Rachel Bilson is Brown Boot Beautiful

@@100: Kook! I am not 92 or 93 either

LOVE HER!!

Today I downloaded and printed all the photographs of HC and RB that I could find, going back over a year. Both the noticably papped ones and those ones where they either didn’t know paps were there or were not fussed. I took them to my friend. She’s a marriage councillor and studies body language. Her methods usually have a high success rate and she can tell by the way her clients react with each other whether the relationship has a chance of surviving or not. i.e do they make eye contact with each other? do they sit with their bodies angled away from each other? do their eyes smile at each other even if their lips don’t? etc. She was quite surprised that HC and RB are in a relationship as his body language gives no indication of closeness. His eyes don’t smile at her when he looks at her. In fact most of his facial expressions seem to indicate boredom or indifference. There is a distance between them. In her professional opinion, from analysing their body language, she finds it difficult to believe the relationship is based on love and/or mutual respect and affection. Many of the indications presented, she felt, she would expect to find in a couple close to breaking up and going their separate ways. She’s been a marriage councillor now for over eight years and has a lot of experience. I found her analysis thought provoking. What does anyone else think?

@S: It was a whole range of pictures going back almost eighteen months. There were ones of them looking like a normal couple but only about 10 or so compared to over a 100 others. Even in some of them the body language was hard to define. In one he appears to be laughing at something she said but his body is angled away from hers avoiding contact. There was also the photo of him kissing Sienna tenderly in a vehicle. My friend pointed out to me that body language is actually really hard to fake because the majority of it is sub-conscious and occurs without thinking about it. One of the reasons she finds it such an accurate tool for gauging peoples true feelings.

She felt that there was genuine love and affection in the Sienna photo but not in any of the others with Rachel.

Why would you take the time to take pictures of people you don’t know to a marriage counselor!? There are pictures of Hayden and Rachel that show affection in their expressions, like S said. One is at the airport when they came back from Paris, Hayden is looking at Rachel smiling, there is also a smile in his eyes, she is facing him, you can’t see her expression. There is another one at the Jumper premiere night, with his arm around her, where they are looking at each other. I am not going to find these pics, you must already have them. There are also many pictures of them standing/walking apart, as you described.

I think Hayden and Rachel’s families know them both very well, better than people specutating about them, and they would say something to both of them, if they felt their relationship was a “mistake”. Hayden’s family apparently love Rachel, she has been seen with his mom and sister several times. After what happened to Hayden’s mother, I do not think she would stand by and not say anything, if she thought her son was going to marry the “wrong” girl. Unless you see Hayden and Rachel in private, you have no idea what they are like behind closed doors. I would trust what their familes felt, before I would judge them, based on pictures.

The picture with Sienna and Hayden showed affection, and the relationship did not last. Even though Hayden and Rachel don’t look like they are very affectionate, they have been toghether for over 2 years. Unless you think they are faking everything, something is keeping them together. They would not need to be engaged to be a couple. They have not rushed into getting married. I hope they are happy together, and wish them the best, if they get married. Only time will tell what happens. Instead of wondering about it now, why not wait and see what happens?

Jo you mentioned showing photo’s of 18 months then brought up the sienna/hayden pic in the car in toronto that was a mistake and you Jo are trying to raise a response nothing more.

For a person who dislikes Hayden and the relationship you seem very interested. I like Hayden and hope he gets a good role soon, but would not waste my time or computer paper printing out a snap-shot of photo’s taken for 18 months.

That must have cost a certain amount of money-did you not have anything better to spend it on? like giving money to a children’s hospital or something?

Counting down for the goonies to show up………….

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I agree with jo, there is absolutely nothing natural or normal about RB and HC relationship and no one in the media thinks otherwise. If they stay together, it will be for a host of reasons other than love or respect. Something is really very strange about this relationship and what is the big deal to print some pictures. You can contribute to a cause and do very important things and still once in a while get involved in something totally entertaining, nothing wrong with that. Get a life “mother Teresa”.

@voice of reason: Hi VOR, I find celebrity ‘culture’ fascinating and the following among people that it generates. I don’t dislike these particular celebrities, tho I would agree that I am not a fan. I ‘follow’, if you like, several sets of couples to see how they’re performing and what fan reactions are like. Personally I find celebrities irrelevant to society in that they contribute little but expect much. Why do ordinary people latch on to them? What does it say about that particular celebrity? Or does it say more about their fanbase? Why have celebrities become so popular in social culture? What are they replacing (i.e. faith for example)? What lack are they fulfilling in peoples lives?

HC and RB seemed perfect to follow because the amount of media attention, in certain areas, is not in accordance to their actual celebrity standing. As people they are average in many respects. A fact I have pointed out before. They’re pretty mediocre compared to, say, the Jolie-Pitts.

Re the body language: Other couples I follow have more expressive body language when interacting with each other, sometimes positive, sometimes negative than these two. Which makes these two more fascinating precisely because they don’t.

I study human nature. If I lived in the right area I would be studying baboons.

@why bother?: You mentioned only two ‘positive’ images, but many ‘negative’ images, many being your word. That is my point, if you like, there are many images of ‘negative’ or perhaps indifferent body interactions, but not many of the other kind.

@jo: #116
What do you study? Sociology? I don’t know anything about that, but everyone knows that modern celebrities have replaced the old Greek gods in people’s minds.
Personally, I always thought that monotheism was the main cause of this interest (not in Iran, of course). People need to identify with something “higher”, the problem is that nobody can identify with God. This generates interest to governments, celebrities, and american idol, lol … something “recognizable”.

Oh, I don’t think his luck is average.

Well Brad Pitt’s mother still had this “timeless fondness” for Jennifer Aniston over Angelina Jolie…
No need to expound more just go figure.

@apple creek: True! But faith is all about identifying with God and faith in a higher purpose is something a lot of people lack as we move towards a more secular based society.

Re celebrity culture and worship: It used to be that those exalted were exalted on merit. Leadership qualities, personal acts of heroism etc.
Now we tend to idolise people based on superficial talents such as looks, etc.

Hayden’s luck is average when compared that of other celebrities but not to society as a whole. Is, however, his position in society, ie fan worship, justified be the quality of the work he produces.