’s name and most of the time he
focussed on the present and the future.
She comes on Oprah and talks about the non break up, non
relationship, non boobjob, non career, non scripts. This is what
losers do - no matter how much money they have in the bank.
They complain about the half full glass. But they won’t go and
look for the water to fill the cup.
JA has NEVER wished B & A well, publicly congratulated their baby
Shiloh. Even Jennifer Lopez did that for Ben and JG when their
baby was born saying that she had no hard feelings and having
the baby was a beautiful thing. JL had been portrayed as the
woman Ben fell out of love with. He was quoted (true or not I
don’t know) saying that when she had married Mark, he felt relief,
like how you would feel after you vomited. But for me at least,
when JL made that statement about Ben and JG’s baby, I
thought, this woman knows how to behave in public - what ever
her private feelings, what ever her diva behaviour. I had more
respect for Jennifer L because she did the right thing for her
public image - come out and sound (even if she may not have felt)
generous, gracious. I stopped thinking of JL the loser when I
read that quote. Jen A has never sounded gracious to me in any
of the interviews I’ve read.
I used to watch every single episode of Friends. I used to look at what Jen wears and I will go to the store and find the same thing. At that time, I didnt know anything about this Brad/Angie/Jen saga.
I therefore did my research. I put a lot of weight on their personal interviews particularly on the interviews before they announced their separation. . I try to get a gut feel of each of them. Beleive me, I separated tabloids and facts. I have come to the conclusion that Angie is brutally honest. I respected her giving 1/3 to charity. I did a search on oprah’s site, there was a picture of Brad with all the African children surrounding him, I was so disappointed that Jen was NOT in the picture. I looked at the date of that pic and it was taken before they were separated. We see pictures of Jen with Brad on every red carpet event yet she didnt accompany her then husband to Africa. Why???
I saw pictures of Jen smoking. We saw Jen at Oprah, at Diane Sawyer, at Access Hollywood, claiming a baby is on the way. Why cant she tell the truth? Why lied? Some people called her a fraud. Well, I call this misleading the public. Honesty is important to me. Once you lose this trust, it’s hard to gain that back.
There is this Vanity Fair interview. This interview is the one which I am fuming. This is the deciding factor that I believe Jen is responsible for all the things printed. Even though her publicist mis-guided her. But an employer is responsible for her agent’s actions. She knew what was going on. She should take accountability of this.
then, there are more…..
Maybe Aniston could play Marcia from the Brady Bunch, you know Marcia, Marcia, Marcia—–Me Me Me.
282 | Ebony | 10/25/06 12:24 PM |
And we are tired of hearing how Jennifer is coping with the divorce, or how wronged, or poor she is. We are tired of hearing this is 21 century and women don’t have to have children, its great we got it, but we don’t need those things to be shoved down our throats every single day or to impose those values on the rest of us. She is not a survivor, she didn’t lose a loved once or battled with cancer. I just hate how a divorce can be equated with a fatal disease or major loss. She was not abandoned with kids, she was not crucifed by her ex and she was not even left with nothing. What happened to her was very natural end to any spouses who have no interest in each other’s priorities. She doesn’t want kids, then good for him for not pushing her to have them but have some respect to his desire and let him live the life he wants. Jennifer can’t have both and that’s what she wanted: Brad and Career but not family. She brought that upon herself, not him. Respect him or not, Brad did not whine or asked for sympathy and moved on. Angelina was dragged in this mess even though she has nothing to do with it and yet she didn’t do 7 interviews in 3 months just to talk about her “suffer” or so. I have always been a fan of Brad because of his morality, movies and personality but when he and Jennifer first seperated i didn’t even side with him or againt her, i only sided with him after Jennifer’s VF interview. It’s simple, i dont care what happened between the closed doors (and was willing to belief it was not about kid) but i did mind the public backstabbing by her and her friends. You said we will see who’s the winner and my question is based on what measurement? For the last 21 months he did’t open his mouth and took the high road and we can see how God bestowed him with kids and great career: he’s clearly a winner. Even Jen crazed silly fans who make up the worst accusations about him just to defend their idol, can’t deny Brad has been the happiest and most successful like this year. I truely admire Brad and Angelina because of how they handled the unfair accusations about them and because of how they insisted to be a family among the mess created by the media and fueled by some crazed fans. I used to be a fan of Jennifer, she lost all the respect and sympathy i had for her but as a human being i wish her to be successful.
But while Aniston may be selling the happy-couple narrative, the entertainment press, having played along with too many of her past charades, isn’t buying. Us Weekly is leading the charge, with a running timer on its home page tracking, to the second, how long it’s been since Aniston and Vaughn were last seen together. Over the summer, Aniston pooh-poohed an Us report that she and Vaughn were engaged; Us retaliated with a list of all the times her rep, Stephen Huvane, had been caught lying on her behalf.
It would help Aniston’s credibility if she and Vaughn had ever bothered to confirm their couplehood before the reports of their split began to appear. Aniston’s Oct. 16 Oprah appearance, when she tepidly denied there had been a breakup, was her first public acknowledgement of the romance. “They would never talk about the relationship when they were actually having one,” says a skeptic. “Now that they’re not having a relationship, they’re going out of their way to talk about it. It’s perverse.”
Convincing the doubters may require extreme measures. Yesterday afternoon, as Aniston prepared to leave New York, one source told Radar she was believed to be headed for London, where Vaughn has been filming Fred Claus. Huvane declined to confirm or deny that, saying, “I don’t think Jennifer’s personal travel plans or wherabouts are anyone’s business but her own.”
But even a well-executed photo op would fail to persuade most professional celebrity watchers at this point. Says one, “Jennifer Aniston is sort of Clinton-esque in her choice of words. She parses them so that they’re technically accurate, but she’s a well-known liar.”
Celeb Press Calls Bullshit on ‘Poor Jen’
DOUBLE DUMPEE AnistonFor someone who claims her breakup is an invention of the tabloids, Jennifer Aniston hasn’t been trying very hard to prove them wrong. The former Friends star has been out and about lately, turning up at a Glamour magazine event in Los Angeles last week and performing in a charity theater festival in New York, but her failure to appear in the company of Vince Vaughn, or even in the same area code, has many convinced the relationship is being propped up for PR purposes.
According to one source with contacts in the Aniston camp, the actress’s handlers fear it would damage her market value to have her seen as a two-time dumpee. “Keeping this ‘relationship’ on the map is a face-saving maneuver,” says the source. “The ‘Poor Jen’ headlines are something she despises, and she’s desperate to avoid another round of it.”
A well-informed tabloid editor puts it more bluntly: “She doesn’t want to be seen as a loser.”
Someone posted an article about why celebrities commit suicide -
because its the only thing left for them to do. Because if you are
not careful, you start to live your life as the media and public
wants you to and you find you don’t know who you are. To me, all
this PR work about the engagement that was not, the break up
that may not, the boob job that is not, X doesn’t have to answer
any of this. I do think “poor Jen” not because Brad has moved on
with Angelina so emphatically. I think “poor Jen” because she
seems lost without a purpose in life and she is living a life which is
to some extent, dictated by the media. The fact that she needed
to respond to the engagement/break up/boob job stories as well
as stories about her not wanting children etc, tells me that this
woman is highly sensitive to bad PR.
I think she is living a life without much purpose at the moment
because she won’t want to be actively involved in charity. That’s
not because she doesn’t want to be but her ex husband and his
now WIFE are such public figures doing charity, she will hate
being compared to Angelina in the media. And yet, charity is
what MOST people get involved in as they wind back their working
life. And Jen is winding back her working life because she is nearly
38 and there will be fewer and fewer starring roles for her, even if
she were a great actress. That’s just the reality. Perhaps she’ll
get pregnant and have a couple of children. That is the best
thing for her and I certainly hope she has them. I think she will
find having a child very healing. But for now, yes, I feel sorry for
her, but I don’t care for her media manipulation actions.
Just want to make a note: the posts with my name on them are
written by me in another thread and I posted them on a BAMZS
thread which is where I usually post, not on a JA thread. Whilst I
stand by what I say, I did NOT post them here. If I want to post
anything, on Jennifer A, I’d rather post it on a BAMZS thread.
Aniston was in a 10 minute play with 3 other actors. She co-
directed a 10 minute movie. Let’s put this in perspective. This
woman isn’t exactly taking any career risks. She is well aware
of her limitations, which is why she seems so insecure.
It’s ironic that the woman who is “Said to be sweet” actaually comes acrosss as mean spirited. Of all people, it shouldn’t have been Jennifer to out Brad like that. To disregard him like he was the worst man she’s been with. Brad LOVED that woman —–we all saw it and knew it. Even after the separation……all he said were nice things about her. Just because they are not together doesn’t mean they don’t have love for each other. Brad said in his GQ interview “I hope we keep the love we have for each other” there was a love that he hoped would surpass even after divorce. That’s what people do when they genuinely like each other…..they stay friends.
Jen on the other hand, just had to spin this out…interviews, references to his character, her friends tainting him, basically fuelling the media in portraying her as the wronged wife whose husband was whisked away. Trust me if she had come out and said, Brad is wonderful, we grew apart, we shall remain friends, and actually be civil, then the whole Brangelina thing wouldn’t even be an issue. To sum up how childish this whole issue is, is when Courtney couldn’t even say hi to Brad….how low. like she didn’t even know him. To shun him because he is no longer with Jen? It’s stupid……
What ’s even more ironic is when she was married to him in her interviews she sounded like she wasn’t really in love with him…like she didn’t really know, understand, or appreciate him. Then when his gone……..he was like the worst —–know why becoz when she didn’t have Brad is when she realized what she had lost. Jennifer realized that she had lost a good man, a man she lost not becoz he stopped loving her but who had dreams that his wife unfortunately couldn’t share or willing to. Jennifer would’ve gained alot more respect than pity if she had said Brad is wonderful, we just grew apart, I wish him happiness, we will continue to be friends. PERIOD
to pimpcessa - thanks for the advice. I’ll go to femalefirst and see if I can rev up your green-bile hatred for Jen and spew it out on your Mother Theresa and Pope Brad. Don’t you ever choke on that putrid green bile?
gigi -
Good post gigi!
I don’t know one person who posts here pro or con that can change the other’s mind. This line was drawn a long time ago. that being said I’m just glad to see that the language has died down conciderably. Someday we will post to congradulate, observe or debate and no one will have to resort to name calling.
now mannniston has a HUGE RACK! she is fake from her fugly head to her tranny pig toes. she is really hideous with that NOSE AND CHIN! PUKE………………….VOMITING……….
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