Jennifer Aniston Discovers Nintendo Wii
In an interview with The New York Times magazine, Jennifer Aniston talks about Blackberrys, FunnyOrDie.com, YouTube, Facebook, and the Nintendo Wii.
Has Internet stardom become oppressive to you? Here’s where I luck out: I’m really computer illiterate. When I see people on their BlackBerrys, working them like some girls work a hair dryer, I’m just stunned. People have sent me clips from FunnyOrDie.com or YouTube, but I never seek it out. I did love that little girl in the Will Ferrell landlord clip on FunnyOrDie, but I’m content with just checking my e-mail.
What about something like Facebook? It’s not for me. I’d be opening myself up too much. I don’t want to sound like a complete innocent — I’ve looked at things, of course. But it’s such spewing. If I look at it, I’ll be affected. It’s like dancing with the devil. But I have spent hours on FirstDibs.com, looking at furniture. And I like to play Scrabble. And poker. I discovered [Nintendo] Wii this weekend. I’m a late bloomer.
Was it nice to be back on the small screen [for 30 Rock]? The whole experience felt like fate. I was flying into New York and I thought, I want to work in New York again. The next day they called and asked if I wanted to do an episode of “30 Rock,” which tapes in New York. And it was so much fun. So I guess, with screens, like everything else, size doesn’t matter.
Just so you know, the Wii was released over two years ago!!! Anyone want to bet John Mayer introduced her to the Wii? Read the full article at NYTimes.com.
Other pictures include Aniston leaving her LA office earlier today.
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This hoe has no talent, that’s why they can’t report on nothing better.
She is a usely old hag trying everything she could to get attention. That’s why she brought Mayer who has no dignity at all that’s why he took her up on her offer.
Nothing cute about an OLD ugly bi(ch playing Nintendo . She had gotten so pathetic.
Go away Angie Lovers, This is a Jen Hen Thread (winking)
Run back to your King Brad and Queen Angelina threads!!!
MMMWHHHAAAAA! (Blowing kisses)
Can’t she get half of that thing cut off. It does make her look like a cross dresser.
Aging Jennifer and a hideous John douche bag is enough to make you hurl. Got to be the uglest couple in Hollywood. Douchifer is good.
JEN horseniston, you’re nothing but the second rate, trying hard copycat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Somebody should tell HUVANE that a NY times photographer .. made her ward sooooo UGLY !! This pic will scare the hell out of little kids.
Where did that “Trouble in Aniston and Mayer land” article come from?
I love what Jens does she’s quite the funny one.. This is suppose to be funny. Jen is so adorable.
would everyine stop the bull crap again. Jen is not coping angie. Everyone start being nice or this sh** will never end.
So what, now Aniston decided to go only as a comedienne? Giving up the sexy vixen roles? Well might as well. Making faces like this is charming only when the actress is a drop-dead beauty. I can imagine being intriguing if this was someone like Zeta Jones. But THIS, a plain actress making a horrific face, makes her only look COMICAL, if not downright cringe-inducing. OK then, Aniston giving up on dramatic roles. Aniston the TV comedienne, forever.
Old pathetic who re playing nintendo games. My she has got extremly desperate. The campagin to make her young just makes her look foolish. She has turned into the most desperate women in the world.
How about Aniston the old stupid desperate hag forever.
You can tell Jen has serious issuse with her age. That’s why she is trying to be seen with young people and playing young people games. this old ho wouldn’t be caught playing game here is another pr stunt.
Jen should be voted PR Stunt *****.
[Image via WENN.]
Poor needy pathetic desperate Jen
How did Jennifer Aniston, once America’s Sweetheart, morph into America’s Spinster?
Vogue editor Anna Wintour knows how to sell magazines, which explains the “What Angelina Did Was Very Uncool” line on the cover of the December issue next to Jennifer Aniston’s face. The quote was lifted from an interview in which the former Friends star was asked about Angelina Jolie’s gushing to the magazine in 2007 about falling in love with Brad Pitt while he was still hitched to her. Playing Aniston’s first public comment about Jolie so boldly was a master stroke destined to generate epic buzz.
For Aniston, though, the incident ushered in yet another of the “Poor Jen! Duped again!” moments that have dogged her since her 2005 divorce from Pitt. Not only did Vogue exploit Aniston’s tepid smackdown, making her appear obsessed with the siren who stole her husband, it squared the two women off against one another more subtly. Astute fashionistas were quick to note that the cover image of Aniston posed on a beach in a cleavage-displaying, off-the-shoulder, red Narciso Rodriguez gown echoed the cover shot of Jolie in January 2007 in which she rocked a cleavage-displaying, off-the-shoulder, red Bill Blass against a sandy backdrop. Jolie’s cover line, however, was a more triumphant “Why Her Real Life is More Romantic Than Any Movie.” The disparity continued inside: in 2007, Jolie was shown with Pitt and their numerous children; in the current issue, Aniston is pictured with her dog Norman.
Aniston’s Vogue appearance is part of a publicity blitz for her two new movies, Marley & Me, which opens on Dec. 25, and He’s Just Not That Into You, which arrives in February. Neither role, it’s safe to say, will eclipse the one she currently plays in the cultural imagination—that of the archetypal Wronged Wife subject to an endless loop of “Jen Is Devastated!” “Jen Is Furious!” “Jen Gets Revenge!” bogus theorizing. Since her divorce, America’s Sweetheart has morphed into America’s Spinster. The unmarried, childless Aniston has become the tabloids’ Miss Havisham, portrayed as lonely, needy and locked in the past. The website Dlisted.com recently advertised a US$19.95 “Boyfriend Arm Pillow” thus: “Now, every time the Jennifer Aniston in your life calls you, wanting to whine for hours about how they are so f–king lonely and their cats are even giving them the side-eye, you can simply say, ‘Aniston in my life, go canoodle with the Boyfriend Arm Pillow I got you for Christmas.’ ” Celebrity gossip site PerezHilton.com refers to her cruelly as “Maniston.”
Her alleged tribulations sell big time. “We can’t get enough of her,” says Dina Sansing, entertainment director at US Weekly, where every issue features at least one Aniston photo or story. She’s No. 2 on the “Most Valuable Celebrity Faces” of 2008 list in terms of newsstand sales, according to Forbes. (In a rare case of tabloids imitating life, “Poor Jen!” was knocked off her No. 1 perch this year by Jolie.) Women relate to her, says Sansing, a bond that dates back to 1994 when Aniston entered homes as flaky, likeable Rachel Green. Female fans flocked to copy Aniston’s haircut, known as “The Rachel.” And now they rally to share her pain—as well as a schadenfreude thrill.
Aniston’s position atop the tabloid pantheon was cemented with her union with Pitt, whom she met Hollywood cute in 1998 through their mutual agent. The merger of America’s Sweetheart and the World’s Sexiest Man in 2000 was a lavish event that featured a 40-person gospel choir and fireworks over the Pacific. They were the king and queen of the Hollywood prom, with matching tans and blond streaks. When they split Aniston was poised for post-Friends career breakout; initially she was the one blamed for being unwilling to “have Brad’s babies,” to employ tabloid lexicon. When Jolie’s involvement became known, Aniston became the object of sympathy, and pity. After all, what chance did the Girl Next Door have against the Girl From the Next Galaxy? The New Yorker film critic Anthony Lane summed up perception of Jolie’s snaring of Pitt: “She took one look at the world’s most widely desired man and scooped him up with no more ado than a Parisian grande dame tucking a chihuahua into her clutch bag.”
The scandal was likened to Eddie Fisher leaving Debbie Reynolds for Elizabeth Taylor in the ’60s. But back then there wasn’t a celebrity media complex ready to pounce on Reynolds’ every humiliation, real or imagined. For the wounded Aniston, the salt poured down, beginning with an arty 60-page photo spread in the June 2005 W titled “Domestic Bliss,” in which Pitt and Jolie presided over a band of little blond Brads.
Aniston shot back with a tearful Vanity Fair interview in which she admitted to being hurt and lonely and denied rumours that she didn’t want children: “That really pissed me off. I’ve never in my life said I didn’t want to have children. I did and I do and I will!”
The trendy L.A. store Kitson capitalized on the conflict, selling “Team Aniston” and “Team Jolie” T-shirts. “Team Aniston” outsold 25-to-one in the beginning, reports owner Fraser Ross. Elaine Lui, founder of the popular celebrity gossip blog Laineygossip.com and an eTalk reporter, believes Aniston’s plight taps into female anxiety. “There’s a fear among many women that their husband is going to work one day and hook up with the hot colleague,” she says. “So every time they see Jennifer Aniston’s face they can’t help but feel for her or support her, not because they like her but because they feel a vote for her is a vote for themselves.”
As part of the most mused-upon triangle since Euclid, Aniston’s now intractably tethered to Pitt and Jolie in a perverse geometry: for every “Brangelina’s Baby Joy” headline, there’s the inevitable “Jen Alone in Malibu!” sidebar. In the gravitas sweepstakes, she’s the lesser, a sun lamp eclipsed by a supernova. As Pitt and Jolie tour refugee camps and rebuild New Orleans, she’s photographed bagging rays in Cabo and dating a series of child-men, most lately the singer John Mayer, which sparked the recent Life & Style cover line: “Having More Surgery for John?”
Aniston’s post-Pitt hookups, which include Vince Vaughn, her co-star in The Break-Up, have the whiff of publicity stunt. Lui views Aniston’s relationship with Mayer, whose conquests include Jessica Simpson and who’s nine years her junior, as an attempted “Screw you” to Jolie: “She’s saying, ‘I’m 40 but I can still bag a younger man and change him.’ I almost feel sorry for her talking about her like this, it’s so misguided.”
Aniston’s uterine status is the subject of constant speculation as she approaches the big 4-0. “She’s Having John’s Babies,” announced Star magazine in mid-November, which claimed Aniston was undergoing “secret fertility treatments” to have twins. That same week, In Touch falsely reported it was a fait accompli: “Jen’s Bump Gets Bigger.”
Of course, obsession with celebrity baby bumps drive newsstand sales. “Her fans are interested in her having a traditional husband and house,” says Sansing. “They’re very eager for her to have this life that we all think she’s wanted for some time.”
Aniston’s inability—or unwillingness—to fulfill her perceived maternal destiny is magnified exponentially by Jolie’s and Pitt’s relentless child acquisition; they’ve added an average of 1.6 children per year to their family. Yet Jolie’s Earth Mother status hasn’t interfered with her stellar career. Since 2005, she has made nine movies, two of which generated Oscar buzz.
Aniston has made seven, two with cringe-inducing, too-close-to-life titles. As Fug Girls, New York magazine’s fashion blog, observed: “The Break-Up was bad enough, but He’s Just Not That Into You? Honey, no. There’s self-awareness, and then there’s masochism.”
It’s as if the lens trained on Aniston is fated to dredge up the past. She’s photographed often with former Friends co-star Courteney Cox, reminding the public of Rachel; in a Smart Water ad, she’s surrounded by children of various ethnicities, summoning inevitable comparison to Jolie; her recent guest appearance on 30 Rock as a stalker sent up her real-life victim persona.
Lui believes the focus on Aniston as victim is misbegotten. “I think we need to examine ourselves as a society,” she says. “For some reason we love the soap opera aspect of a weak victim like Jennifer Aniston and the mobilization to rally around her.” She sees Aniston as hostage to her own publicity: “She sold this image of herself and now she can’t shake it. She has become the poster girl for crying yourself to sleep at night.”
It’s a label Aniston tries to shake: “This whole ‘Poor lonely Jen’ thing, this idea that I’m so unlucky in love? I actually feel I’ve been unbelievably lucky in love,” she told Vogue. “Just because at this stage my life doesn’t have the traditional framework to it—the husband and the two kids and the house in Connecticut—it’s mine. It’s my experience. And if you don’t like the way it looks, then stop looking at it!”
That’s not going to happen, especially now that Pitt’s promoting The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which also opens on Dec. 25. Brangelina domestic bliss will be displayed large, as in the “private” photographs Pitt took of Jolie displayed in the November issue of W.
Appearing on the Oprah Winfrey Show in mid-November, Aniston tried to distance herself from the breakup: “I don’t go there,” she said. “It’s a hundred years old for Chrissakes.” Still, Winfrey stoked the embers, asking Aniston if she wanted to beat Pitt at the box office. “What am I going to say?” she replied, “Can we do a tie?” No chance of that. The next week, she was “Devastated Jen” once again on the cover of Star, once again the proxy for the real world of broken dreams.
Jennifer obssession with youth has turn her the biggest supporter of REGRESSION : yesterday the short shorts, the cougarish tendency with an immature playa and the dwelling into his world of youngsters. Today the ‘nintendo’ allusion, what’s next for tommorow ?
stupid entry designed to get hits….without any Jolie-Pitt news, JJ resorts to this absolute no-news entry - the guy has to pay the bills, just like everyone else.
Borrrrring, yet I bothered to post.
Back to the football game.
Gaye ~
What an educated, well put together post.
VERY WELL DONE!
I applaud Angelina and Brad for the charity work. They obviously have touched and inspired many people.
Besane @ 11/22/2008 at 1:16 pm
Making faces like this is charming only when the actress is a drop-dead beauty. I can imagine being intriguing if this was someone like Zeta Jones.
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Someone like Zeta-Jones or Angie could pull this off. Aniston just looks like she’s trying to be funny and not succeeding.
Hell lot of women get left and with kids,they have to move on and take care of kids and work.This sorry no good beotch,Had no kids by Brad Pitt .And Brad left her Ass with money and four years later,she is still bitching ,she needs a good Lesson by Mayer,and i’m sure he will show her.as soon as he gets tired of her Miser ass he will dump this no good broad.Angelina has Brads children Brad belongs to Angie and kids ,tough luck you old broad you were stupid when you had him.Well never in your life time will you ever get this chance again.Keep waking up next to pee boy you deserve it.
pathetic Jen @ 11/22/2008 at 1:36 pm
Women relate to her, says Sansing
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Not this woman. She always impressed me as being a total airhead which is a type I never could stand. And her hair style makes her look like she’s wearing a bowl of spaghetti.
http://blog.macleans.ca/2008/11/20/poor-needy-pathetic-desperate-jen/
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