Horrible Bosses

How many of you will be going to see the movie Horrible Bosses this weekend, featuring a nymphomaniac version of Jennifer Aniston? As if Jennifer Aniston isn’t the hottest cougar on the planet to begin with. And while we’re on the topic, if you’re a guy and a scantily-clad Jennifer Aniston is sexually harrassing you, is that a bad thing? I know, I know, sexual harrassment is a real workplace problem, and to insinuate that if the female is doing the harrassing it’s not an issue is quite the double standard. But our whole world operates on double standards, no? Just saying.

Of course as a woman I would notice this, but I have to say, Jennifer Aniston looks gorgeous with the brunette hair she is rocking in the role as the sex-crazed dentist, Julia.

Collider.com describes Horrible Bosses as “not a dark comedy in the mold of Ladykillers. It’s not about making sure that three desperate guys who seriously contemplate murder get their comeuppance. The macabre isn’t the film’s goal. The movie’s goal is to fire off as many foul-mouthed jokes as possible without getting too lost in shock value or letting one character’s personality dominate the entire picture. The movie requires six distinct performances and every single actor not only delivers, but finds a way to make sure their performance can play off the other actor.”

In describing Jennifer Aniston’s against-type performance in Horrible Bosses, Collider goes on to state, “With Horrible Bosses, Aniston gives her best comic performance in years. Her movies tend to cast her as the bland, slightly neurotic female lead in the latest unoriginal rom-com and no role has ever required her to go as dark or as twisted as this one. It’s not just that her dialogue is absolutely filthy and it’s shocking to hear it come out of Aniston’s mouth. The performance works because Aniston delivers that filthy, shocking dialogue so well and because she has such great and demented chemistry with Day.”

I have known that Jennifer Aniston had the acting chops to tackle dark and twisted material since her amazing performance in 2001′s The Good Girl, and she needs more of these off-beat darker roles to really show the industry and the public what she is capable of as an actress.

How many of you will be going out to see Jennifer Aniston get down and dirty in the movie Horrible Bosses this weekend?

Off the topic of public relations for a bit, well sort of…

I am preparing for an interview with Precious star and Oscar frontrunner, Mo’Nique for PR.com, and in doing so I went to see the film Precious last night. I knew the film would be intense and that many parts of the would be disturbing so I made my fiance go with me.

Once you have a child you feel like every child is your child. Since having my son I have developed a very strong direct heart-line to every child I see. As a mother you want every baby to have a safe, loving and nurturing environment, and for someone who has the condition of over- empathizing, witnessing any kind of neglect or abuse to any child feels like a punch in the heart, yes, even in a movie.

Why can’t every baby be born into a good home with qualified parents? Doesn’t that sound strage, “qualified?” Well, you have to be qualified to obtain any other important job, why not to be a parent? It sounds a bit cliche, but caring for a baby and raising a child is by far the hardest job in the world, and yet anyone can have a baby.

Mo’Nique did a phenomenal job in portraying a deeply emotionally disturbed and deeply ignorant woman and mother who lashes out terribly at her daughter and her grandchildren, perhaps she did too good of a job because the next morning here I am still haunted by her realistic portrayal. But, actually, as I write this I realize I am not haunted by Mo’Nique’s Oscar-worthy performance, but by the fact there are really homes like the one portrayed in the film. There are really girls like Precious out there in our inner cities, perhaps many in suburbs too. There are really mothers like the one Mo’Nique plays to perfection in Precious.  And there are really babies born into such  circumstances.

Why?